Vaccines alone will not eliminate Covid
Prospect 24 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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Covid-19: the unofficial inquiry
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Variant B117: what we know about the new coronavirus mutation
Prospect 4 January 2021. Available here.
The second lockdown buys us time. We must use it
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The magic of mushrooms forces us to rethink what intelligence means
Review of Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. Prospect 7 October 2021. Available here.
Where is the evidence that early pub closures will lower infection rates?
Prospect 23 September 2021. Available here.