The exceptional life of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | BBC Ideas
Intro Professor Hodgkin… …should be much better known than she is. Scientists admire the great determination and skill which has always been the mark of your work. She was a...
Intro Professor Hodgkin… …should be much better known than she is. Scientists admire the great determination and skill which has always been the mark of your work. She was a...
You’re standing in a street in a British town in the late Victorian era, the old Queen is still on the throne. It’s a time between the old world and...
Introduction One day, in 1944, my family and I were arrested. Packed into cattle trains with no food or water. We were taken to Poland and left on the selection...
Introduction This is a pie chart. And this is Scottish political economist William Playfair, who created the world’s first pie chart, along with some of the first line and bar...
Making aviation green is a huge challenge. Flying is such a big part of our lives and we have to balance that with the fact that it contributes hugely to...
It is actually not a myth to say that writing unified the Chinese cultures. There are many many small groups of dialects in China, but we all use this one...
Who doesn’t know to wear gloves? Even criminals wear gloves. Zoom and enhance images. That’s never going to happen. Please, if you make CSI-type programmes, stop doing it. I think,...
There’s a Native American proverb that says, “The one who tells the story rules the world.” Stories have the potential to be incredibly powerful. They’re able to change how we...
Roswell… Bigfoot… Oh, that kind of thing. OK… Shape-shifting lizards. Interesting. Conspiracy theories do require a wild imaginative leap. I think we can explain it in scientific ways. So why...
My surname’s fab! Yeah, well it’s a big deal isn’t it? I think we always imagine that all the generations of women before us were perfectly happy to lose their...