Michelle Dickinson
Season 6, Episode 4
The first of our episodes recorded in New Zealand saw Robin and Josie joined by nanotechnologist, science communicator and writer Dr Michelle Dickinson (who you might better know as Nanogirl). Michelle’s first book is out in October so they chat about that as well as the work of Michael Crichton, Atul Gawande, Barbara Baynton and more. There’s also a quite gross story about scratching one’s head…
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Reading List
Michelle recommends
Get off the Grass: Kickstarting New Zealand’s Innovation Economy by Shaun Hendy and Paul Callaghan
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
Prey by Michael Crichton
8 Re-Wired by Michelle Dickinson and David Downs
Why Things Break: Understanding the World By the Way It Comes Apart by Mark A. Eberhart
Josie recommends
Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Robin recommends
The Complete Lyrics by Nick Cave
The Hamyln Book of Monsters by Daniel Farson
The Puritan Jungle: America’s Sexual Underground by Sara Harris
Luminous Moments by Paul Callaghan
What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard Feynman
Sometimes I Laugh Like My Sister by Martin Bartelt
The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton
The Itch by Atul Gawande
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death by Brenna Hassett
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