1. “No crystal ball for natural disasters”, Nature, 14 January 2010

 (Review of Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe by Florin Diacu)

 

2. “Rocket man”, The Financial Times, 5/6 January 2008

(Review of Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War by Michael J. Neufeld)

 

3. “Decoding antiquity: eight scripts that still can’t be read”, New Scientist, 30 May 2009
(Cover feature based on Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World’s Undeciphered Scripts by AR)

 

4. “Signs of meaning”, Science, 3 April 2009

(Review of Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization by Barry B. Powell)

 

5. “Ray of light still shines in the dark”, The Times, 18 August 2005

(Feature on Satyajit Ray and the 50th anniversary of the release of his first film, the classic Pather Panchali)

 

6. “Mysteries in the marble”, The Independent, 22 August 2008

(Review of Taj Mahal by Giles Tillotson)

 

7. “Henri Cartier-Bresson”, The Guardian, 5 August 2004

 (Obituary)