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Making Thoughts Public
February 14, 2012
After writing my first blog post a week or so ago, I was sitting on the bus chatting to the daughter of a very old acquaintance of mine, a now retired lecturer in French, for whom I did a module once a long time ago after I had arrived in Nottingham at the beginning of …
Being all at sea
July 12, 2024
It’s summer, but it isn’t. It is intermittently grey and rainy and stormy, with a few days of sunshine in between. In another year without a summer, namely 1816, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or so the myth goes* …. If she could sit in the Villa Diodati in gloomy weather and write, why can’t I, …
Biochar in the news
June 7, 2024
In this blog post Carol Morris, Catherine Price and I want to present two articles on a rather niche topic relating to climate change mitigation – niche but nevertheless interesting and important: biochar. What is biochar? Biochar is amongst a growing suite of approaches developed to address the climate crisis by removing carbon dioxide from …
Milk, reservoirs and spillovers: Bird flu in cows
May 10, 2024
On 26 April my sister emailed me from the United States and said “I might have to go over to oat milk”. She was alarmed by reports that bits of bird flu virus had been found in pasteurised milk. She has not gone over to oat milk yet. It seems that there is almost no …