Radical Science

We spoke to Ryan Bethencourt, the Program Director and Venture Partner at IndieBio - the world's largest seed biotech accelerator - about building the science startups of tomorrow, and the role of risk in the medical research process.

Featuring Dr Ceri Brenner an Application Development Physicist at the STFC. Based out of the Harwell Campus, Ceri focuses on how to spin out technology related to laser her laser science. We spoke about the importance of flexibility in science, and language barriers between different areas of research and between research and the business sector.

Featuring Ross Mounce, Cambridge Post-Doc and Editor at RIO Journal a platform that publishes all outputs of the research cycle, including: project proposals, data, methods, workflows, software. We spoke to Ross about the distressing state of the academic publishing industry, from the costs of making research open, to the archaic review processes.

Featuring Conrad Wolfram, Strategic and International Director of Wolfram Alpha, and founder of Computer Based Math. We spoke about a need to shift math education towards problem solving and away from pure computation, and what's standing in the way of educational reform.

We speak to Mark Levinson, Director of Particle Fever, about telling the human stories behind the Higgs Boson discovery, making the complex beautifully compelling, and what's next for the Particle Physicist turned Film-Maker...