MATTER - Chamakur Ghag - PARTICLE
Chamkaur Ghag is an astroparticle physicist working in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCL. Chamkaur received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2006 following his work on novel te...
2 Apr 202415min
MATTER - Sarah Perry - ORBIT
"I’ve always said there are no mysteries, only things we don’t know; but lately, I’ve thought not even knowledge takes all strangeness from the world." Sarah Perry is the internationally best selling...
2 Apr 202417min
MATTER - Sally Hayden - OCEAN
“For months or years, bodies are pressed into bodies, lives dependent on other lives. You become cargo, a piece of meat, a being that loses humanity.” Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist and ...
2 Apr 202423min
MATTER - Nick Lane - MEMBRANE
Nick Lane is Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London. He is the author of five acclaimed books on evolutionary bioc...
2 Apr 202416min
MATTER - Queenie Chan - METEORITE
"The meteorite provided us with a window into the past, how simple chemistry kick started the origin of life at the birth of our solar system." Queenie Chan is a planetary scientist and a meteoritici...
2 Apr 202412min
MATTER - Richard Horton - LIFE
"It is neither a wholly mechanistic nor a wholly metaphysical question. Yet it remains for many patients a deeply important one: What is this disease doing to me?" Richard Horton qualified in physiol...
2 Apr 202423min
MATTER - George Saunders - HUMAN
"Who am I? Everybody. Individuals within that multitude are always flickering on and off within me, stepping forward, then receding." George Saunders is the author of nine books, including the novel ...
2 Apr 202419min
MATTER - Katherine Rundell - GOLD
"Dear friends, would you look, only look. For love, allied to attention, will be urgently needed in the years to come." Katherine Rundell is the author of Rooftoppers, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms (...
2 Apr 202420min
