The Guardian's Science Weekly: The birds and the bees (x-rated version)
From: Jason Phipps - Guardian
Series: Science Weekly from guardian.co.uk
Length: 39:24
- Presented by Alok Jha and produced by Andy Duckworth
- guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 February 2011 00.01 GMT
WARNING: this podcast contains frank information and graphic details about animal sex.
Peter Atkins, professor of chemistry at Oxford University, goes right to the limits of science. We then take it a bit further as we look at some of the themes in his new book On Being which is out soon.
Peter is giving a lecture at the Royal Institution on March 22nd 2011.
We go behind the scenes at a new exhibition which is the x-rated version of the birds and the bees. Quite frankly, they're at it like rabbits. Sexual Nature is now open at London's Natural History Museum.
We've also put together a beautiful audio slideshow giving you a taste of what there is to see there.
In our show and tell section, we discuss a study that has mapped allergies, a universal flu vaccine, plus the international year of chemistry - and why the discipline often gets overlooked.
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- Presented by Alok Jha and produced by Andy Duckworth
- guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 February 2011 00.01 GMT
WARNING: this podcast contains frank information and graphic details about animal sex.
Peter Atkins, professor of chemistry at Oxford University, goes right to the limits of science. We then take it a bit further as we look at some of the themes in his new book On Being which is out soon.
Peter is giving a lecture at the Royal Institution on March 22nd 2011.
We go behind the scenes at a new exhibition which is the x-rated version of the birds and the bees. Quite frankly, they're at it like rabbits. Sexual Nature is now open at London's Natural History Museum.
We've also put together a beautiful audio slideshow giving you a taste of what there is to see there.
In our show and tell section, we discuss a study that has mapped allergies, a universal flu vaccine, plus the international year of chemistry - and why the discipline often gets overlooked.
Subscribe for free via iTunes to ensure every episode gets delivered. (Here is the non-iTunes URL feed).
Meet the Guardian's crack team of science bloggers:
The Lay Scientist by Martin Robbins
Life and Physics by Jon Butterworth
Punctuated Equilibrium by GrrlScientist
Political Science by Evan Harris
Follow the podcast on our Science Weekly Twitter feed and receive updates on all breaking science news stories from Guardian Science.
Email scienceweeklypodcast@gmail.com.
Guardian Science is now on Facebook. You can also join our Science Weekly Facebook group.
We're always here when you need us, listen back through our archive.
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