I’m writing this on my way back from the British Science Association Science Communication Conference, having had a fun two days meeting other science communicators. There was a good range of topics discussed, from reaching under-served audiences to science comedy to the gap between science communication theory and practice, and Read more…
A special edition of the online science magazine show broadcast in front of a live audience from the Cambridge Science Centre. Sonja Dunbar explains how plants, bacteria and fungi sometimes get along together. Robin Lamboll, one of the UK finalists of the +famelab Science Communication competition, explains part of the Read more…
Join us each month for our Broadcast Hangout on Google+ (http://is.gd/scicamgplus) and on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/SciCam). Disappearing bees, breakthroughs in fusion, and a guide to flying in February’s edition of the live science magazine show! First up was Sonja Dunbar talking about the decrease in the number of bees, colony Read more…
In a wintery edition of the online science show, Michael Conterio talks about the physics of ice both on the Earth and off it, while Sonja Dunbar explains all the adaptations that allow plants to survive cold, wintry weather. If you’d like to know more about the taiga (the Read more…
In this episode Sonja Dunbar talks about horse-tail spores and how they travel, while Michael Conterio talks about this year’s Nobel Prize winners. Join us each month for our Broadcast Hangout on Google+ (http://is.gd/scicamgplus) and on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/SciCam).
Early last month an announcement on the internet caught my eye. The YouTube channel Geek & Sundry (run by Felicia Day, who had some of the earliest success with web video series with the show she wrote and starred in, ‘The Guild’) was looking for 10 vloggers to join their Read more…
Last week I went to a talk about one of the universe’s biggest mysteries – why do we exist? Or more specifically in this case, why is there still matter around? We believe that in the Big Bang equal amounts of matter and anti-matter should have been created, but when Read more…
How do you celebrate the wonderful curiosity of a man who was not only a Nobel Prize winning physicist, but also a bongo player, safe cracker, incredible teacher, and on the commission that investigated the Challenger space shuttle disaster? If you’re Robin Ince, the answer is to celebrate what would Read more…
In this episode Alex Shires talks about recent results in our search for Dark Matter, both from up in space and underground, while Sonja Dunbar talks about the signals that plants put out to try and avoid being eaten!
I had a busy time in the run up to the festival, and then a (I feel well-deserved) break for Easter, but now I’ve finally got round to summing up my experience of the festival. I’ve put this in chronological order. rather than try to divide into what would probably be reasonably arbitrary categories. (more…)
