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Science Gallery Shop: Five Festive Gifts

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Science Gallery Shop has a fantastic range of nerdy stocking fillers and geek chic gifts to get you through this festive season. Here are five that our shop guy Rob has chosen to give you some ideas for Christmas parties and family presents.

Design for Learning: The Finalists

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In this annual event, Science Gallery, the NDRC and Inventorium bring together our shared skill sets and networks in this exciting new initiative to identify Ireland's next educational entrepreneur.

FUTURE OF WATER: Open call for submissions

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Science Gallery is seeking proposals for a major upcoming exhibition, and series of workshops and events on the theme FUTURE OF WATER, that will run from October 20th 2011 to January 20th 2012.

Visceral: Lab out of context

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As the exhibition draws to a close and the exhibits are prepared for Visceral: The Funeral - which happens today at 6:30 pm -I'm taking a look back at Visceral's Lab out of context. The living elements of several of the exhibits were grown in a laboratory that was custom-built for the exhibition.

Visceral: Mobile Cryolibrary

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Cryobook Archives by Tagny Duff uses human and pig tissues to create cryopreserved books that are reminiscent of an archive that exists in the -80 °C freezers of labs throughout the world. Tissues taken from humans and other animals are preserved at temperatures so low, it prevents biochemical reactions from killing the cells. Stored in this archive, is biological and chemical information so complex that it could never be written as text.

Visceral: Feeding The Semi-Living Worry Dolls

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Last Friday, I was lucky enough to accompany Oron Catts as he fed The Semi-Living Worry Dolls, a project that he created with Ionat Zurr. The degradable polymer that originally gave these dolls their form are slowly being replaced by living cells; cells that need heat, oxygen, and food. In this post, I've documented the feeding process for anyone who hasn't caught this rare event in person.

Visceral: In the lab with Abhishek Hazra

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The Visceral production blog has been quiet of late but I promise that I have been spending that time productively (pun genuinely not intended), collecting photographs, interviews, and behind-the-scene observations that I'll post over the coming weeks. This is an interview I filmed with artist Abhishek Hazra just before the opening of Visceral as he worked on Let A Thousand Proteins Bloom.

Visceral: Interview with Nigel Helyer

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During the installation of Visceral - while the exhibition (literally) came to life - I spoke to artist, Nigel Helyer, as he fed members of the Gryllidae family that play a key part in his Visceral exhibit, Host.

Hi Nigel, thanks for taking the time to speak with me. Tell me about Host.

Visceral: Time-lapse

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This is a time-lapse recording of the Visceral build in our upstairs gallery space made by Science Gallery's Ian Brunswick. It's about one minute of footage per day and really demonstrates the number of people and the amount of work that went in to creating this incredible space.