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Television 06 Prof Ford and Adam Hart-Davis With David Attenborough 

(1) Channel 4 TV (2) with Adam Hart-Davis, BBC (3) Sir David Attenborough

1. Commenting on 'The Great Dictators', Channel 4 television. 2. Brian and Adam have appeared together for
the BBC both on television and radio. 3. Brian presented his long-standing friend David Attenborough
with Honorary FIBiol at the Royal Society.

Projects for 2012

Lecture cruises to Mexico, Arctic Norway, Italy, Caribbean and Spain, and around Britain.
Presentations in cities including Atlanta, London, Los Angeles, Cambridge and Chicago.
Teaching residential course on the world of the microscope at Cambridge University.
Featuring in new documentary series 'Future Family' (Channel Five Television).
Column in the American magazine The Microscope, entitled 'Critical Focus'.


Contributions in 2011

New Chinese edition of Sensitive souls, published in Beijing by Renmin University Press.
New book Secret Weapons due out from Osprey Publishing, 20th September 2011.
Lectures around the Canaries, also in Singapore, Cambridge, United States, etc.
Annual Keynote address: An Evening with Brian at Inter Micro, Chicago.


Contributions in 2010

First of a new column in The Microscope magazine, Chicago, on the Royal Society.
Chapter for new book by Ria University Press, Palo Alto, California.
Publications for on Linnaeus and on Plagiarism published in the USA.
There were features in the BBC's Focus science magazine and Biologist.
Latest articles on intelligent cells in New Scientist and Mensa Magazine.


Contributions in 2009

Chapter: Did Physics matter to the Pioneers of Microscopy? for Academic Press.
Review of 'Science for Primary School Teachers' in Journal of Biological Education, 43 (1): 45.
Paper on 'The e-learning Imperative' in The Microscope, 2009, 56 (4): 163-172.
Extract from 'BSE - The Facts' republished by Zkai Co, Ltd, Japan: Tokyo.
Weird Weapons of WW2, TV series transmitted on History Channel.


Here are scientific and general bibliographies, articles and lecture cruises sorted by year. Activities and publications are listed to 2010 and there's a list of web pages that link to this site. Read a Fellowship research 2003-2007. Read about falling exam standards and haematology, the development of the microscope, forensic science, the control of biohazards, behaviour of protozoa, and dissatisfied scientists. There are publications in journals like New Scientist and Nature, and books like Images of Science, and BSE: The Facts, while Genes and the Fight for Life was first reviewed on the web. New pages include GM Crops and Sensitive Souls and the Future of Food in Britain, America, Italy, Spain and Germany. Work on head lice and photomicrography experiments appears with a new space microscope for the European Space Agency. Other research covers water safety and photoremediation, Brownian Movement as Robert Brown saw it in 1828, a major paper on Leeuwenhoek and a new Leeuwenhoek bibliography of 300 items. There's a profile from California and a review from Illinois, even flying saucer photographs.

See personal and press pictures, and world maps with ports of call. The specialised lists include TV programmes from 'Newsnight' to 'Sky News'. An early newspaper column leads to the books index. There's the Soho magazine Boz, columns in the Mensa Magazine in 1972 and 1994-1996. Listed programmes include Round Britain Quiz and Science Now on radio, with Food for Thought (see also 'food' publications index) and Computer Challenge on TV. The original home page from 1996 is still here, with millennium presentations including Science Hour live on LBC.

The books start with German Secret Weapons and scientific papers are listed for the 1950s (4kb), 1960s (14kb), 1970s (16kb), 1980s (20kb), 1990s (36kb) and 2000s. Some published comments are listed; just click the PRESS button.

We link to the BBC April Fool's joke in which Brian, as 'Dr Dieter Zimmermann', introduced the new Euro Anthem to replace 'God Save the Queen'; follow an April Fool's day joke for television, a BBC interview on foot and mouth, and a page on the BBC's Round Britain Quiz. Some lectures are now listed by journal, and the main Index now links to over 4,000 pages and images. To our surprize, this site receives a million hits every quarter, sometimes logging up to 38,000 per day.

Recently in Print
Article on cell intelligence for New Scientist magazine, (2010).
Chapter for new book on cultured meat published in California (2010).
Paper 'On Intelligence in Cells; the Case for Whole Cell Biology' (2009).
Chapter 'Did Physics Matter to the Pioneers of Microscopy?' (2009.)
Paper on 'The e-learning Imperative' in The Microscope, 2009, 56 (4): 163-172.
Microscopical substantiation of Intelligence in Living Cells, In Focus, Royal Microscopical Society 12: 6-21.
Intelligence in Living Cells, and the Inter Micro Conference, the First 60 Years, The Microscope 56 (2): 67-85 (2008)
Chapters in The Great naturalists, London: Natural History Museum, (2008)
New Chinese edition of SENSITIVE SOULS (2008)
Sir Colin Spedding's new book The Second Mouse gets the Cheese (2005)
New edition of History of The King's School, Peterborough (2005)
Lithuanian translation of Future of Food (2004)

New Polish edition of Sensitive Souls (2004)
Chapters on new diseases for CRC Press and Encyclopaedia Britannica
(2004)
Hardback and paperback editions of GM Crops: the scientists Speak
(2003)