Michelle Martin
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Earworms
My name is Shaun Keaveny, I am a music broadcaster, and a long-term sufferer of a sometimes debilitating condition. It is devastatingly virulent, indiscriminate, and can strike the patient down at any time, anywhere. It is the Earworm. An earworm is a parasitic little fragment of music that b...
The Christmas Top 10 science style aka So You Want to Be a Scientist
One of this year's shortlist asks "Does Fergie Time exist?" The shortlist for this year's So You Want to Be a Scientist is out. Sifting the ten best entries from well over a thousand applications was a herculean task, but one that we in the BBC Radio Science Unit relished. Over the pas...
So You Want to Be a Scientist? The deadline approaches...
From the 2010 experiments - Ruth Brooks: Homing Snails Looking for a new hobby? Try science. One of the reasons that we launched our search for the BBC's Amateur Scientist of the Year is because science isn't really seen as a hobby. Science is generally viewed as something that's do...
So You Want to be a Scientist? The shortlist is out
"Do you have the S-factor?" That's what we asked in January on Material World. Science of course, not sex (this goes out at 1630 on Radio 4 after all) was what we were looking for when we launched So You Want to Be a Scientist? - our search for the BBC's Amateur Scientist of the Year. We asked p...
