This is a scene from the latest Portlandia episode, mocking the trend for lab glassware as quirky science housewares. (Video available on Facebook, or on the IFC YouTube channel if …
(Every line is the title of an academic article. References below.) Of mice and men?1 Of mice and men.2 Of mice and men, metals and mutations.3 Of …
Last week was the annual ArchWay With Words literary festival in North London. Just in its third year, it’s quite popular already, and booklovers from all over the city have …
I noticed it last year as well, but this year North London literary festival ArchWay With Words has even more science-themed events! Sadly most of them overlap with evenings I’m …
If you’re in London this coming weekend, you should drop by the “Why Music?” events at the Wellcome Collection, organised in collaboration with BBC3. The weekend is packed full with …
[SCRIPT] I’ve been catching up on classics, and recently read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (first published in 1818) and Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, from 1962. These are two very different books. …
