The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
Exhibit text writing
I have written texts to go with hands-on science exhibits for Glasgow Science Centre, Explore@Bristol, and Phaeno (Wolfsburg, Germany). I have also written texts for the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, and for an art exhibition.
Read more about exhibit text writing.
Website content
I have written website content for Glasgow Science Centre, @Bristol, SETPOINT Scotland and the Planet Science website.
Read more about website writing.
Academic publications
My first career was as an academic scientist, doing research in human vision. I published work on the perception of size (and its link to the statistics of natural images), colour vision, the statistics of vision research procedures, umpires' LBW decisions in cricket, and the statistics of a clinical test of colour vision.
See my list of academic publications.
Sundry articles
- Article about the science of cricket in the Daily Record
- Article in the British Interactive Group newsletter (with Priscilla Heard and Prof. Richard Gregory)
- Item in published compilation of The Last Word, the question-and-answer column of New Scientist
- Article about my research into the visual abilities of cricket umpires, in How's That - Journal of the Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers
- 3 letters in New Scientist
Information boards
As a volunteer, I co-wrote 4 outdoor information boards for Alva Glen Heritage Trust. The graphic design was done by Art is an Option of Alloa. I did most of the writing on two of the boards, one of which is on the right.
See the other board in detail here.
Verse
Follow this link, at your own risk, to my verse
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