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From boots for dogs to Diana’s wedding dress: my stepdad the great inventor

Douglas Boyd Buchanan spent a lifetime in search of the great innovation

16/06/2017

Douglas Boyd Buchanan spent a lifetime in search of the great innovation

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How long before we get true driverless cars?

Look mum, no hands!

16/06/2017

Look mum, no hands!

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Tanzania is burning GM corn while people go hungry

Bad science costs lives

16/06/2017

Bad science costs lives

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What is epigenetics?

There’s a lot we still don’t understand about how our genes work, and even well-meaning people can get in a mess over epigenetics

16/06/2017

There’s a lot we still don’t understand about how our genes work, and even well-meaning people can get in a mess over epigenetics

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The power in our genes

Naomi Alderman and Adam Rutherford in conversation

16/06/2017

Naomi Alderman and Adam Rutherford in conversation

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The myth that British data scientists won the election for Trump

Claims that social media data won the presidency are greatly exaggerated

16/06/2017

Claims that social media data won the presidency are greatly exaggerated

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The science of Santa Claus

Genotyping Father Christmas

16/06/2017

Genotyping Father Christmas

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The poetry of the periodic table

16/06/2017

This is an edited transcript of a talk that took place at Birmingham’s Think Tank in November 2016 as part of Little Atoms’ Two Cultures series, supported by Arts Council England.

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Poem: One Final Spectacle

What happens when a poet and scientist talk about the star at the centre of our solar system

16/06/2017

What happens when a poet and scientist talk about the star at the centre of our solar system

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Something as simple as a star

A conversation between scientist Lucie Green and poet Simon Barraclough 

16/06/2017

A conversation between scientist Lucie Green and poet Simon Barraclough 

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