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Little Atoms 281 – Frank Swain & How to Make a Zombie

May 31, 2013

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Frank Swain is the founder of SciencePunk, the popular SEED ScienceBlogs site devoted to the weird and wonderful fringes of science. A regular contributor to media including Wired and the Guardian, he has a history of climbing buildings, managing burlesque shows, and generally being a force for good – and the scientific method. Frank ‘s first book is How […]

Little Atoms 280 – Coralie Colmez & Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom

May 24, 2013

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Coralie Colmez graduated with a First from Cambridge University in 2009, and now lives in London where she teaches and writes about mathematics. She belongs to the Bayes in Law Research Consortium, an international team devoted to improving the use of probability and statistics in criminal trials. Coralie is co-author along with her mother, the mathematician Leila […]

Little Atoms 279 – Chris Marsden and Ian Brown & Regulating Code

May 17, 2013

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Ian Brown is Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute. He is the editor of the Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet. Christopher T. Marsden is Professor of Law at the University of Sussex School of Law. He is the author of Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution, Internet Co-Regulation, and three other books. Ian and Chris […]

Little Atoms 278 – Emily Anthes & Frankenstein’s Cat

May 10, 2013

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Emily Anthes is a science writer whose work has appeared in Discover, the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and many other publications. She is also the founder of the Wonderland blog, part of the Public Library of Science. Emily’s first book is Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts.

Little Atoms 277 – Podcaster Therapy – The Pod Delusion

May 3, 2013

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This is the fourth of a new strand of Little Atoms interviews in which Neil Denny talks to the hosts of some of his favorite podcasts. The Pod Delusion is a multi-award winning news and comment show about “interesting things”, Edited and produced by James O’Malley and Liz Lutgendorff, It covers everything politics, to science to […]