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Malaria death toll disputed

Date: 3rd February 2012

Publication: Nature News

Study doubles official estimate, but scientists say its methods are flawed.

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Biofuel from beneath the waves

Date: 19th January 2012

Publication: Nature News

Engineered bacterium can produce ethanol directly from seaweed.

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What Does a Deaf Rave Sound Like?

Date: 6th December 2011

Publication: Toronto Standard

Sencity has put on raves for the deaf in Mexico, Brazil, Finland, Spain, and South Africa, with Montreal on the agenda for 2012. What, no Toronto?

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Is the BBC dumbing down?

Date: 25th November 2011

Publication: Toronto Standard

Natural History on the BBC has taken a drastic departure from its unabashedly nerdy roots. And what about that episode on climate change that was canned?

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Man Vs. Winter

28th March 2012

I just spent a week in Vermont – where we normally ski in a winter wonderland covered in four feet of fluffy powder. This year, it was 24c, cloudless and sunny, and we went for a nature walk. I simultaneously love and loathe when environmental specialists (like myself) are proven correct in our assertion that climate change will progress more dramatically than anyone ever thought possible.

If a tree falls

21st February 2012

I have a new position as a part-time staff writer for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) blogging about deforestation, climate change, mining and other tree-related issues.

Nature News

19th January 2012

I have a new piece in the news section of the world’s most reputed science journal, Nature – this time on a subject of environmental importance: biofuels made from seaweed.

BBC Radio 4

27th October 2011

I was interviewed by Quentin Cooper for BBC Radio 4′s programme Material World, which aired today – you can hear me wax somewhat lyrical about Guerilla Science, smell and attraction on their website here.

Glamour Factory

8th October 2011

Guerilla Science hosted our first event at a London art gallery last night – a new habitat for science by stealth. See a roundup of what we created, from an immortality tour to a gender workshop, here.

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