Philip Ball - Science writer

I have a new mini-book out in collaboration with the European FuturICT project (see here). It is a brisk read of just 70 pages, and surveys what has been achieved, and what might be to come, in modelling social phenomena ranging from traffic to crime as complex systems. The title is Why Society is a Complex Matter - for more details, see here.

I have begun a new weekly column in the Saturday Guardian, called The Critical Scientist. In theory this is intended to fill in a six-month gap while Ben Goldacre is otherwise engaged, but it depends somewhat on how the Guardian's parlous financial situation develops. The first column is here.

And The Sun and Moon Corrupted has just been published in Italian, by Dedalo.