Comedian and self-proclaimed "interested idiot" Robin Ince is touring New Zealand with his live science-meets-comedy show A Cosmic Shambles Live. Ahead of dates in Wellington and Christchurch, he talked to Auckland University nanotechnologist and leading Kiwi science communicator Dr Michelle Dickinson. I imagined there might be many more like me, so i decided to try to become an "idiot bridge", an example that approaching science need not be terrifying. I contacted Dr Ben Goldacre and Simon Singh and mixed the music and comedy with some science instead. Not only are you a book author but you are also a massive book lover, if you were asked tomorrow to write a science book for fun, what science would it involve?

Source: New Zealand Herald April 05, 2017 05:15 UTC