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2 ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 557 2686 The annual Edinburgh International Science Festival is For Science Festival 2016 we’ll be exploring science, technology, produced by the Edinburgh International Science Foundation, engineering and design’s ability to help improve our world and our an educational charity whose mission is to inspire, encourage and challenge people of all ages and backgrounds to explore lives through the concept of Building Better Worlds. and understand the world around them. We couldn’t achieve this without the support of our funding partners, who allow us to engage with more than a quarter of a million people Join us over two weeks as we celebrate the ideas, innovations every year. and creative visions colliding at the Festival and transforming the TRUSTS & FOUNDATIONS galleries, theatres and gardens of Edinburgh into launchpads to The Binks Trust these better worlds. Clara E Burgess Charity Cruden Foundation Dr Guthrie’s Association The Equitable Charitable Trust WHAT'S ON Forteviot Charitable Trust The Gannochy Trust FOR FAMILIES (P.6–33) IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology) During the school holidays, the Science Festival provides exciting, engaging and educational activities Institute of Physics in Scotland the whole family can enjoy. Our flagship venue at City Art Centre transforms into a science hub with 6 James Clerk Maxwell Foundation floors packed full of the unique, immersive workshop experiences that the Science Festival is famous Len Thompson Charitable Trust for, while Summerhall’s stages are bursting with some of the best science performers from around the The Nancie Massey Charitable Trust world and technical workshops for older children and teens. Royal Society of Chemistry The Russell Trust Our programme of events and days out suitable for families are listed by venue. Don’t miss our partner events at National Museum of Scotland, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, RZSS Edinburgh Zoo and WITH THANKS Dynamic Earth.To ensure the best possible experience for all our visitors, most events carry a minimum Apache age recommendation. We ask parents to bear these in mind when choosing events for their children. Arnold Clark Car & Van Rental Viridor FOR ADULTS – AGES 14+ (P.35–61) Our programme of adult events includes discussions, debates, workshops, screenings and nights out – all with a scientific twist. Our main venues are Summerhall, The Queen’s Hall and the National Museum of Scotland. Don’t miss GastroFest and check out the author led events of the Reading Experiment – we’ve got more information on all our programme strands on p.34 and you can search events by strand on our website: sciencefestival.co.uk. The adult events programme is designed for visitors aged 14+. This is a recommendation only and younger audiences are very welcome. Adult events are listed by date with repeating events popping up as vertical cross references throughout the GENERATION SCIENCE CLUB brochure. For full details see the introduction to the adult programme on p.34. We would like to thank Generation Science Club members for their support of Edinburgh International Science Festival’s schools touring programme. Generation Science Club is a network of individuals and companies dedicated to engaging the next generation in science and technology. Members of the club donate funds to help ensure our school shows and workshops can be enjoyed by all pupils – wherever they are and whatever their financial background. With particular thanks to: MEMBERS Alex and Rhona Callander Edina Trust Joe Faraday John Hylands Nimar Charitable Trust Ian Ritchie Barry and Helen Sealey – The BEST Trust Scottish Qualifications Authority Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems Europe, Ltd The University of Edinburgh Ian Wall HONORARY MEMBERS Prof Anne Glover David Sibbald Prof Lord Robert Winston
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CITY ART CENTRE During the Science Festival, we transform Edinburgh’s City Art Centre into a science playground packed full of workshops, shows and interactive events. Adults can join in too – don’t miss our opening party Science Festival Lates (p.36).
ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 557 2686 5 OPEN DAILY SATURDAY 26 MARCH–SATURDAY 9 APRIL (NOT SUNDAYS) 9.30AM–4.30PM During the Science Festival, we transform Edinburgh’s City Art Centre into a science playground packed full of workshops, shows and interactive events. HOW TO BOOK A Day Pass gets you into City Art Centre to explore as many events as you like. The events are a mixture of bookable and drop-in sessions. Pre-booking your Day Pass and a selection of bookable events is strongly advised to avoid queues and disappointment. When you’re ready to book your tickets you can add a selection of bookable activities to eligible child day passes. Drop-in activities don’t need to be reserved and can be enjoyed by all the family
throughout the day. WORKSHOP WORKSHOP
Please note, when attending City Art Centre children must be accompanied
by an adult and unfortunately we do not issue tickets to lone adults (but if you BRICKS AND BLOCKS JUNGLE SAFARI want to get in on the fun, join us for Science Festial Lates (p. 36). If you would Join the robot sports training Put on your safari gear and
like to discuss large group bookings for City Art Centre please call our Box 5+ AGES camp where our coaches will put 5+ AGES embark on an incredible and Offce on 0844 557 2686 and they will be happy to help you plan your visit. you through your paces. You’ll memorable journey through the learn about robots and coding as deepest, darkest regions of the VENUE SPONSOR you use a LEGO® WeDo kit to jungle. Our team will help you Every day, hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide rely on Cirrus Logic build your own goalkeeper and discover the fascinating world of audio and voice technology at home, in their car and on their mobile devices. program it to play. Then it’s time to animal communication and learn From our headquarters in Austin, Texas, and major facilities in Edinburgh test everyone’s skills in the Robot more about the amazing range of and Newbury in the UK, Cirrus Logic connects us with the world around us to World Cup penalty shoot-out. sounds the creatures of the jungle deliver a great audio experience. Make your voice heard — through Cirrus How many attempts can your make. Logic technology. goalkeeper save? Please note: this workshop is closed with no cirrus.com viewing area for parents.
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AGES 5+ ACTIVITY < been so cool. darkroom. Chemistry has never photographic paper in the the pattern on to a piece of on a glass plate and exposing by arranging unusual objects unique picture to take home Create anddevelopyourown L> drop-in PHOTOLAB
AGES 5+ WORKSHOP AGES 3+ WORKSHOP < > like a bee. patterns and suck up nectar, just to giant flowers, make pollen trail beehive and follow Buzzy on a trip on a magical mystery tour of a together. Then join our Bee Keeper out how bees and flowers work is different from ours and show. Learn how a bee’s body bees in this highly interactive you into the wonderful world of Buzzy, thegianthoneybee,leads hands-on space. sea creature in this captivating a coral reef by making your own communities and help us build amazing creatures that live in its in a coral reef? Discover the incredible animals and plants of Coral. Do you know about the as you explore the Secret Life Find outwhat’s lurkingunderwater 10am–4pm (half hourly) drop-in SECRET LIFE OF CORAL OF CORAL LIFE SECRET LITTLE GIANTS LITTLE
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BLOOD BAR MINI MECHANICS PONGY POTIONS ER SURGERY Prepare to be grossed out at Take a closer look at what makes Prepare your nostrils for Emergency, emergency, there’s the Blood Bar as you make your an engine tick and use real tools some of the stinkiest smells been an accident! This is your AGES 7+ AGES 7+ AGES 7+ AGES 8+ AGES own scabs, mix up a gooey blood to take one apart. Discover what imaginable and design your own chance to scrub up and save clot and even touch a real heart. parts are required to make a car sweet-smelling perfume (but lives. Meet your ‘patient’, identify Explore the science of blood move while exploring our full sized please leave your natural stinks what’s wrong and let a ‘surgeon’ and see how we can diagnose engine model. Then stand back as at home!) Test your senses in help you operate using endoscopes disease with some cutting-edge we create a fire piston explosion our blindfold taste challenge and supplied by Karl Storz. Discover the technology. Take a closer look at and demonstrate how power is uncover the secrets of the science secrets of surgery as you operate the heart, lungs and oxygen in created through combustion. of scent. Can you blend smells to on the knee, abdomen and brain. Don’t Hold Your Breath, and find create a nasal nirvana? Please note: this workshop is closed with no out what really happens when we viewing area for parents. get cuts and bruises in the Scab
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CITY ART CENTRE OPENING HOURS DAY PASSES TICKET AND VENUE Saturday 26 March–Saturday 9 April Adult £8 EARLY BIRD BOOKING (not Sundays) Child aged 7+ £9.50 Book over the phone or in person before INFO 9.30am–4.30pm Child aged 3–6 £7 29 February and get £1 off all Day Allow 4–5 hours for your visit Child under 3 FREE Passes on Saturday 26, Monday 27 and Disabled £5 Tuesday 28 March. Children must be FACILITIES Registered accompanied by an adult. Packed lunch area, secure buggy park, unemployed £5 cloakroom, toilets, baby changing, (for each family member café and shop up to 6 people. ID required) FILM ACTIVITY ACTIVITY EXHIBITION
HIDE AND SEEK WITH INDI INTERNATIONAL IMAGES SCIENCE FESTIVAL SHOWCASE SCIENCE MINI CINEMA
Indi, our friendly IndigoVision FOR SCIENCE Drop by our ever-changing Science In Science Mini Cinema you can monster, has lost her camera The Royal Photographic Society Festival showcase for a taste of see how scientists and engineers ALL AGES ALL and she needs your help to find AGES ALL brings its exciting new exhibition AGES ALL what else the Festival has to offer. AGES ALL have used technology and design it! Using IndigoVision’s video to the Science Festival. Supported This is your chance to get hands to create new inventions, tackle surveillance technology, you’ll find by Siemens as part of the on with the rest of the Festival – global challenges and improve Indi’s monster friends and help her Curiosity Project, the exhibition don’t miss it! our daily lives. From growing food feel safe again. Each friend holds a includes 60 images of everything in space to making a sandwich clue to help you find where Indi has from galaxies and blood cells using an incredible prosthetic left her camera… Can you solve to popping soap bubbles and a hand, and there are even science the clues and find the camera? mouldy strawberry. Follow the trail demonstrations that you can do and find the key photos for your at home! chance to win a Nikon camera!
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8 ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 557 2686 AGES 8+ WORKSHOP
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minimum age recommendation in mind when selecting workshops for your child. schedule below to plan your day. up to three bookable workshops per child’s Day Pass purchase. Please use the do have a limited capacity and should be booked in advance. You can reserve Many of our events are available to drop into during your visit. However some BOOKABLE EVENTS < you can make! soldering there’s no endtothestuff you’ve learned the secrets of working electronic gadget. skills to assemble your very own circuit, pick your kit and use your basics of creating an electrical Factory. After you’ve grasped the your own in our mini Gadget everyday gadgets work and build Investigate andexplorehow T> 10am–4pm (hourly) Supported by 8+ 7+ 5+ 3+ AGE * these workshops are closed with no viewing area forparents. BOOKABLE WORKSHOP SCHEDULE BOOKABLE WORKSHOP *JUNGLE SAFARI SAFARI *JUNGLE SPLAT-TASTIC FACTORY GADGET *ER MECHANICS MINI POTIONS PONGY SPARKS LITTLE BLOCKS AND BRICKS LITTLE GIANTS GIANTS LITTLE 45min
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9 CITY ART CENTRE Science in the Spotlight is an ambitious new project by Edinburgh International Science Festival, working in partnership with Imaginate, which aims to bring together the wonder of theatre and the explosive world of science communication.
The project has produced two world class pieces of theatre for families that take a fresh approach to science as a part of the action; Catherine Wheels Theatre Company’s Lost at Sea and Uncanny Valley from
Borderline Theatre Company and The Gaiety Theatre, Ayr.
SUMMERHALLAn interactive show for 8–12 year olds, Uncanny Valley Award winning theatre company Catherine Wheels asks you, the audience, to interact with a real ‘live’ robot find themselvesLost at Sea as they explore the biggest and help a futuristic science teacher tell the story of Ada subject they could possibly try and tackle – the ocean. and her best friend OKAY (Outstandingly Knowledgable The journey begins with a boy and a girl, fascinated by the Android Youth). OKAY is under threat of being terminated story of 28,800 bath toys that accidentally ended up flung and the only way to stop this is to prove he or she is exactly into the unrelenting currents of the Pacific Ocean. Their the same as you or me. Watch as OKAY grows and learns, investigation sees them uncovering the mysteries of the sea join in by asking your own questions and try to decide and discovering its importance to every one of us on Earth. whether you think OKAY is simply electrical impulses or … Lost at Sea is an inquisitive and dynamic show offering an Something more. Something almost human. Written by Rob immersive experience for young audiences aged 8+. Drummond and presented by Borderline Theatre.
