Naked Scientist – Chris Smith,

Science Week presentation

The RACI has been asked to Host the BBCs Naked Scientist – Chris Smith when he visits Australia during August. He is one of the three international tour presenters for this years National week. (He is kind of like the UK version of Doctor Karl)

Chris Smith is a doctor and a clinical lecturer in virology at Cambridge University. Deciding that medicine wasn't soaking up enough of his free time, Chris started the Naked Scientists radio show, podcast and website.He presents the Naked Scientists, is the science correspondent for the ABC Radio National Breakfast, Australia, hosts the Naked Scientists on BBC Radio 5 Live every Monday morning and also appears to talk science for thirty minutes every Friday morning on Primedia's TalkRadio 702 / 567 CapeTalk in South Africa; he also fronts the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemistry World podcast and founded the Nature Podcast for the journal Nature. Now and then he also pops up on telly, usually when the feathers hit the fan during a bird 'flu or swine 'flu outbreak.

We have arranged for his presentation to be on August 17th at UNSW Matthews A theatre (F23 on the uni Map) - 6.15pm for a 6.30pm start. This will be an event open to the general public - FREE

The title of his presentation: Stripping Down Science

Inside science media – a look at the “anatomy” of the Naked Scientists and how we make science fun and interesting including explaining how science stories are found and turned into news, how broadcasting works and the use of testing the uselessness of a chocolate teapot, measure the speed of a sneeze and find out how fat you’d have to be to stop a bullet with your belly.

The lecture will be Free. However we would appreciate if you register your interest via email ([email protected])