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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
The Science of Mondays
Daily Mail, April 2004
Memories of Oxford Food Symposia
September 2003
The Science of Christmas
Daily Mail, December 2003
The Science of Parties
New Scientist, December 2003
Summer Drinks
Daily Mail, June 2003
Holiday Memories
Bristol Evening Post, April 2003
Redundancy
New Scientist, March 2003
The Science of DIY
Radio Times, February 2003
Counter-Intuitive Science
Times Higher Education Supplement, January 2003
The Big Freeze
Daily Mail, January 2003
Do You Snow?
Daily Telegraph, December 2002
The Image of Science
New Statesman, November 2002
The Returning Boomerang
British Boomerang Society Journal, June 2002
Blind Plateau
New Scientist, October 2001
A Scientific Picnic
New Scientist, August 2001
The Hard Problems
Annals of Improbable Research, Special Physics Issue, June (?) 2001
Molecular Gastronomy and the Mafia
Times Higher Education Supplement, May 2001
Cooking Christmas Dinner with an Astronomical Telescope (with Peter Barham)
Daily Telegraph, December 2000
A Life in Science
Interview for Venue Magazine, December 2000
A Scientist in the Media
Chemistry in Australia, October 2000
Proud to be Silly
New Scientist, October 1999
Umami Dearest
Guardian Weekend, October 1999
(A series of 6 articles on taste and cooking with co-author Peter Barham)
Are You A Supertaster?
Guardian Weekend, October 1999
Scientific Spectacles
Times Higher Education Supplement, October 1999
With a Pinch of Salt
Guardian Weekend, September 1999
A Sour Taste in the Mouth
Guardian Weekend, September 1999
See the Sweetness
Guardian Weekend, September 1999
Articles will sometimes have been edited on publication.
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