In Cambridge, Mass. on his last day recording interviews, Neil paid a visit to writer Leslie Brunetta. Leslie Brunetta is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, as well as on NPR and elsewhere. An English graduate of both Princeton and St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, she is the co-author of Spider Silk: Evolution […]
November 17, 2012
While passing through North Carolina, Neil paid a visit to Duke University in Durham, and spent a great afternoon talking to geneticist Misha Angrist. Misha Angrist is an assistant professor at the Duke University Institute for Genomic Sciences and Policy. His doctoral and postdoctoral work was in human genetics, and he was formerly a board-eligible genetic counselor. Misha […]
November 16, 2012
Jonnie Hughes is a filmmaker in the BBC Natural History Unit and Head of Development for BBC Earth. His documentaries have been shown on the BBC, Discovery and National Geographic Channel. He studied ecology and evolution at the University of Leeds. Jonnie’s first book is On the Origin of Tepees: Why Some Ideas Spread While Others Go […]
November 11, 2012
While in Boston, Neil spent an afternoon at the Church Lab at Harvard Medical School. George Church is a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences & Technology at Harvard and MIT, As well as a director of the U.S. Department of Energy Center on Bioenergy at Harvard & MIT and Director of the Center for Computational […]
November 9, 2012
Conor Woodman is an economist, author, film-maker and presenter. He is the author of Around the World in 80 Trades – which had an accompanying four-part television series for Channel 4. His most recent book was Unfair Trade: How Big Business Exploits the World’s Poor – and Why it Doesn’t Have to, which we discussed on a previous episode of Little […]
November 2, 2012
Giles Sparrow studied Astronomy at University College London, and Science Communication at Imperial College. He is the author of The Universe and How to See It, The Planets and Hubble:Window on the Universe, which was published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, and which we talked about on a previous Little Atoms. His latest […]
October 26, 2012
Daniel Bor is a research fellow at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science and the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex. Previously he spent more than a decade working as a cognitive neuroscientist in the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge. In this episode of Little Atoms we discuss Daniel’s book The […]
October 20, 2012
On the journey from Washington DC to New York City, Neil stopped in at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to chat with Paul Offit. Paul Offit MD is the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. A pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases and an expert on […]
October 19, 2012
Francis Spufford, a former Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, has edited two acclaimed literary anthologies and a collection of essays on the history of technology. His first book, I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination, was awarded the Writers Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 1996 and a Somerset Maugham […]
October 12, 2012
Aarathi Prasad is a biologist and science writer. She has appeared on TV and radio programmes, including as presenter of Channel 4’s controversial ‘Is It Better to Be Mixed Race?’ and ‘Brave New World with Stephen Hawking’, as well as BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Quest for Virgin Birth’, and written for Wired, the Guardian, and many […]
November 22, 2012
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