Now people are reading The New Optimists, word is getting out about it.
Marc Reeves tweeted ”Yep – just been flicking through. The foreword and introduction alone are inspirational!” Gisela Stuart MP, who’s organising a review in The House Magazine (the Commons mag) tweeted Continue reading
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Click on the map/image above to go to a wonderful piece of work from Crispian Jago. He rather immodestly describes it as: Continue reading
Henry Porter’s article in yesterday’s hardcopy Observer was headlined It’s scientists who make Britain great and yet we choose to ignore them . . . A harsher assessment than the toned-down title of the on-line version, but pertinent to a common-enough state of affairs. Continue reading
It’s another rainy day in the West Midlands and visions of the floods the UK suffered in the summers of 2007 and 2008 are inevitably surfacing.
Flooding costs in the region of £1 billion a year to clean up and it’s likely to get worse too; a recent Parliamentary report suggested annual flood damage could cost £27 billion annually by 2080. Continue reading
To Aston University’s New Optimist Lucy Bastin, derelict wasteland is far from an eyesore. It’s home. Not hers obviously. But often home to more biodiversity than any fertile farmland. Continue reading
How many people in the US, do you suppose, believe in evolution? According to a survey reported in The New Scientist in 2006, a high percentage don’t. Another survey carried out here, indicated that 50% of us Brits don’t either.
If only, as Ian Stewart reminded us in the 2009 Lunar Society Annual Lecture, it were zero percent who believed in evolution! Continue reading
Great news!
Amazon is now shipping The New Optimists: Scientists View Tomorrow’s World & What it Means to Us
Algae doesn’t get much press. As a potential biofuel, food source and integral part of our ecosystem, it deserves more attention.
And moss? Moss doesn’t Continue reading
In laymen’s terms, what Janet Lord is working on is trying to make old age a less unhealthy, uncomfortable place to be. Continue reading
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