New Birmingham . . .
Several hundred people piled into Birmingham’s Council House last night for the launch of the Birmingham Leadership Foundation, myself included. People who know me will realise I’m a tad allergic to...
View ArticleKindle Camp — A Kindle Publishing Workshop
We’re going be creating digital books this summer. In the first instance, on Kindle. Our first will be about ten articles by some of our leading scientists in cancer research, both existing and newly...
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David Sansom: How our immune system doesn’t kill us
Yesterday in the Birmingham Post Science Blog I wrote about some work by Brum academic Dr David Sansom. His work has big implications in the treatment of some very debilitating and potentially...
View ArticleStem cells: Scientists disappointed by tissue rejection
Just as I was getting the first slug of caffeine into my system around 7:30, I listened to a Today interview with Oxford’s Paul Fairchild, Director of their Stem Cell Centre. (My ears inevitably prick...
View ArticleAndreas Hornung @ Cafe Scientifique — Alternative energies: Biofuels
New Optimist Professor Andreas Hornung will be leading a discussion at the July Cafe Scientifique at the Jekyll & Hyde (6:30pm for 7pm on Tuesday 5th July) on biofuels as an alternative source of...
View ArticleMake-a-Human DNA instruction kit, Ian Stewart & a third cup of coffee
I’m midway through the OU short course Human genetics and health issues. (I thought I needed more than a smattering of understanding about genetics and epigenetics, given I’ll be talking to a few...
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Challenging Cancer – the first of a Kindle series coming soon
Since the excellent Kindle Camp at Aston Business School on 1st June, we’ve been beavering away to create the first New Optimists Kindle book, the first of a series of mini-collections of essays by...
View ArticleFace to Face with the New Optimists: Paul Moss on controlling cancer
Our first Kindle book, The New Optimists: Challenging Cancer has just been released so it’s a good time to continue our Face to Face series by getting to know some of the scientists who have...
View ArticleFace to Face with the New Optimists: Peter Sadler
Another scientist featuring in our first Kindle book The New Optimists: Challenging Cancer is Professor Peter Sadler FRS, an inorganic chemist. In this video clip, he talks about what makes him...
View ArticleFace to Face with the New Optimists: Andrew Peet
Continuing our Face to Face series where we meet with the New Optimists, this is a short video clip which was filmed at the launch of the hard copy of the book last year, at the Botanical Gardens in...
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