Alice in Galaxyland

I'm stupidly excited to announce that the skeptical movement in Wales is growing! "Skeptics in the Pub in Wales" is soon likel...

Just a quick announcement that my review of "Horizons of Cosmology" by Joseph Silk is now available online at the Astronomy Now we...

Answers, as promised, for last week's Skeptical Crossword - which, I understand from a very unscientifically selected sample, was way t...

Update: Dear all, I have come to the conclusion that the previous crossword was a bit rubbish - almost none of the words joined up in more t...

Late one night last weekend, I was playing around on Facebook and, feeling generally vague and detached, set up Skeptics in the Pub in Wales...

Following encouragement from my Skeptics in the Pub friends, I've set up a Facebook group to develop Skeptics in the Pub in Wales. Ple...

Will Gater , whose terrific and beautiful website I seriously recommend (and who also gave a very good lecture at Herstmonceux back in 2008...

Continuing from my earlier post ; now we're onto Friday 23rd April. I should have mentioned yesterday that while we were putting up thos...

Whoops, sorry it took over a week to get round to the actual conference write-up. Already it seems like a long time ago - perhaps because I...

This will be the first of three blogposts describing the She is an Astronomer Conference just held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burli...