There is always a degree of sadness in reading the obituary of a great scientist. Today, following up Bombardier Beetles, I came across this one:
As a teenager, in the early 1960s, I developed an interest in botany, and in particular ferns and the so-called “fern-allies”. So, living in the drier South-East of England, I welcomed trips to places where these plants about, such as Wales, mountainous Scotland, and Cornwall.
But today I am travelling through time, showing how our knowledge of this branch of the Plant Kingdom has expanded over the last 200 years or so.
In yesterday’s article on Science 2.0,
Oh, Health Ranger...You Make Me Ill, said person was taken to task for
saying:
"The use of GMOs is the closest thing to 'Satanic' that you'll find in modern agriculture. The agenda behind this is pure evil."
This attitude is, alas, all too widespread, as evidenced by the following in today’s
Daily Telegraph:
I’m not sure how come
Real Clear Science came to replace
Live Science on the board, but they do have a lot of jolly good stuff. Today, following one of their links, I was heartened to read something
in favour of plastics:
This morning this programme (45 minutes) was on BBC Radio 4.
In Our Time: the Neutrino
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0106tjc0
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the neutrino.
with:
Frank Close, Professor of Physics at Exeter College at the
University of Oxford
Susan Cartwright, Senior Lecturer in Particle Physics and
White Dwarfs
Fancy a trip to Sirius? This is what you might see as you are approaching your destination.
Carbon — to capture or not to capture
Betelgeuse, Gamow, and a Big Red Horse
Climate Change, the Walrus and the Carpenter
