Don’t wait for government – UK scientists should conduct a Covid inquiry now
The Guardian 13 May 2021. Available here.
Dominic Cummings is right: herd immunity was always the government’s Plan A
Prospect 26 May 2021. Available here.
Is Western scepticism of the Russian and Chinese vaccines fair?
Prospect 15 May 2021. Available here.
Caution over [vaccine] blood-clotting is sensible. Panic is not
Prospect 15 April 2021. Available here.
After the Nobel, what next for Crispr gene-editing therapies?
The Observer 21 February 2021. Available here.
The two new vaccines give cause for hope – but not carelessness
Prospect, 2 February 2021. Available here.
THE ELEMENTS: A Visual History of Their Discovery
The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery by Philip Ball
This Elements offers a largely chronological illustrated guide to how the chemical elements were discovered over the past three millennia. It provides a view not just of how we came to understand what everything is made of but also of how chemistry developed from a trial-and-error craft of making and transforming substances into a rational modern science that provides us with new materials, drugs, and much else.
While other books have described the properties of the chemical elements and often delved into their histories, none has done so in this highly visual manner. The pictorial material for this subject is very rich, including some gorgeous alchemical documents as well as portraits, colour charts, woodcuts of mining, artefacts such as John Dalton’s wooden balls, advertisements (for example, for radium ‘cures’) and postage stamps.
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