25 reserach organisations, including NIHR and Wellcome, have committed 'to reduce and eliminate our own negative environmental impacts and emissions and achieve the transition to sustainable practices.' @UKHealth
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Great conf on research outputs in environmental sustainability in healthcare. Prof Mood Bhutta presents evidence on safety & sustainability of reusable surgical drapes/ gowns- challenging industry scaremongering. Time to mandate reuse. ⁦Centre for Sustainable Healthcare⁩ ⁦Greener NHS⁩

Simon is the leader who required the NHS in England to get to net zero, a world first for a whole health system. Come along and question him on his thinking now. UK Health Alliance on Climate Change

“I suspect that many doctors… have never been bold enough to act like these people or the doctors currently facing GMC tribunals, but we are in awe of their courage in taking personal and professional risks for such causes.”

Gotham City, a cathedral of science, or a machine in which we are all trapped?

The book describes how when Maxwell took over the Daily Mirror he seduced/corrupted the senior editorial staff by taking them for lunch at Claridge’s, one of London’s most expensive hotels. I too was taken to Claridge’s.
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Merlin Sheldrake is in love with fungi, and his magnificent, poetic, mystical book Entangled Life is best thought of as a love letter to fungi. He wishes he was a fungus and suggests that when we become drunk courtesy of a fungus we become part fungus.
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The impact of Oxford and Cambridge on Britain: mostly adverse? richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2024/04/27/the…

“Pretending death can be indefinitely evaded with hot yoga or a gluten-free diet or antioxidants or just by refusing to look is craven denial”

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Tim Kreider on watching a parent get old

Richard Smith Value of Death Commission

It may be cold in Britain, but schools across the Philippines, Bangladesh and India have been forced to close because of extreme heat. UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
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“Psychoanalysis was as influential in Cambridge in the 1920s as communism in the 1930s; if religion was the opium of the masses, psychoanalysis was the opium of the intellectuals.”
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Anyone else getting really concerned we've gone past 428 ppm atmospheric CO2 and it's not even May.

Will it make front page news when it's 429, 430.....? Why is the most important number today not being reported?

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Keeling_Curve Greener NHS World Meteorological Organization SharonBarbourBBC

Publishers of science can make profits far higher than most businesses because they are given their raw material (scientific studies) for free and yet that material is “must have” for customers, particularly academic libraries.
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Our team is upskilling on climate communication! We are excited to embark on this new learning experience. Thanks to Media Trust

A week after hear 'daeth', she checked out of the hospital, filed for divorce, and went to New Mexico to find God. And she did. She found God and she married him.
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A memory of the pandemic. 'The first visit to my mother since before Christmas: a joy and a pantomime' richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2021/03/15/the…

Fantastic news today from @EuropeanParliament who have voted in favour of the trilogue deal on the Ambient Air Quality Directive ( #AAQD ) revision. This is a huge milestone for cleaner air and better health.

Reaction from EU Healthy Air Coalition: ow.ly/XusG50Rn038

Good news. Lots of sex (either with company or solo) MAY protect against prostate cancer. Arthur Smith theconversation.com/does-ejaculati…

The latest #BritainTalksClimate report shows people are worried climate change is harming their physical & mental health, that a loss of nature is harming them. People don’t want to be left alone to tackle climate change - they want good leadership and to feel part of change