Alice in Galaxyland

Despite an exceptionally lazy weekend, I'm still feeling slightly breathless from a ridiculously active couple of weeks. Here's what...

I'm going to be missing a very special and important event tomorrow: a demonstration to tell our government that we need to keep up fun...

A few weeks ago I blogged about two wonderful people here in Pembrokeshire, Steph who gave my charity a lot of equipment and Tony who offer...

OK, this is going to be a bit of a lazy link round-up, but I've been following two amusing but worrying stories over the weeks - those c...

Here's a brilliant spoof by Martin Robbins at the Guardian's Lay Scientist - how to write a science article of thoroughly mediocre...

Skeptics in the Pub arrived in Wales on Monday night. I'm absolutely gobsmacked at how many people came along. And I'm pretty sure i...

Is "sorry I haven't been blogging lately" the most tedious way to begin a blogpost? Probably. I'm writing an article about...

I'm feeling very emotional this evening! A week ago, the charity I work for was burgled. The thief or thieves kicked down our front door...

It intrigues and amuses me that, while it took three years of devoted care and learning to get anywhere in the field of astronomy communicat...