Category Archives: Science

Tell Climate Change Stories

Posted on September 14, 2024 by Angela

On last Tuesday’s The Life Scientific with Jim Al-Khalili, the guest scientist was Professor Peter Stott, a senior climate scientist at The Met Office’s Hadley Centre for Climate Science and Services. The biggest challenge in climate science today, Stott said, … Continue reading →

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Feeling Low? Try karunavirus. Seriously.

Posted on January 14, 2021 by Angela

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been feeling pretty low about the state of our corona-contaminated world (not to mention other depressing events) so I went looking for something uplifting. And I found karunavirus. Seriously. Nothing to do with … Continue reading →

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Clean Air: Act. And a poem and a chat

Posted on June 14, 2020 by Angela

If you’re not as ancient as me you won’t remember the pea-soupers in London: and I’d only been breathing for just under two years at the time so it’s not exactly a memory for me either, but by 1956 The Clean … Continue reading →

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How Doctors use Poetry, and a blue-green stone

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Angela

Recently I spent a night in hospital and the thing that struck me about the nursing staff, as I watched them admit new patients to the ward, was their infinite kindness; their ability to explain exactly the same things to … Continue reading →

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Teaching kids to fall in love with science (a different kind of love for Valentine’s day); and things to do with rubbish

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Angela

I was noodling around on the internet wondering what I was going to post about this month when I discovered Arvind Gupta. He won the Padma Shree on 26 January (India’s Republic Day) for his work in literature and in education, … Continue reading →

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A very small trawl through a few less well-known news sites

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Angela

This month – perhaps because it’s the silly season when news tends towards the frivolous because the House of Commons is in recess and us ordinary folk go on holiday – I thought I’d have a little light trawl through a few … Continue reading →

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