Listened Searching for an Alzheimer’s cure while my father slips away – podcast by Peter Savodnik;Simon Barnard from the Guardian

Science might be able to return my father (or, more to the point, future Alzheimer’s patients) to his pre-Alzheimer’s state, but it could not undo the sea change that had taken place in the people who loved him. For that to happen, we would have to forget everything that had happened in the past decade – and our memory, for better and worse, is perfectly intact.

Listened ‘A different dimension of loss’: inside the great insect die-off – podcast by Jacob Mikanowski;Andrew McGregor;Simon Barnard from the Guardian

Scientists have identified 2 million species of living things. No one knows how many more are out there, and tens of thousands may be vanishing before we have even had a chance to encounter them

Go here for a written version of this Guardian long read.