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Persecuted botanists, seed bank & siege of Leningrad How political ideology and violence can lay waste to scientific achievement, and the resilience and resolve of scientists committed to their mission despite persecution, war and starvation, is the story Simon Parkin tells in The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in aCity Under Siege ….
India has a massive shortage of doctors – only 7.2 per 10,000 people, as against 7.6 in Myanmar – a country racked by civil war. Even Pakistan has 11.6, and Cuba – under US embargo since 1960 – has 95.4. Finding a doctor in rural India is much harder as the average plummets to 3…
India has a massive shortage of doctors – only 7.2 per 10,000 people, as against 7.6 in Myanmar – a country racked by civil war. Even Pakistan has 11.6, and Cuba – under US embargo since 1960 – has 95.4. Finding a doctor in rural India is much harder as the average plummets to 3…
Plenty, because we aren’t so different from wheat and yeast The periodic table sorts 118 elements into rows and columns. Two dozen of these are manmade, the rest are building blocks of everything across the universe. Similarly, amino acids are the building blocks of life. All living things – from a virus to a blue…
Comms wars are shaping our reality, but we can fight back We are in the midst of a communication war. From what we consume on TV and internet to our visits to shopping malls and our news consumption patterns, there is a constant battle for our attention. Surprisingly, the same mechanisms that influence our choices…
Student scores, labour productivity dip with rising temp By the end of this century, sea levels will be a foot higher than in 2000. The average person is 31 years old today, and given that global life expectancy is 73.5 years, they may be dead by 2068. So, why should we worry? Didn’t Keynes say,…
A loose global alliance that hates eggheads & loves ‘tradition’ Six authors (Rita Abrahamsen, Jean-Francois Drolet, Michael C Williams, Srdjan Vucetic, Karin Narita and Alexandra Gheciu) set out to understand today’s most dominant political idea globally. The result is World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order, a book nine years in the making….
China’s mega hi-tech firm is made in the country’s image Huawei literally means ‘China is great’. House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company by Eva Dou tells the story of the blazingly successful high-tech firm that got into the West’s crosshairs. US-China trade war exploded into full-scale hostage diplomacy, as CFO…
Elites are suspicious of crowds, which are often forces of reform Crowds have a bad reputation. Watching the crowds at Bastille, French thinker Gustave Le Bon cast their behaviour as madness, a loss of individual good sense – and this idea remains seductive to those in power. Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World by…
