How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown | How To Academy

Tue, 20 August 2024

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm GMT

How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown

Dr Camilla Pang In Conversation With Robin Ince

There’s a scientist hidden inside all of us. Dr Camilla Pang and Robin Ince ask: what can we learn about the world and ourselves if we engage our inner scientist?

A scientist’s journey from observation to discovery is anything but straightforward. It is littered with failure, unexpected diversions and joyous realisations. Science helps us to understand ourselves in a world where we often feel like strangers – but what we know about the world around us, what has already been explored and discovered, is only half of science’s story.

Biochemist Dr Camilla Pang joins comedian and broadcaster Robin Ince to look at some of the biggest mysteries facing science today and how science can illuminate our own approaches to observation, hypothesis, exploration, troubleshooting and discovery in ordinary lives.

Scientific research, much like life, is constantly changing. Part of its beauty is its capacity to adapt to our ever-changing world. Exploring how we can use it as a framework for our lives, Camilla and Robin will show how science’s greatest gift to us is not formulae, but rather how it helps us discover what makes our life so extraordinary.

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Dr Camilla Pang

Biochemist

Dr Camilla Pang holds a PhD in biochemistry from University College London and is a postdoctoral scientist specializing in translational bioinformatics. At the age of eight, Camilla was diagnosed with ASD (autism spectrum disorder) and ADHD at twenty-six years old. Her career and studies have been heavily influenced by her diagnosis and she is driven by her passion for understanding humans, our behaviours and how we work. Her first book, Explaining Humans, won the Royal Society Science Book Prize. Breakthrough is her second book.

Robin Ince

Comedian, Actor and Writer

Robin Ince is a comedian, actor and writer. The Guardian once declared him a ‘becardiganed polymath’ which seems about right. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including The Importance of Being Interested and I’m a Joke and So Are You.

With Professor Brian Cox, he created and presents the award-winning BBC Radio 4 show The Infinite Monkey Cage, which ranks among the most popular science podcasts worldwide. He also won Celebrity Mastermind but forgot that calcium was the dominant element of chalk. After being diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 52, he finally has an excuse.