Science in the Spotlight Science in the Spotlight working was developed with in partnership with support from the Scottish Government's Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund
10 ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 557 2686 Summerhall is back as Edinburgh International Science Festival’s hub for 2016. During the day, it will be packed with activities for children and families and in the evening it will be filled with entertaining events for adults and teenagers. VENUE SPONSOR You’ll find sensational science shows offering a world of new Baillie Gifford is delighted to support the Science experiences for all ages along with interactive workshops for Festival’s hub, Summerhall. Headquartered in young people and adults that are full of scientific and creative Edinburgh, Baillie Gifford has a significant global challenges, from building a ray gun to making a monster. presence, managing investments on behalf of
pension funds, financial institutions, charities and SUMMERHALL Listings of events for children and families are included in the retail investors. The firm is proud to play an active following pages and full details of events for adults can be found role in its community by supporting a diverse in the adult events section, p.35–61. variety of projects across festivals and the arts, education and social inclusion. Blackwell’s pop-up bookshop will be open every day in the courtyard chalet. bailliegifford.com Investment managers SHOW WORKSHOP WORKSHOP
DINO STARS PAPER CIRCUITS MURDEROUS MATHS WITH
An interactive, hands-on Learn the basics of electronics KJARTAN POSKITT
AGES 5+ AGES workshop with some of Dinostar’s 8+ AGES as you build circuits using only Author of the Murderous Maths AGES 8+ AGES fascinating collection of dinosaur paper, scissors and copper tape. books Kjartan Poskitt introduces exhibits. You’ll get an opportunity You’ll also have the opportunity you to the people who really Join us for a day of to hear about dinosaurs including to use your new skills to create did put the murder into maths! prehistoric fun family Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus a great-looking light-up card He’ll also be showing off some activities. Make your own rex and then study replica and with LEDs. amazing tricks and weird facts pair of dino-feet, enjoy some genuine dinosaur fossils at close including how to make a dragon dino stories in our raptor quarters. The workshop features from a cinema ticket... But no nasty nest, compete in an exciting dinosaur teeth, claws, bones, and sums, guaranteed! egg hunt and discover even dinosaur eggs! Steve Plater, ’A stand-up maths routine dino fossils. There’s even owner of the Dinostar dinosaur has children and teachers in face painting and exciting museum based in Hull, will be your fits of laughter…’ The Times excavations to boot! guide in this hands-on dinosaur Educational Supplement experience. Ticket includes entry to Dino Day activities. SATURDAY 26 MARCH SATURDAY
<£>£3.50, under 5s free £4 | Basement Gallery 4 also on Saturday 9 April £6, family ticket £20 (4 tickets)
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AGES 8+ WORKSHOP AGES 10+ SHOW houses! monuments, shelters and tree from new parks and squares to they build and create anything town planners and architects as Participants will become virtual a better world for ourselves. in you can design your own space can conjure. In this workshop anything that your imagination 3D world around you to create you to manipulate the immersive Minecraft MINECRAFT THE DEAD THE Trust and University of Glasgow. vision. Supported by the Wellcome goggles that let you see in zombie ticks from a patient’s arm or try out attacking zombie, remove zombie invited to defend against an symptoms. You might also be to attack to produce the classic a zombie disease would have including which parts of the brain about the science of zombies, an expert Zombiologist to learn the infamous movie monster. Join skull and peers into the brain of Studies lifts the lid on the zombie Zombie Institute for Theoretical This spooflecturefromthe 2pm £15 on until Wednesday 30 March Presented by ComputerXplorers ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 5572686 Presented by Time-Tastical Productions 10.30am and 2.30pm £6, family ticket £20 (4 tickets) EXPLORE OUR WORLD IN IN OUR WORLD EXPLORE ZOMBIE SCIENCE: BRAIN OF OF BRAIN SCIENCE: ZOMBIE as we look to build Minecraft as we look to build |
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AGES 6+ WORKSHOP AGES 6+ SHOW best score. of fuel and compete to beat the furthest distanceonafixedamount test of efficiency. Try to get the hydrogen-powered vehicle in a build and race your very own energy engineer! Design, Test yourskillsasarenewable showdown. story of the most famous science silly wigs as we relive the exciting Expect music,terriblejokesand Green, author of Rebel Science. of the ‘Rumble in Rome’ with Dan celebrate the 400th anniversary get you burned alive! Come and hot that the wrong answer might is it the Sun? The topic is hot. So the universe? Is it planet Earth, or question: where is the centre of It’s 1616andthere isoneburning 2.30pm £10 on until Tuesday 29 March Presented by Arcola Energy Presented by dangEditions 2.30pm Dissection Room £6, family ticket £20 (4 tickets) HYDROGEN CAR CHALLENGE PLANETS COLLIDE! PLANETS | Main Hall | | 45 mins 1 hour
AGES 12+ SHOW AGES 5+ WORKSHOP body and some killer case studies. medicines, their effects on the This talk examines four former rather than because of them. got better in spite of their doctor the twentieth century people often found on pharmacy shelves. Before consider to be poisons were once poison.’ Many compounds we now only the dose which makes a thing without poisonous qualities. It is are poisons, for there is nothing Paracelsus wrote,‘Allthings Tuesday Room on Monday and Main Hall on included. body painting a try. Materials will feel confident enough to give be demonstrated so that everyone themselves. Basic techniques will structures onto each other or have the chance to paint these of surface anatomy and then participants will learn the basics it! In this hands-on workshop, of your own body by painting Learn toidentifytheanatomy 2.30pm also on at 10.30am on Tuesday 29 March £6, family ticket £20 (4 tickets) 3pm £7 Presented by Avid Anatomy POISONS ADVENTURES IN BODY PAINTING IN BODY PAINTING ADVENTURES
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AGES 14+ WORKSHOP to learn a vital hacking skill. and take home. This is your chance getting your very own kit to solder be able to get stuck in! Including make a solder joint, then you’ll the tools you need and how to absolute basics, you’ll be shown show you how. Starting with the Soldering iseasyandwe’ll SOLDER ON! SOLDER 7pm also on Wednesday 6 April Presented by Edinburgh Hacklab £15 | | Hacklab 90 mins
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10am FLOATING PHOTOGRAPHY See this page MONDAY 28 MARCH 10.30am VIDEO GAME DESIGN WITH KUDU See this page 10.30am POISONS See page opposite AGES 8+ WORKSHOP the workshop. available online to download after The photographs you take will be fast-paced, fun-filled workshop! and sustainable engineering in a cells, computer programming, photographs. Learn about fuel the sky and take bird’s-eye view to send a helium balloon into to complete a series of challenges energy engineer! Work as a team Test yourskillsasarenewable 10am £7 also on Tuesday 29 March Presented by Arcola Energy FLOATING PHOTOGRAPHY FLOATING
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AGES 8+ SHOW UNCANNY VALLEY and at 10.30am on Thursday 31 March additional showat7pmonWednesday30March Borderline Theatre. Rob Drummond and presented by and a human being. Written by tell the difference between a robot questions and see if you can really learns, join in by asking your own Watch as OKAY grows and Knowledgeable Android Youth). best friend OKAY (Outstandingly to tell the story of Ada and her with a real ‘live’ robot and help you, the audience, to interact year olds, An interactiveshowfor8–12 Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund. Company, and supported through the Scottish Imaginate, produced by Borderline Theatre Science Festival working in partnership with £10/£8 2.30pm Commissioned by Edinburgh International Commissioned by Edinburgh International | | 1 hour Dissection Room Uncanny Valley asks | on until Thursday 31 March on untilThursday31March
ALL AGES WORKSHOP science along the way. exposure photography and a bit of create beautiful images, using long with light and get the chance to how to paint, sketch and doodle Dr KathrynHarkupyouwilllearn merge and in this workshop with examples of where science and art Photography is one of the best of science and art together. abilities, that brings the worlds workshop, for all ages and artistic Join inonthishands-on LED SKETCHING LED 10.30am also on Wednesday 30 March £10 DRAWN TO THE LIGHT: THE DRAWN TO | Main Hall | 1 hour WEDNESDAY 30 MARCH
10.30am DRAWN TO THE LIGHT: LED SKETCHING See this page 10.30am VIDEO GAME DESIGN WITH KUDU See this page 2pm EXPLORE OUR WORLD IN MINECRAFT See page opposite 2.30pm and 7pm UNCANNY VALLEY See this page ALL AGES SHOW AGES 8+ WORKSHOP VIDEO GAME DESIGN DESIGN GAME VIDEO WITH KODU WITH language. intuitive icon-based programming vision can be controlled using an whose movement, sound and and terrains and build characters You’ll create a range of worlds you build your game quickly. using an Xbox controller to help design and build games on a PC, programming environment to for you! You will use a graphical ComputerXplorers workshop is an Xbox controller? Then this play your own video game using Would youliketocreateand your own marvellous medicine. Gobblefunk and learn how to make used today. You’ll also produce device and new treatment still how Roald invented a medical how we can fix it. He describes works, what can go wrong and stories to explain how the body Tom Solomon, who uses Roald’s impact on it. Join his doctor, with medicine, and had a lasting short stories, was fascinated of children’s novels and adult Roald Dahl,thebelovedcreator MARVELLOUS MEDICINE MARVELLOUS 10.30am on until Wednesday 30 March Presented by ComputerXplorers £15 2.30pm £6, family ticket £20 (4 tickets) ROALD DAHL’S | Basement Gallery 3 | | ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 5572686 1 hour 2 hours
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AGES 14+ WORKSHOP AGES 8+ ACTIVITY WIKIHOUSE WIKIHOUSE Initiative it is by taking part in our build. Come along and see just how easy beautiful, low-energy homes. to design, print and assemble to make it simple for everyone with many designers collaborating is an open source building system together the pieces. WikiHouse community WikiHouse, to put Initiative, who built the UK’s first the Fountainbridge Canalside afternoon! Join volunteers from Help buildahouseinan DEMONSTRATION BUILD DEMONSTRATION 1pm and 3pm to help you solder on. show you the tricks and techniques and take home, this session will Including your very own kit to build you it’s really not that scary. tiny components, but we’ll show soldering is hard because of the Some hackerssaysurfacemount Free (ticket reqiured) Presented by the Fountainbridge Canalside Presented by the Fountainbridge Canalside 7pm also on Monday 4 April £15 Presented by Edinburgh Hacklab EXTREME SOLDERING EXTREME | | Hacklab 90 mins | 90 mins
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LEAPER: A FISH TALE WEARABLE CIRCUITS CONDUCTIVE DJ Something fishy’s going on! Fish Create your own wearable circuit Learn to re-mix and create music
AGES 4+ AGES are quickly disappearing from in this hands-on tech and textiles using a MaKey MaKey and AGES 10+ AGES AGES 14+ AGES our rivers and seas. Why? And workshop for beginners. You’ll anything that conducts electricity. how can one little girl help stop learn some basic electronics and A MaKey MaKey is an invention it? Leaper: A Fish Tale follows how to design a circuit using LED kit that turns everyday objects into one fish’s magical quest against lights, buzzers and switches and touchpads and you’ll experiment the ever-growing natural and we’ll give you as much help as you with things including fruit, veg, man-made monsters in our waters. need with the needlework. Bring pots, pans and even your friends! Using their signature blend of along an item of clothing, soft This workshop brings science and beautiful puppetry and mesmeric toy, bag, flag, or banner (anything music together in a fun and active music, Tucked In explore the you can sew!) and we’ll provide learning experience that’s not to be colourful and breathtaking world the rest. missed! Option to purchase MaKey
beneath the water’s surface. MaKey invention kit included in 13 page See workshop ticket prices. UNCANNY VALLEY UNCANNY THURSDAY 31 MARCH THURSDAY FRIDAY 1 APRIL FRIDAY
10.30am and 2.30pm | 1 hour 10am and 3pm | 3 hours 10.30am, 2pm and 4pm | 1 hour 2.30pm
£6, family ticket £20 (4 tickets) | Main Hall £30 | Basement Gallery 3 10.30am £40 (includes MaKey MaKey) Presented by Tucked In Productions Presented by Remade in Edinburgh 2pm and 4pm £10 (workshop only)
Basement Gallery 4 Presented by Capturing Creativity SHOW A T S U M M E R H A L L WORKSHOP
SCIENCE OF STAR WARS BUILD A PROP RAY GUN Star Wars conjures up images 2 APRIL CHALLENGE of spaceships, super-weapons, Movie prop makers are masters AGES 8+ AGES AGES 8+ AGES and awe-inspiring visions of the of disguises... Did you know that future. But these film depictions the original Star Wars lightsabers of life in ‘a galaxy far, far away’ were made from the handle anticipate real life future science, of a camera flash? We invite right here on Earth. Author Mark you to take part in our very own Brake and TV science presenter prop-making challenge with the Jon Chase probe the fantastic help of prop artist Thom Wall from frontier between movie magic Sorenzo Props! Provided with an and cutting-edge science, using eclectic mix of everyday household madcap antics, verve, and flights of items, we invite you to design and fancy inspired by one of the most assemble your very own ray gun successful epics in film history. and turn it into a prop worthy of On 2 April ticket includes entry to the movies. Ticket includes entry to Space Day activities. Space Day activities. SATURDAY APRIL 2 – SPACE DAY APRIL 2 – SPACE SATURDAY FRIDAY 1 APRIL FRIDAY
2.30pm | 1 hour
also on Saturday 2 April £20 | Basement Gallery 4
£6, family ticket £20 (4 tickets)
Dissection Room
Presented by iScience
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LASER CUT YOUR JEWELLERY THE SCIENCE OF SUPERHEROES DIGITAL MAKER WORKSHOP THE KIDS WHO FELL TO EARTH
FROM SCRAP Superhero blockbusters have Join Martin Evans and Phil Join your heroes Zing and Zong,
At MAKLab, we always have a revolutionised cinema. From the 9+ AGES Thompson from Digital Maker a brother and sister team from AGES 11+ AGES ALL AGES ALL AGES ALL lot of leftover scraps of material celebrity heroes of The Avengers for a full on Maker Party! In this planet Jaahrgon who have crash from the laser cutters and, rather to the masked adventures of interactive workshop you’ll learn landed on Earth, as they discover than throwing it away, we turn it Batman and Superman, the how computer programming the science that holds the key to into beads and pendants. This is success of these CGI Marvel and works and get help with coding saving their threatened civilisation. your chance to do the same and DC universes shows no signs of as you make your own computer Watch as they experiment with get creative with waste materials, slowing. But are superpowers game and get hands-on with some some of the coldest substances turning someone else’s leftover mere fantasy? Or could there be an interactive electronics. around before uncovering the scraps into jewellery. You’ll get the alternate Earth with superbeings? secrets of space travel to make chance to try out our laser cutters And what’s it like being a their way back. This science show and you’ll come away with a superhero? Mark Brake and Jon is an out of this world epic! On 2 necklace, bracelet or earrings in a Chase investigate the truth about April ticket includes entry to Space design customised by you! the traits that may make you Day activities. superhuman. In 3D! FRIDAY 1 APRIL FRIDAY SUMMERHALL 10am, 1pm and 4pm | 2 hours 10.30am | 1 hour 10.30am and 2.30pm | 90 mins 2.30pm | 1 hour
£20 | Basement Gallery 4 £6, family ticket £20 (4 tickets) £15 | Basement Gallery 3 also on at 10.30am on Saturday 2 April
Presented by MAKLab Dissection Room Presented by Digital Maker £6, family ticket £20 (4 tickets)
Presented by iScience Main Hall on Friday and Anatomy
Lecture Theatre on Saturday Presented by Eureka Edinburgh SHOW SHOW SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL
HOW TO BE A SPACE EXPLORER SING AND DANCE IN TIME AND SCIMART
Want to be an astronaut? Lonely SPACE WITH MR BOOM A farmers’ market with a scientific
Planet’s How to be a Space 3+ AGES Mr Boom, the children’s one-man twist, SciMart brings together ALL AGES ALL AGES ALL Explorer will help you discover band, arrives from the Moon in food producers, researchers and all you need to know about space the spaceship Imagination. Travel chefs to reveal the fascinating travel, including how to planet with him on an amazing musical science behind some of our hop, how to pee in a spacesuit and adventure through time and space favourite foodstuffs. With how to build a solar system out of in an exciting animated show that cooking demonstrations, a series fruit, balloons and bog roll. Author features song, dance and audience of short talks and a variety of Mark Brake and TV presenter Jon participation. Ticket includes entry interactive stalls, SciMart offers
