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Send us Fan MailWhat if I told you there is a major genetic risk factor for heart attacks and strokes that affects roughly one in five people worldwide - but most people have never heard of it, and it isn't measured on a standard cholesterol test? Today we're exploring Lp(a), the hidden cardiovascular risk factor that could reshape the future of heart disease prevention.Dr. Paul Burton, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.C., M.R.C.S., F.R.C.P., is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Amgen ( https://www.amgen.com/about/leadership/senior-management/paul-burton ).Dr. Burton has built one of the most remarkable careers in modern medicine and biotechnology. After training as a physician and cardiovascular surgeon in the United Kingdom and earning a Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology from Imperial College London, he transitioned into the biotechnology industry, where he has spent more than two decades leading the development of innovative medicines across cardiovascular disease, oncology, infectious disease, metabolic disorders and RNA therapeutics.Before returning to Amgen as Chief Medical Officer in 2023, Dr. Burton served as Chief Medical Officer of Moderna during one of the most consequential periods in modern public health, overseeing global medical strategy and pharmacovigilance. Prior to that he spent sixteen years at Johnson & Johnson, ultimately serving as Chief Global Medical Affairs Officer while helping pioneer digital medicine initiatives, including collaborations exploring virtual clinical trials.Today, Dr. Burton leads Amgen's worldwide medical organization, helping guide one of the industry's broadest research pipelines while translating breakthrough science into therapies that can improve - and potentially save - millions of lives.One of those efforts is Amgen's ambitious work targeting lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), a genetically inherited cardiovascular risk factor affecting roughly one in five people worldwide. Through its investigational siRNA therapy olpasiran and the expansive OCEAN(a) clinical program, Amgen hopes to answer one of the biggest remaining questions in preventive cardiology: can dramatically lowering Lp(a) prevent heart attacks and strokes?Today we'll explore Dr. Burton's fascinating career, what it means to lead medical strategy at one of biotechnology's largest innovators, and why the next decade may fundamentally reshape how we prevent cardiovascular disease.#Cardiology #HeartDisease #LpA #LipoproteinA #PrecisionMedicine #RNAmedicine #GeneSilencing #Biotechnology #Biotech #Amgen #DrugDiscovery #PharmaceuticalInnovation #FutureOfMedicine #CardiovascularHealth #HeartHealth #MedicalInnovation #HealthcareInnovation #PreventiveMedicine #Genomics #SiRNA #LongevityScience #RegenerativeMedicine #ClinicalTrials #Pharma #LifeSciences #ProgressPotentialPossibilitiesSupport the show

Tomáš Čermák má za sebou již v osmnácti obrovské množství vědeckých úspěchů a to napříč obory. Naposledy přišel s inovativním nápadem na čištění vody, za který získal globální ocenění Earth Prize. To je něco jako ekologická „nobelovka“ pro středoškoláky. Jak si vybírá témata, kterým se věnuje? Proč si pro další studium zvolil právě biomedicínské inženýrství na Imperial College London? Jak svým příběhem boří všechny stereotypní představy o autismu? A proč začal háčkovat?

Tomáš Čermák má za sebou již v osmnácti obrovské množství vědeckých úspěchů a to napříč obory. Naposledy přišel s inovativním nápadem na čištění vody, za který získal globální ocenění Earth Prize. To je něco jako ekologická „nobelovka“ pro středoškoláky. Jak si vybírá témata, kterým se věnuje? Proč si pro další studium zvolil právě biomedicínské inženýrství na Imperial College London? Jak svým příběhem boří všechny stereotypní představy o autismu? A proč začal háčkovat?

EMV Capital (AIM:EMVC, FRA:NTK1) CEO Dr Ilian Iliev and ProAxsis managing director Dr Louise Ryan Murphy joined Proactive's Stephen Gunnion to discuss the company's commercial transformation and the opportunity emerging from its Imperial College London COPD study. Iliev said EMV Capital has supported ProAxsis since its Queen's University Belfast spin-out, highlighting progress towards operational breakeven and a recent restructuring to broaden US investor access. Ryan Murphy explained that ProAxsis has repositioned as a commercial protease biomarker-led research company, providing kit sales, clinical services and bespoke R&D for pharmaceutical, biotech and research organisations using its patented ProteaseTag technology. The company is collaborating with six global pharmaceutical companies and supported development of Insmed's FDA-approved BRINSUPRI treatment for non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis. The near-term priority is the Imperial College COPD study evaluating its NEATstik point-of-use diagnostic test. "The Imperial College London study is a very important milestone study for our expansion plans into the COPD market, which has the potential to increase our revenue by order of magnitude," Ryan Murphy said. A successful outcome could also open the path to a future home self-test and entry into the regulated diagnostics market. For more interviews with listed companies and market insights, visit the Proactive YouTube channel. Don't forget to like this video, subscribe to the channel and enable notifications so you never miss future updates. Read Proactive's Editorial Policy here: https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/pages/editorialPolicy #ProAxsis #EMVCapital #COPD #Biotech #LifeSciences #RespiratoryHealth #Diagnostics #HealthcareInnovation #ProteaseTag #NEATstik #ClinicalTrials #Pharma #Biomarkers #Investing #ProactiveInvestors

Today, a major incident has been declared in Suffolk where a wildfire the size of 140 football pitches is burning. The fire is not yet under control, but Suffolk's chief fire officer says it currently poses no risk to nearby nuclear power station Sizewell B. And, in the rest of the UK, drought has been declared in Wales and more than half of England.Adam is joined by Anna Murgatroyd, lecturer in hydrology at Newcastle University, and Theodore Keeping, climate and wildfire scientist at Imperial College London, to discuss how the fire service are tackling the blaze plus how daily life could be affected by a drought in England and Wales.And, the conflict between the US and Iran has expanded following escalations over the last few weeks. The US has retaliated with strikes across the country after Iran launched attacks on US bases in Jordan earlier this week. Caitríona Perry, chief news presenter, and Parham Ghobadi, senior reporter for BBC Persian, join Adam to explain the latest developments in the conflict. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://bbc.in/newscastdiscordGet in touch with Newscast by emailing newscast@bbc.co.uk or send us a WhatsApp on +44 0330 123 9480.New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bbc.in/4guXgXd Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenter was Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Anna Harris and Rosie Merotra. The social producer was Gabriel Purcell-Davis and Beth Pritchard. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

Europe is burning. Wildfires are still alight in the hills outside Bordeaux and the countryside west of Madrid. More than 300,000 people across France and Spain have been forced from their homes, and both countries remain on high alert as they enter the fourth heatwave of the summer. As we publish this episode, new fires are breaking out across Greece and Turkey.With the continent warming at more than twice the global average, a new frontline of the climate crisis has emerged. Meanwhile, nearly three in four UK newspaper articles about June's record heatwave made no mention of climate change, and into that gap come competing narratives: arson conspiracies, weather manipulation, "it was hotter in 1976". Are we being gaslit?Tom is joined by Friederike Otto, co-founder of World Weather Attribution, to unpack what so much coverage is missing. Are these extreme events being caused by climate change? How do we know? And how can we tell a better story?He then speaks with Emma Howard Boyd, former chair of the UK Environment Agency, now chair of the UK's new National Heat Risk Commission. She has spent her career translating slow-moving climate risk for institutions built to move fast - in government, in finance, and now at a commission created for precisely this moment. Emma's doesn't claim to have the answers, but she does have ideas. She calls for a shift from emergency response to strategic planning, and for local, mayor-led heat plans like Heat Ready London to ensure schools, hospitals and railways are built for the temperatures now arriving.Every decision we take now either builds in resilience or locks in vulnerability. Which are we choosing? How are we going to bring more people with us? And can institutions built for fast disasters learn to see a slow one?Learn More:

Can heart rate variability actually predict illness before you feel it? What makes HRV rise or fall from day to day, and how should you use it? Dr Boon Lim is a consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist at Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and one of the UK's leading specialists in atrial fibrillation and the autonomic nervous system. In this episode we go deep on heart rate variability: what it really measures, what shifts it, when it is useful, and crucially when it is misleading.   Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:30 Can HRV improve healthspan or reduce disease risk? 1:20 What heart rate variability actually is 2:31 The autonomic nervous system, your body's control room 3:40 Why you cannot think your heart rate up, but you can feel it up 4:03 Yin and yang: sympathetic and parasympathetic balance 4:52 Provoking ectopic beats with mental arithmetic in the cath lab 6:54 Does your resting heart rate determine your HRV? 8:57 Why athletes score higher, and why wearables measure overnight 9:55 What alcohol does to HRV, and how fast you recover 10:58 HRV as an early warning system, days before symptoms 12:32 The stressors nobody counts: emotion, purpose, security, trauma 14:12 HRV in IBS, fatigue and brain fog 14:46 Should you train on a low HRV day? 17:07 Track trends, not days 17:40 Why you should never compare your HRV to anyone else's 18:32 From 38 to 53: Boon's own HRV over eighteen months 19:08 HRV and ageing 20:17 Hormones, the menstrual cycle and HRV 22:33 The standardised two-minute autonomic assessment 23:20 Resonant frequency and the six-second breath 25:11 HRV as a treatment, not just a measurement 26:27 Building coherent breathing into an ordinary day 28:47 Breathing for anxiety and emotional regulation 29:47 The heart as a command centre: signals travelling upwards 31:02 Bottom-up physiology meets top-down emotion 32:33 Primary and secondary pain, phantom limbs and the splinter story 37:26 When to measure HRV: the morning protocol 39:22 When HRV is not a useful metric: AF and ectopic beats 42:09 Can a wearable detect undiagnosed atrial fibrillation? 44:14 LIVE DEMO: the 60-second coherence reset 48:18 Reading the coherence graph 49:40 Do you actually need a device? 51:41 When data-driven medicine falls short: the long covid lesson 53:20 ENO Breathe: singing as breath training 54:17 Connection, community and loneliness as autonomic medicine 59:07 Where to find Dr Boon Lim     What we cover Heart rate variability is not a fitness score. It is a window into the autonomic nervous system, the part of you that runs your heartbeat, your gut, your sweat glands and your stress response without ever asking permission. Dr Lim explains why the heart is not a metronome, why two people with identical heart rates can have wildly different HRV, and why your watch does most of its measuring while you sleep. We also get into the stressors most people never count. Alcohol, jet lag and poor sleep are the obvious ones. Job insecurity, unresolved trauma, loneliness and a lack of purpose sit underneath, and they shape your autonomic baseline far more than any single bad night. Then there is the part almost nobody covers: when HRV becomes useless. In atrial fibrillation, HRV goes sky high, but that high HRV is not a good sign. Ectopic beats skew it the same way. Boon explains how to spot this, and how a sudden unexplained jump in HRV on a wearable has flagged undiagnosed AF in his own patients.   A live demonstration: the 60-second autonomic reset Boon takes out a HeartMath Inner Balance sensor and shows coherent breathing in real time, with live biofeedback on screen. You watch his heart rate settle into a smooth sinusoidal wave and his coherence score shoot up in under two minutes. This is the top-down, bottom-up approach he uses in clinic: slow nasal diaphragmatic breathing to send calming signals up from the heart to the brain, paired with a deliberate positive emotion sent down from the brain to the body. Both directions at once. No theory, just a measurable shift you can simply observe in 2 minutes, and hopefully replicate with the tools and techniques shown in the live demonstration.     Resources and further reading Free patient education www.StopFainting.com , Dr Lim's free resource for fainting, dizziness, orthostatic intolerance, POTS and autonomic dysfunction, with self-management strategies you can start today. www.DrBoonLim.co.uk, clinical background, atrial fibrillation, arrhythmia and syncope services. Programmes mentioned in this episode ENO Breathe, the English National Opera and Imperial College London breathing and wellbeing programme for people recovering from covid, using singing technique to retrain the breath. https://www.eno.org/engage/about-the-eno-breathe-programme/  Suzy Bolt's Chronic Illness Recovery Program, a long covid recovery community combining gentle movement, yoga, breathwork and, just as importantly, connection and shared experience. www.suzybolt.com  The British Society of Lifestyle Medicine, whose pillars include social connection and relationships. www.bslm.org.uk Books by Dr Boon Lim Keeping Your Heart Healthy (Penguin Life Experts) Books referenced in conversation The Compassion Project, Julian Abel Together, Vivek Murthy Stolen Focus, Johann Hari Tools for HRV tracking and coherence training HeartMath Inner Balance Pro, the ear-clip sensor and app used in the live demonstration, available at www.heartmath.co.uk About Dr Boon Lim Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London. Cambridge and Imperial trained, with over 2,500 atrial fibrillation ablations and more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. He leads one of the UK's busiest electrophysiology and syncope programmes, with a particular focus on the autonomic nervous system in AF, vasovagal syncope and POTS. Website: drboonlim.co.uk If this was useful, subscribe and share it with someone who stares at their HRV score every morning and is not quite sure what it means. #HeartRateVariability #HRV #AutonomicNervousSystem #Cardiology #AtrialFibrillation #POTS #Syncope #CoherentBreathing #Breathwork #VagusNerve #LongCovid #LifestyleMedicine #StressResilience #HeartHealth

