Helen Arney

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Helen Arney
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Arney at Winchester Skeptics in the Pub.
Alma mater Imperial College
OccupationPhysicist
Helen Arney's voice
Recorded November 2015
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Helen Arney is a British presenter, stand-up comedian and musician. [1] She has toured with the Uncaged Monkeys alongside comedian Robin Ince and Professor Brian Cox.

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Described as a "geek songstress" by the Edinburgh Reporter, Arney plays the ukulele as one third of the Festival of the Spoken Nerd, [2] accompanied by stand-up mathematician Matt Parker and television scientist Steve Mould. She and Parker are also commentators on nearly every episode of You Have Been Warned ( Outrageous Acts of Science ).

After performing songs which she felt were "just quirky and different" at a science show organised by Robin Ince, she realised that she could "add science and music together in a meaningful way". [3]

Appearances

At the 2012 Boring Conference, [4] Arney gave a presentation entitled "Features and Specifications of the Yamaha PSR-175 Portable Keyboard (Discontinued)."

Arney presented a section of an episode of the BBC's natural history series Coast in 2015. [5]

Arney was guest presenter on Episode 97 of No Such Thing as a Fish where she explained the fact that "Tomorrow will be the longest day of your life."

In January 2017 Arney appeared on BBC Radio 4's Museum of Curiosity . Her hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was a set of samples of the four most recently discovered chemical elements: nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson. [6]

She sometimes collaborates with her sister Kat Arney, a science communicator. [7]

Writing

In 2013, Arney wrote a piece in the Financial Times entitled "You've got to laugh", in which she promotes the power of comedy in communicating scientific principles. [8]

In 2018, Arney published the book The element in the room: science-y stuff staring you in the face with her fellow Festival of the Spoken Nerd partner Steve Mould.

References

  1. ↑ Downs, Elaine (29 June 2015). "Festival Of The Spoken Nerd: Life, Oh Life". Chortle . Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  2. ↑ "DVD review – Fringe Favourites "Festival of the Spoken Nerd"". The Edinburgh Reporter.
  3. ↑ "Speaking Geek with Helen Arney". Manchester Girl Geeks. 29 October 2015. Archived from the original on 29 October 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Surprisingly Interesting: a dispatch from the 2012 Boring Conference". Slate . 27 November 2012.
  5. ↑ "Coast, Series 10, Caves and Coves". BBC. 13 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Museum of Curiosity: Series 10: Episode 1". BBC Radio 4 . Retrieved 15 January 2017.
  7. ↑ "Kat Arney - Author - Education in Chemistry". Rsc.org .
  8. ↑ "Helen Arney: You've got to laugh". Financial Times . 13 October 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
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