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Articles in Chronological Order

Browse through all of my articles, listed in chronological order:

How Should You Cook Boxer Shorts?
Guardian, 26 November 2011
Physicist and U.K. Guardian correspondent Jim Al-Khalili has offered to eat his boxer shorts if it turns out that neutrinos can actually travel faster than light, as recent experiments suggest. In this letter to the Guardian (publisher on November 26th) I offer some suggestions from the point of view of a food scientist as to how he should go about it…

Book review of Marten Scheffer's Critical Transitions in Nature and Society
American Journal of Psychology, Summer Issue, 2011

Review: Exciting Structures
Physics World (p. 38), January 2011
A review of Mark Denny’s exciting new book Super Structures: The Science of Bridges, Buildings, Dams and Other Feats of Engineering.

I’m an IgNobel Prize winner: Get me out of here!
BBC Focus Magazine, December 2009
How would you use science to help you escape from a desert island? My solution, which began with using loose change to make a battery, was illustrator James Reekie’s personal favourite.

The Mathematics of Shopping
Mail on Sunday, 8 March 2009
The Mail on Sunday "Style" editor requested an equation for whether or not to buy expensive designer clothes. After some hesitation, I decided that there was something sensible that I could say and which would get at least a few readers thinking about mathematics, and with the approval of Rob Eastaway (former president of the U.K.'s Mathematical Association) I went ahead.

A Conversation with Len Fisher
Popular Science, 7 January 2009
An interview on game theory for the popular science website Popsci.com, with many posted comments from interested readers.

Madoff's Willing Partners
The Washington Post, 20 December 2008
There seems to be little doubt that Bernard Madoff is a cheat. His apparent Ponzi scheme, in which capital from new investors would have been used to pay "dividends" to earlier investors, ultimately cost the participants many billions of dollars. But was it all Madoff's fault? I contend that the losses would have been less severe, and might not have occurred at all, if many of the Madoff's investors had not been cast from the same mold that Madoff was.

CEOs of Financial Institutions Should Now Light Their Pants on Fire
Len Fisher, Behind the Headlines: Game Theory in the News Blog, 19 December 2008
Can game theory help us in the current financial mess? According to some skeptics, the answer is no, because they believe that game theory can be manipulated to explain anything.

“Kitchen Mysteries” by Hervé This
Book Review, Times Higher Education Supplement, November 2007
Hervé This’s new book is an exuberant paean for the role of science in cooking…

Four Way Interview
An interview for the website popularscience.co.uk, May 2007

Bubble Shapes
New Scientist, October 2006

Dealing With The Heat
Daily Telegraph, July 2006

Bringing Archimedes to Light - Deciphering the Archimedes Palimpsest
Cosmos, September 2005

Waiting for Godot
Times Higher Education Supplement, September 2005

Ideal Toast
Daily Mail, September 2005

Equations for Everyday Living
New Scientist, July 2005

Weird Experiments – Or Were They?
Independent, November 2004

Scientific Pioneers
Times Higher Education Supplement, October 2004

The Sweet Spot
Daily Mail, August 2004

How Does a Scientist Boil an Egg?
Daily Mail, July 2004

The Big Freeze
Daily Mail, April 2nd, 2004