Do you actually know how to flush a toilet? Turns out no-one does, so I wrote a song about it… and performed it in an actual stream…
Watch it on twitter here. It’s all for the #SaveOurStreams campaign from Affinity Water. Hope it makes you think how to waste less of the precious water that comes from our local environment and into our houses.
Get yourself some free water saving devices here and learn all about the rare and endangered chalk streams we are so lucky to have here in the UK.
2020 has been… interesting. I’ve birthed a new podcast, a new baby and a new version of Tom Lehrer’s Elements, all made a little more awkward during a global pandemic.
I had a lot of fun creating a full brass band version of the Element Song with the good folks at Chemistry World, you can read all about it and watch the video online here.
Our Festival of the Spoken Nerd podcast also launched with six episodes of truly Unnecessary Detail. Listen, subscribe and download on your podcast app of choice, or click here for all the details.
I’ve just sent one of my infrequent newsletters (sign up here) featuring such excellent events as “The Night That Launched A Thousand Ships” – my fundraiser full of science, stories, sea-faring and Helens on the Cutty Sark – and more live shows coming up soon.
You can also read the latest news about our Podcast of Unnecessary Detail, get a discount on Spoken Nerd DVD if you work in education, hear about my periodic table of puns and how I persuaded an actor to dress up as a motivational Zumba giraffe at the Natural History Museum and perform an “Evolution Disco” show last month. It’s all here.
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