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Fresh Science 2010 #Melbourne. Are you a Fresh Scientist? Enter now!
This national event brings together scientists, the media and the public to:
§ enhance reporting of Australian science
§ highlight and encourage debate on the role of science in Australian society
§ provide role models for the next generation of Australian scientists.
Fresh Science 2010 will be held at Melbourne Museum from Monday 7 to Thursday 10 June, 2010. Stories will be released to the media during the event and in the weeks following. The Fresh Scientists need to be available to talk to the media during this time.
Nominations are now open for Fresh Scientists and close Thursday 25 March 2010. More information and the online nomination form are at http://www.freshscience.org.au/
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Super Human. Revolution of the Species Symposium, Melbourne 23rd and 24th Nov
Super Human: Revolution of the Species Symposium
23 – 24 November 2009
BMW Edge, Federation Square
Melbourne, AustraliaDue to popular demand, we are releasing single-day and half-day tickets for the Super Human symposium.
Two-day $500 / $350
Single-day $250 / $175 concession
Half-day $125 / $87.50 concessionJoin artistic and scientific researchers from the fields of cognition, augmentation and nanotechnology as they consider what it means to be human, now and into the future.
For the full program visit www.superhuman.org.au or select from the following:
23 November – morning session – 9.30am – 12.30pm
Keynote: Barbara Maria Stafford (USA)
Transparency or the New Invisibility; the Business of Making Connections
Panelists: Michele Barker (AUS), Dolores Steinman (Canada), Kathryn Hoffmann (USA)23 November – afternoon session – 1.30pm – 6.00pm
Keynote: Ju Gosling (UK)
Super Human Rights
Panelists: Kathy Cleland (AUS), Natasha Vita-More (USA), Tina Gonsalves (AUS), Mari Velonaki (AUS), Reva Stone (Canada)24 November – morning session – 10.00am – 12.30pm
Keynote: Junichi Ushiba (Japan)
Brain-Machine Interface into Virtual Worlds
Panelists: Jonathan Duckworth (AUS), Danielle Wilde (AUS)24 November – afternoon session – 1.30pm – 6.00pm
Keynotes: Tami Spector (USA)
Nanoaesthetics
Panelists: Leah Heiss (AUS), Svenja Kratz (AUS), Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (UK).
Closing Address: Paul Brown (AUS/UK)Visit www.superhuman.org.au for further information and ticket sales.
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Sue Healey and the Curiosities
The Curiosities is a new performance work by Sue Healey, in collaboration with leading scientists, new media artists and dancers. Inspired by the processes of biological development and evolution, The Curiosities evokes the feeling of a surreal natural history museum.
Thur 29–Sat 31 Oct and Wed 4–Sat 7 Nov
Performance Space, CarriageWorks
245 Wilson Street Eveleigh, Sydney, NSW, AUSFind out more at The Performance Space website
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See Salvador Dali before he melts away
13 June to 4 October 2009 – Salvador Dali – Liquid Desire – More than 200 works including painting, drawing, watercolour, etchings, jewellery, sculpture, fashion, cinema and photography. The exhibition aims to trace Dali from his earliest years as a 14-year-old Impressionist painter to the final paintings, which address science and physics and which were created when the artist was in his seventies.
Open Wednesday to Monday from 10.00am to 5.00pm at the National Gallery Victoria International, 180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne. During the Salvadore Dali exhibition the National Gallery Victoria International is open until 9.00pm on Wednesdays for art after dark.
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Robogals, engaging girls in robotics.
Robogals Inc. is a not-for-profit organization, which aims to increase the number of girls undertaking science, engineering and technology courses at university. Robogals does this by engaging girls in robotics from a young age in a way that is fun and educational. The volunteer university students are trained in LEGO robotics and then visit schools to teach LEGO robotics to the students.
Robogals was founded in July 2008, and within three weeks, had enlisted the help of 80 university students. Within the next 2.5 months, Robogals taught over 120 girls from 7 schools in the state of Victoria, Australia. Since the founder moved to London, she has set it up in the United Kingdom, while the organisation has been successfully continued in Victoria, Australia, supported by the University of Melbourne and its students.
This organization has an international reach, operating in Australia and the United Kingdom.
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TINT, call for Interactive Art
TINT, an artist run initiative which provides a platform for open discourse, experimentation and display of digital/analog hybrid art form, is looking for artists, curators and academics with an interest in cross disciplinary art that merges with technology and science.
Deadline: 30 September
For more information go to www.tintarts.org
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LOVING RICHARD FEYNMAN by author Penny Tangey
Loving Richard Feynman is a contemporary, realistic story for young adults told through a series of letters written by fourteen-year-old Catherine to the deceased, Nobel Prize-winning scientist, Richard Feynman. Catherine, who is socially awkward and a self-confessed nerd, loves science and idolises the American physicist who helped build the first atomic bomb.
She decides to write to him in an attempt to unload her thoughts and feelings. Catherine finds this much easier than trying to communicate with someone who’s real. Catherine is an only child who has a very close bond with her scientist father. He often mentors her through, not only school work, but friendship issues as well. Catherine’s world is thrown into chaos when her parents separate as a result of her father’s infidelity. Her father – her rock – has let her down. She confides even more in Richard Feynman.
As the narrative progresses, Catherine’s insecurities, fears and misinterpretations of her journey through adolescence slowly unravel. This is paralleled with her decreasing admiration for her idol as she discovers more about Feynman’s personality and his discoveries.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Penny Tangey stepped into the stand-up comedy scene after winning the Victorian final of Triple J’s Raw Comedy Competition in 2001. Since then she has performed regularly in Melbourne and been involved in many festival shows. In 2003 she was selected for the prestigious Comedy Zone. This show is produced by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to showcase Australia’s best young comedians. In 2004 Penny appeared on Stand-up! on ABC TV.Penny was a 2006 recipient of a Brian Macarthy Memorial Award (Moosehead) for her show Kathy Smith Goes to Maths Camp. The Moosehead is an in-kind grant awarded to an innovative proposal for a Melbourne Comedy Festival show.
Penny lives in Melbourne.
Published by UQP /Available now / ISBN: 978 0 7022 3725 6 / RRP: $17.95
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World Congress on Animal Testing Alternatives
We are seeking a better way
I just started following the Humane Society on Twitter + stumbled across the fact they’ve just wrapped up this conference [yay them!]:
“From August 30 through September 3, 2009, scientists and others committed to the advancement of alternatives to animal testing and experimentation—including senior staff from Humane Society International and our sister organizations—will gather in Rome, Italy for the Seventh World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences.
The motto for this Congress is “Calling on Science,” a title that emphasizes the fact that scientific advances are the foundation of progress towards the ultimate replacement of animals in safety testing and other types of laboratory experiments. This year marks a number of key milestones and setbacks along the road to replacement, including the 50th anniversary of the book that launched the modern alternatives movement, the second phase of the European Union marketing ban on animal-tested cosmetics, and first wave of testing under the EU’s “REACH” chemicals regulation, which is projected to spell suffering and death for up to 20 million animals.”
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Adorable Microbial Plushies
Microbial Plushies
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LEGO Mindstorms Sudoku Solver
You have to heart a robot that can solve Sudoku without any help from pesky humans [yay robots!]. This l’tle fella scans the puzzle box with a light sensor, computes the solutions and even writes in the answers. Beats a Roomba hands down, huh?
Visit http://tiltedtwister.com for more info.
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