Monthly Archives: February 2009

Robin Weiss part 2: helping win the battle against disease

February 27, 2009 – 6:57 AM
Robin Weiss, Professor of Viral Oncology at University College London, is well known for his research on viruses. He identified CD4 as the HIV receptor on white blood cells and he studies emerging infections human infections. He conducts research on... Read More »
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Jeffrey Brown: a comic strip

February 25, 2009 – 5:00 AM
Jeffrey Brown is a Chicago cartoonist best known for his autobiographical graphic novels such as “Clumsy” as well as humorous comics like “Cat Getting Out Of A Bag.” His newest book is “Funny Misshapen Body,” which chronicles the evolution of... Read More »
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Paul H. Halpern: Science transports us beyond the mundane to a place of imagination and hope

February 24, 2009 – 5:00 AM
Paul Halpern is a physics professor at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia in the United States. He is the author of 11 popular science books to date, including “What’s Science Ever Done for Us? What the Simpsons Can... Read More »
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Coming Soon...

February 22, 2009 – 10:03 PM
As you may know, I am in the process of making a film about this project…it’s nearly done and I’ll be posting clips sometime later this week. Hopefully, the whole film will be available to watch here from March 9th.... Read More »
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Phil Plait: The reason you can see me...

February 18, 2009 – 5:00 AM
Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, blogger, and skeptic. He writes the Bad Astronomy Blog, which was recently chosen by Time.com as one of the Best Blogs of 2009. Phil is also the author of two books: “Bad Astronomy” and... Read More »
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QualiaSoup (Doug): The most intellectually honest path to knowledge

February 17, 2009 – 5:00 AM
Doug is a UK artist with strong and wide ranging interests in creativity, communication, science and the natural world. Science doesn’t have the answers to everything we would like to know about reality. What it does have is the most... Read More »
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P. D. Smith: the extraordinary ability of science to transform people's view of the world around them

February 16, 2009 – 5:00 AM
P.D. Smith is a writer and independent researcher. He is currently writing a cultural history of the city for Bloomsbury. His most recent book, Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon (Penguin, 2007), explores the... Read More »
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Elaine Greaney: it allows us to do things that previously we wouldn't have dreamed of

February 13, 2009 – 5:00 AM
Elaine Greaney is a Rocket Scientist... Read More »
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Phil Cook: Why I don't make sacrifices to the gods

February 11, 2009 – 5:00 AM
Phil Cook is a Retired Primary School Head Occasionally it begins to rain when I open my front door to go out. I assume it’s a conspiracy against me, and - looking up to the heavens - utter a curse.... Read More »
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Steffi Suhr: sure it's pretty, but it's much more impressive when you know why

February 10, 2009 – 5:00 AM
Originally from Hamburg, Germany, Steffi did her PhD on Antarctic Foraminifera (Protozoa) at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. From there, she moved on to work for the US Antarctic Program in Colorado, supporting scientists deploying on Antarctic research vessels. Her... Read More »
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Lee Turnpenny: essential in order to counter pseudoscientific politicising

February 9, 2009 – 5:00 AM
Lee Turnpenny is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells & Regeneration, and the Human Genetics Division at the University of Southampton, UK. An ex-Royal Navy engineer turned geneticist turned developmental biologist, he occasionally escapes from... Read More »
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Robin Weiss: science must pervade medicine

February 6, 2009 – 5:00 AM
Robin Weiss, Professor of Viral Oncology at University College London, is well known for his research on viruses. He identified CD4 as the HIV receptor on white blood cells and he studies emerging infections human infections. He conducts research on... Read More »
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Stephen Curry: because it's got the X-factor

February 5, 2009 – 5:00 AM
Stephen Curry, a professor of structural biology at Imperial College London, likes to peer at the ‘inner organs’ of proteins and RNA. He blogs about this and other scientific matters at Reciprocal Space Science is important because it’s got the... Read More »
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Robert Pinsonneault: because it keeps us honest

February 4, 2009 – 5:00 AM
R.L. Pinsonneault is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at San Francisco in the field of neurobiology and physiology. When not crafting grants, papers and the like, he prefers to write for Nature Network on the topic... Read More »
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Richard Wintle: benefiting society in many ways

February 3, 2009 – 5:00 AM
Richard Wintle is a geneticist and molecular biologist by training, with experience in both academia and the biotech industry. He currently serves as the Assistant Director at The Centre for Applied Genomics at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto,... Read More »
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Anna Smajdor: awareness of the limits of science

February 2, 2009 – 5:00 AM
Anna Smajdor is lecturer in Ethics at the University of East Anglia. She has a long-standing interest in the ethical aspects of science, medicine and technology, stemming from her first degree in philosophy. She is the co author (with Ruth... Read More »
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