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A Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: How our brains make our selvesProfessor 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 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
Masud Husain is a neurologist and a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. This book tells the stories of seven of his patients, whose personal and social identities were deeply affected by their neurological condition. He shows how their very different problems have illuminated our unde...
2025-09-0139 minA Good Science ReadA 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. 'The Coming Plague' is an extremely well researched book that presents a history of old and new plagues such as TB, cholera, influenza, Ebola and hantavirus, and tells the stories of the scientists who study them. Garrett delivers a warning about how ill prepared we are to cope with emerging infectious disease and how politics, bureaucratic infighting and drug company competition make things worse. Written in 1995, she was remarkably prescient...
2025-05-3036 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: the Coming PlaguesGeorgina Ferry and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett and Spike – the virus versus the people by Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja. Georgina Ferry and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett and Spike – the virus versus the people by Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja.
The Coming Plague is an extremely well researched book that presents a history of old and new plagues such as TB, cholera, influenza, Ebola and hantavirus, and tells the stories of the scientists who study them. Garrett delivers a warning about how ill prepared we are to cope with...
2025-05-3036 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: Masters of Science WritingProfessor 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. 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.
The Faber Book of Science is a wonderful anthology that showcases some of the very best bits of popular science writing. Each extract is introduced by comments and explanations by Carey and they cover topics as diverse as medieval lice, stardust, protons, butterfly collecting...
2025-04-2245 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: Masters of Science WritingProfessor 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. 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.
The Faber Book of Science is a wonderful anthology that showcases some of the very best bits of popular science writing. Each extract is introduced by comments and explanations by Carey and they cover topics as diverse as medieval lice, stardust, protons, butterfly collecting...
2025-04-2245 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: MetabolismProfessor 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. Both these books are concerned with science of metabolism – the process by which food is burnt to produce energy – but they approach it from different perspectives. Burn is an engaging account of Herman Pontzer’s studies of human metabolism in different populations. He discusses the ways in which metabolism controls every aspect of our health, why exercise doesn’t increase result in weight loss, and why the only way to lose weight i...
2025-03-0434 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: MetabolismProfessor 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. Both these books are concerned with science of metabolism – the process by which food is burnt to produce energy – but they approach it from different perspectives. Burn is an engaging account of Herman Pontzer’s studies of human metabolism in different populations. He discusses the ways in which metabolism controls every aspect of our health, why exercise doesn’t increase result in weight loss, and why the only way to lose weight i...
2025-03-0434 min
UNC Press Presents PodcastJenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery (UNC Press, 2024) is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved, and one was a servant in his household. All were determined to make their way in a world that vastly and differentially circumscribed their life choices. From a Barbados plantation to the center of England’s empire in London, Hester Tomkyns, Frances Knights, Susannah Mingo, Elizabeth Ashcroft, and Dorothy Spendlove built remarkable lives for themselves and their chil...
2025-02-2352 min
New Books with Miranda MelcherJenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery (UNC Press, 2024) is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved, and one was a servant in his household. All were determined to make their way in a world that vastly and differentially circumscribed their life choices. From a Barbados plantation to the center of England’s empire in London, Hester Tomkyns, Frances Knights, Susannah Mingo, Elizabeth Ashcroft, and Dorothy Spendlove built remarkable lives for themselves and their chil...
2025-02-2352 min
New Books in Women's HistoryJenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery (UNC Press, 2024) is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved, and one was a servant in his household. All were determined to make their way in a world that vastly and differentially circumscribed their life choices. From a Barbados plantation to the center of England’s empire in London, Hester Tomkyns, Frances Knights, Susannah Mingo, Elizabeth Ashcroft, and Dorothy Spendlove built remarkable lives for themselves and their chil...
2025-02-2354 min
New Books in African American StudiesJenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery (UNC Press, 2024) is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved, and one was a servant in his household. All were determined to make their way in a world that vastly and differentially circumscribed their life choices. From a Barbados plantation to the center of England’s empire in London, Hester Tomkyns, Frances Knights, Susannah Mingo, Elizabeth Ashcroft, and Dorothy Spendlove built remarkable lives for themselves and their chil...
2025-02-2354 min
New Books in Early Modern HistoryJenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery (UNC Press, 2024) is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved, and one was a servant in his household. All were determined to make their way in a world that vastly and differentially circumscribed their life choices. From a Barbados plantation to the center of England’s empire in London, Hester Tomkyns, Frances Knights, Susannah Mingo, Elizabeth Ashcroft, and Dorothy Spendlove built remarkable lives for themselves and their chil...
