S4 Episode 9: Where is the global in the history of science?
In the ninth episode of season four, Dr Sarah Qidwai a historian of science at the University of York (UK) who researches science and Islam in the 19th century, and Dr Alexander Hall, an Assistant Professor at McMaster University in Canada who studies the history of biology and environmental science in popular media, discuss the importance […]
S2 Episode 1 – Fingerprinting Ghosts: Science, Technology & the Occult with The Media of Mediumship Project Team
The Media of Mediumship project is running jointly at the University of Stirling and the Science Museum Group. The project team comprises Principal Investigator Professor Christine Ferguson, Co-Investigator Dr Efram Sera-Shriar and Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Emma Merkling. In this very spooky episode, Christine, Efram and Emma tell us how from the late-Victorian era, novel […]
The Pope is looking to scientists to find a cure for coronavirus – but so are Ricky Gervais and Richard Dawkins
By Alper Bilgili A cartoon, widely circulated on social media, depicts clergy of various religions in despair, begging a scientist to find a cure for COVID-19. In another, clergy are staring at a picture of a nurse who asks for silence with a “SHHH” sign. Those who share these cartoons seem certain that the ensuing […]
