“[W]e must acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system—with all these exalted powers—Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.” [Charles Darwin, 1871]

“I don’t want to understand people. I think 95% of the people are stupid idiots.” [Slavoj Žižek, 2008]

Dr Francis Sedgemore is a freelance journalist and science writer, and annoyingly pedantic editor of other people’s words. As well as science and technology, Francis writes occasionally about current affairs and the arts.

Francis’ CV can be found here, and his Normblog profile here.

Before his early release from the ivory tower of academe, Francis was for a decade or so a research scientist and university teacher specialising in space and atmospheric physics. He now concentrates on communicating science at all levels, with a non-exclusive focus on physical sciences and engineering, public outreach, education and policy.

While principally a writer, Francis is also an editor with experience ranging from research papers and other technical documents to journalistic feature articles and news reports.

This Interweb space contains a pseudo-blog and partial archive of Francis’ journalistic scribblings published since July 2006, when the site was launched.