Science festivities
at 2:45pm on Monday, 5th September 2005
The sun is shining in Dublin. Trinity College is full of a strange mixture of scientists, TV crews and school children - all here for for the BA Festival of Science
We're launching a new report by James, Jack and Brian Wynne called The Public Value of Science which was covered in the Guardian and Telegraph this morning as well as an opinion piece in the FT (sub required) by James. Lord Robert Winston has written the foreword and is going to talk about some of the ideas in his speech this evening we think.
There are all kinds of other interesting talks - tomorrow evening we're going to find out why the bubbles in Guinness are so odd for example. The whole thing gets you wondering about those science questions they never taught you the answers to at school (or during a degree for that matter). Like why do lobsters have big claws? Somebody find me a marine biologist...
The sun is shining in Dublin. Trinity College is full of a strange mixture of scientists, TV crews and school children - all here for for the BA Festival of Science
We're launching a new report by James, Jack and Brian Wynne called The Public Value of Science which was covered in the Guardian and Telegraph this morning as well as an opinion piece in the FT (sub required) by James. Lord Robert Winston has written the foreword and is going to talk about some of the ideas in his speech this evening we think.
There are all kinds of other interesting talks - tomorrow evening we're going to find out why the bubbles in Guinness are so odd for example. The whole thing gets you wondering about those science questions they never taught you the answers to at school (or during a degree for that matter). Like why do lobsters have big claws? Somebody find me a marine biologist...
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