People who live in large cities produce more patents per person than those who live in small towns. They also walk faster down the street, and use less infrastructure per person. Indeed, the relationships between these quantities and city population obey power laws with apparently universal exponents, reminiscent of scaling laws is biological organisms? Luis Bettencourt argues that they can be explained in similar ways, using ideas from complex systems and network theory. Blog post with transcript: https://preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/07/27/362-luis-bettencourt-on-the-universal-properties-of-self-organizing-cities/ Support Mindscape on Patreon. Luis Bettencourt received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Imperial College London. He is currently the Lorna Puttkammer Straus Professor Department of Ecology and Evolution & Data Sciences Institute, as well as Associate Faculty and Special Friend in the Department of Sociology, at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems. Web site University of Chicago web page Google Scholar publications Wikipedia

Air pollution in London has changed dramatically over the past few decades — but how much of that is down to policies like ULEZ, and what's still being missed? This week Helen Czerski is joined by Dr. Gary Fuller, an air pollution scientist at Imperial College London who has spent over 30 years measuring air quality in the capital. They cover what's actually in the air we breathe, how ULEZ and other low-emission schemes have changed it, and the surprisingly large health benefits that are now being measured — plus the pollution sources still flying under the radar. Catch us live at Everything Electric Greater London (Twickenham, 11-12 Sept) and Sydney (18-20 Sept). 00:00 Intro – ULEZ and London's air today  02:21 Meet Dr. Gary Fuller  03:50 Has London's air pollution actually improved?  07:25 What's in the air 11:45 How air pollution is measured  16:34 A short history of LEZ and ULEZ  19:13 The evidence  25:37 Tyre and brake wear – the overlooked pollution source  29:24 What Gary would fix next: Heathrow, aviation fuel, wood burning  33:46 Health impacts – the Ella Kissi-Debrah case  37:32 Quantifying ULEZ's health benefits  44:23 Why doesn't the health argument win politically?  48:59 US case study: 40% drop in admissions after a plant closed   Why not come and join us at our next Everything Electric expo: https://everythingelectric.show   Check out our sister channel Everything Electric CARS: https://www.youtube.com/@fullychargedshow   Support our StopBurningStuff campaign: https://www.patreon.com/STOPBurningStuff   Become an Everything Electric Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fullychargedshow   Become a YouTube member: use JOIN button above   Buy the Fully Charged Guide to Electric Vehicles & Clean Energy : https://buff.ly/2GybGt0   Subscribe for episode alerts and the Everything Electric newsletter: https://fullycharged.show/zap-sign-up/   Visit: https://FullyCharged.Show   Find us on X: https://x.com/Everyth1ngElec   Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/officialeverythingelectric   To partner, exhibit or sponsor at our award-winning expos email: commercial@fullycharged.show   EE GREATER LONDON (Twickenham) - 11th & 12th Sept 2026 EE SYDNEY - Sydney Olympic Park - 18th - 20th Sept 2026    #fullychargedshow #everythingelectricshow #homeenergy #cleanenergy #battery #electriccars #electric-vehicles-uk

Why do some people with hEDS or HSD report meaningful relief with medical cannabis, while others feel worse, notice no benefit, or experience side effects? And what might these varied responses teach us about pain, the autonomic nervous system, gut function, and nervous system sensitization? In this episode, host Dr. Linda Bluestein, the Hypermobility MD, is joined by Professor David Nutt, a neuropsychopharmacologist at Imperial College London, and Lucy Stafford, a PhD researcher in clinical neuroscience with lived experience of hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. This is not a hype episode, a recommendation to use cannabis, or medical advice. Instead, it is a careful, curiosity-driven conversation about what is known, what is still emerging, and what remains uncertain about medical cannabis in hEDS and HSD. Lucy shares her experience of severe illness, high-dose opioid treatment, a feeding tube, repeated ICU stays, and eventually coming off opioids, an experience that helped shape her path into cannabinoid research. Professor Nutt explains the discovery of the endocannabinoid system and why this system may be relevant to pain processing, stress responses, autonomic regulation, immune signaling, and gut function. Together, they explore how cannabinoids may influence a sensitized nervous system, why responses vary so widely, and why medically complex patients need individualized guidance rather than shame, dismissal, or unsupported promises. The conversation covers many of the practical questions patients often ask, including the difference between CBD and THC, full-spectrum products, terpenes and the entourage effect, routes of administration, absorption differences, and the importance of a cautious “start low, go slow” approach when cannabis is being considered under appropriate medical supervision. They also address important safety considerations, including contraindications, drug interactions, psychiatric risk, impairment, dependence, and why cannabis is not appropriate for everyone. The episode closes with a broader discussion of stigma, the emerging science of psychedelics for chronic pain, and the human and financial costs of undertreated complex illness. The Bendy Bodies podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for personalized medical advice. Laws, product quality, dosing, and individual risks vary, so patients should consult a qualified healthcare professional before using cannabis or changing any treatment plan. Takeaways: The endocannabinoid system is an important regulatory system involved in pain processing, stress responses, immune signaling, gut function, and nervous system homeostasis, yet it receives relatively little attention in medical and neuroscience training. Cannabinoids do not work like opioids. Rather than simply “blocking” pain, they may influence pain modulation, nervous system sensitization, autonomic tone, and gut motility, though much remains to be studied specifically in hEDS and HSD. CBD and THC have different effects, benefits, and risks. CBD may reduce some unwanted THC effects for certain people, but responses vary, and dosing should be individualized. A cautious “start low, go slow” approach is especially important for medically complex patients, particularly those with dysautonomia, medication sensitivity, MCAS-like symptoms, anxiety, or multiple medications. Individual responses to cannabis vary widely. Differences in absorption, metabolism, product composition, route of administration, and underlying physiology may help explain why one person improves while another worsens or notices no effect. Cannabis is not right for everyone. Extra caution is warranted for people with a history of psychosis, paranoia, substance use disorder, significant cognitive impairment, fall risk, pregnancy, or medications metabolized through overlapping liver pathways. Patients deserve balanced information: neither stigma and dismissal nor exaggerated promises. The goal is thoughtful, evidence-informed, individualized decision-making. Go http://www.AquaTru.com now for 20% off (your purifier) using promo code BENDY. 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Episode 2830 - Vinnie Tortorich and Chris Shaffer discuss the so-called "best" ultra-processed foods and getting to the truth. https://vinnietortorich.com/2026/07/getting-at-the-truth-episode-2830 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods VILLA CAPPELLI EAT HAPPY KITCHEN YOU CAN WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE - @FitnessConfidential Podcast Vinnie's workout videos are available to purchase! Choose from a 2-day, 4-day, or 6-day workout–or buy all three at a discount! TO PURCHASE VINNIE'S WORKOUT VIDEOS, CLICK THIS LINK: https://vinnietortorich.com/workout Getting to the Truth Vinnie has been sharing his message of no sugar, no grain for years. He used to get pushback, but finally, people are listening. (3:00) There is an article about a statement by the senior lead at Imperial College London, who is part of the diet guidelines. The topic? The top ten best ultra-processed foods. (5:00) They discuss some of the items on the list. What is the benefit of dehydrated peanut butter? (16:00) One of the co-founders of Wikipedia has been removed from it. (21:30) Vinnie can relate and gives the backstory of how he evaporated from Wikipedia. The co-founder of Wikipedia was accused of promoting "intellectual diversity" and was banned from editing Wikipedia. (26:00) More topics regarding ultra-processed foods. (37:00) Why is there a study on salt intake in take-out food? Check out the Aletha Hip HookTM that Vinnie uses to reduce pain and increase mobility: You can purchase your own through Vinnie's website here: https://vinnietortorich.com/hook Anna's products are now linked to PureVitamin Club's website. Look under the "Food and Snacks" section to purchase them there, too. https://purevitaminclub.com/collections/food-and-snacks Vinnie hopes to add other products as well, all of which will be health-related. The NSNG® VIP GROUP IS NOW CLOSED AGAIN AS OF SUNDAY, MARCH 15TH Anna's next cookbook, Eat Happy Cocktail Hour, is filled with cocktails, mocktails, and appetizers and is available for pre-order right now. If you pre-order, you'll get bonus goodies! You can preorder from a wide variety of booksellers at https://eathappycocktailhour.com/ Please save your receipt from wherever you preorder; you'll need it for your bonuses! Physical Release Date is October 2026 You can book a consultation with Vinnie to get guidance on your goals. https://vinnietortorich.com/phone-consultation-2/ More News Serena has added some of her clothing suggestions and beauty product suggestions to Vinnie's Amazon Recommended Products link. Self Care, Beauty, and Grooming Products that Actually Work! https://www.amazon.com/shop/vinnietortorich/list/3GPVU29UHHPMY?ref_=aipsflist Don't forget to check out Serena Scott Thomas on Days of Our Lives on Peacock. "Dirty Keto" is available on Amazon! You can purchase or rent it here.https://amzn.to/4d9agj1 Please make sure to watch, rate, and review it! Eat Happy Italian, Anna's second cookbook, is available! You can go to https://eathappyitalian.com You can order it from Vinnie's Book Club. https://amzn.to/3ucIXm Anna's recipes are in her cookbooks, on her website, and on Substack —they will spice up your day! https://annavocino.substack.com/ PURCHASE DIRTY KETO (2024) The documentary launched in August 2024! Order it TODAY! This is Vinnie's fourth documentary in just over five years. Visit my new Documentaries HQ to find my films everywhere: https://vinnietortorich.com/documentaries Then, please share my fact-based, health-focused documentary series with your friends and family. Additionally, the more views it receives, the better it ranks, so please watch it again with a new friend! REVIEWS: Please submit your REVIEW after you watch my films. Your positive REVIEW does matter! PURCHASE BEYOND IMPOSSIBLE (2022) Visit my new Documentaries HQ to find my films everywhere: https://vinnietortorich.com/documentaries FAT: A DOCUMENTARY 2 (2021) Visit my new Documentaries HQ to find my films everywhere: https://vinnietortorich.com/documentaries FAT: A DOCUMENTARY (2019) Visit my new Documentaries HQ to find my films everywhere: https://vinnietortorich.com/documentaries

