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NATIONWIDE

Various events via Café Scientifique
Date: Ongoing
Venue: Various, from The Orkney Islands to Falmouth
Audience: Adults
Cost: Mostly free
Café Scientifique is a network of informal meetings groups up and down the UK that are run for the discussion of topical scientific issues. They offer a unique opportunity for the scientific community and those interested in science to engage with one another in a relaxed atmosphere and are designed to be more accessible than a public lecture. Meetings take place in bars and cafes, although other venues, such as theatres, are also used.
Information on Café Scientifique across the UK

ABERDEEN

Metal-mania - So You Think You Need Supplements?
Date: 8 April, 7pm
Venue: Waterstones (Union Bridge branch), Union Street, Aberdeen
Audience: Adults
Cost: Free
Café Scientifique is an informal forum for the discussion of topical scientific issues. Professor Harry McArdle from the University of Aberdeen Rowett Institute is the guest speaker, busting the myths surrounding dietary supplements. To take or not to take? Come along and find out.
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ABERYSTWYTH

Shakespearian Science
Date: 20 April, 7.30pm
Venue: Theatre Bar, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
Audience: Adults
Cost: Free
The Science Cafe is an informal forum for the discussion of topical scientific issues. Professor Sid Thomas will be the guest speaker at this event and will play the biologist who looks at madness in great ones.
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EDINBURGH

The World of Science
Date: 6-18 April
Venue: Around the city of Edinburgh
Audience: All ages
Cost: Some events are free
Uses science students, graduates, scientists and technologists to bring cutting-edge science to the public. The programme is available on the website.
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HERTFORDSHIRE

Sustainable Energy, Without the Hot Air
Date: 27 April, 7.15pm
Venue: The Ferguson Building Lecture Theatre at Bishop's Stortford College
Audience: Adults
Cost: Free
Café Scientifique is an informal forum for the discussion of topical scientific issues. David MacKay will be the guest speaker at this event.
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LONDON

Japan Car - Designs for the Crowded Globe
Date: Now until April
Venue: The Science Museum, South Kensington, London
Audience: All ages
Cost: Free
The exhibition shows how Japanese car design reflects the 'soil and the spirit of Japan', shown through concept cars and special home market models. Japan Car explores three themes while examining the future of mobility in cities. Japan, being both highly innovative and densely populated, can be seen as the driving force behind transport solutions for 21st-century cities.
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Dan Dare and the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Date: Now until October
Venue: The Science Museum, South Kensington, London
Audience: All ages
Cost: Free
Dan Dare’s rocket fleet roars high over Venus to trounce his arch foe - the power-mad Mekon. Meanwhile, back on Earth, another extraordinary future is unfolding, one which laid the foundation for Britain’s hi-tech consumer society. After 1945, though war-weary and broke, Britain found huge pride in wartime advances such as radar, penicillin and the jet engine. Discoveries like these were now tipped to kick-start world-beating industries, bring prosperity and bankroll the emerging welfare state. In an age before globalisation, products from rockets to radios sprang from local roots. Together they reveal a fascinating ‘lost world’ of British design and invention; a glimpse of a time when the TV in the corner was a Murphy, not a Sony. This exciting new temporary exhibition explores the role played by technology in creating post-war Britain.
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EAST SUSSEX

The Teaching of Science: Has it Changed over the Years?
Date: 21 April, 7.30pm
Venue: Hanover Community centre, Southover Street, Brighton
Audience: All ages
Cost: Free
The dumbing down of exams has been well publicised but does it apply to all subjects and all levels? More importantly how has the quality of science or engineering graduates for science-based industry been affected? While there is much to be concerned about, it is not all bad news. We will take a close look at some recent GCSE and A-level exams in physics and maths as well as some O level and A level papers from 20 and 50 years ago where we will have plenty of opportunity to compare standards for ourselves and maybe even have a go at one or two questions.
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