Jack is an insect geneticist, President of the Young Australian Skeptics, and Editor-in-Chief of the forthcoming science magazine Lateral. He will defend the coolness of wasps to his deathbed: you have been warned.

He tells the story of cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock.

Jack is an insect geneticist, President of the Young Australian Skeptics, and Editor-in-Chief of the forthcoming science magazine Lateral. He will defend the coolness of wasps to his deathbed: you have been warned. He tells the story of cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock.

Jack Scanlan on Barbara McClintock

Each month The Laborastory brings together five scientists from diverse backgrounds to share the story of their science hero.

Hear the tragedies and triumphs of the men and women who made science their passion and left legacies that inspire the scientists of today.

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Each month The Laborastory brings together five scientists from diverse backgrounds to share the story of their science hero. Hear the tragedies and triumphs of the men and women who made science their passion and left legacies that inspire the scientists of today.

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Jack Scanlan on Barbara McClintock

Jack Scanlan on Barbara McClintock