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Fiona Newell is an Associate Professor in TCD's Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology with a research focus on human perceptual processes.  She is also head of the Multisensory Cognition Group. 

I sat down with her to ask a few questions about her involvement in Lovelab, and what we can expect when the exhibition opens with a special member's preview on February 10th.

It's Science Friday, and we're in a disco nap till Lovelab kicks off, so in the mean time, what's going on at other funky museums around the world?

Well, you could creative-commons your museum, like the Brooklyn Museum has done (warning, HuffPost link). 

That Blood in your heart is pretty valuable. It keeps you alive, sure, but if you're talking price per litre, then go for the printer ink. 

Check out the relative prices of different liquids (via consumerist), and come see Love Lab starting Feb 5th to get more heartbreaking notions.

WHAT IF... closes this weekend, so be sure to check out the future forms and designs on display it before it's too late!  And while you'll most likely be bombarded with news on the Copenhagen climate summit, check out this re-design of the controversial "Danish text" via Wordle and the Guardian:

And as we hear debates about rising sea levels, carbon emissions and the like, new studies show us that climate change can be pretty calamitous.  Turns out, 5 million years ago, Gibraltar