“[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

“I’ve met the man in the street, and he’s a cunt.” – Sid Vicious

Rusting hulk in the Medway estuary, Kent (photo: © 2007 Francis Sedgemore)

Dr Francis Sedgemore is a freelance journalist, writer and editor specialising in science and technology. He also writes occasionally about current affairs and the arts.

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

Before turning to journalism Francis was a scientist specialising in space and atmospheric physics. His research work took him first to northern Scandinavia where he studied the aurora borealis with radars and cameras. He was then for a short time a spacecraft flight dynamics engineer with the European Space Agency’s interplanetary missions. In later years Francis was Denmark’s lead scientist with ESA’s Cluster mission to the Earth’s magnetosphere.

This website contains a blog and partial archive of journalistic articles published since July 2006, when the site was launched. Comments are welcome, and are partially moderated.