Meaningful stories. The Song of the Right Whale, BBC Sounds: science troubles a way of life. The RHODcasts BBC radio "Up All Night" 1994-2020
Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA
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A better way both for listeners and producers’ careers was the road not taken which I advocated at parting and before of combining 5Live overnight with @bbcworldservice output. Salute to the first show on any BBC network to truly follow the sun. What’s old is new again.
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Roughly 30 years and millions of happy listeners later, those who argued that @tweetallnight (Up All Night) was a waste of money finally have their way. My sympathy to those in @bbc5live management forced into this shotgun marriage and to all ex-colleagues losing jobs.
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IMPACT SUCCESS! Watch from #DARTMIssion’s DRACO Camera, as the vending machine-sized spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid Dimorphos, which is the size of a football stadium and poses no threat to Earth.
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Les Colombes - The Doves - Michael Pendry's installation at @StGilesHighKirk symbolising love, hope and kindness. On till April 7, more info from @burnsandbeyond. Free daytime viewing, £5 for evening illumination. – at Edinburgh, Scotland
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I’ve written a note to Chris Bryant, who is not my MP, asking him to obtain Foreign Office funding for short wave transmission to Russia of BBC World Service in Russian, 24 hours a day. Their coverage of Ukraine has been superb. I’m no good at campaigns, but maybe you could help
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Really proud of what we have achieved - congratulations to the entire brilliant team @TimesRadio
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Trump is directly responsible for this insurrection and violence. He needs to be removed from office immediately. It is the Constitutional responsibility of Vice President Pence and the cabinet to exercise the power granted them by the 25th amendment.
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McCain was probably bound to lose anyway (his lead at this point reflected a Palin/convention bounce, at least in part) but a reminder that basically the entire financial crisis played out between this point in the campaign and the election in 2008. News can still happen.
The @FiveThirtyEight nat'l polling average with 56 days until E-Day:
2020: Biden+7.5*
2016: Clinton+2.0
2012: Obama+3.5*
2008: McCain+1.2*
2004: Bush+7.5*
2000: Gore+2.9
1996: Clinton+16.0
1992: Clinton+7.8
1988: Bush+4.1
1984: Reagan+19.7
1980: Reagan+3.4
1976: Carter+13.4
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This shouldn’t pass without comment, not least for the critical work of @EthanZ - a principled and inspiring leader. If there is something we need more of right now it is civic rather than commercial technologies. Hopefully MIT will find other ways to explore this
At the end of August 2020, the Center for Civic Media at MIT will close down. Established in 2007 as the Center for Future Civic Media, the Center has been a longstanding collaboration between @medialab and @mit_cmsw at MIT. (full post by @EthanZ at civic.mit.edu/)
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The most memorable line of the DNC so far, from Kristin Urquiza, whose father died of the coronavirus: “My dad was a healthy 65-year-old. His only preexisting condition was trusting Donald Trump, and for that, he paid with his life.”
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On Air Force One tonight, Donald Trump told the press pool that tomorrow he will pardon a "very, very important figure." He said it wasn't Edward Snowden or Michael Flynn.
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Boy you’d think a country that can equip every cop like a soldier could equip every doctor like a doctor
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I'm talking to veteran news broadcaster @Rhod_Sharp on leaving the Up All Night BBC Radio 5 Live night shift in the Sunday Express @Daily_Express with unexpected guest appearances from @RichardDreyfuss Gunther von Hagens & Robin Williams R.I.P. #rhodsharp #UpAllNight @bbc5live
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If you want to understand how catastrophically Trump has failed in this response, consider that the first cases were in the US and South Korea on the same day. And because of testing, honesty, and a swift government response, South Korea has already flattened the curve.
The first coronavirus case in the U.S. and South Korea was detected on the same day. By late January, Seoul had medical companies starting to work on a diagnostic test — one was approved a week later. Today, the U.S. isn’t even close to meeting test demand reut.rs/3daq8mF
