One rule of freelance writing is that you never miss a deadline. Never. I’ll confess that there have been a couple of instances where I’ve asked an editor for the weekend to put the finishing touches on a feature they’d
Scott dies
Lady Phillipa Scott passed away last week at the age of 91. She was a photographer and the wife of Sir Peter Scott, the environmentalist and artist who was a key figure in the founding of the World Wildlife Fund
Brown pandas in Nature
I’ve just written a news story about the mysterious brown-and-white panda for Nature’s online news service (see here). From a journalistic perspective, it’s a very nice story indeed. A mystery, a dose of good science, lots of top scientists, potential