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30 October 2024
Balance : Thought-provoking dance... with a giant tongue, Zorb ball and no added sugar?
Fun for all the family, Balance is a unique and experimental blend between education and entertainment through sensual and stirring dance.
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20 October 2023
Life Beyond Us Book Review
Popular science meets science fiction in this thought-provoking and diverse anthology of stories and essays from the European Astrobiology Institute
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23 March 2022
Nightmare Alley Review: Guillermo Del Toro’s nightmarish noir
The auteur who fears men more than monsters turns to a cruel carnival setting in his latest film.
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10 September 2021
Winners of the Ig Nobel prize announced: Upside-down rhinos declared A-okay
The award was presented in ten different categories, including an award for transportation given to a group of researchers analysing the impact of transporting rhinoceroses upside-down.
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16 July 2021
Review: New Coal by Stacie Woolsey
Reviewing Stacie Woolsey's three-part narrative, based on a fictional industrial revolution after creating the strong, malleable and corrosion-resistant material of graphene in the north of England.
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12 March 2021
Creativity and the Brain
Art and science are often considered to be polar opposites, but Mozilla Festival’s ‘Creativity and the Brain’ event worked to unite them through the research of neuroscientist Fernanda Pérez-Gay Juárez.
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5 March 2021
Interview with Hannah Hobson, Communications Manager at Understanding Animal Research
We speak to science communicator Hannah Hobson to dig into the myths and realities of animal testing, and to get insight into how the Covid-19 vaccine is both safe to take and crucial for ending the pandemic.
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4 March 2021
Interview with Helena Cochrane, astrophotographer
We talk to 16-year-old astrophotographer Helena Cochrane about her equipment, her aspirations, and humanity's potential future on Mars!
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10 August 2020
Truth and Trust: the Rise and Fall of the Expert
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
Isaac Asimov
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17 February 2020
Sharing genetic data: Henrietta Lacks and the question of informed consent
In 1951 Henrietta Lacks unknowingly donated her cells to cancer research, unaware that they would both save lives and provoke fierce debate over what constitutes ethical medical research.
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5 December 2018
Surviving the Arts landscape? A Q&A series with Emerging Historic Conservators.
Paula Moore the Director at Talkin’ Culture is currently talking to emerging historic conservators to create a series of Q&A blog and understand more about the conditions to work in applied arts and craft. Paula is presenting the same Q&A to each participant and will then draw on common themes.
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3 June 2018
Kevin Quantum: Vanishing Point
Kevin Quantum, a self-proclaimed magician-scientist hybrid, delivers a fun, entertaining magic show at his Brighton Fringe premiere.
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24 May 2018
Motionhouse 'Charge'
On Friday the 23rd of March I was able to go see Motionhouse perform ‘Charge’ at the Peacock theatre in London. Kevin Finnan MBE, aimed to create a show collaboratively with scientists are artists to make audience members “think about the role energy plays in our lives.” Charge is the third element of Kevin Finnan’s ‘Earth Trilogy’, developing on themes explored in Scattered, and Broken, about our relationship with water and the Earth.
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15 August 2017
Off the Top: Neuroscience with Attitude
A good demonstration of how you can bring neuroscience and performance together.
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6 March 2017
Neglecting the Arts in Schools
Compulsory triple science at GCSE is a blow to the arts
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29 October 2016
GOSH @ Mozfest 2016
The Global Open Source Hardware (GOSH) movement wants to make science more accessible
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