Podcasts about fotsn

It's time to get out our Bunsen Burners and boil everything down to its most basic constituent parts: if we can work out what the worst element in the world is, perhaps we can uncover the secrets behind all heroic failure? Joining us this week is breathtakingly smart and multi-talented chanteuse of the science world Helen Arney. Part of the Festival of the Spoken Nerd, Helen has appeared on TV and Radio as both a science communicator, madcap experimenter and dab hand with the ukulele. Together we navigate through the tricky quarries full of Kryptonite (all 22 varieties), sinister red mercury, dull old Boron and the phoenix-like astatine. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @helenarney @FOTSN

With massive apologies for the crapper-than-usual sound quality, here's the next episode of the Skeptics on the Fringe 2015 podcast! The very lovely and wonderful Festival of the Spoken Nerd (Helen Arney, Steve Mould, and Matt Parker) were a massive help during our Fringe festivities, with each of the trio doing a night for us. In return, they were gracious enough to offer reduced tickets to the filmed version of their main show for EdSkeptics regulars. How nice is that? If you like maths, fire, waves and graphs, Festival of the Spoken Nerd are definitely for you. They've just started on a massive UK tour with something like 40 dates in, and we urge you all to toddle off to the FOTSN website and see if they're playing near you. In this interview, we speak to the trio about how FOTSN started, their thoughts on science communication and education, what to expect from their new tour, and their Fringe favourites. And apologies again for the sound quality, but this is a much longer interview than normal. We take with one hand, we give with the other. Firm, but fair, that's the EdSkeptics way. W: http://www.festivalofthespokennerd.comT: https://twitter.com/FOTSN  

I meet with FOTSN again, this time in the Bloomsbury Theatre on the second (or first) night of their UK wide tour!

Welcome to the Festival of the Spoken Nerd: Extra Time for Questions Podcast. Festival of the Spoken Nerd is a celebration of science, comedy, music, maths and unashamed geekiness. It's a variety show for the fearlessly inquisitive: artists, scientists, comedy fans, and anyone in between. It's hosted by three of London's best (and nerdiest) performers, who have all appeared as guests on BBC television and radio - musical comedian and physics graduate Helen Arney, stand-up mathematician and Famelab finalist Matt Parker and guerrilla scientist and stand-up comedian Steve Mould.Click here to listen to this episode.This podcast follows the Fight or Flight show and is all about escaping or confronting danger. This episode features Matt dissecting a peer-reviewed paper modelling a zombie outbreak, Helen exploring some battles in maths and science, Steve looking at how periodic Cicadas may evade predation and Greg Foot putting an unlucky FOTSN member under some intense exercise. There's also an exclusive new song from Helen entitled 'The Nature of Things'. See www.fotsn.com for pictures of Matt in the 'gimp' mask!Written and devised by Helen Arney, Steve Mould and Matt Parker. Produced by Ed Prosser.