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James Gleick video now online

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We've now posted 2 videos of James Gleick's visit to Science Gallery. The first is of him reading an excerpt from The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood and the second is an interview with Shane Hegarty of The Irish times, plus a Q&A with the audience. Enjoy!

Science Gallery wins Irish Web Award!

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Science Gallery is chuffed to have won the 2011 Irish Web Award for Best Education and Third Level Website!

Here are Science Gallery’s Ian Brunswick and Danny Browne just after accepting the award from Rick O’Shea.

Congrats to the other nominees and thanks to everyone who voted for us!

(Photo by rymus on pix.ie)

2010 Annual Review-- what a year!

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I'ts been more than three years since Science Gallery launched back in February 2008, and today we launched our 2010 annual review, which looks back at a very exciting year for Science Gallery.

Dava Sobel Video on "A More Perfect Heaven"

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We've just posted the video of Dava Sobel's sold-out talk at Science Gallery, hosted by Michael John Gorman:

Carl Djerassi's Science Gallery lecture now online

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We've just posted Carl Djerassi's talk on "What can the theatre do for science" which included excerpts from "OXYGEN", and a dramatic reading of an excerpt from "PHALLACY" with actress Niamh Shaw.

An Afternoon of Radioactivity, July 15th, 2-5pm

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To celebrate the Tercentenary of the School of Chemistry, and the 100th anniversary of the award of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Marie Curie, the School invites you to attend an open lecture series “An Afternoon with Radioactivity” on Friday July 15th, which will include an address by Professor Hélène Langevin-Joliot, the grand-daughter of Marie Curie.

This event is free, but tickets must be obtained in advance from the School of Chemistry. Contact Ms Jill Galvin 01-8961726, or email: galvinji@tcd.ie.

Dublin City of Science Call Deadline Approaching

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Dublin City of Science 2012 currently has two calls for proposals out, and the deadline is June 30th. They're looking for both scientific session proposals, and porposals to the public engagement programme.

Don't miss this opportunity to be part of City of Science 2012-- more info on both calls is available here: http://www.dublinscience2012.ie/calls

Science Friday: The best hat in the solar system, the smell of pain, Yuri's flight, and a job opening

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A week of weird and wonderful research...

New Scientist has two great stories this week, the first about viable sperm cells being grown 'from scratch' and the second about how our sense of pain and smell are linked in a previously unknown way.

Science Friday: Space Lasers, Mysteries of Monkey Minds, and Quiz Time

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NASA pre-empting Bond villains everywhere with their own space laser:

(From WIRED Science)

The growing cloud of space junk surrounding the Earth is a hazard to spaceflight, and will only get worse as large pieces of debris collide and fragment. NASA space scientists have hit on a new way to manage the mess: Use mid-powered lasers to nudge space junk off collision courses.

Science Friday: Breast is best, gravity waves, and better lookin than suckers on the leg of a diving beetle...

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This is the end, my friend...

The end of Visceral, that is, so we had a good old send-off at the Visceral Funeral last night. We talked about how exactly to dispose of art that is living, and what it should mean to us.