Bowie Tribute – ‘Twilight Phenomena’ (Revisited Creative Writing)

Bowie has returned to whatever planet he came from. I mentioned Bowie last year in my review of The Martian, but searching for another idea for a tribute led me to this short story called ‘Twilight Phenomena‘. Like my last creative piece on this blog (a tribute to the Paris Bataclan victims) , it is a…

The Emotion Awakens: The Best Non-Human Film Characters

Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens is excellent. You don’t need me to tell you that – millions of rave reviews already exist for one of history’s most successful films. What you do need to know is why it was good, and not for the more conventional reasons. Yes, Harrison Ford / Han Solo was great;…

Forget ‘2001’, ‘Interstellar’ or ‘Contact’: ‘The Martian’ shows why space travel needs a sense of humour

You can’t overlook the emotional, human side of being an astronaut.

CERN – Breaking borders since 1954

Nothing else on Earth can give scientists a window into atoms, particles, and elementary forces quite like the LHC.