PHILOSOPHY
Dr Amna Whiston is a philosopher who specialises in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind. She teaches at Oxford University and Cambridge University's continuing education. She also writes popularly for the Institute for Art and Ideas and has engaged in debates about consciousness and AI on platforms such as Unbelievable.
I've loved engaging with Amna in the past year in public outreach and we can talk all day about consciousness and moral philosophy!
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PHILOSOPHY
Dr Craig is a world renowned philosopher of religion and an authority on the discipline known as "apologetics". He authored the textbook we used as masters students and is one of the most famous philosophers of his generation. The architect of the Kalam Cosmological Argument, Dr Craig is a true polymath with doctorates in philosophy of religion from the University of Birmingham and a doctorate in theology from the University of Munich. He studied under legendary philosopher John Hick during his time in the UK and is now professor at Talbot School of Theology and Houston Christian University. Craig has published over 40 books and over 200 research articles. Theologically he is best known for his defense of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
It was a pleasure talking to Professor Craig about his career and taking on 2 PhDs. Regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with his philosophical and theological positions, he is a true polymath and giant in his fields.
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PHARMACOLOGY AND SPACE SCIENCE
Dr Julie Keeble is senior lecturer in pharmacology at Kings College London in the faculty of medicine and life sciences. She is part of the aerospace medicine and extreme physiology group at KCL. Dr Keeble has sent over 30 experiments to space in her role with ISSET as a chief scientist. Her role in sending student experiments to the ISS as part of the science research rotation performed by astronauts has been life changing both in its results for the world but also for the prospects and inspiration of hundreds of teenagers that get this opportunity. Her research has included capsaicin, the element in chillies that we enjoy so much in our food, and its utility in medicine.
One of my own teams won the ISSET competition in 2022 and seeing that experiment launch to space last year was something I will never forget. Dr Keeble is a popular lecturer and world class scientist and I am delighted to bring our conversation to you.
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THEORETICAL PHYSICS
Conspiracy theories, science denial and inspiring wonder
Dr Lawrence Krauss is an award winning science communicator and author, theoretical physicist and cosmologist who founded the Origins Project. His work has featured all over the world in works by the likes of PBS and NOVA. His career has taken him through Caltech, MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Case Western and Arizona State Universities. His footprint on the world of physics is only matched by his science communication and impressive writing career.
I loved talking to Dr Krauss as we look back on his research, hearing about his admiration and learning from the legendary Richard Feynman, the Origins Project and why we need good science more than ever before.
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DNA repair in space
Can we survive on Mars with the radiation?
In October 2025 I had the honour of speaking at the University of Southern California for the 2025 Mars Society Conference. My lecture was on DNA double strand breaks due to space radiation and the immense challenges we face in keeping astronauts alive in deep space. Enjoy!
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NASA Astronaut
The wonder of spacewalks
NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold has spent 210 says in space across his 2 missions. He has completed 5 spacewalks (EVAs) for over 32 hours. A former schoolteacher, marine biologist and accountant, Ricky became a NASA astronaut in the class of 2004. After completing a NEEMO mission undersea in Florida as well as a caves mission in Europe, he flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-119 in 2009. He then trained for long duration ISS missions and launched on Soyuz MS-08 in 2018 for Expedition 55/56. His many spacewalks were to repair and maintain the International Space Station. He conducted many science experiments on board including genetics ones.
I loved meeting and working with Ricky this summer and was delighted to connect with him again for this interview. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
And The Intelligent Design Trial 20 years later
Dr Kenneth Miller is professor (emeritus) of biology at Brown University in the USA. He is a world authority on cell and molecular biology and an early pioneer in computational biology. His work has spanned the globe and made huge inroads in protein science. He has written biology textbooks used en masse in high schools and universities. It is an immense honour to interview him about his career and research.
Professor Miller ended up being a key witness in the Dover vs Kitzmiller Trial in 2004 over the teaching of "Intelligent Design" creationism in schools. His work countering the claims of the ID proponents debunked the case made for ID in court and is well covered in the BBC Horizon documentary of 2005 "The War on Science" featuring Sir David Attenborough and Richard Dawkins. Miller himself is a catholic and has defended evolution against creationists and ID proponents, making the case that evolution is a compatible and friendly explanation.
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ASTROPHYSICS
WHAT IS GALACTIC ARCHAEOLOGY?
