David Andrews

Sep 13, 2024 | surinenglish.com | David Andrews

The appeal was made following comments on social media, which appeared within a couple of hours of the news breaking, blaming the tragic event on Maghrebis and then on "Latino" gangs. These 'bulos' (fake news) were not fabricated and propagated by some gormless, anonymous teenager, but rather by a politician, who has been elected to the European parliament, and his circle of cronies.

Aug 2, 2024 | surinenglish.com | David Andrews

Don't even get me on how long I have waited to get into the US, I think my record is six hours, including waiting three hours for a "personal interview" for the audacity of speaking Spanish to a colleague while travelling on a British passport!When you enquire about the reasons for the long wait, the answers are normally the same: flights arriving at the same time, lack of staff, increased numbers of travellers in summer and, of course, stricter controls.

Jul 31, 2024 | nature.com | Robin Jones |John Kerr |Hyunah Kwon |Ruidong Ji |Emilija Petronijevic |Peer Fischer | +1 more

AbstractChirality conferral is fundamental for understanding the origin of life, and it is of direct importance for synthesizing new pharmaceuticals in the face of growing antibiotic resistance. Human-made, self-assembling nanostructures replicate the biological chirality conferral processes utilizing covalent and non-covalent bonds. However, chirality conferral from one form of matter to another via electromagnetic fields is more subtle and less explored.

Jul 3, 2024 | forensicresources.org | David Andrews

On June 21, 2024, the Supreme Court issued an important decision in Smith v. Arizona.  This is a good opinion; you should know about it if you don’t already. If you’d like to join an informal discussion of this case and its importance for NC defenders, Phil Dixon and I will be talking about it on the IDS Forensic Education Series on July 18 at 3 pm. Registration is available here if you aren’t already signed up for the forensic webinars.

May 26, 2023 | surinenglish.com | David Andrews

It's a bit like finding love. Most of us will admit that there are things about our partners that we love, put up with or hate. However, there are certain things which we would never accept. If you are mesmerised by a person's flash car, swanky villa or huge personality and ignore the fact that, at weekends, they drown kittens in a well, the relationship may well be doomed to fail.