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Enlightenment for all
Edinburgh enlightenment exchange, one of this year’s festival highlights lived up to its namesake and delivered so much more. Hume, Smith, Black and Burns would have been proud of their modern...
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Bright Club: Clever but Funny!
As it turned out what does happen is a very funny and slightly educational experience – opening the doors for swathes of academics from all fields to do stand up comedy about their research. This week...
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Physics and fashion fuse together at the Science Festival
In an event last night exploring the trend in building nanotechnology into clothing, Samantha Fernando, of Scottish outdoor apparel company Keela, explained how building far infrared technologies into...
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Find out what makes an Olympian at the Science Festival
Prof. Dave Collins, from the University of Central Lancashire, argued that mental power was just as important, if not more so, than physical power. “One big reason why medal winning athletes go...
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What's on the Menu at Botanics?
This Wednesday and Thursday seafood will be put under the spotlight. On Wednesday Nick Nairn cooks with farmed seafood and looks at the issues with Marine Science Scotland and on Thursday Stephen...
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Adam Hart-Davis unravels the mystery and history of time
“Time began around 13.7bn years ago and will probably end in around 5bn years time”, said Hart-Davis referring to the Big Bang, however what has changed dramatically is the way we document and measure...
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Richard Bacon brings BBC 5 Live show to the Science Festival
The show kicked off at 2pm from the Grand Gallery with a crowd of spectators watching Richard chat to Festival Director Dr. Simon Gage as he explained what is happening at the Science Festival this...
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Has Stella McCartney got the Olympic design wrong?
Prof. Barton, an evolutionary biologist from Durham University, has researched the effect of colour in competitive sport and has found that red seems to be the colour of winners. “Red is associated...
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Photo Challenge and Blogging Challenge
We’ve extended the Science Festival Photo Challenge so that we can receive more great photos to share with everyone, the enjoyment of the Science Festival as seen through your eyes. And if your photo...
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Looking Back, Moving Forward…
There were lots of exciting things happening at the National Museum of Scotland throughout the festival. Richard Bacon broadcast his BBC Radio 5 live show live from InMotion, an interactive showcase...
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What EdSciFest has been up to in August
As ever, the Fringe provided a multitude of options and we enjoyed a selection of those with a science flavour. Some of our highlights included the delightful Helen Arney's Domestic Science and Voice...
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EdSciFest’s Adventures in Beijing!
We arrived in Beijing early on Tuesday after a long journey and were greeted very warmly by our hosts, who delivered us safely to our hotel in the Olympic Park. There was a thick grey mist which sat...
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Training, Trains and Old Friends
Perhaps the reason we all forgot about the weather was because everyone’s memories were dominated by the people we met. A crack team of tutors, led by Tom...
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The Training Ends, The Doors Creak Open
Some groups have been learning how to get kids excited about dinosaurs, while others have been learning the intricacies of coping with fainters in ER. It’s been scary because everything suddenly felt...
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The First Weekend and Other Busy Things
The workshops and exhibits that we’ve programmed in and brought over are spread over three massive halls in a building which is a bit like the SECC and a bit like a long clean walk through a spaceship...
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Schools Pile In...
Well, they neatly file for about 2 minutes, and then they all disappear under a pile of mess that seems to leak from every pore of every pupil until the big massive hall is crammed full of tiny people...
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Everything ended so it all could begin...
Now we’ve all had the space to gaze fondly at the Festival, a few points become quite clear... 1. That was biiig. It sounds obvious, but it’s hard to put into words just how big this Science Festival...
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A Trip to Sweden
EdSciFest initially ‘made friends’ with the company when they took their Grasping Climate exhibition to the 2011 Abu Dhabi Science Festival, and a small group from Teknikens Hus then visited our...
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The most important toaster in the universe (probably).
The Toaster Project had one (relatively) simple objective – to build a Toaster, from scratch. Beginning with raw materials and ending with a product that Argos sells for only £3.99.This nine month...
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Beginning to learn about brains
Starting off with a crafty card trick to get the audience warmed up, Richard then invited some members of the audience to draw where the brain was and how they thought it looked before introducing...
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