On the importance of failure - an Occasional Address
Faculty of Medicine & Health, Graduation Ceremony, May 2nd 2023 - Occasional Address Deputy Chancellor, Senior Vice Dean of Medicine &...
Richard Carter 1945-2021
Last Friday, I attended the funeral of a dear friend and mentor Richard Carter. As his brother said during the ceremony, we have been...
Earthfulness 3.0
Medieval woodland management. It’s not something that most people would think of as a go to for a modern life philosophy. As an...
Earthfulness 2.0
A Part in the Whole Who am I? A celestial being? Nature raw in tooth and claw? A meaningless vehicle for the selfish propagation of...
Earthfulness
Many animals and plants live life on a knife edge. They are beautifully adapted to their ecological niche; the precise balance of energy,...
The force is still strong... a new year message
May be its just age. But 2016 felt different. The world saw so many changes. Most difficult of all is the fall of so many of our icons....
World Malaria Report 2016
Its an amazing time to be in Malaria research. The gains of the last 10-15 years are amazing (reducing deaths from over 1 million to some...
A call to a very personal climate change...
A news piece in Science Magazine really hit home this week. Reporting on the shrinkage of sea ice as a result of CO2 emissions, the...
Start a ripple...
My 8-year-old son looked at me with fear in his eyes this morning as the results of the US election came through. We live in the UK. He...
Seize the day – lessons from the Illuminator
A recent study suggests that human life is curtailed at about 120 years. The biblical dictum that no one would live beyond such a...
