Ginny Smith is a science presenter and writer with a background in Natural Sciences and Psychology. Her blog takes a look at the science she encounters as part of her day to day life. She is on Twitter at @ginnyfbsmith.
Ginny Smith used to love shopping. Saturday afternoons exploring markets and so on. But with images of plastic-eating turtles and homeless orangutans always in her mind, she’s started to think about things differently.
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There’s always going to be someone at Christmas dinner that hates sprouts. But it’s not them being fussy, it’s their genes’ fault. Ginny Smith explains.
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A new study suggests that Netflix’s hit show, 13 Reasons Why, about teenage suicide may actually be having the opposite effect to the one it intended. Ginny Smith takes a look.
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As daylight saving ends for 2018, Ginny Smith explains the effect it can have on our internal body clocks.
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This week, the story broke that the UK government would begin adding folic acid to flour, to help prevent neural tube defects in new-borns. As someone who spends a reasonable amount of time on social media, Ginny Smith wasn’t surprised to see there was an instant backlash.
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What can 80s gameshows tell us about hindsight bias? Both in quiz answers and hairstyle choices. Ginny Smith investigates.
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Too often psychology experiments fail to take basic demographics of their participants into consideration.
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We’re all scared of different things. Ginny Smith investigates why she loves bats and hates spiders by visiting a cathedral.
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