2025-02-2354 min
New Books in Caribbean StudiesJenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery (UNC Press, 2024) is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved, and one was a servant in his household. All were determined to make their way in a world that vastly and differentially circumscribed their life choices. From a Barbados plantation to the center of England’s empire in London, Hester Tomkyns, Frances Knights, Susannah Mingo, Elizabeth Ashcroft, and Dorothy Spendlove built remarkable lives for themselves and their chil...
2025-02-2352 min
New Books in HistoryJenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery (UNC Press, 2024) is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved, and one was a servant in his household. All were determined to make their way in a world that vastly and differentially circumscribed their life choices. From a Barbados plantation to the center of England’s empire in London, Hester Tomkyns, Frances Knights, Susannah Mingo, Elizabeth Ashcroft, and Dorothy Spendlove built remarkable lives for themselves and their chil...
2025-02-2352 min
New Books in British StudiesJenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery (UNC Press, 2024) is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved, and one was a servant in his household. All were determined to make their way in a world that vastly and differentially circumscribed their life choices. From a Barbados plantation to the center of England’s empire in London, Hester Tomkyns, Frances Knights, Susannah Mingo, Elizabeth Ashcroft, and Dorothy Spendlove built remarkable lives for themselves and their chil...
2025-02-2354 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: 'The Fly Trap' and 'As If Human: AI and Artificial Intelligence'Professor Sir Charles Godfray and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'The Fly Trap' by Fredrik Sjöberg and 'As if Human: AI and Artificial Intelligence' by Neil Shadbolt and Roger Hampson. Professor Charles Godfray and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjöberg and As if Human: AI and Artificial Intelligence by Neil Shadbolt and Roger Hampson.
The Fly Trap describes the life of the author on a remote island in the Swedish archipelago where he hunts for hoverflies. Partly autobiographical, partly a discourse on insects, collecting, and the life of some extraordinary butterfly collectors, it is an en...
2025-01-2446 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: 'The Fly Trap' and 'As If Human: AI and Artificial Intelligence'Professor Sir Charles Godfray and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjöberg and As if Human: AI and Artificial Intelligence by Neil Shadbolt and Roger Hampson. Professor Charles Godfray and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjöberg and As if Human: AI and Artificial Intelligence by Neil Shadbolt and Roger Hampson.
The Fly Trap describes the life of the author on a remote island in the Swedish archipelago where he hunts for hoverflies. Partly autobiographical, partly a discourse on insects, collecting, and the life of some extraordinary butterfly collectors, it is an en...
2025-01-2446 min
The Neurology LoungeEpisode 40. Skirmish - Myasthenia Gravis and Its Belligerent AntibodiesIn this episode I explore the autoimmune neurological disorder, myasthenia gravis. I review its classical manifestations as ocular and generalised myasthenia, and I highlight its complications such as refractory myasthenia and myasthenic crisis.The podcast also discusses the pathogenesis and triggers of the disease, its various mimics, and its indispensable investigations. I also review its treatments which include acetylcholine esterase inhibitors, steroids, immunosuppressants, IVIg and plasma exchange.I complement the podcast with historical anecdotes regarding the discoveries, frequently serendipitous, of the various treatments of myasthenia gravis. This narrative includes such stories as Mary Walker’s mi...
2024-11-1527 minA Good Science ReadWhy Sex MattersProfessor 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. Series 2 Episode 9
The Red Queen is an excellent and accessible overview of sexual evolution. It discusses why sex matters, why most organisms have 2 genders, why we are not all hermaphrodite, what strategies animals employ to pass on their genes, and how sex influences the evolution of human nature. Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation is written like agony aunt advice column in which all kinds of animals...
2024-10-1542 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: Why Sex MattersProfessor 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. Series 2 Episode 9
The Red Queen is an excellent and accessible overview of sexual evolution. It discusses why sex matters, why most organisms have 2 genders, why we are not all hermaphrodite, what strategies animals employ to pass on their genes, and how sex influences the evolution of human nature. Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation is written like agony aunt advice column in which all kinds of animals...
2024-10-1542 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: Why Sex MattersProfessor 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. Series 2 Episode 9
The Red Queen is an excellent and accessible overview of sexual evolution. It discusses why sex matters, why most organisms have 2 genders, why we are not all hermaphrodite, what strategies animals employ to pass on their genes, and how sex influences the evolution of human nature. Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation is written like agony aunt advice column in which all kinds of animals...