See this page this See Chase present a lively, rap-ridden to Space Day activities. up a packed menu and food for show about space. Ticket includes thought. New for 2016: learn all entry to Space Day activities. opposite page See about the science of chilies in Trial by Capsaicin and have a go at cheesemaking with dairy expert Paul Thomas. THE KIDS WHO FELL TO EARTH TO FELL WHO KIDS THE SCIENCE OF STAR WARS OF STAR SCIENCE SUNDAY 3 APRIL SUNDAY 10.30am 10.30am | 1 hour 2pm | 1 hour 2.30pm 11am–4pm | drop-in
£6, family ticket £20 (4 tickets) £6, family ticket £20 (4 tickets) | Main Hall £3.50 (under 12s free)
Dissection Room
Presented by iScience
ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 557 2686 15 16 WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL MONDAY 4 APRIL AGES 8+ WORKSHOP applied in architecture and design. of the shapes and how they are out more about the advantages octahedron to an icosahedron. Find geometric forms from an learn how to create complex of 3D printed and lasercut items, complex shapes. Using a variety Learn aboutdesignbycreating 10am £20 also on Tuesday 5 April Presented by MAKLab ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 5572686 10am SOLDER ON! See page 12 DOME A GEODESIC BUILD | | 10.30am and 2.30pm LOST AT SEA See page opposite Basement Gallery 4 ALL AGES SHOW 2 hours Science Festival. for adventurers of all ages to the puppetry and storytelling theatre the last, as they bring shadow exhilarating and far-fetched than adventures, each tale more hear stories of their marvellous captive audience. Join them to these three love more than a quite by accident, there’s nothing way. Though they arrived here marvellous adventures along the exotic lands and having many have travelled the world exploring Sir MoustacheBristlebyandCo AND THE ED-SPLORERS THE AND SIR MOUSTACHE BRISTLEBY MOUSTACHESIR BRISTLEBY 10.30am and 2.30pm £6, family ticket £20 (4 tickets) | 45 mins | Main Hall AGES 7+ WORKSHOP our custom Monster Photobooth! monster in its natural habitat using to capture a photograph of your materials. We’ll also help you very own monster from recycled you’ll design and make your Inspired by these weird creatures, adaptation help them to survive. and learn how biodiversity and animals that exist on our planet Meet someofthestrangest £10 Presented by Howling Mouse 10am and 2pm MAKE A MONSTER MAKE | Basement Gallery 3 AGES 12+ WORKSHOP away with them. design and make a product to take participant will have the chance to heated and finally reformed.Each waste materialissorted,shredded, version of industrial recycling: the The process is a small-scale plastic into new design objects. STORE tohelpturnthatwaste bottles and wristbands. Join packaging, flyers, plastic bags, a large amount of waste: food Festivals and events produce Get creativewithrecycling! £25 Presented by STORE 10am and 3pm RE-CASTING PLASTIC | 90 mins | Basement Gallery 4
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AGES 6+ SHOW Join DE SAULLES be missed. most gruesome! An event not to at its most fascinating… And its teach you how to draw science Pencils at the ready as Tony will fantastic series in its 20th year. Tony DeSaullesandcelebratethe 10.30am and 2.30pm Dissection Room Presented by Scholastic Publishing £6, family ticket £20 (4 tickets) HORRIBLE SCIENCE WITH TONY TONY WITH SCIENCE HORRIBLE illustrator Horrible Scienceillustrator ALL AGES SHOW appointment necessary! for their young ones too. No parents looking for reading ideas available for children, teens and take away with you. Consultations your own reading prescription to reading ailments. You’ll even get and suggestions to cure all your doctors will dispense advice own Edinburgh City Libraries’ very authors to explore? Then visit Looking for new and exciting Stuck forsomethingtoread? also on Thursday 7 April Presented by Edinburgh City Libraries 10am–1pm Free DR BOOK | where our book Dr Book where our book < S> Café
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AGES 10+ WORKSHOP take your contact speaker home! end of the workshop you’ll get to best for amplifying sound. At the and find out what materials work plastics, fabrics and other surfaces amplifier. Test it against cardboard, that can turn any surface into an how to create a contact speaker kit and a piezo transducer, learn sound! Using a simple solder Get hands-onwithscienceand CONTACT SPEAKER CONTACT 2pm £20 also on Tuesday 5 April Presented by MAKLab MAKE YOUR OWN YOUR OWN MAKE |
| Basement Gallery 4 90 mins AGES 7+ SHOW Jack Dickson. New Playwrights Award winner, and resilience written by Scotland touching story of love, friendship, Fraxi is soon infected. This is a forest, and to everyone’s dismay disease, chalara, reaches the strikes when news of an airborne to build their home. Tragedy them with light, air, and a place her fellow creatures by providing tree who protects and nourishes Fraxi QueenoftheForestisanash 2.30pm £6, family ticket £20 (4 tickets) Presented by Asylon Theatre FRAXI QUEEN OF THE FOREST OF THE QUEEN FRAXI | 1 hour
THURSDAY 7 APRIL |
ALL AGES WORKSHOP Main Hall life on Earth. uncover the mysteries of ancient interactive workshop where you’ll will be your guide in this zoologist, author and presenter, amber. insects trapped in Madagascan 2,000 fossils and search for dead life, get hands-on with more than scientists use to unravel ancient fossils, dinosaurs and the tools all those years ago? Learn about what life was like on Planet Earth How doscientistsreallyknow TO KNOW THEM KNOW TO 10am also on Friday 8 April £6 LONG DEAD BEASTS: AND HOW HOW AND BEASTS: DEAD LONG | Basement Gallery 4 | 1 hour , freelance Jules Howard, freelance
7pm EXTREME SOLDERING See page 13 TUESDAY 5 APRIL
AGES 7+ WORKSHOP discover along the way! place... Who knows what you’ll high-tech building, the stinkiest the funniest monster, the most range ofprops.Theyummiestfood, magazines, newspapers and a giant trail around the world using in London! You’ll help to create a Paris and discover buried treasure creep along the Catacombs in Soar over the Statue of Liberty, amazing trip around the world. and Join authorMoiraButterfield CITY TRAILS CITY £6 Presented by Lonely Planet Kids 10am LONELY PLANET KIDS KIDS LONELY PLANET
| Basement Gallery 3 on an Lonely Planet Kids on an
10am DR BOOK See page opposite | 90 mins 10.30am and 2.30pm LOST AT SEA See this page ALL AGES SHOW THE UGLYTHE ROADSHOW ANIMAL audience participation. demonstrations and lots and lots of monstrous, featuring videos, of the animal kingdom’s most explores the incredible biology performance that celebrates and and presenter Simon Watt for a endangered species. Join biologist most aesthetically challenged to raising the profile of the world’s Preservation Society is dedicated the praise? The Ugly Animal Why should the panda get all and Dissection Room on Friday 10.30am Red Lecture Theatre on Thursday Lecture Theatre Red £6, family ticket £20 (4 tickets) also on at 2.30pm on Friday 8 April | ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 5572686 1 hour
10am BUILD YOUR OWN GEODESIC DOME See page opposite
2pm MAKE YOUR OWN CONTACT SPEAKER See page opposite
AGES 10+ WORKSHOP AGES 8+ SHOW with light. and how to draw spirographs secrets of successful hooping You’ll also discover the scientific and how to build them into circuits. workshop. Learn how LEDs work tubing in this fun and interactive hoop using LEDs and plastic build your own beautiful light-up Join £35 10am and 2pm at 10.30am and 2.30pm also onWednesday6andThursday7April one of us on Earth. discovering its importance to every the mysteries of the sea and investigation sees them uncover currents of the Pacific Ocean. Their ended up flung into the unrelenting 28,800 bath toys that accidentally a girl, fascinated by the story of journey begins with a boy and try and tackle – the ocean. The biggest subject they could possibly Lost at Sea as they explore the Catherine Wheels find themselves Award winning theatre company Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund. and supported through the Scottish Government’s produced by Catherine Wheels Theatre Company, Festival working in partnership with Imaginate, £10/£8 2.30pm and 7pm Commissioned by Edinburgh International Science Commissioned by Edinburgh International Science MAKE AN LED HULA HOOP HULA LED AN MAKE LOST ATLOST SEA | Trina Dinnisandlearnhowto Main Hall | Dissection Room
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MADLAB SPACEFLAG SWAT! A FLY’S GUIDE TO MAKE A SILVER RING
Join MadLab in this hands-on STAYING ALIVE Have a taste of jewellery making
AGES 9+ AGES electronics workshop to build A funny, fact-filled family show by creating your own silver ring AGES 14+ AGES ALL AGES ALL a SpaceFlag! A SpaceFlag is a about housefly survival and insect with jeweller Scarlett Erskine. gadget that uses persistence of biology performed by author Learn basic skills of saw piercing, See page 17 page See vision to display a message as it’s and Private Eye cartoonist Mike texturing and soldering metal by waved. Learn how to solder and Barfield. SWAT! is based on the making your own silver ring to build your own kit. critically acclaimed book of the take home.
same name. This highly interactive 17 page See show is packed full of audience participation, jokes, props, peril and poo! You’ll come away having
learned more than you ever 11 page See wanted to know about the humble housefly. THE UGLY ANIMAL ROADSHOW ANIMAL UGLY THE PAPER CIRCUITS PAPER LONG DEAD BEASTS: AND HOW TO KNOW THEM KNOW TO HOW AND BEASTS: DEAD LONG FRIDAY 8 APRIL FRIDAY 9 APRIL SATURDAY 11am 11am 10am 10am 10am, 1pm and 3.30pm | 90 mins 10.30am and 2.30pm | 1 hour 2.30pm 2.30pm and 6.30pm | 2 hours
£15 | Basement Gallery 3 £6, family ticket £20 (4 tickets) | Main Hall £30 | Basement Gallery 1
Presented by MadLab SUMMERHALL
The Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire is back for its fourth year, highlighting the diversity of human creativity by bringing together makers from all sorts of unexpected Supported by areas under one big roof. This year we’re better than ever before and you’ll be treated to gadgets, hardware, software, knitwear and food. This is a chance for the whole family to come out and interact with Edinburgh Mini Maker unbelievable technology and discover the hidden gems Faire is independently that are worked away at by creative makers across organised and operated under licence from Maker the country. Media Inc.
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FAMILY EVENTS CHANGING WORLDS Help build a better world at the museum! Join Recent research on iconic sites ALL AGES ALL us on a LEGO® brick adventure in the Grand around Britain – including Gallery featuring the Mars Master Constructors Stonehenge, Orkney, the North big build and look out for sensational pop-up Sea and Jersey – has shown that science in Hawthornden Court. Humanity’s first Mars Colony needs your help! Come and adaption to a changing world was build pods, buildings, labs, habitats, and anything else as essential a part of life for the Museum open daily | 10am–5pm you think that humans need to live on another planet. Our inhabitants of northern Europe in first building has been designed and crafted by renowned the past as it is today and will be in ALSO AT THE MUSEUM… artist in LEGO® bricks, Warren Elsmore. Now it is up to the future. Explore this fascinating Grown-up visitors can also join in the fun at the you to add to the Mars landscape and help contruct the first exhibit and discover the story of Museum as we have over 30 events for adults, colony. our ancestors as you investigate including the return of our spectacular space the links between their society and party the Big Bang Bash (p.47). See p.35–61 for the changing world around them. further details of our adult event programme.
Free | Grand Gallery Free | Hawthornden Court
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FINDING THE ARC IN EXPLORING THE RAINFOREST GREEN CHEMISTRY FAMILY EVENTS FROM THE ARCHITECTURE Do you know how important Go green with the School of UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Can you build a bridge without rainforests are for the health Chemistry. From air pollution to ALL AGES ALL AGES ALL Discover science with real nails or glue? Can you make of our planet? Join our team of AGES ALL recycling, find out how chemists scientists from The University a curved tower out of straight geoscientists to discover the role at The University of Edinburgh are of Edinburgh. Visit the National sticks? Can you design a building that our precious rainforests play making the planet a greener place. Museum of Scotland's Learning that would melt a car? Find out in environmental change and get Have a go at your own chemical Centre for free, family-friendly how maths is the key to all these hands-on with some interactive reactions, explore the atmosphere drop-in activities, workshops questions and how it influences activities. and learn how chemistry can save and shows. architecture in the world the world! around us.
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ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 557 2686 21 22 FAMILY EVENTS FROM THE FAMILY EVENTS AT NATIONAL FAMILY EVENTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND ALL AGES ACTIVITY ALL AGES ACTIVITY Saturday 26–Wednesday30March human beings. trying to understand and imitate many ways in which robots are playing robots, learn about the work with you, to cute football robot that wants to learn how to Robotics. From an assembly line from the Edinburgh Centre for Come andinteractwithrobots Presented by The University of Edinburgh 10am–4.30pm Free ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 5572686 no appointment necessary! available for children and teens – take away with you. Consultations your own reading prescription to reading ailments. You’ll even get suggestions to cure all your will dispense advice and Dr Book where our book doctors authors to explore? Then visit Looking for new and exciting Stuck forsomethingtoread? ROBOT LAB ROBOT 10am–5pm Wednesday 30–Thursday31March Presented by Edinburgh City Libraries Free POP-UP SCIENCE: DR BOOK POP-UP SCIENCE: | | Learning Centre Level 2 Hawthornden Court | drop-in | drop-in
AGES 7+ WORKSHOP Saturday 26–Wednesday30March if desired. each ticket also admits one adult Fantastic Plastic!Forages7–10, experiment and learn all about and breaking, conduct your own have a go at some plastic making become a scientist for an hour, In this hands-on workshop you’ll University of Edinburgh to find out. of them? Join chemists from The use them and how do we get rid do we make them, how do we Plastics areeverywherebuthow Free (ticket required) 11am Learning Centre Level 4, Studio 1 Presented by The University of Edinburgh AGES 7+ SHOW FANTASTIC PLASTIC! be accompanied by an adult. and their families. Children must and 3D graphics. Perfect for age 7+ the Universe, with music, words, on an immersive journey through surprise you. Join specks of dust? The answer may on the Earth, are we just pointless the Milky Way, with rocks raining vast and violent universe? Deep in What isitliketobehumanina 11am Free (ticket required) Wednesday 30March Presented by The University of Edinburgh LOST IN SPACE 3D LOST | 1 hour | 1 hour
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AGES 8+ WORKSHOP Saturday 26–Wednesday30March children aged 8+ and their families. out what a cluster is!). Perfect for make it work in a cluster (and find PC, plug it in, start it up and then University of Edinburgh to build a of friendly technicians from The build a PC? Come join a team computer? How many of us can How oftendowelookinsidea Learning Centre Level 4, Seminar Room Presented by The University of Edinburgh 12pm and2pm Free (ticket required) ALL AGES ACTIVITY JUNKYARD CLUSTERS 10am–4.30pm more visible. how it can help to make the world imaging instrument and discover of! Get hands-on with an agile that you may not have heard state-of the-art imaging technique Edinburgh to find out about a new engineers from The University of ways to look inside things. Join very familiar but there are other X-ray and MRI have become Imaging techniquessuchas SEEING INSIDE SEEING Thursday 31March–Monday4April Presented by The University of Edinburgh Free | Learning Centre Level 2 |
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GAME ON! GAME if desired. Each ticket also admits one adult 8+ but perfect for ages 10–14. computer programming. For ages and playful taster session in This workshop offers a hands-on your very own computer game! language, and design and build in games, learn the basics of coding Explore theexcitingworldofvideo
air flow! air flow! even get a photo of yourself in the our mini-wind generator. You can gust and try to guess its speed in Stand in the artificially generated Take the CHALLENGE 12pm and3pm Thursday 31March Learning Centre Level 4, Studio 1 Presented by The University of Edinburgh 10am–5pm Saturday 26–Sunday10April Free (ticket required) Free Supported by POP-UP SCIENCE: WIND TUNNEL TUNNEL WIND POP-UP SCIENCE: , a visual programming Scratch, a visual programming | Hawthornden Court Wind Tunnel Challenge!
