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Author Archives: Athene Donald
An Iconoclastic and Flirtatious Master
I am currently reading Patricia Fara‘s recent book Science: A Four Thousand Year History which cuts an interesting swathe through different cultures, different individuals and different discoveries (sometimes even the same discovery in different places). It is not your average … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, History of Science
Tagged China, Desmond Bernal, Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen, Patricia Fara
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Hacked Off
Can one ever escape the workaday grind, successfully avoid slipping over the edge to descend into the chaos I wrote about a little while ago or even manage merely to keep one’s cool despite provocation? There are so many things … Continue reading
A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Prejudice Go Down
I wasn’t really paying attention to the radio. I was busy cooking, but it sounded to me as if the question Clive Anderson asked the film-maker Andrea Calderwood on Saturday’s episode of Loose Ends amounted to ‘how come a nice … Continue reading
The Stuff of Brains
That migraine I was waiting for finally struck this week. Amazingly it didn’t throw my life into disarray, because it hit me during a week I was supposed to be having ‘off’. Consequently it only spoiled a day of relaxation, … Continue reading
Posted in Neuroscience
Tagged cognitive illusion, Daniel Kahneman, Matthew Lieberman, self-affirmation
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Science and Nerves at the BBC
Last week you would have found three professors gathered nervously together in the depths of (Old) Broadcasting House waiting for the studio to be ready to air the week’s broadcast of In Our Time. Three professors who had never met … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Education
Tagged Andrea Sella, BBC, In Our Time, Justin Wark, Melvyn Bragg
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