2024-10-1542 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: A Walk on the Wild SideProfessor Richard Fortey joins Professor Frances Ashcroft to discuss 'Entangled Life' by Merlin Sheldrake and 'Wilding' by Isabella Tree. Series 2 Episode 8
Entangled Life is fascinating journey into the world of fungi - what they are, how they evolved, their hyphal networks below the ground, their mycorrhizal relationships with plants, their symbiotic interactions with algae in lichens, and the mind-altering chemicals they make. Wilding describes how the switch from intensive farming to minimal intervention led to a spectacular return of wildlife on the Knepp estate in Sussex, including rare species such as turtle doves, nightingales and purple emperor butterflies.
Richard Fortey...
2024-10-1544 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: A Walk on the Wild SideProfessor Richard Fortey joins Professor Frances Ashcroft to discuss Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake and Wilding by Isabella Tree. Series 2 Episode 8
Entangled Life is fascinating journey into the world of fungi - what they are, how they evolved, their hyphal networks below the ground, their mycorrhizal relationships with plants, their symbiotic interactions with algae in lichens, and the mind-altering chemicals they make. Wilding describes how the switch from intensive farming to minimal intervention led to a spectacular return of wildlife on the Knepp estate in Sussex, including rare species such as turtle doves, nightingales and purple emperor butterflies.
Richard Fortey...
2024-10-1544 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: On the Origin of Modern HumansProfessor Chris Miller and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'Who We Are and How We Got Here' by the Harvard geneticist David Reich. Series 2 Episode 7: The book 'Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past' is a compelling account of the origin of modern humans. Reich explains how our recent ability to study ancient DNA has dramatically revised our understanding of how humans spread all over the world. He describes evidence for interbreeding between ancient humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans and shows how we carry in our genes indications that we are...
2024-10-1520 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: On the Origin of Modern HumansProfessor Chris Miller and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss Who we are and how we got here by the Harvard geneticist David Reich. Series 2 Episode 7
Professor Chris Miller and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss Who we are and how we got here by the Harvard geneticist David Reich.
The book is a compelling account of the origin of modern humans. Reich explains how our recent ability to study ancient DNA has dramatically revised our understanding of how humans spread all over the world. He describes evidence for interbreeding between ancient humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans and shows how we carry in our genes...
2024-10-1520 min
The Blue Couch Podcast By PowerLabsLife Before ElectricityIn this episode, David Adebiyi and Folakemi Ajayi discussed the recent NERC tariff hike, uncovering its impact.
We also traced the origin of electricity and explored how it became the driving power source behind modern human life as we know it.
This episode is filled with so many insights, you should listen to it.
Chapters
[00:00] Introduction
[01:20] Senator's reaction to tariff band categorization
[04:56] Canada's electricity landscape
[09:39] Thoughts on Band A electricity tariff reduction
2024-06-211h 28
High Impact Medicine PodcastDr Benjamin Alba - Expedition MedicineDr Benjamin Alba is an Emergency Medicine doctor with experience in Expedition Medicine, having recently worked a whole season at Mount Everest. He is now transitioning into humanitarian medicine. He graduated from Cardiff University in 2018 and has gone on to pursue a career path well beyond UK hospitals. He is the founder of ‘Ubuntu Network’ - a space for expedition medical professionals to share experiences from expeditions, collaborate with others working in the field and connect with the wider expedition community.We discuss:- How the field of Expedition Medicine is organised- The highs and lows...
2024-06-1037 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: How everything worksDr 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. Pain is a very short book but it encompasses everything you want to know about pain in a clear and informative way. What it is, how we measure it, why we need it, and how we can – and often alas, cannot – treat it. A Short History of Nearly Everything is a highly accessible and entertaining account that of the world we live on that ranges from the creation of the solar system, to the...
2024-05-1434 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: How everything worksDr 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. Pain is a very short book but it encompasses everything you want to know about pain in a clear and informative way. What it is, how we measure it, why we need it, and how we can – and often alas, cannot – treat it. A Short History of Nearly Everything is a highly accessible and entertaining account that of the world we live on that ranges from the creation of the solar system, to the...
2024-05-1434 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: How humans changed the landscape and ourselvesProfessor 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. Dust is all around us and we breathe it in with every breath we take, but it is not something most of think much about. Yet it impacts all our lives in multiple ways, causing environmental disaster and damaging our health. In Dust, Jay Owens combines history, politics, travel writing and science to tell the story of dust, from particulates that cause air pollution, to toxic...
