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Wildfire
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Wildfires & Heatwaves
Things will be quiet here for a little while - 8,500 papers don't filter themselves. Elsewhere: Mazowe convalesces under his own fan, the garden is being kept alive by bucket, and a wildfire visualisation is quietly taking shape.
Wildfire
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Pyrocumulonimbus and a Full English
A conference on wildfires, a terrier on bed rest, and Europe's first pyrocumulonimbus — the week refused to rank them. Fire, convalescence, and a full English.
UCL
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Urban Futures - UCL's 16th RDR Conference
A heatwave outside, a conference inside asking what cities must become to survive the next one.
UCL
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UCL200 - Mathematics Symposium
Marking 200 years of mathematics at UCL - a symposium that reminds us research only becomes useful when it leaves the journals and is made accessible and inclusive. Expect the maths that unmasked Banksy and caught a serial killer, plus UCL's "Godless institution" origins.
Science
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We're going to the f'n moon!
It's hard not to be drawn into the orbit of the Artemis II mission. Only 66 years separated Kitty Hawk from the Sea of Tranquility — man reached the Moon with less computing power than the device you're reading this on.
Risk
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The Challenge of Global Health
Two podcasts worth following for anyone interested in global health preparedness. Wellcome’s When Science Finds a Way shows how predictive tools using health and climate data help anticipate outbreaks. The Doherty Institute’s Off Script argues therapeutics are a critical complement to vaccines.