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Jim Al-Khalili
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Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS HonFREng Emeritus Professor of Physics @UniofSurrey, author, broadcaster, humanist. "Affable Egghead" (Sunday Times).
University of Surrey
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    Jim Al-Khalili
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    Jun 23, 2019
    I tweet about physics, but I can't avoid today's headlines: the neo-fascist, Steve Bannon, advises our future PM, and domestic violence is apparently not an issue that should concern us or get in the way of said future PM's ambitions. What the hell is wrong with people?
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    Jim Al-Khalili
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    May 26, 2022
    I’m sad to say that for anyone who has enjoyed my BBC4 tv docs over the years (and loads of other excellent programming) I’m afraid that due to budget cuts BBC4 TV will be no more. The channel is moving entirely online. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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    Jim Al-Khalili
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    Mar 13, 2022
    Too many people, when they say ‘we have to learn to live with Covid’, seem to think it means we can go back to behaving the way we did before Covid. That’s not what it means.
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    Jim Al-Khalili
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    Aug 7, 2018
    Credit where it’s due. @BBCr4today had an item on climate change this morning and didn’t feel the need to have a denier on in the name of ‘balance’. Both contributors agreed it was happening and each had something intelligent to say. No conflict required.
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    Jim Al-Khalili
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    May 30, 2022
    As a patron of @UKMetric I've just been on BBC News arguing against the jingoistic, populist plans by the Gov to bring back Imperial measures. Celebrating the Jubilee should be an opportunity to showcase Britain as a progressive and advanced nation, not one stuck in the past.
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    Jim Al-Khalili
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    Aug 1, 2023
    All the while such stupidity persists it has to countered. Toss a coin once and you won’t know if it’ll be heads or tails (weather: will it rain next week?) but after 1000 tosses you know half will be heads (climate: longer range average trend).
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    Hugh Osmond
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    Jul 28, 2023
    Matt goes to the heart of it. With current measurement technology and state-of-the-art computers it is still impossible to predict the weather more than a few days ahead. Yet these same people, with the same technology, think they can model long term climate change. They can't.
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    Jim Al-Khalili
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    Apr 5, 2022
    Earlier today: at Windsor Castle with Julie, to pick up my CBE. A lovely day.
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    Jim Al-Khalili
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    Aug 24, 2018
    When I was a student in the 80s, UK politics was polarised bet left & right. Then came two decades of middle-of-the-road politics. Now it seems the whole of the Western World (eg US, UK, Australia, Italy..) is polarised as never before: divided into ‘decent people’ vs ‘fuckwits’.
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    Jim Al-Khalili
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    Mar 5, 2023
    It isn’t so much that those entrusted to run our country have demonstrated such dishonesty and morally bankruptcy. Sadly, we’ve known this for some time. No it’s that they are revealed as such dim-witted, incompetent intellectual minnows.
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    Jim Al-Khalili
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    Nov 28, 2021
    U.K. newspaper headlines this morning all shouting “Masks are Back” on public transport and in shops. But for many of us nothing has changed! No doubt many will be outraged by this minor inconvenience because “masks don’t work”. Also, Earth is flat and we never went to moon.
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    Jim Al-Khalili
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    Dec 27, 2021
    Another optical illusion for you. The balls behind the horizontal lines are all the same colour. 🤨
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    Jim Al-Khalili
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    Aug 10, 2017
    For @BBCr4today to bring on Lord Lawson 'in the name of balance' on climate change is both ignorant and irresponsible. Shame on you.
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    Jim Al-Khalili
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    Aug 6, 2017
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    Jim Al-Khalili
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    Jan 2, 2022
    Via @ThePoke