Caroline Fiennes
@carolinefiennes
Director of Giving Evidence: helping donors make decisions based on sound evidence. (www.giving-evidence.com) "Charmingly disruptive" - Nobel laureate Richard Thaler. U.Cambridge visiting fellow. Former FT columnist. Irrationally exuberant. Church nerd.
If I were controller of Radio 3, I'd have - apparently randomly - played loads of coronation anthems today....
Norbonne Cathedral is so weird: The final picture here is the partially-built nave, never finished because of - !! - a planning dispute about Roman wall in the way(!), & then the river moved, the city became less rich & other matters more pressing. The church is mainly apse.
Apropos of nothing(!) I looked up the death toll from the Falklands War in 1982. About 250 UK military personnel & civilians. Argentina claims that ~650 of theirs were, mostly on the ship the General Belgrano:
There are terrible graphs, and really terrible graphs, and then....
Google's framing here is so rubbish. 31 degrees tomorrow isn't really "colder". We might say "cooler" or "less madly hot". Obv somebody told Google that a drop in temperature means "colder" but that isn't always how humans think about it at all.
Turns out that hyperbolic functions live in a cupboard at the hospital!
Architecture nerds: What is this, up against the wall of Berkeley Castle? Those benches(?) are about waist height.
Wimbledon has had a different ladies' champion every year for a decade now, & will again get a new one this year. The last woman to retain her title was Serena. Top fact!!
So Ghana has a little town called Lolito. Presumably this is the masculine form of Lolita... 🫣
Here in Ghana(!), coffins are sometimes custom-made to reflect the person's life: a fisherman gets a fish; a teacher gets a pen; there are cars, crabs(!), planes, carrots..!! duckduckgo.com?q=ghana%20fa...
Every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure, what’s yours? (Yes, I grew up in Wells! 🥰)
Please know that the main road on the University of Ghana campus is called - wait for it - Academic Freedom Road 🤣🤣👌🏼
Amazing evidence-2-action conf in Ghana. People from many African countries; very senior people eg, a corner national finance minister, tmrw a former prime minister(!); people from many countries' Office of the PM / President; people v experienced with evidence & also some newbies;...
Give year partnership being signed between evidence producers ICED* & Gov't of the Gambia 😊 *Int'l Centre for Evidence & Development
Conférences: design around small people! I never stand behind the lectern: I'm too small! This guy is taller than me 😳
England play Ghana in the football tonight: their first competitive match ever. And I am presenting to a load of Ghanaian people, in Ghana, in the morning! Please pray for me 🤣🤣 (It's huge in Ghana. ~30% of people are walking around in football strip, & there are flags everywhere!)
Happy Brexit-referendum-iversary! 10 years today. It's all going excellently well, I think that we can all agree 😊
Am delighted to be in lovely Ghana to participate in this conf about getting policy & practice to be informed by good evidence. Do join! www.iced-eval.org/e2a/registra...
I'm starting a series on 'mad design in hotel rooms'. Exhibit 1 in Accra: posh sink but nowhere to put any soap 🤦🏽♀️ Send me your entries!!
Oh, I've been across that! Was a bit surprised. Also it's quite near the surprisingly-named.....
Original definition of The Inverse Care Law (in healthcare) & strong illustration of it in Scotland:
You can always trust an evidence-based medicine conference to provide good fruit 🤣👍🏼
A rare counterexample to "the inverse care law"(!): more deprived areas in Scotland have *more* NHS dental practice than do richer areas!
Scotland had a big push on childhood teeth-cleaning. Costs (blue) were ~£2m (/yr?). Savings are waaay bigger: the green. Bravo for prevention 👍🏼
Excellent to be in Edinburgh for the 3rd event staged by the hew Centre for Evidence & Values in Healthcare, based at U.St Andrews, founded by Dr @mgtmccartney.bsky.social. Good exploration of the role of private sector & private money - in medicine, dentistry & vet care 😊
This Edinburgh churchyard has some rare Gothic-era bike racks: 🤷🏼♀️
Banger of a Norman arch & apse in the chapel of St Margaret*, Scotland's oldest building, inside Edinburgh Castle. *Scotland's "only royal saint"(!), Margaret was married to.... Malcolm, son of King Duncan, who got done in by Earl Macbeth! (allegedly...) Why the uncentered window? Dunno.