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AGES 7+ WORKSHOP THE BACTERIAL CIRCUS BACTERIAL THE (adults need a ticket too). 7–11 and one accompanying adult into with light. For children aged design a pattern to corral the bugs the bacteria can be controlled and put through their paces, learn how Watch how the bugs react to being microscopes to see bacterial cities. this hands-on workshop you’ll use swim through tiny channels. In how bacteria stick to surfaces and Meet thephysicistsinvestigating Free (ticket required ) 3pm Learning Centre Level 4, Studio 1 Presented by The University of Edinburgh ALL AGES ACTIVITY Sunday 27–Wednesday30March microscope. discoveries for yourself under the hands-on and make some exciting and other living things. Then get past year about animals, plants things they’ve discovered over the of Edinburgh to find out what new of biologists from The University neurone disease? Meet a team flies help us understand motor survive a drought? How can fruit How dotinymicroscopicanimals 10am–4.30pm Thursday 31March Presented by The University of Edinburgh Free BIO-DISCOVERIES | 1 hour | Learning Centre Level 2
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AGES 8+ WORKSHOP ALL AGES ACTIVITY take home. with your own personal touch to 3D model, and then decorate it cardboard shape to a magical design, transform it from a flat yourself! Choose your favourite mechanisms. Pop in and make one they are ingenious engineering Pop-ups maylooksimple,but sumo, anyone? robot-based activities – robot have a play with pre-prepared parents can do it! You can also pick up with no experience – even drag-and-drop interface is easy to programming environment. The simple tasks using the making LEGO® robots perform Join us in this hands-on activity 10am–4.30pm Thursday 31March Presented by The University of Edinburgh Monday 28–Tuesday29March Free Presented by Edinburgh Napier University 10am–5pm Free POP-UP ENGINEERING POP-UP SCIENCE: ROBOTS POP-UP SCIENCE: | | Learning Centre Level 2 Hawthornden Court | drop-in | drop-in – Monday 4April Scratch
ALL AGES ACTIVITY AGES 3+ WORKSHOP WHAT’S NEXT? is so important. and discover why the Higgs Boson glide through our cloud chamber, accelerator, watch cosmic rays whole universe. Drive a particle the building blocks of the physics and how we can explore to discover the world of particle Enter theCosmicRayDoorway one adult. session. Each ticket also admits day in the museum for 11.30am for 10.30am session or book on the year olds. Limited places. Pre-book construction challenge for 3–5 us in our everyday lives in this and all kinds of mechanics help Explore how cogs, wheels, pulleys How can I lift something heavy? happens when I turn a handle? Build it,fixmoveit!What 10am–4.30pm Thursday 31March Presented by The University of Edinburgh Free (ticket required) Free 10.30am and11.30am Monday 28March–Saturday2April Learning Centre Level 4, Studio 2 Presented by National Museum of Scotland MINI ENGINEERS MINI AFTER THE HIGGS BOSON, HIGGS BOSON, THE AFTER | Learning Centre Level 2 ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 5572686 | drop-in –
Monday 4April | 40 mins
ALL AGES ACTIVITY ALL AGES ACTIVITY children’s lives. and experiences on technology in debate, play and share thoughts children and adults to explore, Technology group welcome both from Edinburgh’s Children and tell us your thoughts. Researchers tablet learning games… Then and discover the latest mobile and coloured blocks just by gesturing computing from a toy, move fast. Get hands-on, learn young children are developing New technologiesdesignedfor our special museum trees. your own to take home or leave in nest that it built and make a nest of exotic birds, match the bird to the Examine nests from local and that are influenced by bird nests. the pieces of art and architecture how birds build nests. Explore Get hands-on to find out why and NEST BUILDING NEST CHILDREN AND TECHNOLOGY AND CHILDREN Presented by University of St Andrews 10am–4.30pm Thursday 31March Presented by The University of Edinburgh 10am–5pm Wednesday 30–Thursday31March Free Free POP-UP SCIENCE: POP-UP SCIENCE: | | Learning CentreLevel 4, SeminarRoom Hawthornden Court
| drop-in | drop-in – Monday 4April
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POP-UP SCIENCE: THE SCIENCE POP-UP SCIENCE: POP-UP SCIENCE: POP-UP SCIENCE: MAKE MUSIC
OF TRANSPLANTATION ENIGMA MACHINE ORGANOGENESIS WITH SCIENCE Organ transplantation is one of Take part in a recreation of the Discuss cutting-edge science with Join musicians and scientists from ALL AGES ALL the miracles of modern medicine. AGES ALL Second World War code-breaking AGES ALL stem cell scientists and co-create AGES ALL The University of Edinburgh to Despite being performed for process! Take your chance to origami organs in this interactive, discover the science of music and over 50 years, transplantation is encrypt a message on a genuine drop-in exhibition. The craft of the instruments that make it. Find far from routine. This hands-on Enigma machine and get a closer origami provides many in-ways out why a violin sounds different activity will explore how organ look at manual codes and ciphers for discussions about the biology from a flute, why a trumpet has transplants are assessed for blood produced for Allied agents in the of organogenesis and the cutting valves and why the renaissance group compatibility, the types of days leading up to D-Day. edge work of growing organs from sackbut sounds different from organs that can be transplanted, stem cells in the lab. Find out more the modern trombone. You might what a tissue type actually is and about making organs in the lab and even get the chance to play an how scientists measure if donors its application in transplantation, instrument yourself. Visitors can and recipients are suitable for drug testing, disease participate as much as they want transplant. modelling and regeneration of or simply stand back and enjoy damaged organs. the music. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND NATIONAL Friday 1–Saturday 2 April Friday 1–Saturday 2 April Sunday 3–Monday 4 April Sunday 3–Monday 4 April 10am–5pm | drop-in 10am–5pm | drop-in 10am–5pm | drop-in 10am–5pm | drop-in
Free | Hawthornden Court Free | Hawthornden Court Free | Hawthornden Court Free | Hawthornden Court Presented by NHS National Presented by Eurostemcell
Services Scotland image: Horst Keichele FAMILY EVENTS FROM THE EVENTS FROM FAMILY UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH SHOW ACTIVITY WORKSHOP WORKSHOP
AMAZING IMMUNOLOGY DISCOVER MEDICAL SCIENCE BRAIN BOX DR BUNHEAD’S EASTER
Reveal the secrets of your immune Medical scientists investigate What’s in the Brain Box? There BUNNY BAZOOKA
AGES 6+ AGES system in a fun interactive session how humans work and find new 8+ AGES are clues inside but you’ll need 7+ AGES The world’s fastest rabbit, ALL AGES ALL where you’ll explore allergies, ways to treat illness and injury. to use your brain to work it out! exploding Easter eggs, the first infections and vaccinations with Join scientists from The University Become a brain scientist, find out Jelly Babies into space and much real medical research scientists. of Edinburgh and get hands-on how amazing your brain is and more feature in this celebration Help Denny and the T-Team find with their cutting-edge research! investigate how it works. Follow of Easter-themed science. Join and solve 3D puzzles, try the Rash Measure your blood pressure, feel us on Twitter @brainboxone. For TV’s favourite stunt scientist Dr Decisions ball pool challenge and the weight of your brain, explore ages 8–12, each ticket also admits Bunhead on this joy-ride through complete your Immunological how your lungs work, and ask one adult if desired. science mayhem. Warning! Stickers story. For ages 6–11, cancer research scientists what May lead to serious addiction to each ticket also admits one adult they actually do in the lab. science. Contains loud bangs and if desired. traces of nuts. Also look out for Dr Bunhead and his mini science puppet shows popping up around the Museum on Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 April. FAMILY EVENTS AT NATIONAL AT EVENTS FAMILY MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND
Tuesday 5–Friday 8 April Tuesday 5–Saturday 9 April Tuesday 5–Saturday 9 April Wednesday 6–Friday 8 April 3pm | 1 hour 10am–4.30pm | drop-in 12pm | 1 hour 11am | 1 hour
Free (ticket required) Free | Learning Centre Level 2 Free (ticket required) £6 | Auditorium
Learning Centre Level 4, Studio 1 Presented by The University of Edinburgh Learning Centre Level 4, Studio 1 Presented by The University of Edinburgh Presented by The University of Edinburgh Presented by The University of Edinburgh FAMILY EVENTS FROM THE EVENTS FROM FAMILY UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
24 ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 557 2686 SHOW ACTIVITY WORKSHOP
THE CHEMISTRY SHOW TEDDY BEAR HOSPITAL POP-UP SCIENCE:
Expect bangs, flames and foam in Inspired by the National Museum SCI-FUN ROADSHOW
a classic show of experiments and 3+ AGES of Scotland’s new science Join the fun at this interactive ALL AGES ALL fun with two of Scotland’s best galleries, we’re having a look AGES ALL mobile science centre from The communicators! How cold can we behind the scenes at our very own University of Edinburgh, featuring go? How can we make oxygen? Teddy Bear Hospital. Find out what over fifty incredible activities. And why should a lettuce be very, makes Teddy’s body work, as well Control lightning, see a hole in very afraid of Paul Murray and as your own, and discover how we your hand, solve a crime, generate Robin Andrews? This vibrant show use science to make us all better electricity, confuse your senses, returns with a bang (or five). There when things don’t go quite right. become part of a human circuit and might even be a song. For ages 3–5, each ticket also relax in a spinning chair. admits one adult. Limited places. Pre-book for 10.30am sessions or book on the day at the Museum for 11.30am sessions. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND NATIONAL Monday 4–Saturday 9 April Monday 4–Tuesday 5 April 10.30am and 11.30am | 40 mins Tuesday 5–Wednesday 6 April 11am | 1 hour Free (ticket required) 10am–5pm | drop-in
Free (ticket required) | Auditorium Learning Centre Level 4, Studio 2 Free | Hawthornden Court Presented by The University of Edinburgh Presented by National Museums Scotland Presented by The University of Edinburgh
and supported by Wellcome Trust ACTIVITY ACTIVITY ACTIVITY WORKSHOP
POP-UP SCIENCE: POP-UP SCIENCE: VIEW FINDER DNA, DOLLY AND YOU POP-UP SCIENCE:
SQUIRREL WARS The Royal Photographic Society, Join our team of scientists to find ENVIRONMENTAL DETECTIVES Learn about red squirrel supported by Siemens, brings out what makes Dolly the sheep Join the Scottish Environment AGES 9+ AGES ALL AGES ALL AGES ALL AGES ALL conservation and mathematics in scientific photography to the so special and discover how her Protection Agency’s investigative this hands-on activity. Until around Festival. Drop by the pop-up stand birth 20 years ago has helped to scientists to look at the importance 150 years ago, red squirrels were to see how to create slow-motion improve human and animal health. of identifying pollutants and those the only squirrel species in the UK. movies and stunning microscope Get hands-on with fun activities responsible for causing pollution. Mathematical models developed images, all with little more than all about Dolly, DNA and you! For In this series of fun and hands-on on a computer can represent the your own smartphone and a bit ages 9–14, each ticket also admits experiments you’ll explore 3D complex interaction between red of imagination! one adult if desired. life-like simulations, investigate and grey squirrels. Make your bugs to work out how polluted own red or grey squirrel and place a water source is and see how it on a map of Scotland to see microplastics block the guts of how your prediction matches the water bugs and fish. mathematical models.
Thursday 7–Friday 8 April Thursday 7–Friday 8 April Saturday 9 –Sunday 10 April 10am–5pm | drop-in 10am–5pm | drop-in Thursday 7– Saturday 9 April 10am–5pm | drop-in
Free | Hawthornden Court Free | Hawthornden Court 11am, 1pm and 3pm | 1 hour Free | Hawthornden Court
Presented by Heriot-Watt University Supported by Free (ticket required) Presented by SEPA
Learning Centre Level 4, Seminar Room Presented by The University of Edinburgh
ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 557 2686 25 ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH Find hands-on workshops and fun for all the family at the Botanics with activities, events and exhibitions to suit all ages. Garden open daily | 10am–6pm ALSO AT THE BOTANICS… Explore exhibitions at the Botanics to focus on how objects are being rethought (British Art Show 8, p.35) or consider how many of the world’s greatest inventions combine human intellect with inspiration from nature (Nature Mother of Invention, p.35).
Discover how translocation can provide endangered species with a second chance in Nature’s TARDIS (p.46), and find out about developments in biomimetics in Inspired by Nature (p.61). There’s even a chance to enjoy a taste of the gardens as you follow on from some foraging with a three-course gourmet lunch in Wild, Scottish and Free (p.48). SHOW
THE WORM, AN UNDERGROUND ADVENTURE
AGES3+ Underneath your feet in the muddy brown soil squirms the world’s best kept secret... A wonderful, magical creature called the worm. Join Wilma and William, two nature lovers, on a journey underground as they discover a family of friendly, musical worms and their colourful miniature world. Then join Eco Drama after the performance, as they invite you to see some real worms in a specially designed wormery. Part of Puppet Animation Festival.
Thursday 7–Friday 8 April 11am and 2pm | 1 hour £6 adult, £5 child | Real Life Science Studio, John Hope Gateway
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THE SPRING FLOWER SHOW SURVIVAL OF THE SMARTEST! BUILDING BETTER HOMES BACK TO THE FUTURE FOOD If it wasn’t for the green stuff Are you a fearless explorer? Could FOR ANIMALS: A GUIDE We’re going back to the future,
AGES 5+ AGES (chlorophyll) all around us, we 4+ AGES you survive in the wild? Visit our 5+ AGES FOR HUMANS 5+ AGES without the rehydrated pizza. simply wouldn’t exist. Come and explorer’s camp and meet some of Join us to discover the importance Discover the science of tastier, enjoy the beauty of plants and our intrepid scientists as you head of mini-beasts! The health of the more nutritious food with discover more about the science on an adventure to discover some environment depends on lots of scientists from the Rowett of planting, growing and exhibiting of the smartest plants in the world. small critters that help to recycle Institute of Nutrition and Health. flowers. Try your hand at becoming Learn about some of the incredible energy and nutrients. Without Journey into the past to find out a daffodil judge for the day at The ways plants adapt to survive and them, our farms and wildlife how vegetable ancestors could Caley Spring Flower Show and track down the plants that might would struggle. Join Scotland’s improve food today and peer into get involved in free seed planting just be able to help you survive in Rural College to build your own the future to see how technology activities at the Children’s Spring an emergency! mini-beast home and discover could change the way we think Flower Show. how important these overlooked about food. animals really are. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH BOTANIC ROYAL Saturday 2–Sunday 3 April Monday 4–Sunday 10 April Monday 4 April Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 April 12pm–5pm | drop-in 11am–4pm | drop-in 11am–4pm | drop-in 11am–4pm | drop-in Free entry to the Children’s Spring Flower Show. Tickets purchased on the day for £1 per trail. Free | Real Life Science Studio, Free | Real Life Science Studio,
Pay £3 adult admission charge on the day for The Normal admission to the Glasshouses also applies: John Hope Gateway John Hope Gateway Caley Spring Flower show £5.50 adult, £4.50 concession,
Child/students/RCHS members free child under 15/RBGE members free | Palm House
Real Life Science Studio, John Hope Gateway In association with The Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society and the Children’s
Spring Flower Show WORKSHOP WORKSHOP WORKSHOP WORKSHOP
FARMYARD ANIMALS: FRIENDS BUG BUSTING TREES ART EXPLORERS THE SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL
AND FOES Join scientists from the PROTREE Head along to the Royal Botanic All living things need the same Join us for an interactive project in an adventure to Garden Edinburgh for an afternoon elements to survive: food, water AGES 5+ AGES 5+ AGES 5+ AGES family-friendly session to discover understand how we can help trees AGES ALL of creative fun. Get inspired to and shelter. Different creatures how scientists from the Moredun to fend off the bugs that would make your own work of art as we go about getting these essential Research Institute help keep attack them. Get hands-on, meet explore the beauty of trees from elements in some very different farm animals healthy here in the main offenders, and discover the Garden using a wide range of ways. Find out about the eating Scotland and around the world. how trees are able to defend colourful and tactile materials with and sleeping habits of native Together with Farmer Fred and all themselves if only we allow them Greengage Arts. Scottish wildlife and test out our Farmyard Heroes, have fun to. Take the chance to help with some wilderness survival skills exploring why healthy and happy the testing of a new computer for yourself in this interactive farm animals are important for game about tree health. workshop led by RSPB Scotland. animal welfare, livelihoods and the environment.
Saturday 9 April Sunday 10 April Sunday 10 April Wednesday 6 and Saturday 9 April 11am–4pm | drop-in 11am–4pm | drop-in 1pm-4pm | drop-in 11am–4pm | drop-in
Free | Real Life Science Studio, Free | Atrium, John Hope Gateway Pay £3 admission on the day at the venue Free | Botanic Cottage
John Hope Gateway Real Life Science Studio, John Hope Gateway
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KELPIE MAQUETTES AT THE ZOO EASTER ENRICHMENT RZSS EDINBURGH ZOO The Kelpie Maquettes are a Enrichment promotes appropriate touring exhibition of 1/10th scale natural behaviours, such as ALL AGES ALL AGES ALL Go wild at the Zoo this Easter and discover a range of science events in models of The Kelpies from The foraging for food and nesting. additional to all the usual animal antics. You’ll find activities and exhibitions Helix Parkland in Falkirk. Standing Come along to the Zoo to see throughout the day and, once the sun goes down, join us on our animal planet at three metres high, they will animals receiving Easter-themed for some nocturnal fun with street food, science and even a movie! be on display at Edinburgh Zoo, enrichment to stimulate their with the stunning backdrop of the natural behaviours. Join in the Zoo open daily | 9am–5pm Pentland Hills, throughout the enrichment-making session in Science Festival. Hand-crafted by the morning and get creative as ALSO AT THE ZOO… renowned sculptor Andy Scott, the you make some themed items for For even more family fun don’t miss the Zoo’s Wild about Scotland bus models have travelled as far as our animals. Then watch in the stopping at sites around the city throughout the Festival (p.33). Older New York and Chicago. afternoon as the keepers give the audiences can discover the challenges that arise when trying to get pandas to animals the items you have made. mate in The Science of Panda Breeding (p.41) and enjoy a culinary adventure amongst the animals in Feeding Time at the Zoo (p.46).
Friday 25 March–Sunday 10 April Saturday 26 March 9am–5pm | drop-in 10.30am–4pm | drop-in Free with admission Free with admission
28 ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 557 2686 ALL AGES ACTIVITY Saturday a problem set for chimpanzees. computer games to having a go at at some interactive activities, from being undertakenandtryyourhand researchers, learn about research squirrel monkeys. You can meet brown capuchin and common intelligent, social and fun species, large enclosure houses two for the study of primates. Its field station is a research centre Edinburgh Zoo. This fascinating Come andexploreLivingLinksin EDINBURGH ZOO EDINBURGH 9am–5pm Free with admission LIVING LINKS AT LINKS LIVING 26 March– Sunday 10 April |
drop-in
ALL AGES ACTIVITY create your own mini-beast hotel. to make a pond in a bucket and mini-beast themed craft, learn how You can also have a go at some and work out what they are. track down all the creepy crawlies under logs and even in the pond, to be looking everywhere, up trees, as we can in just 6 hours. We’ll identify as many wee beasties the Zoo, the aim is to find and We’re havingaMiniBioBlitzat 10am–4pm Sunday 3 April Free with admission MINI BIOBLITZ AT ZOO THE BIOBLITZ MINI | drop-in
| Wildlife Garden
ALL AGES FILM most apt of settings. down to watch the movie in the Baginda and Jambi, then settle looking at their Sumatran tigers for a short talk on tiger behaviour, of Edinburgh Zoo’s tiger keepers fearsome Bengal tiger. Join one an unexpected connection with a into an epic adventure, who forms movie about a young man, hurtled Lee created a ground-breaking Life ofPi(2012,PG)directorAng in the open ocean with a tiger? In Could youreallysurviveonaboat 6.30pm Tuesday 5 April Budongo Trail £12, joint ticket £22 (2 tickets) LIFE OF PI AND TIGER TALK TIGER AND OF PI LIFE | ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 5572686
3 hours
ALL AGES SPECIAL EVENT sights and sounds. street food while taking in the after hours and sample some to have a wander around the Zoo Scotland. Plusyou’llgetthechance by the Royal Zoological Society of find out more about the work done science stations where you can there will be a mix of interactive comedy, photo stations and music As well as the usual silent disco, Edinburgh Zoo’s Join usforaspecialeditionof SCIENCE NIGHT AT NIGHT ZOO THE SCIENCE 4.30pm £12 adult, £10 RZSS member, £8 child Saturday 9 April | 4 hours
events. Nights events.
