Mark Miodownik is Professor of Materials and Society at UCL, and the Director of the UCL Institute of Making. He recently appeared in The Times’ inaugural list of the 100 most influential scientists in the UK. He is currently scientist-in-residence on Dara O Briain’s Science Club (BBC2) and has presented of several documentaries, including The Genius of Invention […]
Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, writes regularly for the Guardian and the New Statesman, and often appears on television and radio talking about the arts, culture and all things American. Her latest book is Careless People: […]
Jo Marchant is an award-winning journalist who specializes in writing about cutting-edge science. She has worked as a staff reporter and editor for Nature and New Scientist, where she is currently a consultant. Jo is the author of one previous book, Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World’s First Computer, and her latest book is The […]
Dr David Lewis is founder and Director of Research at the independent research consultancy Mindlab International. Described as the ‘father of neuromarketing’ for his pioneering studies analyzing brain activity for research and commercial purposes, he currently specialises in non-invasive techniques for measuring human responses under real life conditions. He is the founding member of the Impulsivity Research Group, which is […]
Claudia Hammond is a writer, broadcaster and psychology lecturer. She is the voice of psychology on BBC Radio 4 where she is the presenter of All in the Mind and Mind Changers. She is also a part-time member of faculty at Boston University in London. She won the British Psychological Society’s Public Engagement and Media Award in 2012, Mind’s […]
Marlene Zuk is a professor of biology at the University of Minnesota, her main research interest being behavioural ecology, the study of the evolution of behaviour. Her research centres on sexual selection and the effects of parasites on mate choice and the evolution of secondary sex characters. Marlene Zuk is the author of Sexual Selections: What we […]
Alison Gopnik is a Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. She is an internationally recognized leader in the study of children’s learning and development and was the first to argue that children’s minds could help us understand deep philosophical questions. She is the author or co-author of a number […]
In this special edition of Little Atoms, Neil Denny hosts an interview with Robert Llewellyn and Simon Watt. The interview was recorded on Saturday 20th July 2013 at Winchester Science Festival in front of a live audience. Robert Llewellyn is an actor, comedian and writer, best known as the mechanoid Kryten in the cult sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf, and for his role […]
This is the fifth of an occasional series of Little Atoms interviews in which Neil Denny talks to the hosts of some of his favourite podcasts. The Guardian Science Weekly podcast is, unsurprisingly a weekly podcast from the Guardian about science, in which presenter Alok Jha and the Guardian’s science team bring us analysis and interviews from the […]
Adam Rutherford is a geneticist, writer and broadcaster, whose work includes the award-winning series The Cell (BBC4), The Gene Code (BBC4), Horizon: ‘Playing God’ (BBC2) as well as numerous programmes for BBC Radio 4 such as the recently launched Inside Science. Previously an editor at the science journal Nature, Adam often writes for the Guardian and has given numerous […]
September 17, 2013
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