What have you been writing about these last four decades?

I’ve been writing about science since the late 1980s. That’s long before the public got on to the World Wide Web, before smartphones and when Wi-Fi was still sci-fi, Before Google, Facebook, TwitteX, and Heaven forbid, TikTok and Snapchat. Before the Human Genome Project was even launched, before Dolly the sheep was cloned, and before CRISPR gene-editing first went snipping. Before the Hubble Space Telescope was launched, before we discovered a single exoplanet, before the Higgs boson was found, before gravitational waves were detected. Before buckyballs were rolled out and graphene isolated, before lithium-ion batteries powered the portable and before organic LEDs transformed electronic displays. Back when climate change was still global warming and there were even worries about a coming ice age. In that time I’ve written about all of those topics and many, many more. I estimate that I’ve written around 10000-15000 articles, some of them short and bitter-sweet, some of them full…