Millions of scientists prowl the earth, but most people don't have a clue what their world is like. If you've ever wondered what scientists really get up to in the lab, sit back and let us bring you the latest intelligence about scientists in literature, films, TV, popular culture and real life. There's never been a better time to get to grips with geek-chic culture! http://www.lablit.com Fri, 24 Jul 2020 15:59:33 +0100 en © LabLit.com LabLit.com The culture of science in fiction and fact Millions of scientists prowl the earth, but most people don't have a clue what their world is like. If you've ever wondered what scientists really get up to in the lab, sit back and let us bring you the latest intelligence about scientists in literature, films, TV, popular culture and real life. There's never been a better time to get to grips with geek-chic culture! LabLit.com In this episode, we interview writer Stuart Clark, discuss novels by Geraldine Brooks and Juris Jurjevics, and - of course - look back on ten exciting years of LabLit.com. Join Jenny and Richard in London for the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Kirk, Kepler and killing your darlings 00:29:12 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.lablit.com/article/861 http://www.lablit.com/article/861 LabLit.com In this episode, we highlight lab lit fiction from Wilkie Collins, Morton Thompson and Richard Dooling, interview writer Julie Maxwell, and learn about strange fungi and cats on your head. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Space, sanitoria and sexy neuroscientists 00:28:03 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/839 http://www.lablit.com/article/839 LabLit.com This episode, we highlight lab lit fiction from Thomas Pynchon, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Julie Maxwell, and interview astronomer and novelist Pippa Goldschmidt. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Bells, breakthroughs and the Big Bang 00:26:54 Tue, 24 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.lablit.com/article/804 http://www.lablit.com/article/804 LabLit.com This episode, we highlight lab lit fiction from Pamela Beason, John Banville and Alison Lurie; and interview novelist James Meek. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture. Cults, crossings-out & conversations 00:36:32 Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/777 http://www.lablit.com/article/777 LabLit.com This episode, we highlight a new science novel by Barbara Kingsolver, interview biochemist and writer Jennifer Cryer, and meet a few scientists moonlighting as publishers. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Private professors, power cuts and new presses 00:25:46 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.lablit.com/article/747 http://www.lablit.com/article/747 LabLit.com This episode, we highlight three new LabLit novels, two plays and one film – and interview flash-fiction writer Tania Hershman. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Films, frolics and flash fiction 00:30:38 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/720 http://www.lablit.com/article/720 LabLit.com This episode, we highlight new lab lit fiction from Robert Harris, interview British novelist Stuart Clark, take a scientific look at baby booms and Beyonce's behind. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Burns, baby booms, and Beyonce’s bum 00:17:57 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.lablit.com/article/704 http://www.lablit.com/article/704 LabLit.com This episode, we track new LabLit fiction from Berlin to Brazil, get excited about the Royal Society’s first ever literary festival, interview British novelist Clare George, and find a scientific metaphor hiding in a Hollywood actress’s décolletage. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Boobs, Brazil and Berlin 00:15:47 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/687 http://www.lablit.com/article/687 LabLit.com This episode, we feature women in science, indulge in a rather rude romp through improbable research, and highlight a rash of three new plays about scientists – along with a new lablit beach-read that makes us wish it were summer already... well, sort of. Join Jenny and Richard for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! A wealth of theatre, women scientists and wonderfully improbable research 00:25:10 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/657 http://www.lablit.com/article/657 LabLit.com What do you get when you put several hundred science-y, online-y, geeky people into a small conference hall in North Carolina and leave them to their own devices? Science Online 2011, the most popular gathering of its sort in the world. We were there to take in the atmosphere. Join Jenny and Richard for this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Blogging, Bora and belly-button flora 00:24:26 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.lablit.com/article/644 http://www.lablit.com/article/644 LabLit.com Baby, it's cold outside. As the snow keeps falling, we ask: can meteorological scientists tell the long-term future about whether governments should invest in snow-clearing equipment? Meanwhile, warm up those numb toes with a trip to the Picturing Science exhibition, a spot of stand-up science comedy at Bright Club, or possibly even some shenanigans in your local library. Calling all high-functioning geeks to join Jenny and Richard in London for these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Geeks, germs and gratuitous library sex 00:13:41 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.lablit.com/article/639 http://www.lablit.com/article/639 LabLit.com When science-y people from the online world meet, great things tend to happen. In this episode, we interview various participants during the recent Science Online conference in London to find out why they came and what they got out of it. Also, we bring you cultural news related to the mathematicians GH Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, the artist Eadweard Muybridge and a few silly references to HG Wells. We even quote the evolutionary rap of Baba Brinkman, who's currently wowing the British Science Festival. Join Jenny and Richard in London for these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Ovulation, revolution and online collusion 00:24:07 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/622 http://www.lablit.com/article/622 LabLit.com It's all about pairs on this episode of the podcast. We offer a spirited defense against two attacks on scientists by journalists, wonder why people keep mixing up the two different disciplines of science and medicine, and explore two very different amateur scientist characters in novels - one old, and one just published. Join Jenny and Richard in London for