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DESTINATION SPACE: ROBOTS DYNAMIC EARTH Join us at Dynamic Earth as part
Take a journey through time and space at 7+ AGES of our exciting project Destination Dynamic Earth! Zoom in to microscopic Space! We’ll begin this series cells, then zoom out to explore the of ‘space-tacular’ events by International Space Station and discover celebrating some of the amazing if you have what it takes to become an science and technology developed astronaut, just like Tim Peake. by engineers to support life in space. Discover how robots are Dynamic Earth open daily | 10am–5.30pm used to help astronauts like Tim Peake aboard the International ALSO AT DYNAMIC EARTH… Space Station and how we can Join Sir Mark Walport and Prof Iain control these robots to explore Stewart as they discuss the challenges places beyond human reach. and solutions to balancing our future Programming sessions will be energy needs in How Will We Power the available throughout the day for UK in the Future? (p.57). junior robot engineers.
Monday 28 March 10am–4pm | drop-in Free with admission | Stratosphere
30 ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 557 2686 AGES 5+ FILM Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 April for full programme information. aged 5+, visit dynamicearth.co.uk Films are suitable for everyone Observatory, on selected dates. from the European Southern From theEarthtoUniverse, films including a chance to see a combination of two 30-minute treat. Each night we’ll be showing for a real full dome cinematic Settle backinacomfortableseat Tuesday 29, Wednesday 30 March, Tuesday 29, Wednesday 30 March, 5.30pm the new planetarium experience ShowDome £5 adult, £3 child, Explorer Pass holders free DOUBLE DOME NIGHTS DOUBLE | 90 mins
AGES 5+ ACTIVITY planet Earth behind. to the human body when we leave fascinating things that can happen discover some of the gruesome but in our astronaut challenges and stop when they get there. Take part in space and the hard work doesn’t years to be ready to live and work find out. Astronauts must train for become an astronaut? Join us to Do youhavewhatittakesto IN SPACE Friday 1 and Friday 8 April 10am–4pm Free with admission DESTINATION SPACE: LIFE SPACE: LIFE DESTINATION
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drop-in | Stratosphere
AGES 5+ ACTIVITY < take away! able to make your own rocket to flight possible. You’ll even be simple science that makes space about some of the amazingly and demonstrations, learning day with our interactive activities rocket science throughout the the surface of our planet. Explore phenomenal power just to escape incredible speeds and with Real rockets must travel at rocket to get them into space. Peake, every astronaut needs a Just likeBritishAstronautTim T> 10am–4pm Monday 4–Tuesday 5 April Free with admission DESTINATION SPACE: ROCKETS DESTINATION ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 5572686
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AGES 5+ ACTIVITY art and light projections! spectacular science-inspired 3D using your phone and create some tiny things. You can even join in accelerate our understanding of marine evolution have helped to how lasers and a billion years of tiny world. You’ll also find out University to discover the amazing scientists from Heriot Watt microscope activities with Come alongtoourdrop-in CELLS, MICROSCOPES & ART MICROSCOPES CELLS, Thursday 7 April 10am–4pm Free | Stratosphere
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STREET SCIENCE BIRD PEOPLE CAPTAIN FLAP FLIES FORTH With mind-boggling experiments Come and explore the forces of Captain Flap has crash landed his and dazzling science flight in the upliftingBird People plane, Puffin One! He needs to learn ALL AGES ALL AGES ALL ALL AGES ALL demonstrations, our busking bikes science show with medieval the principles of flight so that he can take street performance to a whole would-be aviator and alchemist repair his plane and re-programme new level. Witness explosions, John Damian. Then use what you his computer. Why did the plane weirdness and plenty of mess. discover to compete in our family crash? Does he need to redesign Look out for our Street Science technical challenge. the wing or consider using a team around town during the different type of fuel? Join him for Science Festival and follow us on this interactive science show and Twitter @EdSciFest for real-time explore what can be learned from Street Science updates. how birds fly so that he can finally make it home. Other interactive activities on throughout the week. AROUND EDINBURGH
Saturday 12 March–Sunday 10 April Friday 25 March–Sunday 10 April Friday 25 March–Sunday 10 April drop-in 12pm-4pm | drop-in (Friday, Saturday and Sunday only)
Free Free with admission |
Supported by the Institute of Physics in < Free with admission
Scotland, the Royal Society of Chemistry Scottish Seabird Centre | Wildlife Theatre
and Viridor
THE SHOW
ACTIVITY SOUNDS OF SCIENCE SO YOU WANT TO BE Launching at the Science Festival,
A SURGEON? this extraordinary project reveals
Join the doctors at Surgeons’ Hall 8+ AGES how humans have changed AGES 9+ AGES Museums for a fun, hands-on the world over the last 10, 000 workshop exploring the exciting years through a timeline of world of surgery. Learn about science and engineering played the body and try out the amazing live using nothing more than techniques used to train surgeons. sound. Celebrated percussionist How steady are your hands? Do Dame Evelyn Glennie will you think you have what it takes to perform the world premier of save a life? Find out in this event a groundbreaking 21-minute that’s fun for all the family. soundscape written by composer Jill Jarman and conceived by timeline specialist and world history author Christopher Lloyd and a discussion about the project will follow. With generous support from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Tuesday 29, Thursday 31 March,
Tuesday 5 and Thursday 7 April
£3.50 per child (adults go free with child) The Queen’s Hall
Surgeons’ Hall Museums Image: Philipp Rathmer
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FIRST WORLD WAR SFX BLOOD AND GORE MAKE-UP MAKING IT WILD ABOUT SCOTLAND BUS
LIVING HISTORY A rare chance to get involved with Celebrating the rise of do-it- Jump on-board the Wild about Come and meet our First World the Metamorface SFX Blood and yourself culture this fun, engaging Scotland bus, run by the Royal AGES 8+ AGES 3+ AGES AGES 8+ AGES War re-enactors Ailsa and Dave Gore Make-Up workshop, where AGES ALL exhibition is packed with interactive Zoological Society of Scotland Clarke as they assume the roles you can learn how the film and demonstrations of modern design, and supported by Clydesdale of a Scottish Women’s Hospital theatrical worlds make their fake innovation and technological Bank. Step inside at various nurse and a soldier, using real-life effects look real! This workshop futures, from 3D scanning to locations around Edinburgh to artefacts from 1914. Trench will show you how to create the smartphone microscopes. This discover the fascinating world warfare and medical triage come ultimate in blood and gore effects is your chance to interact with of mini-beasts, and how RZSS to life as they talk about the such as seeping wounds, limb the modern digital design and is working to protect beavers development of technology and clawed by an animal or a crushed fabrication tools which are taking and Scottish wildcats. Go online medicine through the war. Then you finger effect. Warning: Don’t wear the scientific, technological and at sciencefestival.co.uk for full get in on the action, taking on the your favourite T-shirt, things will design worlds by storm. programme details and to find out role of a triage nurse and making get a little messy. about mini-beast safari and crafts critical life and death decisions on to help nature bookable sessions. who to treat first and how. AROUND EDINBURGH
Saturday 26 March, Saturday 2 Saturday 26 March, Saturday 2 Saturday 26 March–Sunday 10 April Monday 28 March–Saturday 9 April and Saturday 9 April and Saturday 9 April 10am–5pm | drop-in (not Fridays) | 10am–4pm | drop-in
11am–4pm | drop-in 10am–12pm and 1pm–4pm | drop-in Free | The Centre, Livingston Free (ticket required for bookable sessions)
Free | The Scottish Parliament Free | The Scottish Parliament Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh Zoo, Making It... was developed with Grassmarket and Summerhall support from the Scottish Government's Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund
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FROM ACTIVITY WORKSHOP SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL SPACE EVENT SPECIAL
Meet one of Europe’s most SYMMETRIES IN LIGHT: THE THE JUPITER ARTLAND PRINTING 3D ORGANS experienced space explorers to get ART AND SCIENCE OF THE MINECRAFT EXPERIENCE Anything seems possible with 3D an insight into life as an astronaut. KALEIDOSCOPE There’s treasure hidden printing nowadays, but can we AGES 6+ AGES AGES 5+ AGES AGES 7+ AGES European Space Agency’s (ESA) Explore colour, shape and AGES ALL throughout Jupiter Artland, can really print body parts as well? Jean-François Clervoy will light through the lens of a you be the first to find it all? Come along and talk to a team of share his experiences of 675 kaleidoscope! Find out more This co-operative treasure hunt bio-scientists from Heriot-Watt hours of space flight. Learn about about how a kaleidoscope works, is conducted simultaneously in University about what they can training to be an astronaut, what's its principles, construction and the real world and in Minecraft. do with their ground breaking 3D involved in a space mission and optics, while building your very Work as a team to guide each printer. Find out how a specialised why Jean-François took a Rubik’s own model to take home. Join other through the hunt, using a process using human stem cells Cube on every space trip. us for this fun, instructive family smartphone app to collect beacons could pave the way to purpose event. Find out more about the and uncover stories and characters built replacement organs for Jean-François is part of the team Symmetries in Light exhibition on from Scottish legends as you take patients; eliminating the need working with British ESA astronaut p.50 and visit the exhibition from part in the adventure. for organ donation, immune Tim Peake on his Principia Mission. Thursday 7–Sunday 10 April for the suppression and the problem of Tim blasted off from Earth to join chance to also enjoy activities from transplant rejection. the ISS on 15 December 2015 and the university’s SCI Fun Roadshow, Jean-François with guests from UK see p.25 for details. Space Agency will share the latest news on Tim’s mission.
2 child) | The Queen’s Hall £5 | Playfair Library £5 | Jupiter Artland With thanks to UK Space Agency and ESA Presented by The University of Edinburgh
ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 557 2686 33 BOOK YOUR TICKET TO A BETTER WORLD In 2016 we’re venturing forth to explore possible JOIN THE CONVERSATION brave new worlds and science, technology, Share your ideas with us! Use the hashtag engineering and design’s ability to help improve #EdSciFest to share your images, our lives. There are now more than 7 billion comments, questions and feedback with us people on our planet and if we are to share a online. You’ll find us on Facebook, sustainable future we must figure out how we Twitter and Instagram. can build a better world not only for our children and grandchildren but for ourselves. SUMMERHALL We’d love to see you at Summerhall, the Through a vibrant and varied programme of centre of our universe, where you’ll find a huge events, exhibitions and happenings, we are variety of innovative and interactive events and exploring everything from the personal to the exhibitions, a pop-up science bookstore from political, the microscopic to the cosmic, and the Blackwell’s in the courtyard chalet and plenty of natural to the synthetic. You’ll voyage through scientists and artists to mingle with over a drink FIG 1. SCIPALS Marie Curie AND Nikola Tesla our planetary system of ideas and together we’ll in The Royal Dick bar. DEMONSTRATE A SUCCESSFUL SCI-FIVE! discover if a better world is here and now, just beyond our reach or on another planet. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND #SCIPALS Throughout the Festival, the National Museum of Students! Are you sci-curious? Let’s be #SciPals! We’ll discover what it means to be human, Scotland offers a wealth of events and activities Half price student tickets are available for most from the bacteria in your gut to the possibility of for all ages. As well as talks, workshops and Science Festival events – enjoy a lunchtime artificial intelligence; look at our environment presentations, the Museum’s Grand Gallery talk for just £3 or an evening out for as little and the buildings we inhabit; sample the science will play host to our Mars Master Contructors as £4.25. Sign up to our students mailing list of food and drink and look to the future of big build (p.20) allowing you to add to the Mars sciencefestival.co.uk/students or follow space travel. colony with LEGO® brick builds. @EdSciFest for special offers, news and jobs. Not valid on every event, see individual entries Join us on this voyage of discovery… for price information. Advance booking is recommended as half price tickets are subject to PROGRAMME STRANDS availability. Being Human – Improving our lives through better health, well-being and understanding of the human condition. EXPERIMENT Take part in some real science experiments Our Built Environment – Exploring how science is during this year’s events. Barney ’s Beer – The impacting on our homes and cities, helping us to Taste Test 2016 invites visitors to sample Siemens support Edinburgh International live well in an increasingly urbanised world. a new Barney's Beer brewed especially for Science Festival as part of the Curiosity Science Festival 2016. Barney has worked with Project; a three-year engagement programme Science and Culture – Championing science’s role in Prof Charles Spence to create The Taste Test that brings science, technology, engineering culture through people, policies and politics. experiment which is delicious way to make a and mathematics (STEM) to life for young scientific contribution. Look out for our pop-up people. The UK needs to double the number of A Planetary Perspective – Planet Earth faces some taste tests from Barney’s Beer at various Science engineers entering the industry, so by supporting big challenges and science has a role to play in Festival events throughout the Festival. organisations that reach out and nurture the combatting many of these and helping to ensure innate curiosity in young people, we hope to help environmental sustainability. EARLY BIRD TICKET OFFER reduce this shortage. Buy 4 tickets for adult events and receive your Beyond Planet Earth – Exploration of non-Earthbound 5th ticket free! Cheapest ticket free, valid for The project is underpinned by an extensive challenges and opportunities. five separate events only. Early Bird tickets can education portfolio providing free, stimulating be booked by phone or in person. Offer closes on and unique resources for teachers, parents and GastroFest – A mini festival of food and drink... Saturday 19 March. young people, that bring STEM education to life And science! at home and in the classroom. Find out more at AGE RESTRICTIONS siemens.co.uk/curiosity-project. The Reading Experiment – Uniting the worlds of The adult events programme is designed for science and words. visitors aged 14+. This is a recommendation only and younger audiences are very welcome. 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THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL EXHIBITION lichens and their chemistry. brooches by Kate Bajic inspired by your doorstep and see beautiful at lichens that can be found on lives and ours. Take a closer look their abilities to enhance their lichens, algae and fungi, share the two organisms that make up surprising ways. Discover how things can work together in Sometimes twoverydifferent Gateway Gallery 6 February–15 May (10am–4.45pm in February) Free EXCHANGE | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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EXHIBITION sweeteners. connecting continents to miracle and telecommunication cables useful creations from golf balls contributed to a wide variety of family, the Sapotaceae, has shows how one tropical plant nature. This new exhibition intellect with inspiration from inventions combine human Many oftheworld’s greatest 10am-5.45pm Saturday 19 March–Sunday 24 July John Hope Gateway Free NATURE MOTHER OF INVENTION NATURE MOTHER | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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35 SCIENCE FESTIVAL LATES Want to build and program a LEGO® brick goalkeeper? Or remove a blood clot from a brain in A&E? Science Festival Lates is the event for you as we turn our
SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL flagship children’s venue over to adults for one very special night. We’ve got brains, bees, circuits and slime mixed in with music,
AGES 18+ AGES drinks and fun. Don’t miss the chance to get hands-on and get THURSDAY your geek on; come join the party!
