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- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have plenty of young women coming into biology and medicine, but we don’t have enough coming into physics and engineering. It’s a really weird thing because, of course, all these subjects are completely neutral.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scientific method is about trying to remove our own bias and subjectivity, and be as objective as possible. But then you can put it back into context and you’re allowed to be emotional and human about the way you engage with it.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’ve wanted to write a book on embryology, that extraordinary journey where you start off as a single cell and end up with a human body, for a general audience for years.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Did people’s attitudes towards me change after I appeared on TV? Yeah, definitely. During my career I’ve had some flak - particularly doing television.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Bristol I found it quite difficult to continue trying to balance three things - teaching, research and public engagement, for which television was obviously the most prominent part.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was effectively unemployed after my son was born. I resigned from Bristol because I wasn’t happy with the way my career was going then discovered I was pregnant when I was out of a job, but I was freelancing.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have been talking about public engagement for a decade. For me it is about recognising that the mission of science has to be embedded within our culture - the direction in which science is going has to be determined by all of us, and so we need a dialogue with the public.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the big factors in me going to an independent school was the bullying at junior school. But it wasn't an easy choice for my parents. And now, I do have issues with independent schools.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to get across the excitement and creativity of science. That it isn't just a list of facts that have already been discovered - but a process, a creative project, that you are generating ideas, testing them and looking for evidence.
- Enthused
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is so stimulating for young children to hear someone who does science talking about it. It can be so exciting and inspiring. It is easy to get younger school children enthused about science.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the Seventies; my dad is an aeronautical engineer and my mum was an English and arts teacher and for a while my family had to exist on one salary.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was keen to earn my own money from an early age. I had a job as a paper girl in my local village when I was about 11 - and when I was a bit older, around 15, I was a waitress.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was extremely lucky as I was in one of the last generations of British students who went to university and had my fees paid, and I had a grant as well. I also earned money from my waitressing and designing and selling my own range of dinosaur cards.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Choosing my career was always based on job satisfaction rather than financial security. I wanted to get a job in science; I enjoyed being a surgeon and I now enjoy being an academic and having a media career.
- Compete
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we don’t concentrate on resurrecting science, we’re not going to be able to compete in a global economy.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
More useful than beautiful perhaps, my favourite regular programme is 'Question Time'. And Charlie Brooker is just hilarious.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Roger Deakin's writing, and enjoyed making a programme about wild swimming for BBC4, inspired by his book about his own aquatic adventures, 'Waterlog'.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually turn over when ads appear on television. But - very rarely - I am gripped by a particularly beautiful one, and wonder if art historians of the future will point to these televisual delights as our best art.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
The access to information the web provides is both daunting and exciting. Information that was once secreted away in library stacks is now so much more easily available.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Archaeology can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it’s incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past - not just through historical documents, but through actual physical remains - objects, buildings and the layout of our towns.
- Incredible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It’s incredible that the layout of the centre of Chester, for instance, is still essentially that of the original Roman fort.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don’t need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love prehistory - particularly the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. These were times when our ancestors made a revolutionary change from being hunter-gatherers to being farmers, and when great migrations of people spread languages - and genes - across Europe.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I think as a biologist I would like us to focus on this planet and finding solutions to sustaining humanity, to improving people's lives globally, but doing our absolute utmost to preserve as much biodiversity as we can, knowing that we have already been responsible for the loss of thousands of species.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I had this fascination with old bones and being able to diagnose disease in old bones. And I was doing that, and started to do bone reports for the Channel 4 series 'Time Team'.
- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biological anthropology tends to focus on skeletons because that's what is often left behind in the ground, but I am a whole-body anatomist, I'm a clinical anatomist and that's what I teach, I teach it all, not just the skeleton, the muscles and nerves, blood vessels.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environment would be better off and everyone would be healthier if we stopped eating meat.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It’s tempting to look back into history with rose-tinted glasses. Most people in the Stone Age didn't live anywhere near as long as we're living now. Today we can enjoy a more wide-ranging diet and we have fruit and vegetables available all year round.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have family connections with Salisbury through my godmother. Her sister lived there, so I have very fond memories of visiting the city as a child.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can somehow get access to what is perceived to be a better school by either being religious or appearing to be religious. That is unfair.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood hero was David Attenborough. He opened my eyes to the wonder of the natural world. In fact, he’s still my hero. I interviewed him at the Science Museum in 2015, and he is such a thoughtful, humble and inspiring person.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fate of the vast majority of species on this planet has been extinction, eventually.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to stop being so profligate with fossil fuels, to rein back climate change and protect biodiversity. We need to work together, globally, and I’m optimistic that we will.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should be regulation that prevents all schools, not just state schools, from teaching creationism because it is indoctrination, it is planting ideas into children's heads. We should be teaching children to be much more open-minded.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who believe in creationism say that by teaching evolution you are indoctrinating them with science, but I just don't agree with that.
- Questioning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is about questioning things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm strict about taking nuts and dried fruit with me and, if I have access to milk, small packets of porridge to eat in a break.
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lunch on the road is usually the same as breakfast and tea in remote places - packet meals. I'm veggie and generally get vegetable curry or rigatoni.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I asked what people would change about their bodies on Twitter, the birthing process was an extremely popular response!
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human knee is complex and prone to failure in a variety of ways; there’s a lot of muscle mass low down in the legs which makes moving them fairly inefficient.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our long, flexible lumbar spines are great in many ways - they help us to run efficiently, for instance. But they have their drawbacks. The lumbar vertebrae are under great strain, and as we age, the ligaments that hold the pulpy centres of the intervertebral discs in place dry out.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our ape legs make us great generalists - we can walk, run and climb. But when you try to do too many things at once, you can end up with problems.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a very young age, parents are pushing their boys to achieve in a way they don’t always do for girls.
