by Len Fisher | 24 Feb 2015 | Mini Stories from Science
Carl Djerassi invented the contraceptive pill, which blocks the physical act of creation at the very start. But in other respects he was an extraordinarily creative person, a poet, novelist and art collector as well as a scientist, and in conversation with Lewis... 
by Len Fisher | 2 Feb 2015 | Mini Stories from Science
When scientists share their how they are thinking, the first steps are usually very informal – the ‘drop in’ conversation, coffee room, the excited email, the pub. The eccentric biologist Lewis Wolpert, well-known outside science for his scornful dismissals of...