Siouxsie Wiles • Aug 05, 2014 •
“Polio EM PHIL 1875 lores” by CDC/ Dr. Fred Murphy, Sylvia Whitfield – This media comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s Public Health Image Library (PHIL), with identification number #1875.. Over … Read More
Bryan Walker • Aug 06, 2013 •
Stephen Sackur took the BBC’s HARDtalk programme on the road in Alaska in a climate change episode screened a few days ago. It was the kind of aware and intelligent journalism one hopes to see on the topic, and deserves plaudits. Not that it exceeded what we have a right to expect from major mainstream […] … Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Nov 28, 2012 •
If there’s one thing you watch today (well, other than wall-to-wall coverage of The Hobbit* and perhaps some videos of sorting algorithms explained through folk dance), it needs to be this. Secret Universe – The Hidden Life Of the Cell… Read more › … Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Nov 28, 2011 •
Welcome back to a very icy, buggy TOSP! This week, Elf and aimee talk about ice. Well, mostly ice. Brinicles, ice on Europa and even ice-related geoengineering in Mongolia. And undersea silk. Excitingly, however, they also talk with their first guest, Sciblogger Siouxsie Wiles of Infectious Thoughts, and her post this week on (illegal) chickenpox lollipops. She … Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Nov 24, 2011 •
UPDATE: Please note – the picture below is a picture, not the video 🙂 The link to the video is later in the post… Yep, that is, indeed, a real word. The BBC has, for the first time ever, captured the formation of a brinicle The Beeb, bless their cotton … Read More
Bryan Walker • Jul 27, 2011 •
I wondered what Stephen Sackur might want to put to Rajendra Pachauri when he interviewed the IPCC chair on BBC’s Hardtalk this week. His agenda turned out to be depressingly predictable for the most part. The opening was not encouraging. Sackur referred to other options than a global climate deal in view of the stalled [...] … Read More
Bryan Walker • Jul 22, 2011 •
“I recommend that the BBC takes a less rigid view of ‘due impartiality’ as it applies to science (in practice and not just in its guidelines) and takes into account the nonâ€contentious nature of some material and the need to avoid giving undue attention to marginal opinion.†This is one of the recommendations of a [...] … Read More
Darcy Cowan • Jul 22, 2011 •
I just read this story about an independent review of science reporting from the BBC (via RD.net). It covers the release of a report on the coverage of science by the BBC, while the report is mostly favourable there are a few things that could be addressed and done better. The obvious one is the [...] … Read More
Bryan Walker • Apr 27, 2011 •
I stumbled across a documentary programme on BBC World during the weekend, Nature Inc. It visited two Asian regions where the impacts of climate change are being experienced and described the active local measures under way to cope with them. It’s the sort of programme we ought to be seeing a great deal more of [...] … Read More
Bryan Walker • Mar 19, 2011 •
“We are committed to developing deepwater energy supplies offshore.†Those blunt words from the US Administration were put to oceanographer Sylvia Earle by Stephen Sackur late in a captivating BBC Hardtalk interview I watched a few days ago. What chance, he asked, did her message about the plight of the oceans stand in the face [...] … Read More