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Neil Shubin @ RSA
Neil Shubin, Professor and Associate Dean of Biological Sciences at the University of Chicago, paleontologist, and author of Your Inner Fish: The Amazing Discovery of our 375-million-year-old Ancestor, spoke at the RSA today, 31st January 2013, about his new book, The Universe Within: A Scientific Adventure. If you didn’t venture out into the ghastly weather for this talk (and who can blame […]
Sir John Sulston @ Westminster Faith Interview
November 11, 2012
Step aside Steven Pinker, George Monbiot, and Sir Christopher Frayling … my new intellectual crush is biologist and Nobel Laureate Sir John Sulston, who spoke about his life and beliefs with Guardian journalist Andrew Brown at the Westminster Faith Debate at Sixty One Whitehall (RUSI) on 7th November 2012. Topics discussed included Sulston’s upbringing with a religious […]
In search of…Thomas Harriot (c.1560-1621)
July 26, 2012
The scientist and adventurer Thomas Harriot (c.1560–1621) caught our eye back in the 2009 Year of Astronomy, when his telescope observations of the Moon – pre-dating those of Galileo by several months – were celebrated. At the time, we visited the Bank of England‘s foyer plaque, which marks the approximate site of Harriot’s original burial place. Now Harriot is on […]
Leonardo da Vinci @ Queen’s Gallery
July 10, 2012
Recently, we tagged along on a tour of the Queen’s Gallery’s current exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci – Anatomist, led by its impressively knowledgeable curator, Martyn Clayton. We highly recommend this exhibition to you all, but for those who can’t make it, here’s what we learned. The exhibition begins with a short introductory film. Nature has also produced an excellent video […]
Andrea Wulf @ Royal Society
May 10, 2012
A capacity crowd gathered to hear Andrea Wulf talk about her latest book, Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens, at the Royal Society library on Friday 4th May 2012. The podcast of Andrea Wulf’s lecture, which I highly recommend, will soon be available here. A transit of Venus is a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus […]
History of science mini-marathon
April 26, 2012
Coming to London for the 2012 Olympics? Keen to see more than back-to-back sporting events? Grab your camera and walking shoes, and check out these history of science hot spots, all within a short distance of Piccadilly Circus. If you’re really keen, you can get this mini-marathon done in a single day. Be sure to […]
Colin Pillinger @ Royal Society
January 13, 2012
Colin Pillinger, principal investigator for the Beagle 2 mission to Mars, Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University, and author of My Life on Mars: The Beagle 2 Diaries, gave the Michael Faraday Prize Lecture at the Royal Society last night, 12th January 2012. The prize honours Colin Pillinger’s stellar contribution to science communication throughout his career. Martyn Poliakoff, Foreign Secretary & Vice-President […]
Wave-watching “Idler” wins Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2011
November 18, 2011
Sir Paul Nurse, the new President of the Royal Society, and Director & Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute, presided for the first time over the Royal Society’s annual science book prize award ceremony last night, Thursday 17th November 2011. Last year’s winning author, biochemist Nick Lane, was in the audience, as was geneticist Steve Jones, […]
A phone, a Faraday, and a Royal Institution
September 30, 2011
Next time you’re window-shopping the streets of Mayfair, there are two good reasons to drop in to Brown’s Hotel on Albermarle Street. The first is to enjoy a posh high tea in the hotel’s award-winning English Tea Room. The second is a chance to see a telephone. (Photo courtesy of Brown’s Hotel website) Not just any old […]
In search of … George Price (1922 – 1975)
June 20, 2011
We recently watched Adam Curtis’s latest documentary series, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, in which his narrative thread weaves its way from Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand and Silicon Valley, to Richard Dawkins and the selfish gene. Curtis’s work is always worth watching, although his love of knitting together long sequences of smorgasbord-style archival imagery, […]
Bloomsbury Bytes
- Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill @ Doughty St May 16, 2013
- In Search of Classical Greece April 3, 2013
- View of the week: UCL’s Institute of Making March 16, 2013
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