Global warming gets worse
Ever heard of the cryosphere? Well, neither had we. Apparently its all the frozen water in the world: glaciers, polar caps that sort of thing. Enjoy it while you can, because it may not be around for much longer, reports the Guardian
The Bull and the Donkey-an unlikely friendship
With stories like the following it is easy to fall into laddish prurience or puritanical dismay. But the whole point of this blog is that we confront data with our feelings suspended and it is in that spirit we offer the following story from the eminently respectable El País
“When the facts change I change my mind” so said the great Economist JM Keynes But actually, this is the distinguishing thought process of Science, as this piece A triumph of scientific self correction” from Nature Briefing shows
In his new book The Ends of Race, humanities scholar Geoffrey Galt Harpham chronicles how people attempted to use science to justify racism in the nineteenth century — and the scientific pushback. “Ultimately, the discrediting of the concept of biological race emerged as a triumph of scientific self-correction,” writes journalist David Silverberg in his review.
Targeting cancer proteins
If you really want to control a disease, strike at the cause not the symptoms we say So this new work on the origins of the cancer promoting protein KRAS and the enzymes that facilitate it seems to offer another avenue of hope as this excellent report from Technology Networks makes clear
Quote of the week (and it’s a challenge!)
I am not in the giving vein today.
Richard III, Act 4, Scene 2.
To which two countries, much in the news lately, do you think these words apply? Which President might have spoken them?
#donald trump #israel #cancer #protein #health #global warming #cryosphere #race #identity
