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Tom Brown

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Professor of nucleic acid chemistry, Oxford university, founder of several nucleic acid tech companies and author of 450 publications in the nucleic acid area.
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Burning Cow Dung Emits an Inordinate Amount of Air Pollution in India

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By Tom Brown
| AGU's Eos
The use of cow dung as cooking fuel in India releases disproportionately large quantities of air pollution, according to new research. The findings of the work suggest a major need in the country to phase out biofuel use in rural homes, which could help mitigate air pollution–related public health impacts. Millions of Indians use cow dung as their primary cooking fuel, including in the densely populated Indo-Gangetic Plain in the country’s north.
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Is Russia poisoning Namibia's water in its hunt for uranium?

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By Tom Brown, Justicia Shipena
| Al Jazeera English
Windhoek and Leonardville, Namibia - Impo Gift Kapamba Musasa holds a hose pipe in one hand and gestures to a garden of cabbages, onions and turnips with the other. He is a teacher in the crumbling village of Leonardville in rural Namibia, where water is becoming scarce. The vegetables, grown for children at the primary school where he teaches, are watered from one of the largest aquifers on earth.
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Letter: 5 reasons I, as a cyclist, get in drivers' way

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By Tom Brown
| Squamish Chief
As a bicycle commuter for about four decades, here are the many reasons I am in your way. The one space that, in theory, a bicyclist should not be in your way is in a bike lane. However, these are often beside a parked car. Having been hit and injured by a car door that accidentally opened in front of me, I cannot bicycle near a parked car. It is not possible to see if a car driver is in the car when approaching it, so the only safe alternative is to ride a bicycle quite far from the parked cars.
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