these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Astronomers, anti-scientists and antiquarians 00:31:16 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/610 http://www.lablit.com/article/610 LabLit.com We encounter frisky yeast, get ready for the Royal Society Summer Festival and ponder just how far an author needs to go to research a book. Plus find out why nicer people travel by bus, hear about an exciting new trend in lab lit fiction, and become a scientist helping to save the world from bio-catastrophe – in a handy board game. Join Jenny and Richard in London for these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Festivals, frisky yeast and a fiction renaissance 00:26:22 Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/599 http://www.lablit.com/article/599 LabLit.com We discuss the advantages of literary brevity, contemplate the use of vindaloo curry as a weapon and find out what happens when celebrity footballers accidentally stumble into book launches. Plus new lab lit fiction from novelist Ian McEwan, and scientists Rajendra Pachauri and EO Wilson. Join Jenny and Richard in London for these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Literary vibes, voluptuousness and vindaloo 00:20:29 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/586 http://www.lablit.com/article/586 LabLit.com We explore the virtues of a greasy diet, ponder the link between Shakira and neuroscience, calculate the odds of finding a mate and find out what mould has in common with public transport. Plus a deconstruction of the scientists in 'Avatar', a round-up of the latest fiction news, and a pub interview with science blogger and Nature editor Henry Gee. Join Jenny and Richard in London for these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Ants, Avatar and annoying celebrity novelists 00:35:17 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.lablit.com/article/572 http://www.lablit.com/article/572 LabLit.com We discuss the geeky vibe in the films '2010' and 'Sherlock Holmes', wonder why scientists wear glasses and engineers don't, and hear how one professor outsmarted a very foxy criminal. Also, we use the latest technology to find a mate and to experiment on chocolate, and catch up on all the other latest news from Fiction Lab. Join Jenny and Richard in London for these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Flirtation, foxes and fictional chemistry 00:21:52 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.lablit.com/article/566 http://www.lablit.com/article/566 LabLit.com We discuss the annoying habits of science conspiracy theorists, the brilliance of the writings of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, and the relief of finally getting some particles whizzing around the Large Hadron Collider. Also, we find out how purple one's prose should be, and catch up on all the other latest news from Fiction Lab. Plus a pub interview of our Toronto correspondent, Eva Amsen, on the perils and delights of participating in National Novel Writing Month. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Particle colliders, purple prose and pub chats 00:28:47 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.lablit.com/article/561 http://www.lablit.com/article/561 LabLit.com We discuss this year's Nobel prizes, the links between genius and madness, and a new graphic novel about the mathematics of Bertrand Russell. Also, we talk about Isaac Newton's notebooks, ex-scientist stand-up comics, science in the media and all the latest news from Fiction Lab. We even attempt a genuine iPhone experiment live on air! Join Jenny and Richard in London for all these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Book prizes, bar codes and Bertrand Russell 00:19:50 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/549 http://www.lablit.com/article/549 LabLit.com An intriguing album from They Might Be Giants in full science geek mode, the world's weirdest experiments revealed, and new fiction about fossils, the afterlife and a climatologist who gets into hot water. Also, we hear from this year's organizers of the Subtle Technologies conference about how scientists and artists are working together. Join Jenny and Richard in London, and Eva in Toronto, for all these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture! Subtle Technologies, Star Spider, strange science and a surfeit of science stories 00:17:57 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/544 http://www.lablit.com/article/544 LabLit.com A new novel about a time-traveling Galileo, a fond farewell to our about to be ex-favorite geeky comic strip, and a snub from a best-selling author. Also, we present a montage of semi-drunken science bloggers at a recent fringe conference. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all these stories and more from the world of science culture! Comics, calculators and a time-traveling Galileo 00:13:22 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/539 http://www.lablit.com/article/539 LabLit.com Scientific cooking gets dangerous, Goldie gets down with an evolutionary groove and our literature continues to be invaded by pernicious equations. Also, we interview author Ann Lingard moments before she leaps into the jaws of Fiction Lab. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all these stories and more from the world of science culture! Explosions, evolutionary compositions and yet more equations 00:17:32 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/529 http://www.lablit.com/article/529 LabLit.com Science textbooks get lighter, robots get sexier and a classic lab lit play costs a small fortune. Join Jenny and Richard in London, and Amy in Iowa City, for all these stories and more from the world of science culture! Science curricula, sex with robots and other stories 00:13:39 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/518 http://www.lablit.com/article/518 LabLit.com A new lablit play comes to London, libel laws get panned by scientists, and geeks win a music competition. Join Jenny and Richard in London, and Ian in Memphis, for all these stories and more from the world of science culture! Lichen, libel and lab hijinks 00:22:54 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/514 http://www.lablit.com/article/514 LabLit.com Brian Malow is billed as Earth's premiere science comedian - find out why in this recent interview in London. We also review the highlights from the world of LabLit. Meet science comedian Brian Malow 00:18:56 Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/510 http://www.lablit.com/article/510 LabLit.com Join us for a discussion of Jennifer Rohn's novel Experimental Heart at London's Royal Institution, including a Q&A with the author. Fiction Lab, London's geeky book club 00:18:37 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.lablit.com/article/509 http://www.lablit.com/article/509