November 2012 - The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize

November 2012 - The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize
This month’s episode celebrates the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize. We hear from the children and adults who took part in the judging process, the shortlisted authors and the winner, Robert Winston.

(00:39) Mark Champkins, Inventor in Residence at the Science Museum and one of the judges, with Alex Frith, author of shortlisted ‘See inside Inventions’
(02:13) Young judges at Northlands School
(05:23) Robert Winston, winning author of ‘Science Experiments’
(06:08) Clive Gifford, author of shortlisted ‘Out of this world: all the cool bits about space’
(07:20) Richard Platt, author of shortlisted ‘Plagues, pox and pestilence’
(09:03) Christiane Dorion, author of shortlisted ‘How the weather works’
(10:23) Richard Dawkins, author of shortlisted ‘The magic of reality’

October 2012 - Scientific Heroines and Heroes

This month: discover how the Royal Society are trying to tackle the lack of information about scientific Heroines on Wikipedia and hear what this year’s Royal Society Wilkins-Bernal-Medwar Lecturer had to say about scientific Heroes. We also learn about handling uncertainty in weather and climate prediction.

(00:26) Dr Roger Highfield: Director of External Affairs at the Science Museum Group and this year’s Royal Society Wilkins-Bernal-Medwar Lecturer.
(10:11) Professor Uta Frith FRS: scientific heroine and new Wikipedia editor.
(13:13) Professor Tim Palmer FRS: Chair of the Royal Society Theo Murphy International Scientific Meeting on handling uncertainty in weather and climate prediction and Liz Stephens who spoke at the meeting.

September 2012 - Science Policy and Poetry

In this month’s podcast we hear from the chairs of two of the Royal Society’s recent science policy reports; on Shale Gas Extraction and Science as an Open Enterprise. We also discover the fine scientific illustrations of the poet Edward Lear, featured in our current exhibition.
Robert Mair: Chair of the Shale Gas Extraction Report (00:40)
Geoffrey Boulton: Chair of the Science as an Open Enterprise Report (04:27)
Jonathan Ashmore: Chair of the Library Committee (08:57)

August 2012 - The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

If you missed any or all of our Summer Science Exhibition, this month’s podcast revisits a few of the highlights. Find out how insects smell, discover the drowned landscape of Doggerland, and ask some lichen, how clean is my air?

July 2012 - A Summer of Science

The best of the science festival season. Here at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, explore both the evidence and entertainment value of forensic science; and meet mathematical adventurer Alex Bellos and climate evolution expert Mark Maslin at the Cheltenham Science Festival.

June 2012 - Science Writing

Find out what it takes to write science books from one of the judges of the Royal Society's annual prize, Jasper Fforde and author of Chasing Venus, Andrea Wulf. Also, Tim Bliss uncovers the mysteries of memory.

May 2012 - Science in schools

Join us at the SCORE conference as Dr Becky Parker explains the importance of scientific research within schools, and hear from the pupils of Britannia Village Primary School as they tell us about their own Partnership Grants research project on chickens. One of our Industry Fellows also describes the impact of his fellowship.