Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Cambridge Science Festival 2010

8-21 March 2010 as part of National Science and Engineering Week.

Full programme online at: http://www.cambridgescience.org or please call 01223 766766 to request a hard copy.

Join us for the UK's largest free science festival, exploring subjects from astronomy to zoology, with demonstrations, hands on experiments, talks from leading scientists, and visits to University and partner facilities. Over 170 free events will give families, adults and children of all ages two weeks of hands on science and insight into the University's cutting edge research. Many of the hands on activities, demonstrations and children's lectures will take place on our family fun days on Saturday 13 and 20 March. Many events below are drop in, but do visit the website to check if any you are interested in require pre-booking.

Highlights for adults include:
  • The Price of Extinction: what losing biodiversity costs, with William Kendall, chief executive of Green & Blacks chocolate, Bill Adams, Hazell Thompson and more, 10 March
  • Muza Gondwe, showing African science heroes film, 11 March
  • David Spiegelhalter, on the public understanding of risk, 12 March
  • Simon Wessely, researcher on military health, gulf war syndrome, PTSD, speaking on 'From the Blitz to Bin Laden: responses to adversity', 15 March
  • Ehsan Masood, author of Science and Islam, speaking 17 March
  • Discover the science of humour with psychologist Richard Wiseman on 18 March as he describes his year-long search for the world's funniest joke
  • Jason Rentfrow, social psychologist involved in BBC Big Personality Test, speaking 19 March
  • Join specialist science guides on the Daring Diversity walking tour to discover why Newton poked a needle in his eye and why Darwin's nickname was 'Gas'
Highlights for families include:
  • Hands on activities in Colourful Creatures at the Museum of Zoology
  • Learn what happens when lasers and jam doughnuts collide with Dr Evil
  • Discover the world of waves, gases and chemistry with The Naked Scientists as they detonate bombs, electrocute vegetables, and turn air into a liquid!

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