This picture of a rare bakelite coffin in the London Science Museum’s plasticity exhibition, is also an accidental recreation of the Victorian optical illusion known as Pepper’s Ghost. In one version of the illusion, an audience member stands in the coffin on a stage, and the rest of the audience watch as he gradually decays [...]
Since the mid 1980s, I've worked in university and industrial research, as a manager and editor in technology and environment for an international NGO, and held senior business development, strategy, and procurement posts in industry. I hold a PhD in chemical engineering from Birmingham University, an MBA from Warwick University Business School, and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College. In 2008, I left industry to focus full-time on my passion for science and technology, and to share that enthusiasm with others as a freelance science communicator. I live in London with my American wife Erin.

