American Idol for scientists

✍ Scribed by Jonathan Wood

• Book ID: 104418134
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 92 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1369-7021
• DOI: 10.1016/s1369-7021(06)71633-9

✦ Synopsis

It was one of those nightmares where your heart races, hairs stand on end, and every single nerve end prickles with painful awareness. Bright lights cut me off from the room, but I knew there were hundreds of people watching me, judging me. I could feel beads of sweat form, coalesce, and descend in stopstart rivulets down my back.

But this was no dream. This was the final of Famelab, a UK competition to find the next face of science, and I was on stage about to give a fiveminute talk on a topic of my choosing in front of a panel of judges and a live audience.