Dr Anke Arentsen-Ardern is an observational astronomer in the field of Galactic Archaeology at Cambridge's world famous Institute of Astronomy. She works on the formation and evolution of the ancient Milky Way and the properties of old stellar populations, using observations of old, metal-poor stars, typically utilising spectroscopy. Anke has been a Herchel Smith Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy and Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge University. She did her undergraduate and masters degrees at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands before going to Germany to do her PhD at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam. She was then a Postdoc at the Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France. She has used telescopes across Europe and draws on global data to inform the earliest stages of the earliest stars in our galaxy.
"Galactic Archaeologist" is one of the coolest job titles I have ever seen. If you like astronomy and are interested in how its research is done, this will be a treat!
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Political commentator Candace Owens believes dinosaurs never existed. Why? For what reason? What is there to gain from believing dinosaurs are a conspiracy? This is not healthy scepticism or critical thinking, but madness.
Hating science and denying evidence never got anyone anywhere worth a damn.
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ESA ASTRONAUT
I loved talking to the outstanding Dr Meganne Christian, astronaut reserve for the European Space Agency.
Dr Meganne Christian is an ESA astronaut in reserve, appointed from the 2022 class. Meganne studied at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Engineering in industrial chemistry. In 2014 she received her PhD in industrial chemistry with several scholarships such as the University of New South Wales Research Excellence Award. During her studies and after graduation, she received several national awards for outstanding research. Meganne is currently working as exploration commercialisation lead for the UK Space Agency. She speaks 4 languages. From 2018 to 2019, Meganne served as a winter-over scientist at the Concordia station in Antarctica for the national research council of Italy, and the Italian National Antarctic Research Programme. As scientist in charge of atmospheric physics and meteorology at the French-Italian research base, she was responsible for various observatories, including radiation, meteorology, stratospheric lidars, chemical and physical atmospheric aerosols and infrared radiation for Antarctic clouds. She returned to the Concordia Station for a temporary assignment as scientist in charge of the atmospheric physics and meteorology observatories from October 2020 to January 2021. For these expeditions Meganne was also trained in firefighting, medical aid, rescue, and survival in extreme conditions. She participated in biomedical research run by ESA and various public activities to report about her experiences and activities during the winter-over. Between 2014 and 2022, Meganne worked as a research fellow then staff researcher at the Institute of Organic Synthesis and Photo reactivity and the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems in Bologna, Italy, as part of the EU scientific research initiative Graphene Flagship. During this time, she took part in two parabolic flight campaigns in 2017 and 2021 to test graphene coatings for thermal management in satellites. She successfully issued further articles and award-winning publications and served as ambassador for Graphene Flagship initiatives. From 2021, Meganne was a lecturer on Problem Solving and Decision Making for businesses, as well as a researcher for the National Research Council of Italy.
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Something a bit different this week. This is another issue close to my heart and a conspiracy theory that is so problematic and disappointing. Candace Owens is a political commentator who doesn't believe we landed on the moon. I love Bill Maher and he has a lot of patience here and handles this pretty well. Her reasons are abysmal and it is tragic that she uses her huge platform to propagate such nonsense.
The Apollo era moon landings are perhaps humankind's greatest achievement and the space programs of the world are so beneficial to humanity in ways the majority of people don't understand. The cancellation of the Apollo program by Nixon was a terrible mistake and who knows where we would be right now if he hadn't.
I do believe that the biggest reason we see moon landing denial today is simply because we have not returned for so long despite having the technological capabilities. Hopefully the Artemis program changes that.
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EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS
Dr Zachary Ardern is an evolutionary geneticist at the world-famous Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre in Cambridge. His work investigates the
evolution and functions of young genes in pathogenic bacteria and viruses, working as a SEED fellow (Sanger Epidemiological and Evolutionary Dynamics) as part of the Thomson group. Tracing the genetic changes of organisms over time, and how genes evolved (and are evolving) is a relatively new field and helps inform work on human disease and problems such as antimicrobial resistance as well as telling us a great deal about the development of life on earth. You could consider Zach to be something of a molecular archaeologist.
Zach and I go back many years and it was wonderful to catch up with him again to talk science. I am immensely jealous that he gets to work at the Sanger, one of the homes of the Human Genome Project and my favourite science place in the world. Zach also has a background in philosophy so we have always been able to bond over that too. I hope you enjoy our discussion.
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Of all the creationist pseudoscience videos I have seen, this was the one that tipped me over the edge. In this skit by Genesis Apologetics we have the worst collection of everything I struggle to tolerate: misinformation and basic factual errors wedded to massive overconfidence, immense disrespect for science and scientists, painting science as a homogenous collective enemy whose agenda is anti-religious, cherry picking and ignoring any evidence against your position, pretending to care about science when you actually despise it, gross ignorance of where biology is right now, biblical literalism with no consideration for its historical problems (not to mention the theological ones!), oversimplification of complex things whilst making actually simple things complicated, and brainwashing hundreds of thousands of followers into an abyss. Honestly this was awful. Apologies for losing my cool as the video went on.
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GENETICS, CANCER AND SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
Why is cancer so hard to cure in humans?
Dr Kat Arney is a geneticist and an award-winning science communicator.
Kat tells stories about science. She is the founder and director of First Create The Media: a communications and media consultancy for people who do science, offering consultancy, copywriting, media production, training and one-to-one coaching. She is an award-winning science writer, author, presenter, broadcaster, podcaster and public speaker based near London. She is the author of Herding Hemmingway's Cats and Rebel Cell. Kat is gifted in explaining complex problems in science in a manner accessible and exciting to the ordinary person. Her broadcasts include the wonderful Genetics Society Podcast and a TED talk. She is one of the most talented communicators of cancer in the world.
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I finally have a look at a video by Answers In Genesis (Canada). It is a short explaining why evolution is false, apparently. There have been some poor videos from young earth creationism and intelligent design that we have looked at, but I was caught off guard by how mad this was!
There are better, truer and more satisfying answers out there for the religious and non-religious alike. Creationists and those in intelligent design attempt to appear sophisticated and educated but this thinly veiled exterior is trying to hide a deep contempt and disrespect for science and the pursuit of truth.
Thanks for joining me on these videos. Not too much to say about this one!
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PARTICLE PHYSICS: THE BAD BOY OF SCIENCE
Dr Sam Gregson is a particle physicist and science communicator who did his PhD at Cambridge University with the world-famous Cavendish Laboratory. After working at CERN and pursuing postdoctoral fellowships in particle physics he moved into science communication as the "Bad Boy of Science" where he performs live demonstrations and mixes in stand up comedy all over the world.
I had a blast with Sam in Poland last year at Europe's 2nd largest science festival at the University of Silesia. Sam is so much fun and a real genius.
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PHILOSOPHY
Dr Max Baker-Hytch is Senior Tutor in philosophy at Oxford University. He specialises in epistemology and philosophy of religion, is the author of the Cambridge Elements work God and the Problem of Evidential Ambiguity and has published many research articles in philosophy. He is a teaching fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University. He did his PhD at Oxford University and did a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Notre Dame in the USA.
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Here I respond to another pseudoscience video, this time by an American religious apologetics ministry called Reasons For Hope. These two men come across as warm and likeable and are quite talented wordsmiths, but as is so often the case their science is woefully inadequate and misinformed. Like much American apologetics they recite the incorrect mantras of Intelligent Design verbatim without any idea of how wrong it is. The desire to pit science against religion is unnecessary and a false endeavour.
I share a little bit from my own research as well as a few observations of what creationist pseudoscience all has in common.
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Polymath World # Episode 20 - BRITISH INTERPLANETARY SOCIETY
I interview former president of the British Interplanetary Society, Alistair Scott, about the history and work of the oldest space advocacy group on the planet. BiS has been active for almost a century, founded by the legendary Arthur C. Clarke. As meetings, research and publications grew, BiS was discussing moon landings 30 years before Apollo even happened. Today BiS continues to bring together and publish world-leading research on human spaceflight and exploration of the universe. Alistair tells us about its origins, growth and all that happens today. We hope you will be inspired and consider joining this historic organisation and pursuing the cause of human space exploration.
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PLANT GENETICS
Solving world hunger through potatoes! Dr Compton is associate professor of genetics at the University of Birmingham where she is based at the Centre for Computational Biology. Her research is in plant genetics using the potato as her model organism. Using modern genetics her hope is to tackle world hunger and malnutrition through efficient genetic research. This work has spanned the globe with collaborations in North and South America. She is on the board of the Genetics Society UK and has published much research in her field.
Through the use of modern genetic tools we can tackle serious challenges of drought, pests, unnecessary food wastage, viruses and climate change. Lindsey's amazing work is at the forefront of this effort.
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