Respecting evidence. Craving re-enchantment. Eating cake.
Hey, remember when Fauci privately told a reporter on Feb 7th 2020 that Covid was "more deadly than even your strenuous flus... This is deadly stuff" but then told a public press conference on Feb 27th 2020: "This is a flu. This is like a flu"? Oh wait! That was... Donald Trump.
I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understandsAstronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.www.bbc.co.ukAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪
Excellent news. It’s crucial we continue to lead the debate on both mitigating and adapting to global warming. Pleased to see Ed Miliband take this so seriously as he takes on the UK Governor at the World Bank.
The GuardianEd Miliband indicates development and climate will be at heart of UK foreign policy
So the UK has a new government wooing us with its willingness to listen. So please, can we have a state education system that treats children as people rather than as information processing systems, most particularly in the early years? @paulwaughmp.bsky.social @lucympowell.bsky.social #EduSky
Nurturing the brain: play, development and learningPlay is essential to healthy brain development and learning in early childhood. Human brains evolved to “boot” principally through social in...histpsych.blogspot.com
The day’s first casualty: James Timpson resigns as prisons minister. This is a big surprise! Timpson had a long history as a prisons reformer before entering government and seen as one of Starmer’s more innovative & exciting appointments. He’s also delivered a big change programme in gov. So: why?
Prisons minister Lord Timpson quits governmentThe businessman said it was an "honour" to serve in the post, but the BBC understands he feels he has achieved all he can in the role.www.bbc.co.uk
"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.
Aaron RuparTom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."
“A "vast amount" of taxpayers' money was wasted on PPE - almost £10bn of the £14.9bn spent by the UK and devolved governments.” Who will be held accountable? www.bbc.co.uk/news/a... 1/3
PPE failures left NHS staff poorly protected and wasted billions, Covid inquiry findsHealthcare staff were unable to properly protect themselves, or those in their care, from dangerous infections, says the latest inquiry report.www.bbc.co.uk
Chatsworth House joins free entry scheme to improve access to Britain’s country houses
Chatsworth House joins free entry scheme to improve access to Britain’s country housesInitiative run through local libraries aims to boost access to cultural experiences amid cost of living crisis
When Kate, a 47-year-old contract worker came face to face with Charlotte Brontë’s handwriting while visiting Chatsworth House, the avid reader, who counts Jane Eyre as her favourite book, struggled to contain her excitement.
“I had a little bit of a moment,” she said. “I just thought: ‘Wow, that was actually Charlotte Brontë’s writing there on that page.’ That was pretty special.” Continue reading...www.theguardian.comHot Type: The Next Phase In the Assault on Truth open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...
Hot Type: The Next Phase In the Assault on TruthPolitical columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda reports that Russians have moved beyond injecting disinformation to a full-scale and pernicious attack on all dependable sources of truthopen.substack.com
