The real hallmarks of humanity are curiosity and an amazing ability to cooperate.
If we don't concentrate on resurrecting science, we're not going to be able to compete in a global economy.
In fact, humans have less variation genetically than chimpanzees.
The paleo diet is utter nonsense - it is such pseudoscience.
I'm a firm believer in teaching children to manage risk.
You don't need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems.
Whatever happens to science in schools, there's something peculiar going on if students don't see it as creative.
But I think you can strip the emotion and the subjectivity away while you focus on doing the science - and that's really important.
I'm strict about taking nuts and dried fruit with me and, if I have access to milk, small packets of porridge to eat in a break.
From a very young age, parents are pushing their boys to achieve in a way they don't always do for girls.
Stonehenge is famously aligned with midsummer sunrise, and possibly also intentionally with midwinter sunset.
More useful than beautiful perhaps, my favourite regular programme is 'Question Time'. And Charlie Brooker is just hilarious.
The environment would be better off and everyone would be healthier if we stopped eating meat.
After a few days of vegetable curry I crave my husband's home-made pizza.
When I asked what people would change about their bodies on Twitter, the birthing process was an extremely popular response!
You're not tapping into the widest possible pool of talent if you're shutting some people out of particular careers.
Science is about questioning things.
I'm slightly obsessed with Moomins. They were my specialist subject on BBC's 'Celebrity Mastermind' a few years ago!
