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The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers
... Cambridge University mathematician Bobby Seagull about his book, The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers... Chris - Bobby, you’ve got a book sitting there, is this it, is this the new tome that you ... I couldn't do it at school, what's the point of it. And my book is almost like a soft manifesto showing that actually ...
Max Brooks: disasters, politics, & Devolution
... that you bring up coronavirus, because of course your book World War Z - "zed" - that was actually made required ... but I do know in American national security circles, my book has been circulated because I based it on real research. ... populations, and it actually began in China in your book, didn't it? What gave you the idea for that? Max - Well, ...
Meet the Rinkidinks
Tiffany - I wrote this book because I thought that currently the way that evolution ... make them a better fit. What I wanted to do is write a book which is very simple aimed at young children which told ... order to explain it. Kat - And what are your hopes for the book? Tiffany - Well, I really hope that primary school ...
Higher fatal flu risk for CRISPR twins
... the sequence is synonymous to a word processor for a book, the book being DNA, which allows scientists to not only read the book, but to also edit a specific ‘passage’ of the book. ...
How do cells know what to grow into?
... gene expression: if you imagine the genome as a big book with recipes for proteins, gene expression is where some ... into RNA, which is kind of like copies of pages of a book and those are used directly to produce the proteins. So ... are expressed by determining which of the pages in the book of the genome are used to make proteins. Chris - I get ...
A brief history of A Brief History of Time
... Hawking released what was to be his seminal science book, A Brief History of Time . It has sold millions of ... to never making it past the first few pages, earning the book the accolade of being the most popular unread tome of ... possibly do the content, nor impact, of this famous book justice. “A Brief History of Time” was Professor ...
What museums aren’t telling you about natural history
... curator Jack Ashby takes on in his thought-provoking new book, 'Nature’s Memory.' By taking us behind the scenes of ... to show - and what they leave out. At the heart of the book is the idea that natural history museums are far from ... scope narrower than expected. The final chapters of the book are its most hopeful. Ashby reminds us that natural ...
Everyone who ever lived
... the way. This genetic journey is the subject of a new book - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived - by ... interbred with Neanderthals. Now I argue in the book that that means that they were not a different species ... Kat - I found this mind bending when I was reading the book. There's so many amazing things in there. You're digging ...
This Week in Science History - The Descent of Man
... earlier, it was still an influential and controversial book. In 1871, Queen Victoria was on the throne in Great ... Origin of Species in 1859, Darwin began working on another book that would allow him to discuss further how humans ... from other animals, not specially created. In the book, Darwin also makes the comparison of mental ...
How does evolution produce new genes?
... that do the copying make a mistake, it's like me copying a book - I've got a book opened in front of me and I'm reading off the book and making a new copy in a second book, I might ...
"Whats Science Ever Done for Us?" What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life and the Universe
... Science ever done for us" is also the title of a new book that's out at the moment. It's been written by Professor ... joining us on the naked scientists to tell us about your book. Why have u written this? And don't say to make money ... addictive. Helen - I don't know if this is in your book but one of my favourite bits in one of the shows is when ...
What's Science Ever Done for Us? - What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life and the Universe
... Science ever done for us" is also the title of a new book that's out at the moment. It's been written by Professor ... joining us on the naked scientists to tell us about your book. Why have u written this? And don't say to make money ... addictive. Helen - I don't know if this is in your book but one of my favourite bits in one of the shows is when ...
The problem with forensics
... Brandon Garrett says an emphatic 'no'. His new book Autopsy of a Crime Lab is designed to expose the many ... you would stand up and say, well, read Brandon Garrett's book. It shows that this is flawed and unreliable. So this ... be discounted. Brandon - There may be no lawyer waving my book around in court, because they get their certificate ...
How accessible is technology?
... Adi is blind, and he came here today by train and had to book a ticket online. First up, Chris Smith asked Adi, how do ... me to use apps on the phone, and that's how I tried to book my train tickets. Chris - Now we asked Adi to document ... when I got to the end it wouldn't actually allow me to book. I put in two different cards and it just wasn't working ...
Read my words
New computer software can read a book's literary fingerprint that is unique to the author who ... with the idea that inside every writer's head is a 'meta-book'. Writers reach into their own personal meta-book and pull out words to put down on paper or computer ...
Smell Test for Old Books
There's the old saying, 'never judge a book by its cover' and indeed you shouldn't - now chemists ... have come up with a test that can measure how fast an old book is degrading, according to its odour. And this new sniff ... of vanilla over an underlying mustiness ." Don't judge a book by its cover - judge it by the smell instead! Smell Test ...
Meet our panel of 'egg-cellent' experts!
... who specialises in the study of grief. Mary Francis's new book, 'The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Signs of How We ... the death of a loved one. Just in that moment, you open a book and you see a card from your mom who's died, and of ... nuclear science, and element discovery. Kit's latest book, 'Racing Green: How Motorsport Science Can Save the ...
Joining us this time...
... History.' What's that all about? Lewis - For this new book, I am looking at all different aspects of us as an ... history. So what I'm doing through the chapters of this book is unpicking the thread of these stories of how ... on Mars? Lewis - Oh, very little, to be honest. My first book, 'Life in the Universe', a Beginner's Guide, was all ...
Revealing ocean wonders before underwater photography
... and patterns and organisation, that spilled over into this book that he produced Kunstformen de Natur, or Art Forms of ... microscope and drew them in the most elaborate way in this book Art Forms in Nature. And the drawings that he made ... hit at the time? Did lots of people go out and buy this book? Philip - Yes they did. Well certainly artists did. And ...
Exercise under lockdown
... puns, but you're celebrating too. You've got a new book out, it's called Exercised. That's Exercised with an E ... in the present climate aren't we? Tell us about your book. Dan - It's basically a natural history of physical ... activity for health and fitness. And so I use, in the book an evolutionary and anthropological approach to, kind of ...
How natural history museums shape our view of the world
... crucially - what’s left out? This is the thrust of a new book called Nature’s Memory, by Jack Ashby, who is ... been telling Marushka Soobben why he wanted to write the book, and why it matters… Jack - Open the door onto what's ... person on Earth. So those are the three big themes of the book. Marushka - And was there a moment or experience that ...
Would reading from a screen keep me awake?
... is 16th Jan too! My question is about those electronic book readers. I occasionally have trouble sleeping, and find that reading a book before bed really helps with this. I was considering getting an e-book reader, but got thinking: Would the light of the screen ...
Splitting - headaches 101
... neuroscientist Amanda Ellison has just written a book on exactly this. Amanda told Katie Haylor that headaches ... give you a headache! So really what I focused on in this book is five main types of headaches. So we begin our story ... fair Katie, yeah. It's terrible. Because when you write a book like this and I've been involved in this field for a ...
Meet the panel!
... up, we have chemist and author Kathryn Harkup. Her latest book is called 'Super Spy Science: Science, Death, and Tech ... Markov's death. Chris - One of the things you wrote in the book that I must admit I was amazed by was you were ... amazing thing he plugs into his mouth. And you say in the book that one of the spy services rang up the producers to ...
Public Success, Private Grief
... Naked Scientists radio show, who has just published a new book about the extreme ups and downs of his life, the lessons ... That is Peter’s public face. But he documents in his new book an entirely different side to his life, showing the ... which have fuelled his drive and ambition. In the book, Peter explains how he has coped with the suicides of ...