2024-04-3039 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: How humans changed the landscape and ourselvesProfessor 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. Dust is all around us and we breathe it in with every breath we take, but it is not something most of think much about. Yet it impacts all our lives in multiple ways, causing environmental disaster and damaging our health. In Dust, Jay Owens combines history, politics, travel writing and science to tell the story of dust, from particulates that cause air pollution, to toxic...
2024-04-3039 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: Evolution - from Fossils to FinchesProfessor Paul Smith and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould and The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner. Wonderful Life focuses on the weird and wonderful fossils found in the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies – their discovery, what they tell us about evolution and their re-evaluation many years later. The Beak of the Finch is also about evolution but rather than fossils it is about evolution in action on a tiny volcanic island in the Galapagos. It describes the painstaking work of Peter and Rosemary Grant who studied Darwin’s famous finches for over 40 year...
2024-04-1637 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: Evolution - from Fossils to FinchesProfessor Paul Smith and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'Wonderful Life' by Stephen Jay Gould and 'The Beak of the Finch' by Jonathan Weiner. Wonderful Life focuses on the weird and wonderful fossils found in the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies – their discovery, what they tell us about evolution and their re-evaluation many years later. The Beak of the Finch is also about evolution but rather than fossils it is about evolution in action on a tiny volcanic island in the Galapagos. It describes the painstaking work of Peter and Rosemary Grant who studied Darwin’s famous finches for over 40 year...
2024-04-1637 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: The Secret Life of the CuckooProfessor Richard Boyd joins Professor Frances Ashcroft to discuss Cuckoo - Cheating by Nature by Nick Davies. The cuckoo is a ruthless parasite that lays its egg in another bird’s nest, tricks them into accepting the egg as its own and entices them to feed its chick. This book is a riveting account of an extraordinary bird and it reads like a detective story. Nick Davies asks every question you can possibly imagine about how the female cuckoo and the cuckoo chick itself manage to deceive their host, and he describes the intricate experiments he and his colleagues have co...
2024-04-0122 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: The Secret Life of the CuckooProfessor Richard Boyd joins Professor Frances Ashcroft to discuss 'Cuckoo - Cheating by Nature' by Nick Davies. The cuckoo is a ruthless parasite that lays its egg in another bird’s nest, tricks them into accepting the egg as its own and entices them to feed its chick. This book is a riveting account of an extraordinary bird and it reads like a detective story. Nick Davies asks every question you can possibly imagine about how the female cuckoo and the cuckoo chick itself manage to deceive their host, and he describes the intricate experiments he and his colleagues have co...
2024-04-0122 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: The importance of Mathematics and EngineeringProfessor 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. A Mathematician’s Apology is GH Hardy’s panegyric on pure mathematics in which he claims that pure maths is the pinnacle of the sciences and that it has an inherent beauty. Exactly tells the stories of the pioneering engineers who developed the precision tools and machinery that underpin the modern world. Along the way, the author addresses questions like why is precision important, how do we measure it, can we be too pr...
2024-03-1842 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: The importance of Mathematics and EngineeringProfessor 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. Marcus du Sautoy is Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. A distinguished mathematician with a particular interest in symmetry and number theory, he is also the author of several popular science books about mathematics, including the critically acclaimed The Music of the Primes, and he has presented numerous TV programmes.
Website: https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk
2024-03-1842 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: The importance of Mathematics and EngineeringProfessor 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. A Mathematician’s Apology is GH Hardy’s panegyric on pure mathematics in which he claims that pure maths is the pinnacle of the sciences and that it has an inherent beauty. Exactly tells the stories of the pioneering engineers who developed the precision tools and machinery that underpin the modern world. Along the way, the author addresses questions like why is precision important, how do we measure it, can we be too pr...
2024-03-1842 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: The Story of PenicillinProfessor Matthew Freeman and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'The Mould in Dr Florey's Coat' by Eric Lax This book tells the true story of the penicillin miracle – penicillin being the mould in Dr Florey’s coat. When most people are asked who discovered penicillin they invariably answer Alexander Fleming. But he was merely one of the people involved and arguably not even the most important. This book sets the record straight and tells the story of how it was 3 Oxford scientists, Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley who isolated penicillin and turned it into a life-saving drug. It is a re...
2024-03-0439 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: The Story of PenicillinProfessor Matthew Freeman and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss "The Mould in Dr Florey's Coat" by Eric Lax This book tells the true story of the penicillin miracle – penicillin being the mould in Dr Florey’s coat. When most people are asked who discovered penicillin they invariably answer Alexander Fleming. But he was merely one of the people involved and arguably not even the most important. This book sets the record straight and tells the story of how it was 3 Oxford scientists, Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley who isolated penicillin and turned it into a life-saving drug. It is a re...
2024-03-0439 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: The Story of PenicillinProfessor Matthew Freeman and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss "The Mould in Dr Florey's Coat" by Eric Lax Matthew Freeman is Professor of Pathology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of both Lincoln College Oxford and the Royal Society of London. He is also Head of the Dunn School of Pathology which plays a very special part in the story the book tells about the discovery of penicillin.
Website: https://www.path.ox.ac.uk/research-group/matthew-freeman/
2024-03-0439 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science ReadProfessor Frances Ashcroft gives a short introduction to this exciting new series
2024-02-2700 min
One in Six BillionSeries 1 Episode 6: Dame Frances Ashcroft – scientist extraordinaire!In this episode Maggie and Andrew talk to Dame Frances Ashcroft the remarkable Oxford scientist who has dedicated her life to understanding the key role of potassium channel in insulin secretion by the pancreatic beta-cell. Her work was crucial both before and after the Exeter genetic discovery in neonatal diabetesSend us a text
2024-02-0638 min
TheSugarScience Podcast- curating the scientific conversation in type 1 diabetesEpisode 150: Frances Ashcroft, PhD, University of Oxford, and Barbara Corkey, PhD, Boston UniversityIn this episode, Frances Ashcroft and Barbara Corkey join us to discuss a new paper titled metabolic cycles and signals for insulin secretion which challenges a key aspect of the “canonical” model. Matthew Merrins, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison additionally contributes significantly to the conversation.
Ask the Expert is a ~30 minute digital cafe experience where scientists and grad students can meet and exchange with thought leaders in the field of type 1 diabetes. Link below to sign up for a seat in the cafe!
https://thesugarscience.org/ask-the-expert/
2022-10-1042 min
ARCHIVO PODCASTPodcast BAILAR PEGADOS 156 (220921)1. MATORRAL – FORMACION
2. OCRE NO – ARROJADO AL MUNDO
3. PROYECTO 68 – TUS CANCIONES DE LOS 80
4. MOVEDIZA – TODAVIA
5. ADOLESCENTES SIN EDAD – BABY (ESCAPEMOS)
6. ARTIFICIALES – AVIADOR
7. AUDIA VALDEZ – UN POCO DE AMOR FRANCES
8. CHVRCHES – LULLABIES
9. THE BETA MACHINE – THE END
10. FUTURE ISLANDS – PEACH
11. THE VACCINES – ALONE STAR
12. RICHARD ASHCROFT – BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY
2021-09-1958 min
#BEZPIECZNIKS01E14 #BEZPIECZNIK O życiu na biegunie, białych niedźwiedziach i ludzkiej psychice.14. odcinek podcastu #BEZPIECZNIK jest odcinkiem specjalnym i zamykającym drugi blok rozmów o poczuciu bezpieczeństwa. Moją gościnią jest dr Agnieszka Skorupa, psycholożka ekstremalna, która swoją pracę naukową poświęciła zagadnieniu życia w izolacji polarnej i kosmicznej. Rozmawiamy o predyspozycjach do życia na biegunie, radzeniu sobie ze skrajną izolacją, nudzie, odwadze, naborach na odkrywców i ludzkiej psychice.A co do menu, to Agnieszka poleca takie pozycje: Przystawka I: "Syndrom zimowników", reż. Piotr Jaworski lub „Eksperyment na tratwie”, reż. Marcus Lindeen Zupa: “Zasady przetrwania” Ben Sherwood lub “Życie w warunkach ekstremalnych” Frances A...
2021-09-0639 min
TheSugarScience Podcast- curating the scientific conversation in type 1 diabetesEpisode 49: Dame Frances Ashcroft, PhD, Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor at the University Laboratory of Physiology, OxfordIn this episode, Dame Frances Ashcroft joins us to discuss her research and recent publication titled, Diabetes causes marked inhibition of mitochondrial metabolism in pancreatic β-cells.
Dr. Frances Ashcroft's research focuses on ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channels and their role in insulin secretion, in both health and disease. To learn more about her research visit her website below.
