Category Archives: Worms

I love these guys

Columbia Univesity Press have just sent me the cover of the American edition, and it’s lovely. Much better than the horrid English one. Continue reading

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illustration

Some reader complained that they did not know what an armchair made from macaroni might look like. Well, here’s a picture of Max Perutz with a haemoglobin molecule (not to scale) Continue reading

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who is this man

and what is he smoking? I only think I know the answer to the second question Continue reading

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about bloody time

There is a first cut of the book’s web page up here. I await comments with resignation. If you’re still using Netscape 4.7, it will probably look even worse. I suggest you upgrade to something more useful. Continue reading

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A sense of proportion

about the world is available here — at least if you’re running Java. Before Java there was, of course, no way for man to understand his place in the Universe. Continue reading

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the bastard!

My friend Angus just sent me an email explaining that he can’t come to the book party because his mother-in-law is ill. Fair enough. With the generosity of spirit that really distinguishes him, he adds: On a brighter note: good … Continue reading Continue reading

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American Rights

I have just, rather to my delight, agreed a deal with Columbia University Press, who will publish the worm book in the States in the autumn of this year. Continue reading

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it never rains

She fed a widower swan which approached us very slowly up the narrow stream. The apple and willow trees that overhang the stream would often hid the body of the swan in its journey, so we could only see the reflection float slowly towards us, upside down.
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note from an old story

you know a piece of work is well started when you can see just how and in what ways it’s bad Continue reading

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finished

The first finished version is printing out. 69023 words. I could die now. It’s certainly preferable to reading what I’ve done. Continue reading

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