Alom Shaha

Saw it last Saturday and enjoyed it very much. Sort of play that I would have loved to have studied at school.

Have spent 25+ years teaching and communicating science, often to people who have little interest or knowledge of science. Have helped many prominent scientists and science institutions communicate their work to the public. Wrote this book for people who didn‘t understand / enjoy science at school:

I have found my soul mate

It's also a bit galling coming across as the stick-in-the-mud while all the kids in football kits and inflatable dinosaur costumes caper about irrelevantly...

It’s been commodified, which is why so many kids are wearing Disney etc stuff. Sure there are Disney books, but this stuff feeds into the licensing machine. And it annoys me because (homemade, home sourced charity shop) dress ups are super fun

Well, in her defence, Taylor Swift has sold more books than me. Although the student would’ve looked better dress as me, obviously.

I had this exact rant at the dinner table last night 😂

It's "which book can I find that will let me dress up as x" rather than "let me tell you about my favourite book"

That is a bold move. The West* values money over everything, and taking away the money they think they deserve paints a big target on their backs.

Have spent 25+ years teaching and communicating science, often to people who have little interest or knowledge of science. Have helped many prominent scientists and science institutions communicate their work to the public. Wrote this book for people who didn‘t understand / enjoy science at school:

Why Don’t Things Fall Up? Why Don’t Things Fall Up? delivers what every adult and schoolchild deserves, but often doesn’t get: an authoritative and accessible account of the key ideas in science. The book is rooted in Alom’…

It may surprise (and perhaps confuse) you to know that “British Science Week” is longer than a week and starts today. Which is the perfect time to refresh your knowledge of what you should have learned about science at school with this:

It’s hard to explain the excitement and trepidation of that moment when people get to read the book you just spent years putting together…

Can someone remind me again how many pay rises MPs have had in the past 15 years? 12? 13? Meanwhile, look at this (from the Nuffield Trust: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/ho...)

I have found my soul mate

Dressing up for world book day is bullshit, even leaving the parental finance stuff aside. It's one of very few 'event' days in school calenders set aside for a solo, quiet, activity – and then it's turned into dress-up. Spectacularly misses the point. Schools should drop it from a great height.

Our guy just comes and does the job and sticks a postcard through the letterbox with the bill. No need for interaction at all!

Why Don’t Things Fall Up? Why Don’t Things Fall Up? delivers what every adult and schoolchild deserves, but often doesn’t get: an authoritative and accessible account of the key ideas in science. The book is rooted in Alom’…

It may surprise (and perhaps confuse) you to know that “British Science Week” is longer than a week and starts today. Which is the perfect time to refresh your knowledge of what you should have learned about science at school with this:

On the one hand, a clearly deranged lunatic in the White House starting a dangerous illegal war on Iran with already-serious repercussions for the region and world...

Or having a pop at Keir Starmer.

You just knew which side the Right would come down on.

Reform councillor Graham Eardley has been suspended for behaving so aggressively towards a female volunteer that security had to escort him out. That’s at least 63 Reform councillors gone in ten months – nearly one in ten!

First light at Salisbury, where spire, sky, and meadow meet in perfect harmony. Taken from Harnham Water Meadows, where John Constable created his masterpieces.

This joke is so good that I'm not even going to pedantically explain why it's wrong

Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

This is why I wrote in the essay that Americans are so propagandized to believe that the country is the greatest force for moral good that it can kill as much as it wants around the world, and the citizens will dismiss the evil and violence as either mistakes or completely forget them the next day

Kristi Noem Ran DHS Into the Ground. That’s Not Why She Got Fired. Kristi Noem just found Trump’s red line, becoming the first cabinet member to be fired in his second term. But it wasn’t for the reasons you’d think.

“Kristi Noem tried to upstage the President. And Trump would never stand for that. You can run an agency into the ground, and trample all over Americans’ constitutional rights, and use government funding like it’s your own personal slush fund. But you absolutely cannot steal Trump’s spotlight."

Spain’s MEP Irene Montero speaking to reporters

Irene Montero: No woman has ever been freed by American bombs or illegal aggression — Not in Syria. Not in Iraq. Not in Afghanistan. It will not happen in Iran either

When they want to sell their oil wars, their wars for profit, their imperial wars — they hide behind women’s rights to justify them

Thank you:)

That sounds perfect

I hope you’re right

So sorry to read this.