UTA Flight 772
On Tuesday, 19th September 1989, UTA Flight 772 took off from Brazzaville (the People’s Republic of Congo) to Paris (France) via N’Djamena (Chad). Forty-six minutes later, a bomb on board exploded....
View ArticleAugusto Odone
I’d never heard of Augusto Odone, the Italian economist who taught himself enough medicine to come up with a breakthrough treatment for his son Lorenzo’s illness. ALD is a rare and terrible illness,...
View ArticleThe Wick End of Candles at the Close of a Long Night
The Wick End of Candles at the Close of a Long Night was published in the h2g2 Post on the 21st of September 2006. It’s a rather beautiful story by ianhimself. It’s set in Northern Ireland, and manages...
View Article“treating other people with respect”
I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile. — Neil Gaiman
View ArticleAusterity and hope in South Shields
I’ve never been to South Shields. In fact, I’ve never been to the north of England at all. Well, Manchester and Hull for h2g2 meets, and Marsden in Yorkshire, where I have family history. But South...
View Article“Strong Female Characters”
Can a female character be a “brilliant, solitary, abrasive, Bohemian, whimsical, brave, sad, manipulative, neurotic, vain, untidy, fastidious, artistic, courteous, rude, polymath genius”? Well, I don’t...
View ArticleTim Minchin: The Fence
A song by Tim Minchin, dedicated to Timothy Garton Ash and Ben Goldacre. The Fence. TRiG.
View ArticleTamiflu, Bad Pharma, and the UK Public Accounts Committee
The conclusion that millions of people have been exposed to a treatment, at enormous cost to the public purse, despite the fact that independent researchers have been unable to verify it as being...
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