Found this via the Craftzine blog. It's a cute little animation on the subject of climate change (and as a knitter it's completely mindboggling the amount of work that went into it!)
In other news, the BBC has another article on how young Britons aren't interested in science. Surprise, surprise, there's a gender imbalance too:
The survey also suggested there was a gender divide: young men were far more interested in new inventions and technology, while young women were attracted to subjects such as the Earth, the environment and the human body.
Now this at least I can vouch for in terms of my own experience. I'm in the process of moving from the engineering and technology dominated field of radio propagation to something more akin to climate modelling. And on the way I've noticed that there is a lot more women working in climate change. I went to a day's introductory course on the Met Office Unified Model and was pleasantly surprised to see the course attendees were pretty much 50:50 male:female split. Nothing at all like the radio courses I've been to, where the ratio was more like 10:1 (or worse).
