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Science Gallery Competition - Your stories

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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'

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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.

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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

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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)

BIORHYTHM OPEN CALL

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Science Gallery is calling all experimental musicians, musical neuroscientists, sound artists, cyborg performers, dance-floor divas and harmonic engineers to contribute to our upcoming BIORHYTHM show...

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

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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.

TEDxDublin 3.0 - ticket update

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SOLD OUT! Friday March 12 sees our third TEDxDublin (and it's also the last day of LOVE LAB). The tickets went on sale at midday March 1st and were gone within 15 minutes. We're sorry if you missed out this time. We'll hopefully be live streaming TEDxDublin 3.0 so come back here for more details.

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

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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!

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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!!!

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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.

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