£11/£9 | City Art Centre 24 MARCH Supported by
DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION
MENAGERIE OF MICROBES IS MY IMMUNE GO HOME AND SIT STILL: THE
Join the Menagerie of Microbes SYSTEM NORMAL? SCOTTISH WOMEN’S HOSPITALS
team of artists and scientists Feel like you’re going from one IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR for a day of interdisciplinary cold to the next? Over the winter it A fascinating talk about the BEIING HUMANBEIING workshops, talks and discussions may seem like that, but does that Edinburgh-born pioneer Dr Elsie exploring the mechanisms, mean there is something wrong Inglis. In 1914 she offered the War histories and future potential of with us? Join immunologists Arne Office a female staffed hospital simple yet complex life forms. Akbar, Sarah Goddard and Rick unit and was told to ‘go home Beginning the day with an hour of Maisels as we explore how the and sit still’... She didn’t. Instead, free exhibitor talks, the afternoon immune system works and what Dr Inglis established the Scottish will follow with a series of three effect factors like age, stress, Women’s Hospitals. Christine 90 minute workshops. Sign up to exposure to microbes and genes Short tells the story of this each individually or join us for the have on our immune systems. remarkable women who braved full day. The workshops include Together we’ll try to get to the deprivation, disease and war to creating textiles with microbial bottom of what normal is. provide a high standard of nursing dyes with Anna Dumitriu, a care during the First World War. micro-geography field study with Simon Park, and testing the intelligence of slime mould with
SATU R DAY MARCH 26 Heather Barnett
Talks: 11am | 1 hour 12.30pm | 1 hour 2pm | 1 hour
Free | Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre £6/#SciPals students £3 Free (ticket required)
Workshop: 1pm, 3pm and 5pm | 90 mins National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium The Scottish Parliament | Education Room
£12 each or 3 for £30 | Summerhall | ASCUS Lab Presented by the British Society for
Presented by ASCUS Art & Science Immunology Crystalised Bacteria © Simon Park
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BIO AND BEYOND Co-curated by the Science Festival, Summerhall and ASCUS Art & Science, Bio and Beyond brings together work from local and international artists inspired by or challenging science and technology’s potential to improve our world and how we live in it. Life is put under the microscope; encompassing everything from the deeply personal to the truly global – even cosmic.
Dennis & Debbie Club, Fiona Anderson, Lewis Den Hertog and Kieran Curran (aka MC TRUE FACTS) explore the utopian and dystopian possibilities of life on Earth and beyond in group exhibition The Human’s Planet Earth, while printmaker Ade Adesina comments on ecology and our ever-changing landscape inThere Will be Light. Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s Stranger Visions uses found DNA to produce 3D portraits, and Trevor Gordon & Josie Vallely present artworks on the theme of ‘living with eczema’ in Atopic Art. Artists, designers and scientists Heather Barnett, Anna Dumitriu, ecoLogicStudio, Patrick Hickey, Simon Park, Sarah Roberts and the ASCUS Lab present a Menagerie of Microbes, exploring the biological mastery of simple yet complex life forms.
ASCUS Lab: Are you a scientist interested in art? An artist interested in science? Or are you interested in both fields and curious about how they intersect? ASCUS Lab is a community space for experimentation in art and science, bringing a
programme of hands-on lab-based activities, talks, taster sessions and more to the Science Festival. EVENTS ADULT FR I DAY See ascus.org.uk/ascus-lab for full listings. Saturday 26 March–Friday 13 May | 11am–6pm drop-in | Free | Throughout Summerhall
25 MARCH EXHIBITION LAUNCH: Friday 25 March | 7pm-9pm | <£>Free
ASCUS LAB: Saturday 26 March–Friday 13 May | Opening times vary | drop-in | Free
In association with Summerhall and ASCUS Art & Science Artwork: Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Wall of Faces DISCUSSION DISCUSSION SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL
ADVENTURES IN THE PLAYFUL CITIES ELECTRONIC DREAMS CASKS, COATS AND CHEMISTRY ANTHROPOCENE WITH In the past play was rarely Do you remember the ZX Join us for a unique interwoven AGES 18+ AGES
GAIA VINCE thought of as an activity for Spectrum? Maybe you were more story of textiles, whisky and Join Gaia Vince for an adventure adults, however this is changing of a dedicated BASIC fan? Or science. Ewan Henderson of into the planet we made, as as science reveals how important did you see the Acorn Electron Scotch Broth Events and textile she talks about her award it is for our minds. Pervasive as the future? For anyone who specialist Alan Moore of ten30 winning book Adventures in the Media Studio Producer Verity AND SCIENCE CULTURE was a kid in the 1980s, these will take you on a journey through OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT BUILT OUR A PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A
Anthropocene with the Guardian’s McIntosh will discuss the annual iconic computer brands are the GASTROFEST taste and style as they experiment Books Editor Claire Armistead. Playable City award. She will be stuff of legend. Join historian with the flavours and aromas that Humans have become a force on a joined by Donald Gow, Senior of science Tom Lean, author of connect food, drink and fashion as par with earth-shattering asteroids Zoo Keeper and expert in primate Electronic Dreams, to look back at they explore cask chemistry and or planet-cloaking volcanoes and play at Edinburgh Zoo, Dr Tine how Britain embraced the home even dissect a jacket. Sit back, our planet is said to be crossing Bech, play researcher and artist, computer and at the people who relax and absorb the story as a geological boundary into the and Dr Amanda Seed, lecturer in drove the boom, and have a go on a you sample whisky and canapés Anthropocene, or Age of Man. psychology and neuroscience in an EXPERIMENT READING selection of machines provided by paired at a molecular level in this
READING EXPERIMENT READING Gaia looks at how humanity’s event hosted by Francesca Perry, Edinburgh Retro PC. multi-sensory event. changes are reshaping our living social and community editor for planet and explores how we might Guardian Cities. There will also be engineer Earth for our future. the chance for some play!
3pm | 90 mins 5.30pm | 90 mins 8pm | 90 mins 8pm | 2 hours
£8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £27.50 (includes drinks and canapés)
National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium Summerhall | Main Hall Summerhall | Main Hall |Summerhall | Dissection Room
Presented by the Royal Society Our Built Environment events are supported In association with Bloomsbury Publishing by Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design
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THE PLANET REMADE: HOW A ZERO CARBON WORLD DIY SPACE EXPLORATION GEOENGINEERING COULD By 2050, the UK government A democratisation of space
CHANGE THE WORLD aims to reduce greenhouse gas exploration is underway! From Carbon dioxide emissions are emissions by 80% from 1990’s Space X and Virgin Galactic to still rising and, as new scientific figure. A building’s energy usage the Solar Impulse plane, private research suggests that no feasible must be considered, but should organisations have made many
reduction can now effectively we also look at the environmental EARTH PLANET BEYOND recent innovations and we’re now OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT BUILT OUR A PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A mitigate climate change, an cost of creating new buildings in in an exciting era where individuals increasingly influential minority of the first place? JoinDr Kate Carter, can 3D-print rocket parts and climate scientists are exploring the senior lecturer in Architecture, launch their own microsatellites. possibility of human intervention Technology and Environment, Prof Join us for an evening exploring in the biosphere. In this fascinating John Currie from the Scottish the surprisingly reachable areas of discussion Oliver Morton will Energy Centre at Edinburgh space with Dr Camilla Colombo, offer an insightful, accessible and Napier University and Andrew lecturer in spacecraft engineering critical look at the climate change Waugh, the architect behind some at Southampton University, Tom
READING EXPERIMENT READING debate, providing the reasons for of the world’s tallest wooden Walkinshaw of Alba Orbital and a new and controversial response: skyscrapers, as they turn the Head of ESA’s Space Debris Office SU N DAY geoengineering. spotlight on zero carbon buildings. Dr Holger Krag.
12.30pm | 90 mins 3pm | 90 mins 5.30pm | 90 mins £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25
27 MARCH National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre
In association with Granta Books Supported by A Planetary Perspective events are supported by Greener Scotland ACTIVITY DISCUSSION DISCUSSION
A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION WIKIHOUSE ’FLATPACK’ IN FOUNTAINBRIDGE
TO... STARS DEMONSTRATION BUILD WikiHouse is an open source Every atom of our bodies has once See how easy it is to build a system that is making amateurs been part of a star. Join Andrew house with no power tools! Join feel empowered to experiment King, Professor of Astrophysics, members from Fountainbridge with architecture. It makes it as he explains how understanding Canalside Initiative, who built the possible for anyone to design,
BEYOND PLANET EARTH PLANET BEYOND the stars is key to understanding UK’s first community WikiHouse, share, download and ‘print’ OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT BUILT OUR the galaxies they inhabit, and thus and have a go! WikiHouse is an ENVIRONMENT BUILT OUR houses that can reduce waste, the history of our entire Universe. open source building system with be low-cost, and suited to local Andrew presents a fascinating many designers collaborating needs. Find out the story behind introduction to the science of stars, to make it simple for everyone this remarkable movement with from the mechanisms that allow to design, print and assemble WikiHouse co-founder Alastair stars to form and the processes beautiful, low-energy homes. Parvin and Akiko Kobayash that allow them to shine, as Come along and see just how easy from FCI who built the first well as the results of their it is by taking part in our mini build. UK community WikiHouse in READING EXPERIMENT READING inevitable death. Fountainbridge, Edinburgh over 3 days last October.
MON DAY
1pm | 1 hour 1pm and 3pm | 90 mins 5.30pm | 1 hour
£6/#SciPals students £3 | Summerhall Free (ticket requried) | Summerhall <£>£8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25
28 MARCH Anatomy Lecture Theatre Courtyard Summerhall | Main Hall
Presented by Oxford University Press Presented by the Fountainbridge Canalside Presented by the Fountainbridge Canalside Initiative Initiative
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LET'S REDESIGN THE WORLD, BODY OF ART - AND DANCE ANATOMY CANVAS Imagine a world where dancing Be your own canvas and get to had the same status as medicine, grips with the anatomy of your BEING HUMAN BEING HUMAN BEING and where public places to dance own body! In this hands-on were as numerous as bars, workshop, you’ll be taught the restaurants and parks. Dr Peter basics of anatomy and then Lovatt proposes that in such a world have the chance to paint these people would be healthier, happier, structures onto yourself or each smarter and more socially engaged. other. The activities are suitable Drawing on the work of the Dance for beginners as we’ll start with a Psychology Lab at the University of demonstration of basic techniques Hertfordshire, Peter demonstrates so that everyone feels confident how dancing can form part of an enough to give body painting a effective health and well-being try. Materials are provided and programme, boost our mood, photography is encouraged.
sharpen our thoughts and help us EVENTS ADULT bond socially.
5.30pm | 90 mins 6pm |
£11/£9 | Summerhall | Dissection Room £10 | Summerhall | Basement Gallery 4
Presented by Avid Anatomy
FIG 1. SCIPALS Marie Curie AND Nikola Tesla DEMONSTRATE A SUCCESSFUL SCI-FIVE! EXHIBITION WORKSHOP DISCUSSION SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL
SOLDER ON! AT THE FRINGE OF REASON: CELEBRATING KEVIN GOVENDER EXPERIMENTAL: THE SHOW
Soldering is easy and we’ll SKEPTICS IN THE PUB AND THE INTERNATIONAL THAT PLAYS WITH YOUR MIND
show you how. Starting with the Edinburgh Skeptics head back ASTRONOMICAL UNION Prof Richard Wiseman returns to absolute basics, you’ll be shown to the pub for a series of events The 2016 Edinburgh Medal the Festival with Experimental. BEIING HUMANBEIING the tools you need and how to during Science Festival 2016. has jointly been awarded to An interactive experience like make a solder joint, then you’ll be Join them as they investigate the International Astronomical no other as you take part in
able to get stuck in! Including your a range of topics relating to EARTH PLANET BEYOND Union and Kevin Govender live mind-blowing psychology very own kit to solder and take science, reason and critical for the creation and practical experiments that will make you home, this is your chance to learn a thinking including GMOs, genders, establishment of Astronomy for laugh, scream and gasp. There’s vital hacking skill. materials of tomorrow, psychic Development, which integrates no performer. It’s just you and the cons, syphilis, the biology of crime, the pursuit of scientific knowledge unknown. Devised and presented big data and Big Brother and with social development for by Prof Richard Wiseman. happiness. See edskeptics.co.uk and with those most in need for full programme information. and has successfully harnessed astronomy in the service of education and capacity building in the developing world. Come and view an exhibition celebrating the work of Kevin Govender and the International Astronomical Union.
7pm | 90 mins 7.30pm | 2 hours
also on Wednesday 6 April on until Thursday 31 March
£15 | Summerhall | Hacklab and from Monday 4–Thursday 7 April <£>Free |
Presented by Edinburgh Hacklab Free | The Banshee Labyrinth Presented by National Library of Scotland
Presented by Edinburgh Skeptics
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A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION SURVIVAL OF THE CENTURY IN NEED OF SUNSHINE
TO... MOUNTAINS WITH MARTIN REES Research has highlighted lots Mountains cover a quarter of Join us for an evening with Lord of reasons why sunshine is the Earth’s land and are central Martin Rees. Astronomer Royal important, but how does it help BEING HUMAN BEING HUMAN BEING to our ecosystems. They are and a Fellow of Trinity College our health? How much do we the sources of all the world’s Cambridge, and former President need? And what’s the role of major rivers, affect regional of the Royal Society, Lord Rees will vitamin D? These questions and
A PLANETARY PERSOECTIVE PLANETARY A weather patterns, hold deposits of be discussing how we can survive more will be discussed by our minerals, and provide both active the century and exploring risks panel including local GP and avid and contemplative recreation. Yet that threaten our very existence as vitamin D campaigner Dr Helga mountains are also significantly well as shedding some light on the Rhein, dermatologist Dr Richard affected by climate change. In cutting edge research underway at Weller and other experts talking this event, Prof Martin Price his new research centre. about the links between the sun outlines why mountains matter and multiple sclerosis and our and addresses the existing and emotional well being. READING EXPERIMENT READING likely impacts of climate change on mountain, hydrological and TU ESDAY ecological systems.
1pm | 1 hour 5.30pm | 90 mins 5.30pm | 90 mins
£6/#SciPals students £3 | Summerhall <£>£8.50/6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25
29 MARCH Anatomy Lecture Theatre National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Presented by Oxford University Press Supported by
DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL
LIFE LESSONS WHO WANTS TO BE SMART MEDICINE ADVENTURES IN VITICULTURE Birth cohort studies are a British MULTILINGUAL? With chronic health conditions ’In vino veritas, in aqua sanitas’, AGES 18+ AGES speciality. These ambitious Fingers on buzzers! This pub on the rise and the limited ‘in wine there is truth, in water pieces of research reveal how our quiz with a difference will take resources of the NHS under there is health ’; a thought with BEING HUMAN BEING BEING HUMAN BEING BEING HUMAN BEING childhood impacts the course of you on a tour inside a language increasing strain, what are which to start our exploration our lives, and the many factors learner’s brain with fun trivia and the implications of the push of the world of wine! This event that influence our economic, social mind-boggling teasers, curated towards the ‘digitally-empowered will raise a glass (literally and
and personal development. Helen and delivered by stand-up comic patient’? And will the UK soon GASTROFEST figuratively) to the wonderful Pearson, editor for Nature and Susan Morrison aided by our see a revolution in gadget-based art and science of wine making author of the forthcoming The Life resident experts Prof Antonella personal healthcare? Join former and challenge some common Project, director of CLOSER Prof Sorace and Dr Thomas Bak President of the Royal Society assumptions: Does expensive wine Alison Park, Prof Chris Dibben, from The University of Edinburgh. of Medicine’s Telemedicine and taste better? Will we ever see READING EXPERIMENT READING and Dr George Ploubidis, Chief Whether you’re a lifelong bilingual, eHealth Section Charles Lowe, vineyards in Scotland? Is there a Statistician at the Centre for or struggling to remember your patient-hacker and innovator Tim difference between cork and screw Longitudinal Studies, discuss high school French: come and join Omer and medical technology top bottles? Join Scottish vigneron these observational studies. us to discover something new evangelist Dr Jack Kreindler to Christopher Trotter and other about languages, and how we explore the perils and potentials experts in this wine safari. learn them. of this movement. Chaired by BBC Scotland Health Correspondent Eleanor Bradford.
