Alistair linsell biography

An academic from the University of St Andrews will perform in front of a very different crowd when she takes to the stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival next month.

Dr Kate Cross is more used to dealing with students than audiences, however, she will spend the week in front of the most challenging audiences in comedy – children.

A Research Fellow in the in Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution at the University of St Andrews, Dr Cross will team up with fellow scientist Alistair Linsell to perform Marvellous Medicine which aims to entertain with science.

Performing as “Resonant Science” the pair will use glove puppets, baseball bats, and body-popping to explain how aspirin takes away pain, how smallpox was conquered and how being messy can win you a Nobel Prize.

During the show Alexander Fleming will tell the story of an amazing mouldy discovery and the human brain will reveal its inner workings.

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