According to experts at Imperial College London, England is seeing a "worrying increase" in young women in their 20s developing type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is serious and can lead to severe complications such as heart attacks and strokes. Lead researcher Dr Shivani Misra joins Anita Rani to unpick why this is happening.Actor, writer and director Lena Headey is best known for playing Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones. She has created and stars in Intimacy, a new BBC Sounds audio drama and podcast which follows intimacy coordinator Liza Simmons, whose professional life revolves around creating safe spaces and navigating consent on film sets. Her personal life is far less under control. When a dream job on a big movie production takes her to a Greek island, long-buried secrets resurface and force her to confront a troubled past. Lena talks about this new series and life after Game of Thrones.Women in the armed forces and veterans say they are still being issued ill-fitting kit that doesn't fit their body shape. A 2021 review called for urgent improvements, but current and former service women have told the BBC key problems remain. Investigative journalist, Rebecca Ricks and Erin Grieve from NP Aerospace which makes female-adapted body armour systems discuss.When the Taliban first ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s, Zahra Joya bravely disguised herself as a boy so that she could attend school. After the US-led invasion, girls were granted access to education and opportunities and Zahra went on to become a journalist, setting up Rukhshana Media to tell the stories of Afghan women. When the Taliban returned in 2021, women's freedoms and opportunities vanished overnight, and Zahra was one of many forced to flee their homeland, forging a new life in the UK. She discusses her memoir, The Vanishing Girl of Kabul, and her continuing fight for women's rights in Afghanistan.

Astronomy Daily · S05E146 · “Postcards from Mars” · Tuesday 21 July 2026 NASA's Psyche probe phones home from its Mars flyby — data and a spellbinding month-long time-lapse — as Europe's Plato planet-hunter clears its final test. From the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting: a CubeSat that could give us hours of solar-storm warning, and a new way to forecast the Sun's next active spell. Plus the first pieces of the giant ngVLA radio array, and a Southern Hemisphere meteor shower to catch this week.Story notes & sources 1 · Psyche phones home NASA's Psyche spacecraft (launched 2023; arriving metal asteroid 16 Psyche in 2029) used a 15 May Mars gravity assist to test its instruments. The neutron spectrometer detected the anticipated count-rate enhancement near closest approach; the gamma-ray/neutron spectrometer, magnetometer and imager all performed well. Data and a month-long Mars time-lapse were released this week. ●        NASA/JPL — “Psyche Mission Delivers Mars Flyby Data, Time-lapse Video” (17 Jul 2026) ●        Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — LLNL-built gamma-ray sensor's first planetary measurements (17 Jul 2026) 2 · Plato clears its final exam ESA's Plato — 26 cameras hunting Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars — passed electromagnetic compatibility testing in the Maxwell chamber at ESTEC, its last major qualification hurdle. It's bound for Sun-Earth L2 aboard an Ariane 6 (current target 2027). ●        ESA — “Plato's electronics ready for space” (20 Jul 2026) 3 · HENON space-weather CubeSat Presented at NAM 2026: HENON, a deep-space CubeSat that would sit ~15 million km upstream of Earth (10× farther than L1), potentially extending severe geomagnetic-storm warning from ~15 minutes to 2–3 hours. It carries the UK-built MAGIC magnetometer (Imperial College London) plus instruments from the Czech Republic and Finland, paving the way for a future European early-warning mission. ●        Royal Astronomical Society / NAM 2026 — “From 15 minutes to 3 hours” (20 Jul 2026) 4 · The Sun's “sleep” precursor Also at NAM 2026: a newly identified precursor in the solar cycle's declining phase that could help predict the next maximum's sunspot number. After the Sun's active phase “switches off,” storms weaken and track a 27-day (solar-rotation) rhythm — pointing to co-rotating fast-wind streams rather than coronal mass ejections. ●        Royal Astronomical Society / NAM 2026 — “How the Sun goes to ‘sleep'…” (20 Jul 2026) 5 · Building the ngVLA The US National Science Foundation, NSF NRAO and the US Naval Observatory are partnering on a pathfinder for the next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) — the ~266-antenna successor to the iconic VLA. The focus is very long baseline interferometry for ultra-sharp imaging and for maintaining the International Celestial Reference Frame. Construction/early operations are expected before the end of the decade. ●        NSF NRAO / US Naval Observatory — ngVLA pathfinder partnership (17 Jul 2026) 6 · Skywatch: Southern Delta Aquariids Active mid-July to late August, peaking 29–30 July, with a radiant near Skat (δ Aquarii) — high overhead for Southern Hemisphere observers. ~15–20 faint, graceful meteors/hour under dark skies; suspected parent comet 96P/Machholz. A near-full Buck Moon spoils the peak, so the moon-free pre-dawn hours this week are the best window. Bright, slow Alpha Capricornid fireballs join in toward month's end. ●        Scientific American / EarthSky / American Meteor Society — Delta Aquariids 2026 Astronomy Daily is part of the Bitesz.com Podcast Network. Find every episode and the full show notes at astronomydaily.io, and follow @AstroDailyPod. Clear skies.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-the-latest-space-news--5648921/support.Sponsor Details:Ensure your online privacy by using NordVPN. To get our special listener deal and save a lot of money, visit www.bitesz.com/nordvpn. You'll be glad you did!Become a supporter of Astronomy Daily by joining our Supporters Club. Commercial free episodes daily are only a click way... Click HereThis episode includes AI-generated content.

Astronomy Daily S05E145 — “Arrival” — Monday, 20 July 2026. On the 57th anniversary of Apollo 11, we cover a first-of-its-kind launch, a Mars flyby science haul, a four-billion-year-old Martian record, a habitable-zone world with a likely atmosphere, shrimp feeding in simulated microgravity, and the new science of listening to black holes ring. In This Episode (01:30) India goes private in orbit —  Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 aces its debut “Mission Aagaman,” making India the third nation with a private orbital launch capability. Plus a Starship Flight 13 update (NET 23–24 July). (05:30) Psyche's Mars gift —  NASA/JPL releases the science haul from Psyche's 15 May Mars gravity assist, including the magnetometer's first measurement of another body. (08:30) Mars keeps the receipts —  Perseverance examines the “Broom Point member” on Jezero's rim — some of the oldest terrain any rover has studied, recording ~4 billion years of impacts. (11:30) A world holding its breath —  A Science paper detects escaping helium at LHS 1140b, pointing to a replenished, substantial atmosphere on a habitable-zone super-Earth. (A different planet from Friday's story!) (15:00) Space shrimp —  Okayama University of Science shows crustaceans can feed under simulated microgravity — a step toward closed-loop space food systems. (17:30) The bells of spacetime —  A major review shows black-hole “spectroscopy” — reading ringdown gravitational waves — is becoming a real test of Einstein, ahead of the Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer and LISA. (20:30) Skywatch —  A coronal-hole solar wind stream brings a chance of minor aurora australis for far-southern latitudes around 21–22 July. Story Sources ●        Vikram-1 / Mission Aagaman — Space.com; Skyroot Aerospace; ESA/Manorama coverage (18 July 2026). ●        Psyche Mars flyby data — NASA/JPL release (17 July 2026). ●        Perseverance “Broom Point member” — Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Imperial College London-led. ●        LHS 1140b helium escape — Science, Harvard-led (16 July 2026); Magellan Clay telescope. ●        Space shrimp — Microgravity Science and Technology; Okayama University of Science Space Aquaculture Project. ●        Black-hole spectroscopy — Classical and Quantum Gravity review (Birmingham / Johns Hopkins / Lisbon). ●        Skywatch — EarthSky Sun news; UK Met Office & Australian BOM space weather (19 July 2026). Astronomy Daily is part of the Bitesz.com Podcast Network. Web: astronomydaily.io — Social: @AstroDailyPodBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-the-latest-space-news--5648921/support.Sponsor Details:Ensure your online privacy by using NordVPN. To get our special listener deal and save a lot of money, visit www.bitesz.com/nordvpn. You'll be glad you did!Become a supporter of Astronomy Daily by joining our Supporters Club. Commercial free episodes daily are only a click way... Click HereThis episode includes AI-generated content.

Where do flea and tick treatments really go?For many of us, protecting our dogs from fleas and ticks has become part of responsible care. But what happens when the products we use to protect our dogs raise wider questions about environmental health, scientific uncertainty and the choices we make every day?In this thought-provoking conversation, I'm joined by Dr Tilly Collins, Senior Fellow & Deputy Director of Imperial College London's Centre for Environmental Policy, whose research is transforming our understanding of how flea and tick pesticides move beyond the animals they're applied to.Together, we explore what happens after these products are used, how residues have been found not only in rivers and waterways but within our homes, and why this is opening up important new conversations about parasite management, environmental responsibility and the need for further research.Rather than offering simple answers, this episode invites us to ask better questions.Because perhaps the future of parasite management isn't about eliminating every risk—it's about understanding risk more deeply and making thoughtful, evidence-informed decisions for the individual dog in front of us.In this episode we discuss:Why flea and tick control is far more complex than many of us realiseHow modern flea and tick pesticides workWhat Dr Collins' research has revealed about pesticide residues in homes, including household dust, mop water and dog beddingWhether fleas may be developing resistance to some commonly used productsWhat we really mean when we talk about "risk"How to move towards a more personalised, risk-based approach to parasite managementThe need for further independent research into the long-term impacts on animals, people and the environmentHow we can begin shifting from routine intervention towards thoughtful stewardshipResources

