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Are You Smarter than a Stoneage Engineer?

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Are You Smarter than a Stoneage Engineer?

I was invited as a guest onto the first episode of Teachwire Talks, hosted by Helen Mulley. The episode, Are You Smarter than a Stoneage Engineer, puts me in conversation with Dr. Jennifer Wexler, Historian at English Heritage, to discuss how the prehistoric Stonehenge site can spark powerful learning in modern STEM classrooms.

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Guest appearance on The Mathematicians Podcast

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Guest appearance on The Mathematicians Podcast

For a special edition of The Mathematicians Podcast, host Ben Cornish invited me to join him in conversation about my similarly-titled book, The Mathematicians’ Library.

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Podcast: Mathematical Objects: Enigma machine with Tom Briggs

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Podcast: Mathematical Objects: Enigma machine with Tom Briggs

Shortly before leaving Bletchley Park I recorded an interview with Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett for the Mathematical Objects podcast, hosted by the Aperiodical.

Tags: cryptography, enigma, interview, mathematics, MathsComm, museums, online, podcast