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A Good Science Read: How our brains make our selves |
Professor Dame Uta Frith and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'Our Brains Our Selves: what a neurologist’s patients taught him about the brain' by Masud Husain |
Frances Ashcroft, Uta Frith |
01 Sep 2025 |
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A Good Science Read: 'The Coming Plague' and 'Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story' |
Georgina Ferry and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'The Coming Plague' by Laurie Garrett, and 'Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story' by Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja. |
Frances Ashcroft, Georgina Ferry |
30 May 2025 |
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A Good Science Read: Masters of Science Writing |
Professor Dinah Birch and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'The Faber Book of Science' edited by John Carey and 'The Golden Mole and other living treasures' by Katherine Rundell. |
Dinah Birch, Frances Ashcroft |
22 Apr 2025 |
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A Good Science Read: Metabolism |
Professor Tim Coulsen and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'Burn: the Misunderstood Science of Metabolism' by Herman Pontzer and 'Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death' by Nick Lane. |
Frances Ashcroft, Tim Coulsen |
04 Mar 2025 |
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A Good Science Read: 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 |
