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Science Gallery Competition - Your stories

Swedey — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:53:31 +0000

How has Science Gallery changed your life? Did you go in with a passing interest in fashion and leave as a potential physics student? Did Lab in the Gallery reveal all you ever wanted to know about research? Did you find a partner to collaborate with at a Science Gallery event?

As Science Gallery enters its second year we are looking for your stories about the gallery and its impact. We are looking for the quirky, moving, inspiring or downright bizarre stories. A couple of lines are plenty - but we may follow up with you to get more details.

Thousand Yellow Cocoons, Under Over Through: A Review of The Knife's 'Tomorrow in a Year'

brunswick — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:13:33 +0000

Evolvaphone fans get ready-- this is required listening for the musical evolutionist. Here's the pitch:

Science Friday: French nanorevolutionaries, the baby boomer researchers, and your laptop's unsung sonar song.

brunswick — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:45:24 +0000

Get your sonar on, without the nuclear option.

What do dolphins, Tom Clancy novels, and your laptop have in common? They can all make good use of sonar!

Non-coders, you can stop watching at 1:20. For everyone else, you can rig your computer to automatically sleep by using your computer's mic and speakers to detect via echolocation when you walk away. (via Lifehacker)

Interview: Margaret Wertheim on Science Communication and the inspiration for Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

brunswick — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:52:06 +0000

Margaret Wertheim sat down with us to speak about the upcoming Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef exhibit, her thoughts on science communication, and strategies for engaging new audiences with science.

Margaret Wertheim interview (download)

Science Friday: Futurefood, website music, ridiculous robots, and the spirituality-surgery link

brunswick — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:13:33 +0000

Science of Love, religion, and brain surgery.

Leviathan Science is asking whether science can predict love tonight, but leviathan previously tackled the issue of religion and science at Science Gallery. On that note, a new study has just shown that brain surgery boosts spirituality. Read it on Nature (subscription-only), and the ReasonProject.

Science Friday: Pearls Before Flies, The Drugs (that) Don't Work, and the Maths of Wonderland

brunswick — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:20:21 +0000

My three year old could make art like that.

It turns out some cave 'art' might actually be more linguistic than impressionistic.

And to our readers in the UK ... please don't sue me!

Darwin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:32:08 +0000

Many of you will already be aware of the campaign for libel reform in the UK. The UK libel laws are stifling free speech, and, with no clause for public interest, scientific discussion is being muted too.

Simon Singh's particular case (he is being sued by the British Chiropractic Association) has become the rallying point for efforts to reform UK libel laws to strike a more equitable balance between protection of reputation, and freedom of speech.

OMG! Learning is fun!!!

Darwin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:48:34 +0000

There's a note sitting on my desk as I write. It was given to me by a transition year student who just spent two weeks in my lab on a work placement. It says, "Thank you for everything, I really enjoyed myself". This sits alongside a similar note from another TY student a few weeks earlier.

Science Friday: Broken Hearted Girl Syndrome, urban planning with slime moulds and facebook, and curating like a gangsta

brunswick — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:56:07 +0000

Broken Hearted Girl Syndrome

Science Friday: goodbye to the moon, extraterrestrials in the midlands, and Darwin's eraser-- web 2.0 style

brunswick — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:22:01 +0000

Get it while it's hot

Well, the great midlands meteorite hunt of 2010 is on. Sighted pretty much everywhere, and causing many a call to the local authorities, a meteorite that streaked across the skies earlier this week is thought to have landed somewhere in the midlands. The Irish film board have already received film scripts: