Futureproof and The Spin nominated for PPI Radio Awards!
UPDATE: We won! Futureproof won gold at the PPI Awards, beating stiff competition for the Best Specialists Speech Category! Huge thanks to the team: Shaun O’Boyle (producer) and Diane McSweeney and Cormac McAdam (researchers). You can hear the winning entry here: Great news! Both Futureproof, which I present on Newstalk 106-108fm and The Spin, which […]
Life on Mars?
We’ve landed things on Mars before, but never like this. The landing of NASA’s Curiosity Rover at around 6.30am this morning was an awesome feat of engineering, delivering a 1 tonne buggy loaded with state-of-the-art technology to an awkward dry planet after a journey of over 550 million kilometres. Its mission? To begin the search […]
RTE Guide: Why Science
This short piece was written for the RTE Guide to promote The Science Squad on RTE 1, starting June 14th at 7pm Why Science? Jonathan McCrea Though I never knew it, I was born at a time when science was particularly cool. In the late seventies NASA was exploring the skies with the shuttle missions, […]
Irish Independent: Who Wants To Live Forever?
PUBLICATION: IRISH INDEPENDENT DATE: 14TH MAY (HEALTH SECTION) AUTHOR: JONATHAN MCCREA On 22nd March 2012, Fred Chamberlain died for the first time. Unlike most people, he was not buried or cremated, nor was his body donated to a university for the education of anatomy students. Instead, as the 111th patient of Alcor Life Extension (an […]