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2 months ago | 
nextbigideaclub.com | Mark Blyth |Nicolo Fraccaroli |Lizzie Wade |Adam J. Kucharski
I’m pleased to share what I consider the most promising, must-read nonfiction titles scheduled for release in May 2025. These titles will be included in our longlist of potential titles for Season 27 of the Next Big Idea Club. In a couple of months, our curators—Susan Cain, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink—will review all of my monthly selections, narrow the list down to a handful of finalists and, ultimately, choose our two official season titles, which we will send the members.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
kucharski.substack.com | Adam J. Kucharski
Waitrose has a new favourite number. Shoppers now have their visits punctuated by signs emphasising the importance of eating 30+ different plants a week, while packaging now comes with little numerical targets. If you want a shortcut, you can also buy a ‘Daily30+’ supplement for £13.50 per week. But is 30 really a magic number? And where did it come from anyway? The number 30 has been popularised by the nutrition company Zoe, makers of Daily30+ (as well as the famous subscription-based app).
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
journals.plos.org | Adam J. Kucharski
Preparing for pandemics requires preparing for small outbreaks. Take avian influenza. As of 1 October 2024, there were 15 reported cases of H5 influenza in the United States (with 10 confirmed as H5N1), including a cluster of suspected cases without an animal source. Although most of these individuals would later test negative for H5N1 in antibody tests, in real-time—without the benefit of hindsight—such patterns may be indicative of human-to-human transmission [1].
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
bristoliver.substack.com | Oliver Johnson |Adam J. Kucharski
I’ve got some important news to share with you, my subscribers. After a lot of thought, I’ve decided that I won’t be joining Bluesky. For some reason, I apparently have to make an announcement about this to you all, ideally in the same sad tone that a newsreader would use to mark the passing of a national treasure. So here goes. Goodness knows I’m not a fan of Musk Twitter.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
kucharski.substack.com | Adam J. Kucharski
If there’s an epidemic control measure that’s useful, we ideally want to know that it’s useful. But there’s a problem. It’s all too common to set the bar too high for usefulness, and test non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) under the assumption that they’re basically the most useful thing ever. And then have lots of arguments when the resulting study is inconclusive. Take air filters.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Adam J. Kucharski
Aid workers in Goma teach children about the signs and symptoms of mpox Credit: Augustin Mudiayi/AP Earlier this week, the WHO declared the spread of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), plus a growing number of other countries in Africa, a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). This followed an earlier declaration in 2022, when mpox spread widely around the world. But how did we get to this point? And where might things be going next? A decade ago, I was...
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
kucharski.substack.com | Adam J. Kucharski
The H5N1 ‘bird flu’ virus continues to spread among cattle in the US. So far the outbreak has also led to three reported human cases, including one with respiratory symptoms. Meanwhile, H5N1 has been spreading among sea lions and elephant seals in Argentina, with recent genetic and epidemiological analysis suggesting evidence of mammal-to-mammal transmission and occasional mammal-to-bird spillover. So, how harmful is H5N1 to humans?
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
kucharski.substack.com | Adam J. Kucharski
With the 2024 European Football Championship on the horizon, I thought I’d do a couple of posts on the quirks of football analysis, and what they can tell us about wider statistics and science, based on my research for The Perfect Bet. It all started with an exam question. In the 1990s, statistics students at Sheffield University were asked to predict which team would win a hypothetical football match.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Melina Spanoudi |Adam J. Kucharski
You are viewing your 1 free article this month. Login to read more articles. Rights Profile Books has snapped up Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty by Adam Kucharski. Publishing director Cecily Gayford and editorial director Izzy Everington acquired world all-language rights from Peter Tallack at Curious Minds, and Profile has sold US rights to Basic Books. Profile Books will publish Proof in March 2025. "How do we know what’s true," the synopsis says.
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May 28, 2024 | 
maddyness.com | Paul Ferretti |Michael Chen |Adam J. Kucharski |George Robinson
As part of our quick founder questions series - or QFQs - we spoke to Perdie Alder and Margaret Coyle, Co-founders of Hotbed, about access to resources and networks, funding and the Hotbed programmes. Temps de lecture : 10 minutes Partager Don't let the next economy pass you by, get the latest news with the Maddyness newsletter at 8h15. SIGN UP REPORT AN ERROR DOWNLOAD/EXPORT PDF What was the catalyst for launching Hotbed?
