Jon Chase, entertaining the audience at the Technology Stage, with his STEM-based raps, illustrating how technology can turn the seemingly impossible, into reality, at New Scientist Live 2019
Jon Chase is a science communicator, author and science rapper based in South Wales. He has an intense passion for scientific thinking and believes that knowledge should be made available in a way that allows as many people as possible the opportunity to gain access to it. He has produced raps for NASA, CBBC, CH4, Chester Zoo and various other organisations. Jon can also be seen presenting science programmes for BBC Learning, as well as their Youtube science channels, such as BritLab (formerly Head Squeeze). We’re surrounded by technology. Some old, some new, some groundbreaking, but generally all useful in some way or another. It doesn’t just appear overnight though. Often technology is thought up well in advance of it appearing. Mainly because it takes time to invent and perfect stuff. Technology can turn the seemingly impossible into reality and nowadays has got us living more and more in a science fiction world. Science rapper Jon Chase (AKA Oort Kuiper) takes a look at some of these technologies, whilst entertaining you with a selection of his STEM-based Chase is an author, science communicator, presenter, science rapper and educational entertainer based in south Wales. In 2008 he was identified by The Guardian as education’s ‘Next Best Thing'. Chase's presenting work includes CBBC's Space Hoppers, in which his raps also feature; the Open University's Street Science; and a one-hour Bitesize Science programme for BBC Learning. His raps have appeared in CBeebies' Rhyme Rocket and are included amongst the BBC's Bitesize online learning resources. Jon co-authored his first book, Mark Brake's Space, Time Machine, Monster: The Science of Doctor Who, with author, broadcaster and science communicator Mark Brake, to be published by Candy Jar Books. Chase and Brake are frequent collaborators, having co-written and co-hosted a series of live educational shows for children.
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