A quick post before we all break up for Christmas… the nice people of the Royal Institution (they make the legendary Christmas Lectures every year and lots more) have been asking various scientists and sciencethusiasts about their favourite element and posting them as an advent calendar throughout December.
Here’s my contribution, about the much-maligned and badly named (but extremely interesting) element No. 5: Boron
Hello again,
For anyone not on my mailing list (why not, I ask? Click the link top right and get in on the action!) this thing landed in people’s inboxes this afternoon:
Have a look, it contains news about a thing I did for a TV show, my new songbook, some lovely shows at the Bloomsbury Theatre, and a discount if you buy my Christmas album. Please have a very awkward Christmas when you’re done.
As an added bonus, here’s a nice picture from Geek Lates, where Rob and I did a 15 minute version of our Domestic Science show 4 times in a night. It was superfun but we lost a lot of ping pong balls :/
This illustration is by the amazing Jade Walsh. Please commission her to draw beautiful things for you and pay her lots of money, thank you.
Hey, I’ve just realised I haven’t made enough of a song and dance about this here 2013 calendar I’m in… for SCIENCE! You can buy it here.
It’s the Science Grrl calendar, a project to show the real face of real women doing real science (plus some carefully placed comedians and TV presenters)
I’m one of the four Miss Decembers, alongside comedian Helen Keen, and astrophysicists Jen Gupta and Sheila Kanani.
The whole calendar is absolutely stunning and – oh look! It’s Christmas soon! Isn’t that convenient! What a perfect gift this makes for the Science Grrl or Guy in your life.
And if you buy it now and bring it to any of my gigs before the end of the year (listed here) I’ll even sign it for you. I’ll have my gold pen at the ready!