Why is Marie Curie such a scientific star? Which element was discovered twice by women – but is credited to a team of men? And who worked out which elements were fuelling the Sun but had her ideas dismissed by her boss? In this entertaining and illustrated talk that draws on my book Cracking the Elements,…
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Look back at the Big Feed festival 2018 in this new video celebrating the hidden food history of Banbury, featuring a science show by me and chemist Andres Tretiakov.
Watch this new video about The Big Feed festival 2018 that captures all the stories of the day – enormous thanks to everyone who supported, participated, and came along. I loved writing a science show script about Banbury’s food heritage and delivering it with experiments by Andres Tretiakov. The Big Feed festival 2018, as reported…
Seeing the light: story-writing for the animated film starring Omar Sharif ‘1001 Inventions and the world of Ibn al-Haytham’
“If learning the truth is the scientist’s goal… then he must make himself the enemy of all that he reads.” In 2015, UNESCO and 1001 Inventions were partners in a global campaign to celebrate the International Year of Light (IYL2015) and the scientific legacy of the remarkable 11th-century scientist Al-Hasan Ibn al-Haytham (known in the west…