I’ve been short-listed for two categories in the Association of British Science Writers awards: feature, and communication of science in a non-science context. Dead chuffed. Also the latter category is in memory of Stephen White, who taught the 2-day course that convinced me I wanted to be a science writer. It’s an honour.

Animal Planet airs documentary about mermaids, misleads viewers, annoys Craig McClain and Brian Switek . This crap makes me thankful for science TV in the UK, which IMO is incredibly strong

“For the Yupno people in Papua New Guinea, rather than marching ever onward, time wends its way uphill.”

It’s sad to see a scientist like Zimbardo, and a format like TED, collide into such