Monthly Archives: July 2026

What I Read In June and July

Posted on 31 July 2026 by Henry Gee

I apologise once again for the reduced frequency of my book blog. Frankly, I blame myself. However, I am enjoying a brief respite from my current project (working title: The Only Way Is Ethics) so I can catch up. John … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Across The Sea

Posted on 29 July 2026 by Henry Gee

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire is now available in paperback in a land run by criminal gangs with no respect for democracy, human rights or the rule of law universally applied, where disease runs unchecked across the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The White Heat of Creation

Posted on 28 July 2026 by Henry Gee

I wrote somewhere that there is no surer sign of an unwillingness to write than an untended blog. I should perhaps qualify that statement, because blogs might remain untended for all sorts of reasons, chief of these being, in my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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In which human scientists are losing the battle

Posted on 25 July 2026 by Jennifer Rohn

This is the year that AI in science first began to scare me. (Disclaimer: I’m not talking about machine learning, which is a useful and powerful scientific tool. I’m using the term AI here as shorthand for Large Language Models.) … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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How did we manage before the Internet?

Posted on 20 July 2026 by Athene Donald

If you’ve read George Eliot’s Middlemarch (the Guardian’s recent choice as the best novel in the English language), you will recognize the problem Mr Casaubon faced in trying to write his magnum opus, relying on multiple books in a range … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Team Working and Loneliness

Posted on 12 July 2026 by Athene Donald

Some years ago, the Science Council created a list of ten different kinds of scientists, to showcase the fact that not every scientist does the same kind of work. Ranging from technician scientist to entrepreneur scientist via the more obvious … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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