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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.

Science Friday: Broken Hearted Girl Syndrome, urban planning with slime moulds and facebook, and curating like a gangsta

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Broken Hearted Girl Syndrome

Science Friday: goodbye to the moon, extraterrestrials in the midlands, and Darwin's eraser-- web 2.0 style

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Get it while it's hot

Well, the great midlands meteorite hunt of 2010 is on. Sighted pretty much everywhere, and causing many a call to the local authorities, a meteorite that streaked across the skies earlier this week is thought to have landed somewhere in the midlands. The Irish film board have already received film scripts:

Science Gallery nominated for European Museum of the Year 2010

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Science Gallery has been nominated for the 2010 European Museum of the Year Award. The news comes in the week that Science Gallery celebrates its second birthday and prepares to open its eleventh exhibition – LOVE LAB: THE SCIENCE OF DESIRE.

Lovelab preview: interview with Prof. Fiona Newell

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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.