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Why Sex Matters |
Professor Russell Foster and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley and Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson. |
Russell Foster, Frances Ashcroft |
15 Oct 2024 |
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A Good Science Read: A Walk on the Wild Side |
Professor Richard Fortey joins Professor Frances Ashcroft to discuss Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake and Wilding by Isabella Tree. |
Richard Fortey, Frances Ashcroft |
15 Oct 2024 |
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14 |
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A Good Science Read: On the Origin of Modern Humans |
Professor Chris Miller and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'Who We Are and How We Got Here' by the Harvard geneticist David Reich. |
Chris Miller, Frances Ashcroft |
15 Oct 2024 |
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13 |
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A Good Science Read: How everything works |
Dr Roger Highfield joins Professor Frances Ashcroft to discuss Pain: A Ladybird Expert book by Irene Tracey and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. |
Frances Ashcroft, Roger Highfield |
14 May 2024 |
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12 |
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A Good Science Read: How humans changed the landscape and ourselves |
Professor Peter Burge joins Professor Frances Ashcroft to discuss Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens and The Species that Changed Itself or How prosperity reshaped humanity by Edwin Gale. |
Frances Ashcroft, Peter Burge |
30 Apr 2024 |
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11 |
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A Good Science Read: Evolution - from Fossils to Finches |
Professor Paul Smith and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould and The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner. |
Frances Ashcroft, Paul Smith |
16 Apr 2024 |
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10 |
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A Good Science Read: The Secret Life of the Cuckoo |
Professor Richard Boyd joins Professor Frances Ashcroft to discuss Cuckoo - Cheating by Nature by Nick Davies. |
Frances Ashcroft, Richard Boyd |
01 Apr 2024 |
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9 |
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A Good Science Read: The importance of Mathematics and Engineering |
Professor Marcus du Sautoy joins Professor Frances Ashcroft to discuss A Mathematician’s Apology by GH Hardy and Exactly: How Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester. |
Frances Ashcroft, Marcus du Sautoy |
18 Mar 2024 |
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8 |
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A Good Science Read: The Story of Penicillin |
Professor Matthew Freeman and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss "The Mould in Dr Florey's Coat" by Eric Lax |
Frances Ashcroft, Matthew Freeman |
04 Mar 2024 |
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7 |
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A Good Science Read |
Professor Frances Ashcroft gives a short introduction to this exciting new series |
Frances Ashcroft |
27 Feb 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
Science and the future: Death - nothing more certain? - Oxford Literary Festival |
From Neolithic burials to Mozart's Requiem and the novels of Martin Amis, humans have fashioned cultural responses to the inevitability of each individual's demise. |
Donna Dickenson, Adam Rutherford, Anders Sandberg, Georgina Ferry |
18 Jun 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
Science and the future: Death - nothing more certain? - Oxford Literary Festival |
From Neolithic burials to Mozart's Requiem and the novels of Martin Amis, humans have fashioned cultural responses to the inevitability of each individual's demise. |
Donna Dickenson, Adam Rutherford, Anders Sandberg, Georgina Ferry |
18 Jun 2013 |
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The Early Universe and Alzheimer's |
Pedro discusses the Big Bang and the early Universe, and Jonathan details Oxford's groundbreaking research of the genetics of Alzheimer's. |
Marcus du Sautoy, Frances Ashcroft, John Wood, Pedro Ferreira |
03 Sep 2009 |
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3 |
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The Early Universe and Alzheimer's |
Pedro discusses the Big Bang and the early Universe, and Jonathan details Oxford's groundbreaking research of the genetics of Alzheimer's. |
Marcus du Sautoy, Frances Ashcroft, John Wood, Pedro Ferreira |
03 Sep 2009 |
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Pheromones and Diabetes |
In the third edition of Inside Oxford Science zoologist Dr Tristram Wyatt explores the science of pheromones and Professor Frances Ashcroft tells us about her role in basic research into diabetes. |
Marcus du Sautoy, Frances Ashcroft, John Wood, Pedro Ferreira |
26 May 2009 |
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Pheromones and Diabetes |
In the third edition of Inside Oxford Science zoologist Dr Tristram Wyatt explores the science of pheromones and Professor Frances Ashcroft tells us about her role in basic research into diabetes. |
Marcus du Sautoy, Frances Ashcroft, John Wood, Pedro Ferreira |
26 May 2009 |
