Rowan Hooper

The WRI report says we need to close 360 coal plants a year and cancel all planned plants. And yet bsky.app/profile/just...

Horrific but great tension/film-making - you can’t stop watching until the inevitable

The world, the universe and us From the evolution of intelligent life, to the mysteries of consciousness; from the threat of the climate crisis to the search for dark matter, The world, the universe and us is your essential weekly ...

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💉 mRNA vaccines teach your body to kill cancer
⚠️ @worldresources.bsky.social #StateOfClimateAction
🐦 Why birds sing the dawn chorus

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How mRNA vaccines teach your body to kill cancer; Grim state of climate action; Why birds sing the dawn chorus Spotify video

New podcast:
💉mRNA vaccines help your body fight cancer
🤬State of Climate Action report sounds red alert
🦜New explanation for the dawn chorus
open.spotify.com/episode/4ODd... with @pennysarchet.bsky.social and @mjflepage.bsky.social plus Clea Schumer and Sophie Boehm of @worldresources.bsky.social

Slap fighting is having a moment. But is it safe? BritSlap: Slap fighting sees competitors strike each other without defending themselves. Critics warn of brain damage, but its devotees see it as a release

No.
www.huckmag.com/article/slap...

Scientists Warn About the ‘Greenlandification’ of Antarctica - Inside Climate News Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting increases.

When Antarctica's ice starts melting as fast as Greenland's sea level will start rising so rapidly that it won't really be possible for most places to adapt.

Yes! And I basically stole the social death idea for the end of my piece. I used conducted energy device (ie a taser) built into ankle bands instead of slap drone

This piece on technological incarceration was inspired by the Culture novels of Iain M Banks but it turns out to have a solid basis in real-life research

Meteors always strike the White House in disaster movies

Could a self-monitoring system for criminals replace prisons one day? Future Chronicles is our regular speculative look at inventions yet to come. In this latest installment, we journey to 2050, when technology had been developed so that criminals could be monitored at ...

The US spends $182 billion a year on locking up its citizens, and has a recidivism rate of 60 to 70 per cent after two years. Prison is expensive, and doesn't work - this piece looks at how to get rid of 95 per cent of them www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

C’est vrai!

Ah that's better, a wounding amount

TotalEnergies has a revenue of $237.1 billion, and it is fined €8000 euro!?

Yes, that's why I focus on Norway/Scandi countries at first for this piece

Is Shell to blame for a ‘super typhoon’? Philippines survivors to sue oil giant in legal first Typhoon Rai killed more than 400, displaced nearly 3.2 million, and destroyed more than a million homes in 2021

Very interesting climate case against Shell, using Philippine law to argue that Shell has contributed to anthropogenic climate change, and therefore violated the constitutional rights to a healthy environment www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Could a self-monitoring system for criminals replace prisons one day? Future Chronicles is our regular speculative look at inventions yet to come. In this latest installment, we journey to 2050, when technology had been developed so that criminals could be monitored at ...

The US spends $182 billion a year on locking up its citizens, and has a recidivism rate of 60 to 70 per cent after two years. Prison is expensive, and doesn't work - this piece looks at how to get rid of 95 per cent of them www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

London exhibition perhaps sumo's most successful trip abroad Over the course of the tournament, sumo received wall-to-wall coverage in mainstream British media.

^ from @johngunningsumo.bsky.social's write up www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/...

"Many of the wrestlers, including the yokozuna, told me the environment and the atmosphere that was created inside the Royal Albert Hall was much better than that at the Kokugikan or any regional venue in Japan" Hiro Morita on #LondonSumo. Our report here: open.spotify.com/episode/3SO4...

This is great on circular investment and the AI bubble. See also @sparkes.bsky.social analysis here: www.newscientist.com/article/2499...

My god, this is like something out of Kim Stanley Robinson. Absolutely chilling to see

Decoding whale language and communicating with them will help force recognition of rights - and maybe a position at the United Nations, as I suggest here: www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

YouTube video by New Scientist Chris Packham: My dogs saved my life

m.youtube.com/watch?v=EjjM...

YouTube video by New Scientist Chris Packham: My dogs saved my life

My Life in Six Species. Here's @chrisgpackham.bsky.social telling me about his "Desert Island Animals": badgers, kestrel, wasp, song thrush, T. rex, black miniature poodle.
This is funny, moving, and urgent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjjM...

A tree ridden with fungi

The Last of Us (HBO, 2023)

And here it is! open.spotify.com/episode/1xpe...

YouTube video by New Scientist Neuroscience of Reality: Quest for Dark Matter; Folklore of Geoscience

*Bonus episode*
🧠Neuroscience of Reality
🌌Quest for Dark Matter
🌋Folklore of Geoscience
With special guests: @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social, @danieljamesyon.bsky.social and
@chamkaurghag.bsky.social. Cohost @pennysarchet.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtup...

Yes we'll get it online soon-ish!

It's like Desert Island Discs but you have to choose six species that have meant the most to you throughout your life. Chris just chose animals - other kingdoms are acceptable!

Definite highlight of the weekend was talking with Chris Packham on our new "My Life in Six Species" format. Chris chose: badgers, kestrel, wasp, song thrush, T. rex, black miniature poodle. Perfect!