Monthly Archives: June 2012


Frances Ashcroft on prevention and cure

Catching up with podcasts, the diabetes genetics and cell biology expert Frances Ashcroft, director of Oxford’s Centre for Gene Function, explains on The Life Scientific half of the reason why I mostly blog about transport and towns instead of gen…


Ian Kennedy on prevention and cure

I forgot to file away this bit from Ian Kennedy’s 1980 Reith Lecture. Again, nothing that isn’t basic public health stuff, I just liked the way he put it. It seems like a good moment to mention that Ian Roberts is booked in for September’s Street …