Educating Science – Science Chat Episode 5

November 16, 2009

The recent Science Week 2009 in Ireland motivated me to find out some more about the extra curricular science education going on in Ireland, and that was my subject for this episode of the Science Chat podcast. In it I talk to Colm O’Reilly, the director of the Centre for Talented Youth http://www.dcu.ie/ctyi/ in Dublin […]

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Science Literacy – take 2

October 27, 2009

The earlier science literacy podcast I did went so well that it made me think: it might be nice to have one with a more local flavour – as in being more about science literacy in Ireland. To provide the local point of view I found someone who not only writes as a science correspondent […]

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I almost told you so…

October 22, 2009

Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like, but I did think at the time that there was something unsettling about the way in which Ida was launched on an unsuspecting world five months ago as the ‘missing link’. In fact when I first saw the images of the fossil lying prone in the ground […]

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Science Literacy and Cell phone subscription services

October 16, 2009

As a scientist with empiricist philosophical tendencies, I like to see some element of evidence for published claims. So emotions have always been a bit of a question for me – being so unscientific and such. I mean it’s not like I’m a Vulcan or anything, though when I took the ‘which Star Trek character […]

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Darwin, Creation and Science Chat

September 27, 2009

Episode 2 of Science Chat http://www.sciencechat.podomatic.com/ looks at the controversy around the new film about Darwin, which was released this weekend. The film, Creation, has been unable to find a distributor in that well known defender of all things creationist, the United States. In the podcast, I discuss this with Professor Helena Sheehan http://webpages.dcu.ie/~sheehanh/, whom […]

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Science and the Sopranos

September 21, 2009

When reading recently about the fact that the new Darwin film cannot get a US distributor to take it, I was reminded of a Sopranos episode where creationism got a mention. It was when Tony was recuperating in hospital after being shot and he was visited by some people who wanted to pray with him. […]

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Science Chat Podcast

September 10, 2009

Check out episode 1 of my science communication podcast, Science Chat at http://www.sciencechat.podomatic.com/ In it I talk to Dr Stephen Sullivan http://www.humanescellbook.com/sullivanlab/ from Rockefeller U in New York about stem cell research; to Joanne Manaster http://www.joannelovesscience.com/ of University of Urbana, Ill and YouTube fame about beauty and science communication; and to Attracta Farrell, President of […]

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What are aliens?

August 17, 2009

This week’s (16th Aug 2009) Science Weekly podcast (http://www.guardian.co.uk/) reminded me of an earlier podcast by This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Project (04 Aug 2009) where they suggested that the aliens reported by those who claim abductions, are future humans. Eh I hear you say??? Well, it’s an interesting suggestion – Why […]

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It’s not cold fusion you know!

July 8, 2009

Today has been a busy day on the science news front, starting off last night with the usual Breaking News on Sky… it made a change from breaking news such they’ve had for most of last week… Michael Jackson still dead…. Man combs hair…. Earth still spinning… etc etc you get the point. Anyway last […]

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Why we shouldn’t listen to celebrities

July 5, 2009

In yesterday’s 4th July Daily Mail (online) there was an article which provided some clarity on recent claims that Gwyneth Paltrow recently had on her website goop.com about organic and natural products being more beneficial and safer than pharma alternatives. The article also mentioned a report from last week by Terra-Choice, a US environmental marketing […]

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