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This week, I have been enjoying two biologists kicking around big issues on the podcast. Lee Hood and Nathan Price roam far and wide, tackling the impact of artificial intelligence on medicine and the future of personalised healthcare. But I was most intrigued by Price鈥檚 idea that a build-up of amyloid protein in the brain might be a consequence of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, not its cause.
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I was also lucky to see James Norton in , a hugely impressive play at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London that is based on the book of the same name by Hanya Yanagihara. With violence, sexual abuse and self-harm, it isn鈥檛 for the faint-hearted, but it was remarkably moving.
En route to work, I am reading by Jean Hanff Korelitz (pictured), which centres on a novelist who receives threatening messages from a stranger who knows a secret he is desperate to hide. I saw the twist coming, but it is a good yarn.
Alexandra Thompson
Assistant news editor
London
