Happenings

Gold as a Human Barometer

5 Apr 2019

For the interdisciplinary colloquium on GOLD at the Institute of Advanced Study, UCL, and then at the Royal Institution, I made a presentation entitled Gold as a Human Barometer, alongside two blown scientific glass objects in the form of human internal organs.

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Contain Yourself! Materials and food – BBC World Service

5 Nov 2017

    Contain Yourself! The Food Chain, BBC World Service Sun 5 Nov 2017 Does your favourite drink taste better from a bottle, cup or can? Are foods enhanced by particular plates or packaging? Or is it all in your head? Emily Thomas is joined by materials specialist Ellie Doney and food psychologist Charles Spence […]

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Performing Skill

20 Nov 2013

Performing Skill – a wide-ranging discussion on conservation, deterioration, entropy, skill vs accident, the body and memory, the position of beauty today and more.

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