8pm | 90 mins 8pm | 90 mins 8pm | 90 mins 8pm | 90 mins
£8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 <£>£15 (includes wine samples) | Summerhall
Summerhall | Main Hall Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium Dissection Room Presented by Bilingualism Matters, The University of Edinburgh
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GREENING THE CITY A IS FOR ARSENIC THE SCIENCE OF
Are cities and the countryside Agatha Christie, The Queen PANDA BREEDING distinct environments, or can we of Crime, is renowned for the Pandas are threatened by bring the two together? With a use of poisons in her plots. A extinction in their native region of proposal to create a ‘Leaf Walk’ staggering variety of compounds China so it’s ever more important bio-bridge in Edinburgh, we were employed to bump off that captive breeding programmes SCIENCE AND SCIENCE CULTURE
explore urban planning, green her characters during her long exist. RZSS Edinburgh Zoo has 39 page See OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT BUILT OUR innovation and its links with public writing career and her scientific the UK’s only giant pandas, Tian health. In this event we will bring accuracy is impressive. Kathryn Tian and Yang Guang, but to date together Melissa Sterry, scientist Harkup, author of A is for Arsenic, a panda cub has remained elusive. and futurist; Pierre Forissier, explores the science behind the Join Director of Giant Pandas director at Biomorphis, the poisons Christie used and how she Iain Valentine, alongside RZSS practice designing the Leaf Walk sometimes used the symptoms Edinburgh Zoo’s in-house expert bridge; and Prof Richard Mitchell, of poisons to give clues to her panda keepers, vets and external Professor of Public Health. You EXPERIMENT READING famous sleuths. Expect cunning partners for a discussion on the will also get the chance to exercise clues, red herrings and magnificent science behind panda breeding.
your green fingers. moustaches. EVENTS ADULT AT THE FRINGE OF REASON: SKEPTICS IN THE PUB THE IN SKEPTICS REASON: OF FRINGE THE AT
5.30pm | 90 mins 5.30pm | 90 mins 6.30pm | 2 hours 7.30pm £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8/£6 RZSS members | RZSS Edinburgh Zoo
Summerhall | Dissection Room Summerhall | Main Hall Budongo Trail
Our Built Environment events are supported In association with Bloomsbury Publishing Presented by RZSS Edinburgh Zoo by Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design The Banshee Labyrinth The OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT From the first forest shelters to the Sagrada Look out for events tagged with Our Built Familia, humanity has shaped its own Environment throughout the brochure and on our environment to an extraordinary degree. The website: sciencefestival.co.uk. spaces we inhabit have a direct impact on how we feel, think, and behave and, as part of Science Festival 2016, we’ll be asking how science, technology, architecture and design can impact on our homes and cities to help us to live well through a special series of events focusing on Our Built Environment.
In Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design, we’re looking at eco-friendly portable living spaces in our Tiny Homes Village (p.49), creating a platform for discussion around what turns a simple roof over our heads into somewhere we are happy to call home. Explore the exhibition on The Mound Precinct or join in the debate at Tiny Home Sweet Home (p.48). Our Built Environment is supported by: Stepping up in scale, we’ll conduct a site survey of Planet Earth, looking at everything from how we can interact with our cities through play (p.37) to debating the how and why of zero carbon buildings (p.38). We’ll be asking if cities and the countryside are really two distinct environments in Greening the City (p.41) and bringing the built environment and human happiness together in Healthy, Happy Cities (p.54). ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 557 2686 41 DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION
A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION UTOPIAN CITIES: DIVESTMENT - DOES IT WORK?
TO... PSYCHOTHERAPY FUTURE DREAMS Many organisations and Psychotherapy and counselling Many of the most famous utopian institutions invest large amounts are now widely available and cities in history were never built, of money in stocks as a way of BEING HUMAN BEING commonly accessed by people but they still influence architecture generating income. There have to help overcome emotional today. Broadcaster and author of been calls for some of them to and psychological difficulties in Villages of Vision Gillian Darley remove the capital they have OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT BUILT OUR their lives. Prof Tom Burns and will join expert on utopian cities PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A invested in fossil fuel companies, Eva Burns-Lundgren trace the from Leeds University Dr Diane but is divestment a powerful tool development of psychotherapy Morgan, architect and author of or just a meaningless gesture? We from its origins in Freud’s Last Futures Douglas Murphy, bring together a panel, including psychoanalysis to the range utopian inspired architect Kate Dave Gorman, Director of Social READING EXPERIMENT READING of different approaches now MacIntosh, and expert on Responsibility and Sustainability available – counselling, cognitive utopian literature Dr Matthew at The University of Edinburgh, behaviour therapy, mindfulness, Beaumont to discuss how utopian and management scholar Prof group and family therapies, and EXPERIMENT READING cities continue to shape our built Timothy Devinney to discuss these many more. environment. contentious issues. WEDN ESDAY
1pm | 1 hour 5.30pm |
30 MARCH Anatomy Lecture Theatre Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium
Presented by Oxford University Press Our Built Environment events are supported by Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design
ASTRONOMY FOR A BETTER WORLD PREVIOUS MEDAL RECIPIENTS The Edinburgh Medal is a The IAU is an international 2015 Mary Midgley prestigious award given each year astronomical organisation which 2014 Prof Mary Abukutsa-Onyango to men and women of science and brings together almost 10,000 2013 Prof Peter Higgs and CERN technology whose professional distinguished astronomers from all 2012 Dr James Hansen achievements are judged to have nations of the world. Its mission is to 2011 Prof Carl Djerassi made a significant contribution to promote and safeguard the science of 2010 Sir Alex Jefferies the understanding and well-being astronomy in all its aspects through 2009 Prof Jonathan Beckwith of humanity. international cooperation. Under 2008 Prof Chris Rapley the pioneering stewardship of Kevin 2007 Dr Richard Horton The 2016 Edinburgh Medal is jointly Govender, the Office of Astronomy 2006 Prof James Lovelock awarded to Kevin Govender and for Development has successfully 2005 Prof Colin Blakemore the International Astronomical harnessed astronomy in the service of 2004 Prof Steven Rose Union (IAU), to recognise their wide education and capacity building in the 2003 Prof Wang Sung reaching contribution to science. It is developing world. 2002 Dr Lise Kingo awarded jointly for the creation and 2001 Sir John Sulston practical establishment of Astronomy Kevin will be joined by Silvia 2000 Prof Lynn Margulis for Development, which integrates Torres-Piembert, President of the 1999 Prof Jocelyn Bell Burnell the pursuit of scientific knowledge International Astronomical Union, to 1998 Sir David Attenborough with social development for and with deliver this year’s Edinburgh Medal 1997 Prof Amartya Sen those most in need. Address: Astronomy for a better world. 1996 Prof Richard Levins Oration by Lord Martin Rees and vote 1995 Sir John Crofton of thanks by Prof Monica Grady. 1994 Prof Manuel Pattarroya 1993 Prof Wangari Maathai
7pm | 1 hour 1992 Prof Heinz Wolff
£8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 1991 Prof Jane Goodall
City Chambers | Main Chamber 1990 Prof Stephen J Gould 1989 Prof Abdus Salam
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SHOW SOUNDS SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL OF SCIENCE NEURO-YOGA: THE SCIENCE OF Launching at the Science Festival, YOGA AND MEDITATION this extraordinary project reveals how AGES 8+ AGES Is yoga all in the mind? humans have changed the world over the Neuro-yoga will bring together last 10,000 years through a timeline of BEING HUMAN BEING experienced yoga and meditation science and engineering played live using practitioners and experts nothing more than sound. Celebrated in neuroscience. This fun, percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie will informative and interactive event perform a groundbreaking 21-minute will combine practical yoga and soundscape by composer Jill Jarman meditation sessions with a panel and conceived by timeline specialist and discussion between leading AND SCIENCE CULTURE world history author Christopher Lloyd neuroscientists who will discuss and a discussion about the project will whether neuroscience can follow. With support from the Institution of explain the effects that yoga and Mechanical Engineers. meditation have on the body and mind. Great for the mind, body
and soul! EVENTS ADULT
5.30pm | 100 mins 7pm | 105 mins
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Summerhall | Main Hall The Queen’s Hall Image: Jim Callaghan WORKSHOP DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION
EXTREME SOLDERING SORTING THE BEEF FROM DOLLY AND ME... 20 YEARS TECHNOLOGIES OF THE
Some hackers say surface mount THE BULL WITH THE WORLD’S MOST FUTURE, TODAY
soldering is hard because of the Food adulteration, motivated FAMOUS SHEEP Artificial intelligence is already
tiny components, but we’ll show GASTROFEST by money, is an issue that has 2016 marks the 20th anniversary creeping into our daily lives. Our
you it’s really not that scary. spanned the globe throughout of the birth of Dolly the Sheep, the HUMAN BEING phones recommend restaurants, Including your very own kit to build human history. So how do we sort first mammal to be cloned from an and predict our preferences
and take home, this session will the beef from the bull (or horse, AND SCIENCE CULTURE adult cell. But what impact did she for news, movies, and other show you the tricks and techniques as the case may be)? This event have on those closest to her and content. What is the future at the
to help you solder on. 39 page See will look into the scientific tools those whose work she inspired? intersection of machinery and and techniques that have revealed Join us as Prof Sir Ian Wilmut, AI? Robots have the potential to the century’s biggest food fraud who led the research which change the world, working for scams. Leading biogeochemist created Dolly, and our other expert us and beside us. Join James READING EXPERIMENT READING Prof Richard Evershed and science panellists take your questions Garforth and the team from writer Nicola Temple will bring this and reveal what working with Edinburgh Centre for Robotics fascinating and under-reported the world’s most famous sheep as they present a range of applied science to light. has meant to them. Discover how robots. What robots might we be Dolly still influences cutting-edge interacting with in the future? scientific research in Edinburgh and beyond. AT THE FRINGE OF REASON: SKEPTICS IN THE PUB THE IN SKEPTICS REASON: OF FRINGE THE AT
7pm | 90 mins 7.30pm 8pm | 90 mins 8pm | 90 mins 8pm | 90 mins
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£15 | Summerhall | Hacklab Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium Summerhall | Main Hall
Presented by Edinburgh Hacklab Presented by Bloomsbury Publishing Presented by The Roslin Institute, in collaboration Presented by the Edinburgh Centre with the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine for Robotics at The University of Edinburgh The Banshee Labyrinth The
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WEARABLE CIRCUITS A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION SPOTLIGHT ON: FOSSIL HUNTERS
Create your own wearable circuit TO... FORENSIC SCIENCE Newly discovered fossils have in this hands-on tech and textiles In forensic science, a criminal led to an exciting breakthrough workshop for beginners. You’ll case can often hinge on a piece of in recent years, bridging the gap learn some basic electronics and evidence such as a hair, a blood between life in water and life how to design a circuit using LED trace, half a footprint, or a tyre on land. Nick Fraser, Keeper of READING EXPERIMENT READING SCIENCE AND SCIENCE CULTURE lights, buzzers and switches and mark. In this event, Prof Jim Fraser Natural Sciences and curator of we’ll give you as much help as you introduces the concept of forensic current museum exhibition Fossil need with the needlework. Bring science and explains how it is Hunters: Unearthing the Mystery along an item of clothing, bag or used in the investigation of crime. of Life on Land, will tell the story banner (anything you can sew!) Providing examples from forensic of these fossils and other finds, and we’ll provide the rest. science cases in the UK, US, and and what they reveal about how other countries, he considers the vertebrates colonised the land. techniques and challenges faced around the world.
THURSDAY
10am and 3pm | 3 hours 1pm | 1 hour 2pm | 1 hour
£30 | Summerhall | Basement Gallery 3 £6/#SciPals students £3 | Summerhall Free (ticket required)
31 MARCH Presented by Remade in Edinburgh Anatomy Lecture Theatre National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium
Presented by Oxford University Press Presented by the National Museum
of Scotland DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION
THE PLUTO NATURAL CONNECTIONS CLIMATE FUTURES: A
APPRECIATION SOCIETY Do you picture puffins when you PUBLIC DEBATE In 2006 the number of planets in go to the supermarket? Did you Join us for a panel discussion our solar system was officially know your choice of compost on a highly significant science reduced. Responding to the could help protect us from climate topic, Climate Futures. What discovery of Eris, the International change? Come and discover why will happen to future climates?
Astronomical Union announced nature is essential to life as we 39 page See What effects will this have in the BEYOND PLANET EARTH PLANET BEYOND
a formal redefinition of the term PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A know it and how the choices you PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A UK and globally, and what can or ‘planet’. After a vote it was make affect the world around you. should we do about it? Prof Dorrik decided that Pluto was just too Prepare to be surprised, intrigued Stow, Director of the Institute small, weird and far away to make and entertained as our special of Petroleum Engineering at the grade. Nine years later, New guests take you through a series Heriot Watt, will chair a panel of Horizons passed by capturing some of scenarios and challenges which leading figures from universities, incredible images. Join Prof Iwan demonstrate how everything is government, and industrial centres. Williams, Dr Robin Catchpole and connected! Together, along with questions Prof Monica Grady as they discuss from the audience, they will what the future might hold for this interrogate this significant topic in icy dwarf planet. a Question Time style event. AT THE FRINGE OF REASON: SKEPTICS IN THE PUB THE SKEPTICS IN REASON: OF FRINGE THE AT
Summerhall | Main Hall Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Presented by the Scottish Wildlife Trust A Planetary Perspective events are supported Image: Steve Gardner by Greener Scotland Presented by The Banshee Labyrinth The
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UPDATES FROM SPACE WITH JEAN-FRANÇOIS CLERVOY Join one of Europe’s most decorated space explorers to get an insight into life as an astronaut. European Space Agency’s (ESA) Jean-François Clervoy will share his experiences and highlights of a career involving 675 hours of space flight. He will be joined by guests from the UK Space Agency to update on Tim Peake’s Principia Mission to the International
BEYOND PLANET EARTH PLANET BEYOND Space Station.
Jean-François flew three times on the Space Shuttle. His missions included repairing the Hubble space telescope and undertaking a wide range of science experiments. In his current role Jean-François provides support to the human spaceflight programme and closely followed British ESA astronaut Tim Peake as he trained for his current Principia Mission. Tim blasted off from Earth to join the ISS on 15 December 2015
and the panel will be able to share the latest news on Tim’s mission as EVENTS ADULT well as giving a unique viewpoint on the challenges and opportunities of human spaceflight. 5.30 and 8pm | 90 mins £11/£9, £7 child. £30 family ticket (2 adult, 2 child.) #SciPals students £5.50 The Queen’s Hall With thanks to UK Space Agency and ESA Family event at 5.30pm see p.33 for more details DISCUSSION DISCUSSION SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL
SLIPPING THE MIND THE FUTURIST MEAL HERDING HEMINGWAY’S CATS Join us to explore the fragile and Throughout history many radical In 1935, Ernest Hemingway was AGES 18+ AGES fallible nature of human memory, thinkers have attempted to build given Snowball, a six-toed cat including a look at cutting-edge a better world by overthrowing who went on to father a line of BEING HUMAN BEING BEING HUMAN BEING discoveries on how memories are the conventions of the past to moggies bearing this distinctive made and stored, the effects of create brand new cultures. One genetic marker. Scientists now technology on working memory such movement was Futurism, an know that the fault driving this
and the role of nostalgia in GASTROFEST artistic and social crusade that profusion of digits lies in a tiny making us who we are. Hosted amongst other things changed genetic control switch, miles away by Guardian science writer and our understanding of cooking (in molecular terms) from the neurologist Jules Montague through the doctrine of bringing gene that ‘makes’ toes. Drawing with Prof Giuliana Mazzoni, the laboratory into the kitchen. on stories ranging from six-toed Dr Tim Wildschut and Dr Fiona Prof Neil Cox joins culinary cats to fish hips, werewolves and
McNab, this promises to be an inventor Charlie Harry Francis EXPERIMENT READING zombie genes, geneticist and unforgettable discussion. for an experimental Futurist meal. author Kat Arney, in conversation Expect live musical performances, with Festival of the Spoken Nerd’s confrontational canapés and Helen Arney explores how DNA is disturbing dishes as we go beyond packed, unpacked and read. the beyond at this unique event.
