Brian Wecht is a theoretical physicist with a degree in jazz composition, as well as one half of the comedy duo Ninja Sex Party. This is a shortened version of …
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Musicians and Scientists
Interview with Philip Howie about music and science
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenPhilip Howie is a percussionist in several Cambridge orchestras, but during the day he’s a materials scientist who just finished his PhD. This is a fragment of a conversation we …
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Musicians and Scientists
Interview with musician and engineer Michelle Oyen
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenMichelle Oyen is a lecturer in bioengineering at Cambridge University. You may have come across her name earlier this year, when this video about her lab’s Lego robots was doing …
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Musicians and Scientists
Interview with musician and scientist Boyan Bonev
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenI met Boyan at a biology workshop in September. As part of the workshop, all thirty participants had to introduce themselves using two slides. The first slide had to be …
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Musicians and Scientists
The Sci Foo Files 2010 – Part 2: Stephon Alexander
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenWhen I hosted the scientists/musicians session at Sci Foo 2010, I had left a recorder running. Unfortunately, it ran out of batteries halfway through, and after recovering the files, I …
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In the summer of 2010 I was at Sci Foo camp – a gathering for scientists, writers, computer geeks, artists, and likeminded folk. Somehow, an entire year has passed since …