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🔭 Science journalism is journalism first: My interview with Senne Starckx

This week’s interview is with Senne Starckx, a Belgian science journalist who writes about everything from quantum physics and astronomy to archaeology…

Oct 6 • Elia Kabanov

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🥧 5 things I learned this week: paywalls, London pies and The Jungle Book

Five things I learned this week, featuring Baloo, eel pies, ancient Egyptian glass, bad predictions and paywalls.

Oct 2 • Elia Kabanov

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September 2026

🐻 What I learned this week: Medieval bears, modern crime and very old people

Five short stories about medieval bears, falling crime, children playing outside, living past 100 and graduates who wish they had studied something…

Sep 26 • Elia Kabanov

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☀️ Climate hope needs evidence: My conversation with Sam Matey-Coste

This week’s interview is with Sam Matey-Coste, a climate and energy journalist, environmental scientist and mapmaker.

Sep 17 • Elia Kabanov

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🎂 Birthday edition: my most personal newsletter so far

I turned 43 today. Naturally, I made a data visualisation. I was born in 1983, so I looked at what 43 years did to London.

Sep 13 • Elia Kabanov

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August 2026

☀️ 15 things I learned this summer

I spent the summer reading papers, following herons, looking at London data and falling into historical rabbit holes.

Aug 31 • Elia Kabanov

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🔊 How sound makes digital journalism better

Digital journalism rarely asks us to listen. So I started collecting examples where sound becomes illustration, reporting material and even data.

Aug 26 • Elia Kabanov

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📈 My first experiments with data visualisation

For years, I was fascinated by data visualisation. This summer, I started making it myself.

Aug 21 • Elia Kabanov

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💉 7 things I learned last week

From millions of lives saved by vaccines to the mathematics of rivers, here are some fascinating things I learned this week.

Aug 17 • Elia Kabanov

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💬 10 facts I learned last week

In this week’s discoveries: why people may be talking less and what monkeys know about geometry.

Aug 10 • Elia Kabanov

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July 2026

🦴 9 things I learned this week

From a fossil collected in Roman Britain to AI-generated bird sightings, here are nine things that caught my attention recently.

Jul 24 • Elia Kabanov

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🌡️ 7 ways science can help us survive extreme heat

Last month, a London event on extreme heat was cancelled because of extreme heat. That would be funny if the problem were not killing so many people.

Jul 7 • Elia Kabanov

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