Sales of Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book Careless People (Macmillan) have shot up by 304.5% week-on-week, according to the latest charts data from NielsenIQ BookData. 👇
The Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks warn us we must be better prepared if we are to prevent the next pandemic | Helen Clark
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Sometimes big numbers can pass you by but this is mind-blowing.
'An enormous whale graveyard around 1,200km (745 miles) long and 7km (four miles) deep has been discovered in the south-eastern Indian Ocean. Some of the remains are 5.3 million years old.'
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Who's going to write the gothic children's book about this real world character? Repeating the name over and over is almost enough on its own (cf Liar, liar, pants on fire/Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater etc).
Absolutely thrilled to be chatting with Ingrid Horrocks and Lawrence Patchett about their brilliant new story collections. Join us to examine the human heart and the art of the short story, on 27 July.
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Remember the deadline for @universityofotago.bsky.social Arts Fellowships in 2027 was extended to Monday, 15 June 2026. Still time! www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/a... #art #dance #music #writing
'This is a highly entertaining, intelligent and humanistic work of science fiction, speaking to themes of societal control and direction in a way that's attuned to how we experience and interact with power and technology now.' Review of Nova, the new novel by Tim Corballis, in the latest Listener
The Indian Ocean site is "far beyond anything we had imagined", one researcher says.
Today we are wishing a Happy Birthday to Maurice Sendak, who was born #onthisdate in 1928.
If you've not read Where The Wild Things Are, read it today. Or if you've not read it for a while, read it today.
And then let the wild rumpus start.
Surveillance that misses a haemorrhagic fever or fails to consider endemic risks at a departure port will be blind to something far more dangerous
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Vaccine to tackle Ebola outbreak will take six to nine months, WHO says
Two rare disease outbreaks within two weeks – Andes hantavirus and Bundibugyo Ebola – have caused deaths and triggered costly international responses. Together they expose a gap not in our ability to respond, but in our willingness to anticipate, prevent and use precaution.
The hantavirus outbreak on a cruise expedition in the south Atlantic played out slowly. Three weeks passed between the death of one passenger on 11 April and the linkage to hantavirus on 2 May. In that time, passengers onboard the MV Hondius continued their itinerary, having been advised that the man had probably died of natural causes. They toured remote islands and ate together at the same tables. More than 30 passengers disembarked at St Helena and flew in different directions. Continue reading...
Nobody is very used to organising a world. From the author of Our Future Is in the Air and R.H.I., NOVA is a genre-defying novel that imagines a future in which people and their worlds talk to each ot...
First discovered in 1979, the Bloodybelly Comb Jelly is a deep-sea marine invertebrate known for its translucent body, vibrant, sangria-colored stomach, and rows of hair-like cilia that shimmer with iridescent, rainbow-like colors when it swims.
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