The Chemistry World book club podcast
Book Club – The Periodic Table
100 years on, we examine the effect of Primo Levi’s masterpiece The Periodic Table
Book Club – Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
Kit Chapman explores the strange, complex and downright confusing world of superheavy elements
Book Club – Clearing the air
Tim Smedley travels the world to work out why air pollution occurs, and what we can do to solve the problem
Book Club – The truth about fat
‘Angry chef’ Anthony Warner wants you to understand why people really get fat and how society tricks us into blaming each other
Book Club – Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
Matt Parker uses comedy to explore the unique relationship between humans and maths and how numbers are behind errors large and small
Book Club – Inventing Ourselves
Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explores the unique period of brain development that occurs during adolescence
Book Club – Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
2009 Nobel prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan takes us on a personal and professional journey to uncover the secrets of the ribosome
Book Club – I'm a Joke and So Are You
Comedian Robin Ince explores what makes us human through conversations with fellow comics and scientists whose job it is to understand the human condition
Book Club – Losing the Nobel Prize
Physicist Brian Keating lost the Nobel Prize, then went on to re-evaluate its worth and examine how it could be improved
Get your game on
Lab wars
Big pharma: marketing and malpractice
Big pharma
MEL Chemistry sets
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Film and theatre
Film: Magic Medicine
Festival of the Spoken Nerd: You Can’t Polish a Nerd
Film: The Devil We Know
Festival of the spoken nerd: just for graphs
Before the flood
Festival of the spoken nerd – full frontal nerdity
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