Sibongile Zulu is among the 7.7 million south Africans who are HIV positive.西邦吉莱·祖鲁是770万感染艾滋病毒的南非人中的一员。She takes a cocktail of antiretroviral drugs to suppress the virus.她服用了一组抗逆转录病毒药物来抑制病毒。When south Africa imposed a coronavirus lockdown in March, Zulu lost her job.当南非在3月份实施新冠疫情封锁措施时，祖鲁失去了工作。Weeks later her local clinic began to run short of some medication.几周后，当地的诊所开始出现药物短缺。I think for two months, I was using only one that I was supposed to use two. And if I don't use both of them, it's a big risk and I can get sick.我想有两个月的时间，我只服用了一种药物，而我应该服用两种。如果我不同时服用两种药物，风险很大，我可能会生病。Across the world doctors say the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns will likely hamper the fight against other killer diseases like tuberculosis or TB, malaria and HIV.世界各地的医生表示，新冠疫情大流行以及随后实施的封锁措施可能会阻碍对抗结核病、疟疾和艾滋病等其他致命疾病的斗争。Epidemiologist Dr Salim S. Abdool Karim advises the south African government on the coronavirus and has led research into other infectious diseases in Africa.流行病学家萨利姆·阿卜杜尔·卡里姆博士就新冠疫情为南非政府提供建议，并领导了非洲其他传染病的研究。People are scared to go to healthcare services. We have seen a decline in the number of tests for tuberculosis.人们害怕去医疗服务机构。我们看到结核病检测数量有所下降。We've seen a decline in the number of patients coming in to get their medications.我们已经看到前来取药的患者数量有所下降。So that's of deep concern because it could undo the years of work that it has taken us to get to this point.这让人深感担忧，因为这可能会让我们多年来为达到目前这一阶段所付出的努力付诸东流。TB cases and deaths have fallen year on year in south Africa and many other countries.南非和许多其他国家的结核病病例和死亡人数同比下降。But it remains one of the world's biggest killers with an estimated 1.5 million deaths last year.但它仍是世界上最致命的疾病之一，去年估计有150万人因此丧生。We know there's 50% decrease in TB testing in south Africa at the moment.我们知道，目前南非的结核病检测量下降了50%。So people are not able to go to the clinic or go to hospitals and so on.人们无法前往诊所或医院等等。And they're not being diagnosed with TB, and this means that they can then transmit TB further to other people. So it's just going to sort of snowball.他们没有被诊断出患有结核病，这意味着他们随后可能会将结核病进一步传染给其他人。情况就会像滚雪球一样越来越糟。Malaria deaths in Africa could double in 2020 warn researchers from Imperial College London, unless disrupted services such as mosquito net distribution and malaria treatments are maintained.伦敦帝国理工学院的研究人员警告称，除非蚊帐分发和疟疾治疗等中断的服务得以维持，否则2020年非洲的疟疾死亡人数可能会翻倍。Despite thedireforecasts, Karim says there is opportunity.尽管预测情况严峻，但卡里姆表示仍存在机遇。The opportunity to look at integration, integration between covid, HIV, TB and other conditions.这个机遇在于审视整合，即新冠、艾滋病、结核病和其他疾病之间的整合。So that when we are investing for our coronavirus vigilance, we are benefiting not just the covid epidemic, but the epidemics of HIV and TB as well.当我们为应对新冠病毒保持警惕而投入资源时，受益的不仅是新冠疫情防控，还有艾滋病和结核病的防控。The global community must look at the bigger picture, says McQuaid.麦奎德说，国际社会必须着眼大局。We start to lose gains that we've been making in recent years, hard-fought gains that we've made.我们开始失去近年来取得的成果，那些我们经过艰苦努力才取得的成果。And we could be pushed back five, ten, twenty years even.我们的成果甚至会倒退五年、十年、二十年。Huge resources have been dedicated to the fight against the coronavirus.大量资源被用于抗击冠状病毒。Doctors say it's vital that other deadly diseases are not neglected.医生表示，至关重要的是不能忽视其他致命疾病。

How has new research changed the way we see nutritional health? What role do ultra-processed foods, fibre, gut microbes, inflammation and insulin resistance play in the new paradigm? Why does the gut microbiome affect our mental health? How can simply diversifying the quantity of plants in your diet change health outcomes radically?In this episode we have the complex topic of nutrition to get up to date on. There's been so much research over the last 20 years that has contradicted some of our most deep seated preconceptions about food, so today we clarify science's new take. We discuss the rise of lifestyle medicine as a solution to western health crises; individualised diet; ultra processed foods; fibre; glycemic index issues; the gut microbiome; inflammation; a variety of foods over restrictive diets; how to support the use of new GPL-1 weight loss drugs; and what the nutritional organisation Zoe is doing to make this all easier for the public to put into practice.Fortunately our guest is a master at untangling all this nuance in a way that's so easy for us Joe public to understand - medical scientist and clinical nutritionist, senior lecturer and researcher at Imperial College London and King's College London, Dr. Federica Amati. She's also Head Nutritionalist at ZOE and Head of Nutrition Science at WellFounded Health. She's written 12 scientific papers and 3 books, “EveryBODY should know this”, “Recipes for better menopause”, and her brand new book “The Appetite reset”, which we discuss today.What we discuss: 00:00 Intro06:30 Worldwide pandemic of previously western-only diet related chronic diseases.07:00 Western diet, exported to the rest of the world is a big part of the problem.08:45 Sedentary lifestyle is also part of the metabolic dysfunction crisis.09:15 The “Diabesity” crisis.10:15 Dysfunctional food environments.10:55 One size dos NOT fit all for diet.11:45 Influencers are confusing the public.16:25 Personalised diet issues: more required from the patient, more expensive.18:00 Ultra-processed foods damage 1: quick energy uptake.20:30 U.P.F. damage 2: High palatability - more delicious, harder to stop eating.21:45 U.P.F. damage 3: Synthetic additives - unknown consequences & cocktail effect.23:35 Processed food risk scale from Zoe nutrition can help people consider.24:15 %60 of Uk calories are coming from ultra processed food.30:45 Fibre - How much do we eat and should we eat?32:45 Plant diversity: 30 per week, leads to Intestinal microbe diversity.35:15 Mapping the microbiome. 39:05 Microbiome and mental health - Vagus gut-brain axis, 42:55 Inflammation theory of depression - withdraw from society to heal.43:50 Chronic inflammation caused by western diet and stress.46:45 Your habits are more important than exceptions.48:15 Restrictive calorie-counting diets aren't sustainable for losing weight because of metabolic adaptation.52:05 “The Appetite Reset” book - GLP1 weight loss drugs.56:45 Adult obesity has doubled, adolescent obesity has quadrupled.References:Federica Amati, “The Appetite reset”.Federica Amati, “EveryBODY should know this”.Francesco Asnicar et al.,'Gut micro-organisms associated with health, nutrition and dietary interventions' paper. Zoe Nutrition - microbiome testing, glycemic monitoring, and personalised diet guidance.The microbiome, mental health & rethinking hygiene - Dr. Graham Rook episodeMood Food: The gut, diet and inflammation - Alex Laird episodeNot all U.P.F's are equal - Zoe Nutrition article

Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Carl Hayden Smith was the first participant on the nnDMT study at Imperial College London and most recently on the DMTX phase of the study. His research also explores the combination 'functional sound' with the application of psychedelics. https://contextology.org SPONSORS https://shopify.com/dannyjones - Turns out you don't need a real job. Get a free trial today. https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/zralgyl0 - Download Cash App today. https://dupe.com - 100% free 'Research for Me' comparison shopping tool. https://butcherbox.com/danny - Get $20 off your first box, plus your choice of free ground beef for life, or free chicken thighs or top sirloins in every box for a year. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off. EPISODE LINKS https://contextology.org FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - Carl's Psilohuasca trip 02:14 - DMTx trials at Imperial College 11:57 - Your brain is "asleep" on DMT 16:56 - What happens to your brain on psychedelics 21:59 - People who get locked out of DMT 27:22 - Cyberdelics - devices that change consciousness 33:46 - Natural vs. synthetic drugs 39:47 - Rick Strassman's theory on psychedelics 42:19 - Life reviews on psychedelics 47:08 - Carl's journaling practice 53:04 - Carl's DMTx trip visualized with AI 59:55 - 3 motifs of a DMT trip 01:07:36 - Upcoming DMT research goals 01:12:56 - Evidence for a 2nd Sphinx in Giza Plateau 01:16:24 - 3D modeling ancient sites & memory palaces 01:23:50 - Filippo Biondi's pyramid scan claims 01:28:37 - The power of sound on consciousness 01:37:27 - The Drake Passage 01:40:12 - Using tech to become more human 01:43:07 - Mystery schools & Eleusis 01:45:37 - Essence of the human experience 01:53:01 - Danny's experience with DMT 01:56:40 - Umwelt hacking 02:02:33 - Existence of telepathic abilities 02:10:13 - Noise pollution from data centers 02:17:37 - Next steps in DMTx experiment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Skladá sa svet z bezrozmerných častíc, 1-rozmerných strún, 2-rozmerných membrán, alebo z viacrozmerných objektov? A koľko rozmerov má samotný svet? Čo o tom hovorí súčasná fyzika? Hosť: Amihay Hanany, profesor teoretickej fyziky na Imperial College London

As UK summers get hotter and heatwaves become more frequent, more people are considering air conditioning as a way to keep cool. But how does air conditioning actually work, and in our efforts to cool down are we harming the planet? Chris Warburton speaks to Rob Gross, director of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and Professor of Energy Policy and Technology at Imperial College London.

Professor Andrew McPherson, Chair in Design Engineering and Music at the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London. He has undergraduate degrees in engineering and music from MIT, a Masters in Engineering in electrical engineering from MIT and a PhD in music composition from the University of Pennsylvania. Andrew has designed many unconventional musical instruments, including an augmented magnetic resonator piano and TouchKeys which give pianists new kinds of expressive control over the sounds they create. In this podcast we explore the many strands of his career and the way in which his interests intersect.  https://andrewmcpherson.org/bio

Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... $20 Million in Grants, Suddenly Gone: How One Nonprofit Survived A year ago, a single nonprofit had $20 million in federal grants on the books. Three awards from three different agencies. By every conventional measure, the funding base looked strong. Then federal priorities shifted. All three grants were eliminated. The organization went from 30 staff to 18 in a matter of months, but they are still standing. That nonprofit is From Prison Cells to PhD, and its founder, Dr. Stanley Andrisse, is the guest on this week's episode of Inspired Nonprofit Leadership. The story has stayed with me, and this article is where I want to go deeper on the part of it that most fundraising conversations skip. The part most people focus on is the funding loss itself. That is the dramatic surface. The part that actually explains why this organization is still standing, and rebuilding faster than most would, sits one layer underneath. Their grant portfolio was huge, but every single dollar of it was aligned to their core mission. There was no program built to chase money that drifted from what they exist to do. When the grants disappeared, what was left was a smaller version of the same organization, not the wreckage of a stretched and confused one. That is the lesson I want to draw out here. Diversified funding gets the headlines in nonprofit strategy conversations. Mission alignment gets less airtime. The truth is, neither one works without the other. An organization with five revenue streams and a sprawl of mission-drifted programs is just as fragile as an organization with one revenue stream and a tight mission. The combination matters, and the combination is what makes a nonprofit shock-resistant. Mission Creep Is The Hidden Cost Of Grants Most leaders I work with know about mission creep in the abstract. They have heard the warning. Where it actually shows up is in the language of a grant application. A funder wants outcomes the organization does not currently produce. A funder wants a population the organization does not currently serve. A funder wants a program design the organization does not currently run. The grant is large. The deadline is short. The board is anxious. The cash flow is tight. The leader makes a small adjustment to fit the application. The grant lands. A program gets built around the requirements. Six months in, the staff is running a workstream that no one in the organization is particularly proud of, but the money is keeping the lights on, so it stays. Multiply that pattern by three or four grants over five years, and the organization no longer looks like itself. The mission statement on the website has not changed, but the actual portfolio of work has drifted significantly. From the inside, leaders rarely notice. They are too close to it. The drift only becomes visible when something forces them to subtract. This is the trap. Grants do not just bring in money. They bring in shape. Every restricted grant is a small set of constraints applied to the organization. A few of those constraints, aligned to the mission, sharpen the work. A lot of them, applied without discipline, distort the work into something else. What Mission Alignment Actually Protects When From Prison Cells to PhD lost $20 million in a single year, the organization did not face the second crisis that usually follows a funding crisis. The second crisis is the realization that half of what you have been doing was never really the work you wanted to do, and now you have to dismantle programs that staff and stakeholders are emotionally attached to in addition to surviving the revenue gap. Because every grant had been mission-aligned, the response was straightforward. Smaller staff. Same work. Same scholars. Same outcomes at a smaller scale. The organization could be honest about what it was paring back without having to defend choices made to chase prior funders. There were no orphaned programs to wind down. There was no donor narrative to untangle. The proportional scale-back was clean. This is what mission alignment actually protects. It protects the speed of your response in a crisis. It protects the morale of your team. It protects your credibility with the funders you still have, because the work that survives is recognizable as the work you have always done. And it protects your ability to rebuild, because the case for support stays consistent. You are not selling a new version of yourself to new donors. You are inviting them into the version that has always been there. Diversification Is The Other Half Of The Equation A mission-aligned organization that has built only one funding pipeline is still fragile. When that pipeline cuts off, the response is still hard. The work stays clear, but the resources to do it disappear. This is where the funding cake framework comes in. I use this language with clients all the time. Major donors are the base layer of the cake. They give unrestricted. They stay for life. They refer their friends. They are insulated from political swings because their decision is personal, not policy-driven. Individual donors at lower giving levels are the next layer. Corporate sponsorships, where they fit, are another layer. Planned giving sits with the major donor layer. Grants are the icing. Icing is wonderful in the right proportion. It is also the most exposed layer of the cake. It melts under the wrong heat. Organizations that treat grants as the foundation are running a cake made of icing, and the first political shift becomes an existential event. Organizations that treat grants as one accelerant among several can lose a major grant and stay upright. From Prison Cells to PhD did not have only grants. They had foundation relationships. They had city and state partnerships. They had philanthropic supporters who had given before and gave again. The grants were significant, but they were one layer in a stack. When that layer disappeared, the stack got shorter, not flat. Why The Two Pieces Have To Move Together This is the part I want every nonprofit leader reading this to take away. Mission alignment without diversified funding is admirable but exposed. Diversified funding without mission alignment is broad but distorted. The combination is what produces an organization that can take a hit and keep going. Picture the inverse of From Prison Cells to PhD's experience. Imagine an organization that took the same $20 million in grants, but each grant required a slight pivot, a new population, a new methodology, a new geography. When the grants disappear, that organization does not just lose revenue. It loses the programs the grants were funding, programs that were never quite the work the organization exists to do, programs that other funders will not back because they do not fit the brand of the organization either. The rebuild from that position takes years. The rebuild from From Prison Cells to PhD's position takes months, because the foundation underneath was always intact. Mentorship was another thread that came up in the conversation, and it deserves a mention here. Dr. Andrisse's own story turns on a mentor who saw a capacity in him that nothing in his environment was reinforcing. That same posture, applied at the program level, is part of what makes the organization's work effective. It is not separate from the funding story. The organizations that hold their mission tight enough to attract long-term funders tend to be the same organizations that hold their participants tight enough to produce real outcomes. Identity discipline at the leader level shows up as program discipline at the participant level and as funding discipline at the development level. It is the same muscle. What This Means For Your Next Grant Decision The practical implication is uncomfortable, because it asks leaders to leave money on the table sometimes. When a grant application asks you to describe work you do not actually do, the right answer is usually no. When a grant requires a population shift or a methodology shift that pulls you off your core, the right answer is usually no. When a grant requires you to invent a program to fit the funder's interests, the right answer is almost always no. The leaders who get this right tend to share a habit. Before applying for any significant grant, they ask one question. If this funder disappeared tomorrow, would this program still belong inside our organization? If the answer is yes, the grant is aligned. The work compounds. The grant lands and strengthens the organization. If the answer is no, the grant is a trap dressed up as a windfall. The work distorts. The grant lands and weakens the organization's center. This discipline is hard in the moment. The deadline is short. The cash flow is tight. The board wants the win. The discipline is also what produces the From Prison Cells to PhD outcome instead of the cautionary tale outcome. What Becomes Possible When mission is the filter and funding is the stack, the leader stops running the organization in reactive mode. There is room to say no to grants that distort the program. There is room to build the slower, deeper donor relationships that produce unrestricted gifts. There is room to develop staff into leadership rather than burning them out chasing the next application. There is room to take a $20 million loss and still be standing, smaller, but recognizable, and ready to rebuild on the same foundation that has always been there. The work is still hard. The mission is still complex. The world is still unpredictable. What changes is that the organization is no longer fragile. It can take a hit. It can take three hits. It can keep going. This isn't about doing less work. It's about doing work that compounds. Nonprofits can survive losses that would close other organizations. They can rebuild faster than seems possible. They can stay recognizable to themselves through hard seasons. Not by pushing harder, but by holding the mission steady and building the stack underneath it. About the Guest Dr. Stanley Andrisse is an endocrinologist, scientist and assistant professor at Howard University College of Medicine is researching type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance. Dr. Andrisse is a visiting faculty at Georgetown University Medical Center, held a visiting faculty position at Imperial College London, and held an adjunct professorship at Johns Hopkins Medicine after completing his postdoctoral training. Dr. Andrisse completed his PhD at Saint Louis University and his MBA and bachelor's degree at Lindenwood University, where he played three years of collegiate football. Dr. Andrisse's service commitments include: Executive Director and Founder of From Prison Cells to PhD, Vice President of the board for the Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates Network, board member on The Endocrine Society, past president of the Johns Hopkins Postdoctoral Association, founder of the Diversity Postdoctoral Alliance, member of several local and national committees, motivational speaker, and community activist. Connect with Stanley: Breaking Chains, Building Futures: Pathways to Redemption, Education, and Excellence — Amazon link Facebook: @Prof.Andrisse Instagram: @dr_andrisse LinkedIn: Dr. Stanley Andrisse X (Twitter): @Dr_Andrisse From Prison Cells to PhD (P2P) Website: www.fromprisoncellstophd.org Facebook: @fromprisoncellstophd Instagram: @prison2pro LinkedIn: From Prison Cells to PhD X (Twitter): @prison2pro TikTok: @prison2pro YouTube: From Prison Cells to PhD Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that and follow us on LinkedIn.

Two Ebola drugs are due to be trialled in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as cases of the disease continue to rise in the country. BBC health and science correspondent James Gallagher joins Claudia Hammond to discuss the new clinical trial, and to update on the latest from the outbreak in the DRC and Uganda.Claudia also visits The Royal Society's annual Summer Science Exhibition in London to explore a range of new health research on display.We hear about how salt water is being used to try to make lateral flow tests more sensitive and targeted, with Guido Bolognesi and Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh from University College London. They also explain the role gold nanoparticles play in current lateral flow tests, which rapidly diagnose pregnancy or Covid-19.Claudia also visits a 'microbe zoo' and speaks with Revathy Krishnamurthy from the Quadram Institute of Bioscience in Norwich, England, who explains what phages are, and how they can be harnessed to improve food safety.Finally, we meet Pat Price, visiting professor at Imperial College London, to learn about the high-energy particles that could kill cancer cells, how they could completely change treatment for patients, and how it's hoped lasers can help them accomplish it.Image Credit: Credit: Photo by DIEUDONNE DIROLE/EPA/ShutterstockPresenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Dan Welsh and Georgia Christie

世界杯赛场上，大多数国家只有一支国家队，但英国却是个例外。英格兰、苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰都是拥有独立的足球协会、独立参加世界杯资格赛，甚至还能在国际赛场上彼此交锋的球队。为什么同一本护照、同一个君主、同一个国家，却能拥有四支国家队？本期「英伦奇葩说」，Bessie从现代足球诞生的历史讲起，聊到英国四大足球协会如何早于 FIFA 建立起自己的体系，也解释了为什么FIFA至今仍保留这项全球独一无二的制度安排。更有意思的是，这种"分裂"并不只存在于足球，橄榄球也有一种切法，板球又是另一种切法，但奥运会必须统一成Team GB，而英联邦运动会又重新各自代表家乡出赛。这看似混乱的规则背后，其实藏着英国数百年来对于国家、地方认同与历史传统的理解。在英国，联合（United）从来不等于融合（United as One）。【本节目由Withinlink碚曦投资协作体出品】【主持】李倩玲 Bessie Lee广告营销行业资深从业者，商业观察者【本期内容提要】00:12 为什么英国只有一个国家，却有四支世界杯国家队？01:25 现代足球诞生：英国四大足球协会是如何形成的？03:03 世界第一场国际足球赛，为什么就是英格兰对苏格兰？04:48 FIFA成立之前，英国早已有属于自己的"世界杯"05:50 足球规则到底谁说了算？IFAB与英国四大协会的特殊地位07:35 四支国家队为什么能够一直保留到今天？10:14 "Anyone But England"是英国足球最著名的球迷文化12:15 为什么四支球队赛前唱的国歌都不一样？14:03 足球之外，英国其他运动又是怎么"分家"的？14:26 橄榄球：北爱尔兰为什么会和爱尔兰共和国组成同一支国家队？16:31 板球：为什么威尔士反而"消失"了？18:03 奥运会必须统一成Team GB，为何足球项目依然例外？19:55 同一个运动员，为什么有时代表英国、有时代表威尔士？21:30英国体育版图为何始终没有统一？22:47 联合不等于融合，足球只是照见了英国真正的国家认同【线下见面邀请】伦敦·中文播客嘉年华 2026 7 月 18 日，我将与多位中文播客的好朋友，包括《去现场》杨一、《贝望录》李倩玲 Bessie、《严艺家》严艺家、《碳基生物生存指南》梦妮、《艺术叨叨》兰奕 以及《大不列颠颠一颠》肖恩，出现在伦敦举办的首次英国中文播客创作者线下聚会。 这是英国首次中文播客创作者线下聚会，六位中文播客主播将同台出现，一起讨论： 在 AI 能够复制声音、生成内容的时代，“真实的人声”有什么不可替代的东西？我们会从创作经验、表达方式、以及声音媒介的未来变化出发，展开一场面对面的讨论。在 AI 复制的时代，我们去现场听真实的人说话。欢迎所有对播客、声音表达和内容创作感兴趣的朋友前来。 时间：7 月 18 日（周六）14:00–17:00 地点：帝国理工学院（Imperial College London） 报名：https://luma.com/ev6tmt34【后期制作】Jean【收听方式】推荐您使用Apple Podcast、小宇宙APP、喜马拉雅FM、荔枝播客、网易云音乐、QQ音乐、Spotify或任意泛用型播客客户端订阅收听《贝望录》。【互动方式】微博：@贝望录微信公众号：贝望录+商务合作：beiwanglu@withinlink.com

Amanda King & Hari Kuhan Integrative oncologist Dr Hari Kuhan and metabolic nutritionist Amanda King join Jackie to talk metabolic therapy for cancer, why the ketogenic diet stresses cancer cells, and what’s in their new book, Metabolic Drugs for Cancer. “Apply the brakes on a growing cancer. Anything above that obviously is a blessing and brilliant, but that's the number one.” — Dr Hari Kuhan “The ketogenic diet causes stress on cancer cells, and stressed cancer cells are weaker.” — Amanda King About Hari Kuhan Dr Hari Kuhan completed his undergraduate medical training at Imperial College London, where he also obtained a BSc in Surgery and Anaesthesia. He carried out his foundation and core medical training in Central London, with appointments at St Mary’s Hospital and St Bartholomew’s Hospital. Over time, he built substantial expertise in Medical Oncology, working at leading institutions including St Bartholomew’s, University College London, and the Royal Marsden Hospital. He then pursued a research fellowship at Barts Cancer Institute, London funded by Stand Up to Cancer and HCA Healthcare, focusing on metabolic vulnerabilities in cancer stem cells and circulating tumour cells through the use of repurposed medicines and Vitamin C. Expanding his reach into translational and clinical development, Dr Kuhan joined the Sarah Cannon Research Institute UK (Harley Street), London where he served as lead sub-investigator on multiple Phase I and II solid tumour trials, and became adept at integrating next-generation sequencing outputs into therapeutic decision-making. Motivated by both scientific innovation and patient-centred care, Dr Kuhan co-founded Lucio Health with long-time associate Raphael Swery, united by a vision to reshape cancer care for the 21st century. Together, they established a clinic that integrates precision oncology, metabolic targeting, repurposed medicines, and evidence-based integrative strategies—pioneering a personalised model that moves beyond the limitations of conventional, one-size-fits-all approaches. At Lucio Health, cutting-edge AI-driven platforms interpret complex mutational and molecular data, while functional sensitivity testing of blood and tissue samples reveals how an individual’s cancer responds to a wide range of agents in real time. These insights are then integrated with metabolic and genomic profiling to create multi-layered, personalised roadmaps for each patient—designed not only to identify the most promising treatments, but also to avoid those unlikely to help. The ambition of Lucio Health is to bridge the gap between laboratory science and lived patient experience: translating the latest advances in genomics, artificial intelligence, and metabolic oncology into practical, compassionate, and highly individualised care pathways. It is a clinic built on the belief that cancer treatment should be as unique as the patient facing it, combining clarity and scientific precision with humanity and hope. About Amanda King After earning her BSc through the Open University that combined Human Biology with Psychology and Counselling, Amanda King advanced her clinical training through the College of Naturopathic Medicine in London, qualifying as a Nutritional Therapist in 2022 and as a Naturopathic Practitioner in 2024. Most recently, she completed the Practitioner Master Course in Integrative Metabolic Oncology with the Metabolic Terrain Institute of Health under Dr Nasha Winters, further deepening her expertise in terrain-focused cancer care. Over the past decade, Amanda has honed her practice at the intersection of nutrigenomics, methylation science and epigenetics, integrating advanced lab diagnostics with personalised nutrition, therapeutic ketogenic and ancestral diets, and targeted supplementation to optimise each patient’s metabolic landscape. A certified nutrigenomics practitioner with training in Integrative and Gestalt psychotherapy, she is widely regarded for translating complex genomic and hormonal data such as DNA methylation panels and DUTCH hormone testing into pragmatic nutrition and lifestyle protocols that address both biochemical individuality and psychological wellbeing. In her integrative oncology nutrition practice, Amanda delivers bespoke protocols that weave together diet, lifestyle optimisation, mindset coaching and evidence-based complementary therapies, empowering patients to navigate cancer with clarity and agency. Committed to reshaping the dialogue around food as medicine, she collaborates with metabolic oncologists, functional laboratories and patient-advocacy groups worldwide to expand access to precision, nutrition-centred oncology care and to generate rigorous outcome data that will elevate the standard of integrative cancer support. Amanda’s Top Tips       Prioritise your sleep — it affects everything else.       Try Byron Katie’s “The Work” (thework.com) to question your stressful thoughts when you wake at 3am.       Take regular breaks completely off-grid, away from your phone a Hari’s Top Tips       When a spark of inspiration to change something hits, ride it — don’t wait for the perfect moment.       Educate yourself about your condition: ask questions, look into your scan reports, tumour markers, mutations, and trial options rather than accepting “there’s nothing you can do.”       Make time to step away from the daily grind and be present with your family — don’t let life become just work and stress. Their Book Metabolic Drugs for Cancer – Amanda King and Dr Hari Kuhan Resources Mentioned       Hacking Chemo: Using Ketogenic Diet, Therapeutic Fasting and a Kickass Attitude to Power through Cancer – Martha Tettenborn       Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life – Byron Katie (referenced as “The Work,” thework.com)       The Metabolic Nutritionist Substack (Amanda’s, ~33,000 subscribers)       Optimized Health Substack (Amanda, co-written with Travis Christofferson) Connect with Amanda King       Website: amandakingnd.com (also: themetabolicnutritionist.com / linktr.ee/amandakingnd)       Instagram: @the.metabolic.nutritionist       Facebook: the.metabolic.nutritionist       LinkedIn: Amanda King       YouTube: @the.metabolic.nutritionist       Email: nutrition@amandakingnd.com Connect with Hari Kuhan       Website: luciohealth.com       Email: info@luciohealth.com The Fabulously Keto Diet & Lifestyle Journal: A 12-week journal to support new habits – Jackie Fletcher If you have enjoyed listening to this episode – Leave us a review By leaving us a review on your favourite podcast platform, you help us to be found by others. 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Zeitgeist #27 s klimatologem Pavlem Zahradníčkem a lékařkou Annou Kšírovou o horké vlně, která se prohnala Evropou, opomíjených zdravotních rizicích a vlnobití veder zesilovaným změnou klimatu.Prožili jsme sérii nezvykle horkých dní a nocí, které možná vás nebo vaše blízké hodně vyčerpali a potrápili. Ale většina lidí se z toho rychle vzpamatuje a zapomene jako na takovou epizodu či výchylku z běžného léta. Problém je, že podobné a leckdy i delší epizody budou i v našich zeměpisných šířkách častější a intenzivnější. A lépe je zvládnout zdaleka není úkol jen pro jednotlivce. Je to výzva pro obce, různé organizace, společnost a politiky, kteří by měli nabízet řešení podobně jako v případě povodní i jiných krizových událostí a stejně tak řešit příčiny.Horko je třeba začít brát opravdu vážně a připravovat se na něj. Vlny veder už dnes způsobují v Evropě více úmrtí než všechna ostatní přírodní rizika dohromady. Teploty rotou, populace stárnou a přibývá výskyt chronických onemocnění, která vytvářejí s horkem smrtící kombinaci. Zároveň zdaleka ne všichni mají přístup k dostatečnému chlazení a nebydlí v prostorech připravených na takto horké podmínky. Světová zdravotnická organizace uvedla, že od 21. června je v Evropě v souvislosti s dopady horka doložených více než třináct set úmrtí. Počet pravděpodobně ještě vzroste. V uplynulých čtyřech letech podle WHO kvůli horku zemřelo v Evropě více než dvě stě tisíc lidí.    Velkou část Evropy v uplynulých dnech přiklopilo horko, které tady v červnu nemělo v takové intenzitě obdoby a na mnoha místech padaly teplotní rekordy. Klimatologové a meteorologové z mezinárodního uskupení World Weather Attribution ve své analýze došli k závěru, že takto silná vlna veder by byla ještě před 50 lety v červnu nemyslitelná. Ale kvůli postupujícímu zahřívání planety je realitou. Ještě v roce 1976 by při této události byly teploty o zhruba tři a půl stupně nižší. Tato  horká vlna byla podle vědců nebezpečná i kvůli kombinaci relativně vysoké teploty a vlhkosti vzduchu, která omezuje schopnost lidského organismu se přirozeně ochladit pocením. „Rychlý odklon od spalování fosilních paliv je zásadní, pokud chceme v budoucnu zabránit ještě vyšším teplotám a jejich důsledkům,“ poznamenává klimatolog Theodore Keeping z Imperial College London spolu s dalšími autory nové zprávy WWA.Čeho jsme to byli v posledních dnech svědky? A jak podobné horko vnímat v kontextu postupující změny klimatu? Co se ve 40 stupních děje s naším organismem? Kdo jsou nejohroženější skupiny a jaké účinné a přitom opomíjené cesty ke zvládání veder se nabízejí? Jak se z toho poučit a připravit českou společnost na budoucí horka?  Nejen o tom uslyšíte v podcastu Zeitgeist od klimatologa Pavla Zahradníčka z Ústavu výzkumu globální změny AV ČR (Czechglobe) a ČHMÚ a lékařky, liberecké zastupitelky Anny Kšírové, která působí jako anestizioložka v Nemocnici Jablonec nad Nisou a sestavila s několika kolegyněmi kurz pro zdravotníky s názvem Klimatická změna v ordinaci.

Welcome back to a special encore presentation of Turn on the Lights! As we continue our transition series, our new host, Dr. Philip, has hand-selected one of our most-listened-to and impactful conversations from the archives to highlight once again. Dr. Philip introduces this essential dialogue with Professor Charles Vincent, reflecting on why its core message, moving past basic compliance toward true, real-time healthcare improvement, is so vital to where the podcast is headed next. Summary: Blame rarely makes care safer, but understanding the system usually does. In this episode, Professor Charles Vincent, a clinical psychologist and leading patient safety researcher, explains how harm often emerges from a chain of small breakdowns, not from a single “bad” decision, and why the better question is “what in the system allowed this to happen?” He unpacks how the fixation on individual error can miss deeper contributors, such as fatigue, poor supervision, weak monitoring, clunky equipment design, noise, distraction, and communication that is not truly heard. You will hear why disrespectful behavior and hierarchy are safety risks, how simple routines like surgical safety checklists can change whether people speak up, and why healthcare struggles to name the trade-off between pushing volume and protecting safety. Tune in and learn how a systems lens, respectful teamwork, and real trade-offs can make care safer. About Prof. Charles Vincent: Charles Vincent is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Oxford and a longtime researcher focused on patient safety across a wide range of healthcare settings. He studies how and why errors and patient harm happen, what actually works to improve safety, and how safety events affect patients, families, and healthcare staff. More recently, his work has zeroed in on how risk is managed when teams are under pressure, where small breakdowns can quickly compound in complex systems. Before Oxford, he spent over a decade at Imperial College London as Professor of Clinical Safety Research and later served as Emeritus Professor. His academic background spans psychology and clinical psychology, including a PhD in Psychology, which shapes his practical, systems-based approach to safety and risk management. Things You'll Learn: Most serious harm in healthcare results from interconnected system conditions, such as missed monitoring, delays, and weak supervision, rather than a single individual error. A focus on blame fosters defensiveness and inhibits organizational learning, whereas a systems perspective examines factors such as fatigue, workflow, tools, environment, and teamwork that shape human performance. Disrespect and rigid hierarchy pose safety hazards by suppressing speaking up, whereas high-performing teams normalize open communication across roles. Safety routines, including surgical checklists, create social permission to voice concerns, but when senior clinicians dismiss them, psychological safety deteriorates. The tension between productivity and safety is often unacknowledged in healthcare, even though increasing volume and evolving care complexity, such as expanded home-based care, can heighten systemic risk. Resources: Connect with and follow Prof. Charles Vincent on LinkedIn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Digital innovations and AI are transforming industrial workplaces, paving the way towards autonomous operations. But how do we balance the expectations of the next generation with the needs of existing employees – and give industrial operators practical ways to accelerate digital adoption? In this episode of Industry Optimized, host Fran Scott speaks to David Lincoln, Digital Lead at ABB’s Measurement & Analytics division. Together they discuss how to upskill today’s workforce to become truly digitally native – confident, capable, and ready to master the tools shaping the future of industry. We also hear from students at Imperial College London on what they expect their future work environment to look like. Thank you to Dr Colin Hale and Imperial College London for inviting us to the Carbon Capture Pilot Plant and to Baikai (Carleo) Zhu, Leo Fa and Golden (Xiao Xuan) Goh for sharing their insights.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of I Dare You, I'm joined by author, keynote speaker, and executive educator Adam Kingl—co-author of the wildly fresh new book, EXECUTIVE EATS: The Cookbook for a Better Working Life. Here's the big idea: your leadership doesn't start with what you know—it starts with how you feel. Your energy. Your focus. Your mood. Your ability to stay steady under pressure. And Adam makes the case (with real research + real-life practicality) that one of the most overlooked performance tools isn't another productivity hack… it's nutrition—and the act of cooking itself. We talk about why so many high performers are running on fumes, why “powering through” eventually backfires, and how the creative arts—especially culinary art—can train you to become more innovative, adaptable, and mentally sharp. This conversation will challenge the way you think about food, leadership, and what it really means to show up as your best self for the people who depend on you. If you've ever hit that 2pm crash, struggled to concentrate, felt your mood hijacked by stress, or wondered why you can't sustain the level you know you're capable of… this one's for you. In this episode, we cover: Why top performers are paying the price physically (and what to do about it) The link between nutrition, sustained energy, mood, and focus How cooking can actually become a mindfulness practice (not just another task) Why creativity is a trainable skill—and what chefs can teach leaders about it Simple, practical ways to eat for performance without making life complicated About Adam: Adam Kingl is the author of Next Generation Leadership and Sparking Success (shortlisted for the Business Book Awards). He teaches and advises globally, with faculty roles at University College London, Hult Ashridge, London Business School, the University of Cambridge, and Imperial College London. He trained at Le Cordon Bleu in California, cooked in a professional kitchen, and now blends leadership development with performance science in a way that's both inspiring and ridiculously actionable. Get the book: EXECUTIVE EATS Learn more about Adam: https://adamkingl.com/

The latest public version of ChatGPT can be made to generate sexualised images or depict scenes of graphic violence with a simple prompt, researchers have told the BBC. British AI security startup Mindgard figured out how to make ChatGPT create graphic pictures by slightly altering a widely-shared instruction, or prompt, which was originally designed to produce humorous results. To find out more, Anita Rani speaks to Technology correspondent Chris Vallance and Mindgard's Peter Garraghan. A spokesperson for Open AI said: "We take these reports seriously. After investigating this trend, we've introduced additional safeguards against this type of prompt. Our safety systems are designed to block potentially harmful images that are uploaded to ChatGPT and we analyse whether the AI generated image violates our policies before we show the image to the user. We also combine automated systems and human review to identify and block harmful material.”Jon Snow, the lead presenter of Channel 4 News for 32 years, has revealed he has Alzheimer's disease. During his career, he reported on stories including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the release of Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama's inauguration, receiving numerous awards including the BAFTA Fellowship in 2015. In a new Channel 4 documentary, made in conjunction with the Alzheimer's Society, Jon Snow: A Last Big Story, he is seen uncovering an environmental disaster in Zambia. In her first broadcast interview since the diagnosis was announced, Jon's wife, Dr Precious Lunga, joins Anita to talk about how they are navigating life now. Testing the microbiome of your vagina is increasing in popularity, with direct-to-consumer companies offering at-home tests and claiming that this information is critical to women's health. Anita speaks with Dame Lesley Regan, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Imperial College London, and Dr Caroline Mitchell, Professor of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School, to discuss what we know about the vaginal microbiome and the recent surge in private testing. New novel Mrs Dickens by Emily Howes, tells the imagined story of Kate Hogarth, wife of the writer and journalist Charles Dickens. She is much loved at first, but as Charles finds fame and the family rise through the ranks of Victorian society, Charles's attitude towards Kate changes and she is devastated. Emily talks to Anita about how she pieced together and embellished the invisible life of Kate, a woman who bore Charles 10 children during a 22-year marriage and had an unparalleled view of one of the world's greatest writers.Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Corinna Jones

BUFFALO, NY — June 18, 2026 — A new #research paper was #published in Volume 18 of Aging on May 26, 2026, titled “Early-life determinants of cardiometabolic outcomes and accelerated biological ageing in Colombia.” The study was led by first and corresponding author Juan Carlos Rivillas from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, United Kingdom. Experiences during childhood can shape health for decades. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), such as emotional abuse, domestic violence, food insecurity, poor health, and forced displacement, have long been linked to chronic disease. However, less is known about how these early-life hardships may influence biological aging itself. In this study, researchers examined whether childhood adversity is associated with cardiometabolic disease and accelerated biological aging among older adults in Colombia. The investigators analyzed data from 3,385 adults aged 60 years and older who participated in the nationally representative SABE-Colombia study. Five forms of childhood adversity experienced before age 15 were evaluated: emotional abuse, domestic violence, poor childhood health, food scarcity, and forced migration related to Colombia's armed conflict. Biological aging was estimated using the Klemera-Doubal Method for Biological Age, a biomarker-based measure that compares biological age with chronological age. Full press release - https://aging-us.net/2026/06/18/childhood-adversity-may-leave-lasting-biological-scars-decades-later/ DOI - https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.206384 Corresponding author - Juan Carlos Rivillas - j.rivillas-garcia20@imperial.ac.uk Abstract video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w6vgFzjcNQ Sign up for free Altmetric alerts about this article - https://aging.altmetric.com/details/email_updates?id=10.18632%2Faging.206384 Keywords - aging, adverse childhood experiences, forced childhood migration, biological ageing, cardiometabolic outcomes, life course epidemiology To learn more about the journal, please visit https://www.Aging-US.com​​ and connect with us on social media at: Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/aging-us.bsky.social ResearchGate - https://www.researchgate.net/journal/Aging-1945-4589 X - https://twitter.com/AgingJrnl Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AgingUS/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/agingjrnl/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/aging/ Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/user/AgingUS/ Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/AgingUS/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@Aging-US Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1X4HQQgegjReaf6Mozn6Mc MEDIA@IMPACTJOURNALS.COM

Dr Alex Fergusson is a UK-based composites and unmanned-systems specialist, Ukraine supporter, and prominent NAFO figure. He is best known in the Ukraine-support community as “Nother Alex Fergusson Fella” and describes himself online as a NAFO SquaDrone Leader and Fella, an “ardent supporter” of Ukraine, and a mechanics-of-composite-materials / nanocomposites specialist. Professionally, Fergusson's background is in advanced composite materials, aerospace structures, and drone/UAS design. He is a PhD-level lecturer at Imperial College London, founder of FAC Technology, with publications in composites and material characterisation.Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Fergusson has become an outspoken advocate for Ukrainian victory, with a particular focus on the fast-evolving role of FPV drones, autonomous systems, electronic warfare resilience, composite airframes, and UK–Ukrainian defence-tech cooperation. In LinkedIn posts, he has discussed FAC Technology's “Ghosts of The Few” and “Ghost Squadron Leader” UAS concepts, including Ukrainian-made versions, larger FPV drones, EW-hardened communications, and work with Ukrainian partners such as Drone Space / Dronarnia.----------LINKS: https://x.com/nother_fella2https://www.instagram.com/alexanderfergussonhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexander-Fergussonhttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexander-fergusson-9b95021_kseniia-kalmus-alex-fergusson-drone-event-activity-7261031593681567744-4fZ5https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J31yASWIQvo&vl=en "Ukraine's fastest-evolving weapon: drones explained ..."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3K9me18dVo "Kseniia Kalmus & Alex Fergusson Drone Event"----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/scaling-up-campaign-to-fight-authoritarian-disinformation----------ACTIVE CAMPAIGN:We are raising funds for 5 of 15 Vampire DronesSilicon Curtain for Kupiansk Vampires. Dzyga's Paw, together with Jonathan Fink, is joining forces to raise $40,000 to provide the Khartiia Brigade with Vampire Drones.https://dzygaspaw.com/silicon-curtain-for-kupiansk-vampiresThese heavy bombers are designed to destroy manpower and equipment, as well as for remote mining. The Vampire UAV, manufactured by Skyfall, has proven itself to be one of the most effective weapons in the Kupiansk direction. Skyfall is one of Ukraine's largest defense tech companies, producing Vampire bomber drones, various modifications of Shrike FPV drones, P1-SUN, Shahed drone interceptors, communication systems, and components.----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Car4Ukrainehttps://car4ukraine.com/en-US/campaignsDzyga's Pawhttps://dzygaspaw.com/projectsSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/----------PLATFORMS:Substack: https://substack.com/@siliconcurtainTwitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm----------

In this third episode of The Helsinki Brief: Inside Finnish Intelligence and Security, Dr Paul McGarr (King's College London) is joined again by Hannamiina Tanninen of the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (SUPO) to explore Finland's 'comprehensive security' model — a point of reference in international debates on resilience. They unpack what “comprehensive security” means in practice: an all-of-society approach designed to keep Finland functioning as normally as possible during crises, from major disruptions and natural disasters to heightened security threats. The conversation looks at how the model is embedded across government, the private sector and civil society — and why joint exercises, consultation and coordination are central to making it work. The episode also looks at the foundations that make this approach work in Finland — including high public trust, the welfare state, a broad-based education system and mandatory conscription — as well as the role of the National Emergency Supply Agency. Finally, the discussion considers which elements of the Finnish model might be transferable elsewhere — and which are rooted in Finland's specific history, size and social cohesion. Hannamiina Tanninen is a doctoral researcher at the National Defence University in Finland, researching on modelling the strategic environment of the Finnish security of supply system with emphasis on defining economic intelligence and economic security in intelligence studies. She is also a visiting researcher at Imperial College London.

In this episode, science broadcaster Dr Güneş Taylor speaks with endocrinologist Dr Saira Hameed about her new book Signals: The Inside Story of Our Hormones. From exhaustion and infertility to appetite, mood and libido, Hameed explores the vast and often misunderstood hormonal system that regulates almost every aspect of human life. Drawing on patient stories and recent medical research, Hameed explains how hormones act as the body's internal signalling network — and what happens when those signals misfire. The conversation examines new approaches to diagnosis and care, the discovery of previously unknown hormones linked to fat and metabolism, and the realities behind the growing wellness market around testosterone and male health. Dr Saira Hameed is a Consultant Endocrinologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and a Senior Tutor and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. She is the author of Signals: The Inside Story of Our Hormones. Dr Güneş Taylor is a science broadcaster and Fellow at the Centre for Reproductive Health. If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all our full conversations, plus all of our Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events  ...  Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series … Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. … Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To Support the Show:  Like, Comment, and Subscribe!  Sign up on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/islandsofcoherence. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/islands.of.coherence/  Leave us a Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/islands-of-coherence/id1532910535 Joining us on the show this week is Dr. Rosalind Watts to talk about the ever important topic of human connection! Dr. Rosiland Watts is a clinical psychologist and leading researcher in psychedelic medicine. She served as a clinical lead of the Psilocybin for Depression study at Imperial College London, where she developed the ACE therapeutic framework for psychedelic therapy. She's been named one of the 50 most influential people in psychedelics and is known for her focus on integration, harm reduction, and inclusion in the psychedelic space. She's also the founder of ACER Integration which is a yearlong online global community helping participants ground the big experiences of their lives. To stay plugged in with her work and online community, head on over to acerintegration.com.

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On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to geneticist Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou about two papers, Ancient DNA evidence for the history of the Albanians and Uniparental analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals genetic continuity from the pre-Medieval era. He is an entomologist and evolutionary biologist specializing in insect morphology, biomechanics, bioacoustics, systematics, and taxonomy. Born in Greece, Davranoglou earned a B.Sc. (Hons) in Zoology from Imperial College London (2012–2015) before completing a DPhil (2015–2020) in insect morphology and biomechanics at the University of Oxford under supervisors Graham Taylor and Beth Mortimer. He is currently a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (with support from the John Fell OUP Fund), where he investigates the evolutionary origins of sound production in hemipteran insects. He also serves as Curator of Hemiptera and a senior researcher at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History in Tel Aviv. Over the course of the episode Razib and Davranoglou cover the intersection of history, archaeology and genetics. Who are the Greeks of the Mani peninsula, south of Sparta? Are they particularly "genetically pure" compared to other Greeks, and what is their connection to the ancient Greeks? How do Albanians differ from other Balkan populations and what are their deep origins? The podcast explores genetic results that demystify the demographic history of the southern Balkans, and two of the deeply indigenous peoples to the region.

