BBC ScienceInAction. https://t.co/uv70IKSYne…
'Best Radio Journalism of the Pandemic so far' - UK Press Gazette
EuroGeosciences Angela Croome Award 2021
Sep 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Nothing like a morning's discussion on reaching net zero "by 2050" to make you wish for better maths education, all round, including how stuff accumulates over time. Getting there is not the point, what matters is how you get there.
Bye bye Darwin? Indian schools have been told to drop evolution from mainstream secondary education, and biologist Vineeta Bal angrily tells Science in Action that it's not to reduce the workload of students, but because of regressive nationalism. bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…
And talking of evolution, also in the programme, @r_karyakarte, @SystemsVirology and @PaulBieniasz bring us up to date on COVID XXB1.16 variant of COVID, already swept through India and now on its way to the rest of us. No more deadly, but a reminder of the virus' adaptability.
Jun 17, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
For reasons that should become clear in tomorrow's programme, I've been reading about the Plague of Athens, 430 BCE. Obviously ties in with #COVID19 - an emergent infection to which there is no immunity. Here's Thucydides account from 'The Peleponnesian War'
It reads like a pandemic of the classical era ...
"It began first in Ethiopia..."
