Showing posts with label COVID19. Show all posts
Showing posts with label COVID19. Show all posts
Saturday, 12 December 2020

Life in the Pandemic XVI: The light at the end of the tunnel

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The great sulk continues in the actual Whitehouse. The great contrast with the Bartlett Whitehouse continues (yes, I know it’s made up, but ...
Wednesday, 14 October 2020

Life in the Pandemic XIII: Living, doing and knowing……

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Here in the England’s northwest, the second wave has well and truly arrived. In Liverpool, our cases and hospitalisations are up and rising,...
Saturday, 26 September 2020

Life in the Pandemic XII: What lies ahead?

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No human being can tell the future. Lot’s of us try to guess the future, and claim that we’re making a prediction. If enough of us do that ...
Saturday, 19 September 2020

Life in the Pandemic XI: Why science can never be enough.

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In the interests of transparency, I should make clear from the outset that I think science is, without doubt, the best way of obtaining soun...
Saturday, 15 August 2020

Life in the Pandemic X: Exacerbating uncertainty

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 Many things in life are uncertain (apart from death and taxes obviously). And many things are uncertain in science. Indeed identifying, con...
Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Life in the Pandemic VI: Bigging up science - but a bit too much?

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You may not have heard of Jennifer Doudna. But then there was a time when no one had heard of Charles Darwin or Albert Einstein. And of cour...
Thursday, 26 March 2020

Life in the pandemic I: The return of the experts….

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It wasn’t that long ago that some were lamenting the death of reason and the revolt against experts. TV studios were filled with serious l...