- Exactly The Same
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don’t think anyone is saying that we should be treating boys and girls exactly the same and that we should try to eliminate all differences. What the psychologists who do this work are saying is we should be aware of it and careful about it, especially if we think it could be limiting choices.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The important thing is when you look at areas like physics and you realise that only one in five A-level students is a girl. We know it isn’t about aptitude.
- Princess
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- Nov 07, 2020
One way I try to manage it is by not having a princess party for my daughter and trying to do things that are not so stereotyped. But if she’s invited to a princess party, of course I’m not going to stop her going.
- Divisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an anthropologist, I believe strongly in our common humanity. We can rise above the tribal divisions that have caused so much anguish and real damage in the past.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find humanism to be the most rational and positive philosophy for life. And it’s not a new thing at all - the history of humanist thought is deep and inspiring.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real hallmarks of humanity are: curiosity and an amazing ability to cooperate.
- Great Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started doing television, I was very aware my clothes would be obvious and it was a great opportunity to promote brands which are made with respect to people and the environment.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a goth in my student days. I dyed my hair black, but it came out grey, with a blue scalp. Then I dyed it red and it came out fuschia pink.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look what consumer power has done with organic food; we can do the same with clothes.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science plays a huge role in our lives. We're surrounded by technology, we depend on it.
- Eminent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course 'Horizon' had made an impact on me from a young age, but it was also humbling to meet and interview eminent scientists, and hear their high opinion of the series and of the science presented on the BBC more generally.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’m a firm believer in teaching children to manage risk.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum was an art teacher, so we used to have fantastic dressing-up costumes when we were little.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’ve always loved the seaside and I used to be a fairly keen surfer, but it’s a solitary activity so when my husband and I had children, we bought sit-on-top kayaks. Whenever possible, we escape to the coast or explore rivers with them.
- Obsessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’m slightly obsessed with Moomins. They were my specialist subject on BBC’s 'Celebrity Mastermind' a few years ago!
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Christmas. At this very special time of year, when the sun appears only fleetingly to those of us living in the northern hemisphere, I feel a deep connection with ancient ancestors.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Luke, shepherds go to find Jesus. In Matthew, an unspecified number of wise men, sometimes portrayed as kings, arrive. Nativity plays usually throw all the elements together, with kings and shepherds beating a path to the stable.
- Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pagan Romans started their midwinter celebrations with the feast of Saturnalia on 17 December, ending them with a new year festival, the Kalendae Januariae, at the start of January - both were celebrated with parties and the exchange of gifts.
- Intentionally
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stonehenge is famously aligned with midsummer sunrise, and possibly also intentionally with midwinter sunset.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around 4000BC, the Mesolithic, hunter-gatherer way of life here gave way to a more settled, farming existence. Those Neolithic people built wooden trackways across the salt marshes and reed beds.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always attempting to tame and subjugate nature is not the solution. But the latest science is helping us to map out a path across this shifting landscape in uncertain times, showing us how to work with natural forces, not against them.
- Genes
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our evolutionary narratives, the organism itself often seems to play a passive role: a powerless victim, almost, of changes to its environment or mutations in its genes.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a group of humans began to run regularly, perhaps allowing them to hunt or scavenge more effectively, anatomical changes would follow, especially among the still-developing youngsters.
- Holiday
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gave up meat when I was 18, and it was an ethical decision. I loved the taste, and went on holiday to Greece, fairly gorging myself on lamb souvlaki before taking the plunge into a meatless existence.
- Eggs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a fairly strict vegetarian - I ate eggs and dairy products but nothing that would involve killing an animal to furnish the food on my plate.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eighteen years later, pregnant with my first child, I started eating fish. Oily fish in particular contains plenty of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, essential for neural development.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Later, I found it too hard to give up, and so I’ve continued eating fish and other seafood, while trying to ensure it’s sustainably sourced. This means I’m now one of those vegetarians I used to frown at - one who occasionally eats fish.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The colour of a British wood in autumn is predominantly yellow. There are relatively few European trees which have red leaves in the autumn. But there are splashes of crimson or rust-red colours from a few indigenous trees, like the rowan, as well as from introduced species, like the North American red oak.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
And when you take something like the changing colour of autumn leaves and start to ask why, you’re starting off on an intellectual journey which will take you beyond that moment of visual satisfaction, while robbing nothing from that experience.
- Leaf
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evolutionary biologists have long pondered the phenomenon of the changing colours of autumn leaves. It’s possible that the red pigments are manufactured in the leaf as a side-effect of something else that’s happening at this time.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
Autumn is much redder in North America and east Asia than it is in northern Europe, and this can’t be explained by temperature differences alone. These areas also have a greater proportion of ancient tree lineages surviving: trees have gone extinct at a higher rate in Europe compared with those other areas.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
As well as tasting fantastic, blackberries are good for you. Anthocyanin isn’t just a pigment, it’s a flavonoid, a heroic antioxidant! The stuff of superfoods!
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems that humans have been enjoying the taste and health benefits of blackberries for thousands of years. Gathered blackberries have been found at Neolithic sites, while a preserved iron age bog body, known as Haraldskaer Woman, provides definite evidence of blackberry ingestion.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking in detail at human anatomy, I’m always left with two practically irreconcilable thoughts: our bodies are wonderful, intricate masterpieces; and then - they are cobbled-together, rag-bag, sometimes clunking machines.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in my 20s, and even though I was studying medicine, I didn’t ever really think that my body would fail. Now I’m in my 40s, I have to face a different reality - I, like everyone else, am slowly falling apart.
- Easter
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- Nov 07, 2020