What if intelligence doesn't come from code at all? Thrishantha Nanayakkara, professor of robotics at Imperial College London, explores this idea in Ghost Circuits. The book shows how computation can emerge from physical materials, geometry, and body–environment interactions, suggesting that “thinking machines” may not need traditional software at all.

On the 17th of May the World Health Organisation declared a new outbreak of Ebolavirus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as an International Emergency. Ebola virus is an extremely nasty viral disease with a high death toll. But despite its severity, very little is known about the number of infections in this current outbreak, in part because this particular species of Ebola is a rare one. Headlines recently stated that modelling shows that the number of infections could be almost 1,000 more than recorded. We speak to Dr Ruth McCabe, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London, who worked on the modelling behind those estimates. Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Lizzy McNeill Sound Mix: James Beard Production Coordinator: Brenda Brown Editor: Richard Vadon

On the 17th of May the World Health Organisation declared a new outbreak of Ebolavirus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as an International Emergency. Ebola virus is an extremely nasty viral disease with a high death toll. But despite its severity, very little is known about the number of infections in this current outbreak, in part because this particular species of Ebola is a rare one. Headlines recently stated that modelling shows that the number of infections could be almost 1,000 more than recorded. We speak to Dr Ruth McCabe, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London, who worked on the modelling behind those estimates. Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Lizzy McNeill Sound Mix: James Beard Production Coordinator: Brenda Brown Editor: Richard Vadon

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You are not an algorithm. You are not a data point. You are a son of God and no machine can replicate that. The Pope just put the full weight of the Church behind that statement, and this week's good news is stacked.Five stories. Five reasons to walk into your weekend fired up.On Pentecost Sunday, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical: Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity). Forty-two thousand words. The Church's first major teaching document on artificial intelligence. He signed it on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum. Now he is addressing the machines again. Eighty martyrs of the Spanish Civil War killed between 1936 and 1937 for no reason other than their faith, are officially on the path to beatification. They died forgiving their executioners. Meet Pedro Ballester, born in Manchester in 1996, chemical engineering student at Imperial College London, Opus Dei member, diagnosed with advanced bone cancer at 18, dead at 21, and the Diocese of Salford just formally opened his cause for canonization. Pope Leo launches a new catechesis series on Vatican II's constitution on the sacred liturgy, and invites the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church to St. Peter's Square as a sign of unity and a prayer toward full communion.

Is it ok to store food in plastic containers?That's the question put by listener Joe Tattersall in this, the last episode in the current series of 'Sliced Bread'. Joe's noticed scuffs and abrasions on his reusable plastic containers and is concerned about whether that increases the risk of 'chemical leaching' into his food, or ingesting microplastics. He's keen to know if alternatives like glass, silicon, or metal containers could better for our health, as well as for the planet.And what about putting them in the microwave to heat food, using them to freeze food after batch-cooking, or putting them in the dishwasher to clean? To find out more, presenter Greg Foot is joined by Dr Stephanie Wright, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Toxicology at Imperial College London; and Jane Muncke, Managing Director and Chief Scientific Officer at the Food Packaging Forum.We're taking a break to prepare another batch of Sliced Bread but we're as hungry as ever for your suggestions of wonder products to investigate. Please do send your ideas to us either on email to sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk or to our WhatsApp number, 07543 306807.RESEARCHER: PHIL SANSOM PRODUCERS: SIMON HOBAN AND GREG FOOT

Is it ok to store food in plastic containers?That's the question put by listener Joe Tattersall in this, the last episode in the current series of 'Sliced Bread'. Joe's noticed scuffs and abrasions on his reusable plastic containers and is concerned about whether that increases the risk of 'chemical leaching' into his food, or ingesting microplastics. He's keen to know if alternatives like glass, silicon, or metal containers could better for our health, as well as for the planet.And what about putting them in the microwave to heat food, using them to freeze food after batch-cooking, or putting them in the dishwasher to clean? To find out more, presenter Greg Foot is joined by Dr Stephanie Wright, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Toxicology at Imperial College London; and Jane Muncke, Managing Director and Chief Scientific Officer at the Food Packaging Forum.We're taking a break to prepare another batch of Sliced Bread but we're as hungry as ever for your suggestions of wonder products to investigate. Please do send your ideas to us either on email to sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk or to our WhatsApp number, 07543 306807.RESEARCHER: PHIL SANSOM PRODUCERS: SIMON HOBAN AND GREG FOOT

Headlines warned us about microplastics in our brains. A chemist says the study may have been measuring brain fat instead. In 2025, a study claiming microplastics accumulate in human brain tissue dominated our feeds. We covered it. Then Dr. Michelle Wong, a chemical scientist and science communicator, flagged a problem with the methodology. So we went to the primary literature, read the critique, and brought in one of the first scientists to publicly challenge the findings: Dr. Oliver Jones, Professor of Analytical Chemistry at RMIT University in Melbourne. In this episode, we unpack what went wrong with the measurement method, what it means for the broader microplastics conversation, and why being willing to say "I was wrong" is so vital for good science. In this episode: How pyrolysis GC-MS works and why it can confuse plastic breakdown products with brain fat Why potassium hydroxide digestion creates soap, which also mimics plastic signatures The contamination problem: body bags, centrifuge tubes, plastic storage containers, and lab air Why 7 grams of microplastic per brain is more than what researchers find in raw sewage The Marfella study in The New England Journal of Medicine: microplastics in arterial plaques and why it also lacked blank controls How microplastics could enter the body: skin absorption, ingestion, and inhalation Why PM2.5 monitoring already captures the most relevant airborne microplastic exposure What the WHO, FDA, and European Food Safety Authority have concluded about microplastic harm What better microplastics research would actually look like Why the real lesson is about how we evaluate headlines, not just microplastics Dr. Oliver Jones is Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Associate Dean of Biosciences and Food Technology at RMIT University in Melbourne. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI), he holds degrees from Imperial College London and Cambridge. He is one of only 118 scientists worldwide named to the IUPAC Periodic Table of Outstanding Younger Chemists. His research focuses on developing methods to measure environmental contaminants, including microplastics, and he was among the first scientists to publicly challenge the methodology of the viral "microplastics in the brain" study. Follow Dr. Jones: @dr_oli_jones RMIT faculty page: rmit.edu.au/oliver-jones Dr. Michelle Wong (Lab Muffin Beauty Science) first flagged the methodological concerns to us. Hosted by Drs. Ayesha & Dean Sherzai Subscribe to The Synapse (free weekly newsletter): https://thebraindocs.com/newsletter  Follow @TheBrainDocs on Instagram

Ric Derbyshire, a Principal Security Researcher at Orange Cyberdefense and an Honorary Researcher at Imperial College London, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss how attackers are able to gain lateral movement across operational technology (OT) assets through a tactic known as Living Off the Plant.Similar to Living-off-the-Land attacks, Living-Off-the-Plant TTPs leverage native functionality specific to OT, with a potential negative impact on physical assets and safety concerns. Subscribe and listen to the Nexus Podcast here. 

Today, the basis of depression and how science is helping in its management. Neuroscientist Trevor Robbins defines this condition; GP Munro Stewart tells us how it might be diagnosed and managed through medication; Jackie Rogers at the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy examines the role of talking therapy; and Imperial College London's David Nutt looks at how ECT, deep brain stimulation and psychedelic drugs can play their part... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

As a child growing up on the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya, Washington Yotto Ochieng once watched a plane cross the night sky and told his mother he wished he could travel on it. But he remembers her encouraging him to dream bigger... Today, Washington is a Professor of Engineering at Imperial College London, and President of the Royal Institute of Navigation. Over a career bridging industry and academia, he has helped shape the movement of urban transport; how satellites guide us and locate us; and how governments manage the technologies underpinning so much of modern life. Professor Jim Al-Khalili speaks to Washington about his inspirational upbringing, how reliant we've become on technologies such as GPS, and his work encouraging the next generation of engineers in both the UK and Africa.

In this episode of The Psychedelic Podcast, Paul F. Austin speaks with Dr. Lauren Macdonald, a clinical trial physician and psychedelic therapist, about the evolving role of community in psychedelic-assisted therapy. Find full show notes and links here: https://thethirdwave.co/podcast/episode-356/?ref=278  Lauren shares insights from her work at Imperial College London, where she contributed to research on psilocybin for anorexia and fibromyalgia, as well as DMT for treatment-resistant depression. She reflects on the limitations of purely individual therapeutic models and explores how group-based approaches can foster deeper healing through connection, shared experience, and what she describes as communitas. The conversation also touches on the contrast between clinical and ceremonial settings, the role of group dynamics in emotional processing, and the challenges of access and affordability as psychedelic therapy expands. Dr. Lauren Macdonald has a background in psychiatry, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and group retreat facilitation, working at the intersection of science, soul, and spirit. At the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, she has served as a clinical trial doctor and psychedelic therapist on studies exploring psilocybin for anorexia and fibromyalgia, and DMT for treatment-resistant depression. Highlights: Psilocybin therapy in clinical research Limits of individual therapy models Why group work deepens healing Communitas and shared experience Bridging science and spirituality Psychedelics in palliative care Relational safety in altered states Episode Links: Lauren Macdonald's Website The Reconnection: Women's Psilocybin and Somatic Retreats Bridging Worlds: 6-Month Training Episode Sponsors: The Microdosing Practitioner Certification at Psychedelic Coaching Institute. The Practitioner Certification Program by Third Wave's Psychedelic Coaching Institute. Golden Rule - Get a lifetime discount of 10% with code THIRDWAVE at checkout Disclaimer: This content is for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. We do not promote or encourage the illegal use of any controlled substances. Nothing said here is medical or legal advice. Always consult a qualified medical or mental health professional before making decisions related to your health. The views expressed herein belong to the speaker alone, and do not reflect the views of any other person, company, or organization. Third Wave occasionally partners with or shares information about other people, companies, and/or providers. While we work hard to only share information about ethical and responsible third parties, we can't and don't control the behavior of, products and services offered by, or the statements made by people, companies, or providers other than Third Wave. Accordingly, we encourage you to research for yourself, and consult a medical, legal, or financial professional before making decisions in those areas. Third Wave isn't responsible for the statements, conduct, services, or products of third parties. If we share a coupon code, we may receive a commission from sales arising from customers who use our coupon code. No one is required to use our coupon codes.

Following three deaths linked to the deadly hantavirus disease on a cruise ship this month, the scientific community is racing to answer the many unknown questions surrounding the outbreak.Tom Whipple speaks to Dr Emma Hodcroft, an epidemiologist at the University of Basel and co-founder of Pathoplexus, an online database of pathogen genomes, to explore what the new hantavirus genomic sequences can tell us.He also hears from Dr Nicole Luri, Executive Director of Emergency Preparedness and Response from the NGO The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness (CEPI), to hear what steps would be taken if the hantavirus strain had the potential to become a pandemic, and how far their "100 days" mission has come. With less than a month until the men's football World Cup kicks off in the United States, Canada and Mexico, there are warnings from climate scientists that football's global governing body FIFA needs to do more to combat the risks from the high temperatures both players and fans are expected to face. We speak to Dr Theodore Keeping from the World Weather Attribution team at Imperial College London to hear about the predicted conditions and the concerns they are raising.Plus, mathematician Kit Yates from the University of Bath brings us his pick of the week's science news you might have missed, including new hearing technology that might help you follow conversations in rowdy parties.Presenter: Tom Whipple Producer: Alex Mansfield Editor: Ilan Goodman Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth