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Natural

Many critics of the way science is applied moan that it is "unnatural". But what we mean by "natural"? When it comes to our home planet, for example, which vintage of Mother Earth is the most "natural" and thus the one to which should we be faithful? The Earth as it was a hundred years ago, or a thousand years ago? Or before bacteria had enriched its atmosphere with oxygen? Or perhaps a very new Earth, one subjected to ...

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My Christmas Lecture 2007

• Can Reindeer Fly?

Celebrity Video Interviews

• Sir David Attenborough, and others
• Sir Richard Branson
• Larry Brilliant
• David Cameron
• Richard Dawkins
• Baroness Greenfield
• Raj Persaud
• Chris Stringer

Special Projects

• My kitchen experiments
• Cheltenham Science Festival
• FameLab A kind of 'Pop Idol' of science, even 'Boff Idol'!
• Science Writer The science writer competition for young people, which I set up in 1987
• Visions of Science and Technology. A science photography competition

My Favourites

• A9
• Atomic Archive
• Brainpop
• Clusty
• Cyber Newseum
• DNA Interactive
• Edge
• EurekAlert
• Human Clock
• Leading Edge
• NASA
• NASA TV
• Nature
• Null Hypothesis
• NY Times
• Pandora
• Physics Web
• Simon Singh
• Tag Browser
• The Telegraph
• VRMag
• Wolfram Tones

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