Science Friday: festivals, remembrance, and science in the art gallery

It's festival Season!

ESOF 2010-- aka European City of Science-- is getting ramped up in a month's time in Turin.  Check it out before ESOF descends on Dublin in 2012.

In 'merica, the World Science Festival kicked off yesterday, (June 3-6) with a shout-out to Stephen Hawking, and a nod to the fusion of art and science.

If you're in the mood for sun perhaps, the Malta Arts Festival (July 1-23) is featuring a floating science exhibition on the 105 year-old M/S Hulda.

An in case you're planing further ahead, the British Science Festival is happening September 14-19. Check those Ryanair sales now!

In your paintings, doing science to your art...

You'd think Rembrandt's paintings would have been prodded, x-rayed, slashed, and scanned enough, but a new study goes at it again, and shows that Rembrandt used optical techniques that trick the focus of your eye, much as photographers do, to attract attention to a particular section.

Not to be outdone by their north American counterparts, some artistically inclined meteorologists in the UK have finally figured out where Monet was sitting when he painted his famous painting of the Charing Cross and Waterloo Bridges.

Omigosh i LOVE your science blog

The Guardian wants to know what Science Blogs you follow, and they're sharing their faves.

Deepwater Horizon and coldwater reefs.

If the whole issues of deep-water oil clouds has got you down, come to Science Gallery June 9th to get more aware of coral reefs right in our own neighbourhood. 

She's gona blow! um, ok maybe not.

It was too good to be true.  Rumours circulating over the past couple weeks that Betelgeuse was about to go supernova in blinding, double-sun awesomeness seem to have been greatly exaggerated.

SG podcast

Some folks have been asking about podcasts of Science Gallery talks, so just a reminder that we post audio recordings of many Science Gallery talks over at our podcast section, or on the iTunes store.

An overdue rememberance.

Henrietta Lack had been buried in an unmarked grave since 1951, until last week.  Don't know who Henrietta Lack is?  You should.

Lastly, a job that really fuses art and science: