Monthly Archives: September 2005

Race and mortgages

Everybody knows that American blacks pay more for their groceries than American whites do. The same, it seems, is true of mortgages. (Update: I just, you know, actually read this first sentence. And no, it doesn’t mean that American mortgages … Continue reading

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Hurricanes and global warming

According to Nick Kristof of the New York Times, MIT’s Kerry Emanuel is a "hurricane guru". Conveniently, Mr Emanuel published a major hurricane study in Nature just before Katrina hit the US. What did that study say? According to Kristof, … Continue reading

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Opting In

Grey mizzle across the country, a hanging mist, traffic fluidly moving through the capital’s centre, commuters buying coffee, picking up the free paper, listening to their ipods. Schoolchildren on a train, the first day of term after the summer, a … Continue reading

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Beloved Hydroxyl

I dedicated my Ph.D. thesis ‘to the hydroxyl radical, omnipresent but ever elusive, you have a wicked sense of humour’. In retrospect, this may seem a little theatrical. But at the time I truly felt that I had been chasing … Continue reading

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Hot (a science blog)

It’s a hot, smoggy day in London and I’m sitting on an overcrowded train. It’s too hot for this many people to be in one space. In fact, it’s too hot for this many people to be in one place: … Continue reading

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