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Contact Details
Frank Swain
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Recent Posts
- Human Guinea Pig – Bravo
- Pulse Project Podcast
- The skin-generating printer – Wired
- My (new) critical voice – Wired
- The colour of scent – Wired
- Blue Banana Agency
- Television Work
- How to design the perfect city – BBC Focus
- Interstellar playtime – Wired
- Fight street crime with brains, not brawn – Wired
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Bio & Contact
Frank Swain writes and talks about science. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and a Master’s in Natural Resource... -
SciencePunk.com
Started in 2006, this website gathers weird and wonderful snippets of science and relays them in context to a lay... -
Human Guinea Pig – Bravo
On July 1 2010, Human Guinea Pig aired on the Bravo network. I was responsible for the initial concept and... -
Pulse Project Podcast
In early June I joined Brendon Connelly and Colin Murphy of the Pulse Project Podcast to discuss some of... -
The skin-generating printer – Wired
A short article for the July issue of Wired UK magazine on the development of a printer that can produce... -
My (new) critical voice – Wired
A short article on film critic Roger Ebert’s new synthetic voice, developed by CereProc. Appeared in the June issue of... -
The colour of scent – Wired
A short article on the work carried out by Kenneth Suslick, whose team developed reactive pigment based colorimeters for imaging... -
Blue Banana Agency
In early 2010 I participated in an ideas generation session for Manchester-based Blue Banana Agency. Several scientists and myself... -
Television Work
In the past I’ve worked with a wide variety of television production companies, helping them to develop ideas for science... -
How to design the perfect city – BBC Focus
I wrote a 3,000 word feature for the 2009 December issue of BBC Focus, a popular science magazine, on the... -
Interstellar playtime – Wired
Wired magazine recently published a profile I wrote of Regina Peldszus, a doctoral researcher in spacecraft habitability design. The article... -
Fight street crime with brains, not brawn – Wired
The October 2009 edition of Wired UK magazine carried my interview with Melissa Marselle -
Industry and greens battle over pseudoscience – EU Observer
In September I was interviewed by the EU Observer, commenting on the launch of ScienceMatters, an industry-backed lobby group. ... -
Wellcome Trust Narrative Skills Workshop
In July 2009 I took part in a narrative skills session organised by the Wellcome Trust. Led by ex-BBC producer... -
Science: So What?
In July 2009 I was hired by the BDP Media Group to produce a communication strategy for the Government’s Science:... -
Guerilla scientists gatecrash Secret Garden Party
Lured by Red Stripe and other totally legal substances, the scientists wowed festivalgoers with the delights of space travel and... -
Is alternative medicine useful? – BBC Oxford Radio
On July 17 2009 I took part in a debate about the place of alternative medicine in modern healthcare on... -
Scientists deploy guerilla tactics at music festivals – Guardian Science Blog
Taste a brain made of cake, spy the moons of Jupiter, dance to fractals, hunt for the Higgs, and ponder... -
Zombology
In June 2009, Marsha Filion at OneWorld Publications secured the rights to my first book, Zombology: the new science of... -
MPs demand scrutiny of science policy – Guardian Science Blog
A House of Commons committee warned today that despite the government’s reassurances, science and engineering risk being lost in the... -
UK government sees science as a tool for profit – Guardian Science Blog
It’s difficult to see the assimilation of science into Peter Mandelson’s new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as anything... -
The anti-science sentiment infecting politics – Guardian Science Blog
On Thursday, millions of us will go to the polls to decide how Britain is represented in the European Parliament,... -
Should we all be looking for our inner self? – BBC Radio 5 Live
In April I was a guest on Richard Bacon’s BBC Radio 5 talk radio show, taking part in a debate... -
Standing Up for Science Workshop
In March 2009, the Voice of Young Science held a workshop aimed at encouraging early-career scientists to take a more...