Ashcroft Group
Photographer: Robert Taylor
2021-01-1431 min
iBiology Videos Without SubtitlesFrances Ashcroft Part 1: Diabetes: A Global PandemicDiabetes is a devastating disease which takes an enormous toll on both human life and healthcare spending worldwide. Dr. Frances Ashcroft begins her talk by explaining that blood glucose must be controlled within narrow limits. In a healthy person, insulin is released from the pancreatic beta cells in response to a rise in blood sugar, which stimulates the uptake of glucose into muscle, liver and fat and so restores the blood glucose to its resting level. Diabetes occurs when the beta cells do not release enough insulin, resulting in chronically high blood sugar levels. There are several types of diabetes: ty...
2019-08-0822 miniBiology Videos Without SubtitlesFrances Ashcroft Part 2: ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channels and Neonatal Diabetes: From Molecule to MaladyAshcroft expands on what is known about the KATP channel and its role in insulin secretion. It is an octomeric complex composed of 4 Kir6.2 subunits and 4 SUR1 subunits. ATP binds to both proteins, and changes in metabolically generated ATP couple metabolism to KATP channel activity. Functional studies showed that the KATP channel mutations found in neonatal diabetes impair the ability of ATP to close the channel and stimulate insulin release. This suggested that drugs that could directly close the KATP channel would stimulate insulin release and might be a good therapy for neonatal diabetes. Sulfonylurea drugs were already known to di...
2019-07-1129 min
En música, 2Trigésimo programa de 'En música, 2', con Manolo Prieto y Gabriel AlbaCuando la apatía, la desgana total y la desilusión nos invade por que esta sociedad no termina de funcionar como debiera, es entonces cuando más hay que rebelarse por cambiar las cosas. Y así empezamos la edición 30 de "en música, 2..." trayéndonos Manolo al grupo cordobés de Castro del Río, "Allende"; donde con letras arriesgadas y comprometidas, denuncian la ruptura constante de los derechos humanos por parte del poder establecido de un sistema que progresa solo para unos cuantos y no para todos.
Después de haber arreglado el mundo con una ardua y cruel ba...
2018-11-1759 min
BBC Inside ScienceParker solar probe, Diversity in the lab, Royal Society book prize, Arctic circle weatherThe sun still has many mysterious properties. The Parker Solar Probe, launched next week will be the closest a spacecraft has ever flown to our star. It's a mission that's been on the drawing board for decades which space scientists have only dreamt of. It will fly into the mysterious solar corona, where so much of the action at 3 million degrees centigrade takes place. Nicola Fox from Johns Hopkins University is the Parker Probe Project Scientist. Adam Rutherford speaks to her from Cape Canaveral, where they are making the final adjustments for the most ambitious journey ever, to the...
2018-08-0227 min
Oxford SciBar Podcast 2013Oxford Scibar: October 2013 Dr Frances Ashcroft - The Spark of LifeElectricity in the Human Body
How does a heart beat and can someone really die of fright? The answers to these questions lie in electrical signals that are essential to everything we do. Professor Frances Ashcroft will explain how these signals are produced and how they govern every aspect of life. From your ability to see and hear to how your brain and muscles work - we truly are the body electric!
2013-10-2251 min
Experience The Critically-Acclaimed Full Audiobook Experience!The Spark of Life by Frances AshcroftPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/235760to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Spark of Life
Author: Frances Ashcroft
Narrator: Jenna Berk
Format: mp3
Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
Release date: 06-04-13
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 46 ratings
Genres: Anatomy & Physiology
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2013-06-042h 08
Start the WeekThe 'life unlived' with Adam Phillips and Helen DunmoreOn Start the Week Andrew Marr goes in search of a better life. The psychoanalyst Adam Phillips praises the life unlived: the people we have failed to be, and explores how far frustration is interlinked with satisfaction. While the philosopher Julian Baggini argues that Aristotle has more to tell us about how to live than Freud. The writer Helen Dunmore slips between past and present, and in her latest collection of poems stories of loss intermingle with rediscovery. And the scientist Frances Ashcroft has transformed the lives of those born with diabetes, and discusses how her breakthrough gave meaning...
2012-06-2541 min
The Life ScientificFrances AshcroftJim Al-Khalili talks to this year's winner of the L'Oreal -UNESCO Woman in Science award, Frances Ashcroft.After decades spent studying the link between blood sugar and insulin, she talks about the absolute thrill of discovery as well as the long lean years "in a cloud of not knowing". It's very rare indeed for a scientist to see any medical benefit from their research but Frances Ashcroft has been lucky. Her scientific understanding of a key biochemical mechanism in our pancreatic cells has helped transform the lives of hundreds of children who are born with diabetes, enabling...
2012-05-1528 min
Kellogg CollegePheromones and DiabetesIn 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.
2009-05-2630 min