Today is, according to Suw at least, Ada Lovelace day. As I’m sure I don’t need to tell you, Lovelace was the daughter of Lord Byron who is often acknowledged as the first to write down a computer program. I’m not sure why today is her day, but it’s being used by hundreds of people [...]
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I had a very interesting evening last week chairing a discussion night at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre. The topic – the Big Bang – was ably introduced by Kate Land and Andrew Jaffe, before philosopher Roman Frigg talked, rather too provocatively for my taste, about religion and the Big Bang.
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I’ve always secretly wanted one of two jobs; either to be Andrew Marr on Start the Week or Melvin Bragg on In our time. Beyond assassination or blackmail, I think either is a long way off but a flavour of both hangs around the first episode of the Inside Oxford Science podcast.
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