About The New Optimists
We ask scientists “What are you optimistic about?” And nearly 100 have told us. We publish what they say in books, in video interviews and on this website.
Our Publications
Our Kindle book Challenging Cancer is by ten leading scientists and clinicians. Eighty-one scientists wrote for the paperback The New Optimists.
The Forum
The Forum is about Food & Cities: Birmingham 2050. The next event is on 9th February — on food poverty in Brum (#TNOForum).
Join a conversation on food poverty in Brum on 9th February
On 9th February between 6pm and around 9pm, these people (from left to right: Jim Parle, Lucy Bastin, Nick Booth, Farida Vis, Sandy Taylor and Parveen Mehta) will be discussing food poverty in Birmingham, the factors and events could worsen or ameliorate the situation towards 2050.
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Spike Walker Image Gallery
Spike Walker
Spike Walker – whose microscope images adorn the cover of The New Optimists – received the 2010 Combined Royal Colleges Medal from the Royal Photographic Society for “outstanding contribution to photography and its application in the service of medicine.”
Among the other many accolades he’s received, he’s also a 23-times Wellcome Image Award winner, the latest four made in 2011.
You can view a slideshow of some of his amazing photographs in the left hand gallery panel on this home page, and watch this video for some behind the scenes footage of Spike at work in his lab, a converted garage!