Exciting Australian discoveries from young scientists, explained in verse and song at the pub!
Where: Redback Brewery Hotel, 75 Flemington Road, North Melbourne
When: Monday 16 June 2008
Time: 6.30 for a 7pm start
RSVP: Sarah Brooker on sarah ‘at’ freshscience.org or phone (03) 9398 1416.
Cost: Free. (Meals and drinks at bar prices.)
Get your head checked on Sunday June 1st as part of Medical Research Week when Radiotherapy and Einstein a Go Go broadcast live from the Mind and Body Gallery at Melbourne Museum.
Shows are at their usual times – medical mayhem with Radiotherapy at 10.00am followed by weird and wonderful science from Einstein a Go Go at 11.00am.
For more info on Medical Research Week go to:
http://www.asmr.org.au/
From Figaro to Phantom – a charity performance to prosper ovarian cancer research
Friday 20th June, 2008
Prince Henry’s Institute invites you to join them for a gala performance at Melbourne Town Hall, Friday 20th June 2008 7:30 for 8:00pm and experience an enchanted evening of dramatic highlights from opera to popular theatre by internationally acclaimed Australian songsters Pot-Pourri; including Phantom of the Opera, Andrea Bocelli, Il Divo, Les Miserables, Cats, Broadway and more.
Info and ticket prices:
http://www.princehenrys.org/news/latest_news/figaro_to_phantom.htm
Event poster:
http://www.princehenrys.org/news/pdf/figaro_to_phantom_poster.pdf
Wednesday 17th October, starting 8 pm
All welcome. Free entry. No booking needed.
KALEIDE THEATRE (RMIT)
360 Swanston Street
Melbourne
Refreshments following the talk.
DR. ROGER RASSOOL
(School of Physics, University of Melbourne):
“RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE: THE PHYSICS OF ELEPHANT COMMUNICATION”
Elephants appear to have a relatively sophisticated system of acoustic communication and their capacity for learning suggests they have the potential to understand and deliver complex vocal cues. Fully trained Indian elephants are able to obey more than 20 different verbal commands from their mahouts. Long-term observational studies have provided a detailed basis for an understanding of elephant communication.
July 18-28, 2007
Executive Lounge
Level 1 Gilbert Building,Grattan Street Carlton.
Syringes inspire hope, fear, pleasure, pain, and confidence. Like any technology, what we do with them and how we use them, gives them meaning. Since their inception syringes have represented different things to different segments of the community.
People have very different relationships with syringes. For some, syringes are the source of healing and remedy. For others, syringes represent the risk of infectious disease and the existence of injecting drug use. The syringe in this sense carries great weight as a symbol. In the face of the negative symbology we often forget the multiple cultural dimensions to syringes. Syringes are part of life and culture.
This exhibition celebrates the syringe in all its dimensions through the different cultural and emotional landscapes into which they are insinuated. The exhibition will use digitial storytelling to articulate the varied accounts of how syringe cultures interpenetrate society in everyday settings.The exhibition will also display a wide array of syringes over time from their medieval origins to modern nanotech applications.
Download exhibition movie trailer: exhibit_teaser.divx (20Mb)
Trailer is in DivX format, you may need to download the DivX media player.
The exhibition catalogue is now available. The PDF document contains hyperlinks to the online micro-movies that form the core of the exhibition.
Download exhibition catalogue (1.2 Mb)
Alternatively, you can browse the archive of digital micro-movies by going directly to the archive.
Nobel Prize winning biologist Sir Paul Nurse will reveal how simple baker’s yeast is helping in the fight against cancer when he joins other leading international thinkers for the 2007 Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures.
The Minister for Innovation, John Brumby, today announced the line-up for the free lecture series that will run from Monday 25 June to Friday 20 July.
Other speakers will include Robert Klein (USA – philanthropist and civic activist), Alex Franzusoff (USA – researcher and founder of GlobeImmune), Matt Ridley (UK – science author) and John Wilbanks (USA – Executive Director, Science Commons). They will be joined by some of Australia’s pre-eminent speakers to discuss a broad range of topics focusing on biotechnology and science.
Details on the Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures can be found at http://www.deakinlectures.net/
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