8pm | 90 mins 8pm | 2 hours 8pm | 90 mins £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £20(includes a drink and canapés) £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25
National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium Summerhall | Dissection Room Summerhall | Main Hall Supported by In association with Bloomsbury Publishing
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A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION THE MATHEMATICS OF WHY I WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
TO… ALGEBRA DON’T HAVE A BOYFRIEND We’re taking more medicines Investigate the ABC of x+y in this Are you single? Losing hope that than ever before, often taken accessible introduction to algebra. you will ever find ‘The One'? in combination, known as
Algebra marked the beginning Wondering about the true purpose HUMAN BEING polypharmacy. Most are given of modern mathematics, moving of Venn Diagrams? Dr Trina to elderly patients and as READING EXPERIMENT READING it beyond arithmetic to problems AND SCIENCE CULTURE Dinnis gives an introduction to we’re getting older as a society, where some quantities are mathematical modelling and how polypharmacy is becoming more unknown. Join Peter Higgins, this relates to the real world, using prevalent. Prof Simon Maxwell, Professor in Pure Mathematics, as league tables, communication Professor of Clinical Pharmacology he offers a step-by-step approach theory, and the novels of at Edinburgh University, will lead for anyone keen on developing Jane Austen. a discussion on how patients can their understanding of algebra. be empowered in the relationship Using theory and example, he they have with their doctor, will reacquaint you with school how we can all access more mathematics, before taking you information about medicines and progressively further and deeper how not wasting medicines could FR I DAY into the subject. save the NHS millions.
1pm | 1 hour 5.30pm | 1 hour 5.30pm | 90 mins £6/#SciPals students £3 | Summerhall £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25
1 APRIL Anatomy Lecture Theatre Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre Summerhall | Main Hall Presented by Oxford University Press Presented by the British
Pharmacological Society SHOW DISCUSSION DISCUSSION SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL
FEEDING TIME AT THE ZOO NATURE’S TARDIS THE ENTIRELY ACCURATE MISSION TO MARS Join us for a culinary adventure at Time travel to restore extinct ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF EVOLUTION The race to set up a colony on AGES 18+ AGES AGES 18+ AGES RZSS Edinburgh Zoo. Arrive at species is pure science fiction, Did human evolution stop once we the red planet is underway and Penguin’s Rock for a drink with the but we can successfully bring had hospitals? Are humans born we asked people to volunteer
penguins before heading to the back locally extinct species, HUMAN BEING with an innate fear and hatred of their own candidates to make Budongo Trail for a starter with as Scotland’s sea eagles have strangers? Does the fossil record the journey to Mars. Three of the chimpanzees and then on to shown. Translocation can provide support a view of early humans Scotland’s most exciting writers A PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A
GASTROFEST the mansion house for main and endangered species with a second as chronic warmongers? Stand-up will read brand new work inspired dessert. Throughout the evening chance, but only if we understand comedian Robert Newman, by these candidates. Featuring you’ll hear from the Zoo’s keepers, the reasons for their decline. author of The Entirely Accurate writers Pippa Goldschmidt, Basil
nutrition experts and the Organic Ecologist Sally Eaton will lead a Encyclopaedia of Evolution, EARTH PLANET BEYOND Davies and Olga Wojtas. Chaired Chef in Residence as you enjoy a discussion with Sarah Robinson contrasts the pessimism of by Lynsey Rogers and presented menu themed around the animals’ from the Royal Zoological Society evolution bestsellers with the by Scottish Book Trust’s New
favourite bites. of Scotland, Prof Chris Thomas EXPERIMENT READING views of Darwin. Writers Awards programme. from the University of York and Andrew Bauer from the National Farmers Union Scotland to explore the science and potential impact of translocation. READING EXPERIMENT READING
6pm | 3 hours 7pm | 90 mins 8pm | 1 hour 8pm | 1 hour
£40 (includes arrival drink and three course meal) £8/£6/#SciPals students £4 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 <£>£8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25
RZSS Edinburgh Zoo Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Summerhall | Main Hall Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Lecture Theatre Presented by Freight Books Presented by the Scottish Book Trust In association with Scottish Natural Heritage
and The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
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BASH AGES 18+ AGES Join us for an out-of-this-world space party! Unleash your inner astronaut as you take a spacesuit selfie, help build a Mars colony from LEGO® bricks, send an encrypted message on a genuine Enigma machine and learn about the astrolabe whilst crafting one. Step inside our planetarium to discover the wonders of the solar system or take to the dance floor for the space themed Science Ceilidh. There’ll also be short BEYOND PLANET EARTH PLANET BEYOND talks from space experts including Mars One finalistRyan MacDonald and astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell. Not to mention the chance to get a space-themed cocktail from the Bar at the
End of the Universe and dance the night away EVENTS ADULT to a DJ set from Kid Canaveral. Get ready for an intergalactic night out to remember.
<£>£12/£10 |
Grand Gallery
THE MEDICINAL MEAL It’s no longer good enough for AGES 18+ AGES foods to be simply tasty and filling. We now expect them to be nutritious, balance our gut microbiology, protect us from illness and even heal us. With DID YOU KNOW THAT EDINBURGH
GASTROFEST the rise of the health-conscious INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE FESTIVAL IS A consumer, few would doubt SUPPORT US! REGISTERED CHARITY? the marketing potential of ‘superfoods’, but just how super From remarkable robotic workshops to exciting YOU CAN SUPPORT US: are they? Sample a taster-menu edible gardening projects, enlightening Online by adding a donation to your ticket purchase meal featuring some of the engineering talks and magnificent explorations of most popular superfoods with space travel, donations from our loyal audiences Over the phone on 0844 557 2686 or in person at the NHS dietitian Catherine Collins, and supporters feeds directly into the production Box Office botanist Dr Greg Kenicer from and delivery of our world-class events, reaching Royal Botanic Garden, gut health audiences of all ages and backgrounds. By contacting the Development Team on expert Dr Lindsay Hall and chef 0131 553 0324 or [email protected] Paul Wedgwood on hand to talk We want to inspire people to discover the world you through what’s fact and fiction. around them, but we rely on the generosity of our To find out more about our work and other ways supporters to help make that happen. All donations that you can support us, visit
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ROBERT POWELL: SPECIES WILD, SCOTTISH AND FREE TERRAFORMING; TERRIFYING OR
OF SPACE Imagine a future without TERRIFIC? This solo exhibition by 18+ AGES farm animals or crops. What Terraforming is the process Edinburgh-based artist Robert would we eat? Enjoy a unique, of transforming a hostile Powell is a meditation on the city post-apocalypse, wild food dining environment into one suitable for as a concept and physical artefact. experience with gastro-innovators human life. What are our options
It explores the idea of the ‘universal Buck and Birch. The event starts EARTH PLANET BEYOND for ex-Earth living? Where could OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT BUILT OUR
city’ and Edinburgh in particular, GASTROFEST off with foraging in the gardens for we live? How would we get there? considering the lives and stories fresh spring delights, followed by We will attack these questions of its inhabitants. At the heart a three-course gourmet lunch and from all sides with the help of Dr of the exhibition is an ambitious seasonal drink. Jill Stuart, a space-law expert, installation of a cardboard city, Ryan MacDonald, a man prepared clad in screen-printed laser-cut to put his life on the line for the wood veneers. A sculptural Mars One Project and planetary piece, that takes the form of an geologist and astrobiologist Dr idealised walled city, cut off from Louisa Preston . its surroundings and complete SATU R DAY in itself.
Saturday 26 March–Sunday 10 April 11.30am | 3 hours 12.30pm | 90 mins
(Tuesday–Saturday only) £30 (includes lunch and seasonal drink) £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 2 APRIL 10am-6pm | drop-in Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium
Free | Edinburgh Printmakers John Hope Gateway SHOW DISCUSSION DISCUSSION SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL
THE KNOWLEDGE: HOW NEWS FROM PHILAE STRANGER THAN FICTION, THE CHEESEOLOGY
TO REBUILD OUR WORLD One of the most incredible PANEL GAME What makes a brie taste like a
FROM SCRATCH achievements in 2014 was the Can you tell truth from lies brie and a cheddar taste like a
The world as we know it has landing of the Philae probe on and separate scientific reality GASTROFEST cheddar? What does salt bring ended and we must start again. the comet 67P/Churyumov– from persistent myth? In this to the flavour and durability What key knowledge do you Gerasimenko. But what did it interactive game show our panel of cheese? Cheeseology is an READING EXPERIMENT READING
need to survive in the immediate EARTH PLANET BEYOND find? What were its last words? of distinguished authors, all exploration of the food science A PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A post-apocalyptic aftermath, avert And what does it mean for future non-fiction science writers, will that lies behind the development another Dark Ages and accelerate missions? Join professor of be telling some great big porkies of flavour in different cheese the rebooting of civilisation from astronomy Hugh Jones, along about science, but occasionally varieties. Presented by Paul scratch? Join award winning with a panel of other experts, to they’ll drop in a few truths as Thomas , dairy technologist, scientist and author of The hear about the latest findings from they attempt to pull the wool over cheesemaking trainer and former Knowledge Dr Lewis Dartnell as the mission and the future of space your eyes. Can you see through professional cheesemaker, he talks about this grand thought exploration. their deception? The truth is often Cheeseology takes the turophile on experiment, shining a light on the stranger than fiction! a journey through the microbiology READING EXPERIMENT READING behind-the-scenes fundamentals and biochemistry of this much of how our world works. loved food, bringing science to life with a tutored cheese tasting.
5.30pm | 1 hour 5.30pm | 90 mins 8pm | 1 hour 8pm | 90 mins
£8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £15 (includes tasters) | Summerhall
Summerhall | Main Hall Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre Dissection Room
Presented by Stranger Than Fiction
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STRESS ON THE BATTLEFIELD BOARD GAMES WITH A BURNING QUESTIONS: WHAT QUACKERY AND BAD MEDICINE
Combat Stress, the UK’s leading SCIENCE-Y TWIST SHOULD WE DO WITH OUR Discover Edinburgh’s history of
mental health charity for veterans, Enjoy an afternoon of board REMAINING FOSSIL FUELS? quackery and fake medicine in this is currently looking after almost games with a science-y twist that Fossil fuels can be burned for fascinating event. In a behind-the-
BEING HUMAN BEING 6,000 veterans aged between 18 will give you the chance to tackle energy or used as a raw material scenes tour of the Royal College of and 97 years old. The charity has a climate change, cure diseases in the production of plastics, Physicians you will get the chance
firm focus on supporting recovery or prevent lab explosions. Drop AND SCIENCE CULTURE medicines, chemicals and to see unusual equipment, early and is at the forefront of mental in for anything from 15 minutes fertilisers. We know we only PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A medical texts and illustrations health provision for veterans with of dice-throwing and collecting have a finite amount left and need revealing how charlatans plied Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder dinosaurs, to an hour or two of to make the best use of them, their trade. Find out how people (PTSD). Join Head of Psychological solving puzzles and saving the but what should we do with our were persuaded to spend money Therapies Dr Nicola Sorfleet, for world. Children are very welcome remaining fossil fuels? Join our on unicorn horn, live doves and an overview of the charity’s work but must be accompanied by expert panel featuring Prof Paul Miracle Whirling Sprays. and an insight into the treatment an adult. Ekins, Director of the UCL Institute of PTSD. for Sustainable Resources, and Prof Dave Reay, Professor
of Carbon Management and EVENTS ADULT Education, to weigh up our options.
2pm | 1 hour 2–5pm | drop-in 3pm | 90 mins 2.30pm | 1 hour
<£>Free (ticket required) Free | Summerhall | Cafe £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 also on at 6.30pm on Thursday 7 April
The Scottish Parliament | Education Room Presented by State of Play National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium £8/£6 | Royal College of Physicians Supported by
Leading Energy Discussion & Debate
Our Built Environment TINY HOMES VILLAGE is supported by Urban populations are on the rise. As a result a growing number EXHIBITION DISCUSSION of home developers are ‘thinking small’; challenging conventions and expectations as to what a home looks like and the size it is expected to be and looking to overcome obstacles through
TINY HOME SWEET HOME innovative architectural design. The UN predicts that by 2060 66% of the world’s population will live In the Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design, our Tiny in urban environments. One of the Homes Village will transform The Mound Precinct into a platform biggest challenges ahead of us is for discussion of what turns a simple roof over our heads into meeting housing requirements for somewhere we are happy to call home. From tiny homes to this tribe of city dwellers. Space self-sustaining eco pods, traditional Mongolian yurts and OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT BUILT OUR is limited and expensive so some ENVIRONMENT BUILT OUR emergency housing solutions, we challenge Edinburgh’s city developers are thinking small. How dwellers to consider how far – indeed how small – they would be does this help as we also consider prepared to go. the needs of those currently without a home? Our expert panel Saturday 26 March–Sunday 10 April | Free | drop-in | The Mound Precinct including tiny home developer Dr Michael Page, Eric Reynolds of Urban Space Management, expert in urban planning Dr Caroline Brown and Julia Glenn of Extremis Technology discuss what makes a home and how to create a place in which we thrive.
8pm | 90 mins £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25
Summerhall | Main Hall Our Built Environment events are supported by Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture
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SCIENCE FESTIVAL SPACEPORT SCOTLAND PHYSICS TO BLOW YOUR MIND
CHURCH SERVICE With the continuing rocket Physics to Blow Your Mind is The Lord Provost of Edinburgh and launches of SpaceX and Blue back! Join us for an eye-opening the Minister of St Giles’ Catherdral Origin, private business is gaining journey through some of the most invite you to the annual church a greater role in the expanding curious and intruiging secrets of service celebrating the Edinburgh industrialisation and exploration the cosmos. Cosmologist Prof
International Science Festival. EARTH PLANET BEYOND of space. Coupled with the UK EARTH PLANET BEYOND Sarah Bridle will explore enigmatic Government’s announcement of dark energy, the purported cause a shortlist of possible sites of a of the mysterious accelerated British Spaceport, the chances are expansion of the Universe, and high that the next generation of Dr Michal Michalowski will space-launch vehicles could find a unlock some of the secrets of home in Scotland. Join Steve Lee how stars are formed. Not for the of Astrosat, Dr Hina Bacai from physics-faint-hearted! the Scottish Centre of Excellence in Satellite Applications and other experts as they discuss the SU N DAY opportunities that could arise.
11.30am | 2 hours 12.30pm | 90 mins 3pm | 90 mins Free | St Giles Cathedral £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 3 APRIL National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium EXHIBITION
SYMMETRIES IN LIGHT This international exhibition by the Japan Kaleidoscope Museum and the Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews, celebrates the SCIMART life and work of Scottish physicist Dr David Brewster who invented A farmers’ market with a scientific twist,SciMart
the kaleidoscope 200 years EVENT SPECIAL brings together food producers, researchers and ago. Featuring kaleidoscopes chefs to reveal the fascinating science behind of different sizes, styles and some of our favourite foodstuffs. With cooking principles, including some demonstrations, a series of short talks and a variety beautiful examples brought over of interactive stalls, SciMart offers up a packed to the UK specially, the exhibition menu and food for thought. New for 2016: learn all unlocks the dazzling beauty of about the science of chilies in Trial by Capsaicin and
this traditional art and illustrates GASTROFEST have a go at cheesemaking with dairy expert Paul how Brewster’s work in optics Thomas. has influenced modern science and society.
Opening times vary | drop-in 3 April | 11am-4pm | drop-in
on until Sunday 10 April (not Wednesday 6 April) £3.50 (under 12s free) | Throughout Summerhall
Free | Playfair Library Presented by The University of Edinburgh
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CAN PORNOGRAPHY BE GOOD DESIGNING FICTIONAL WORLDS FEEDING THE 7 BILLION FUTURE CITIES: DO THEY ALL
FOR YOU? Come and delve into the virtual Global food production needs ADD UP? Do we need to get over our world! In this fascinating event to double by 2050 to feed our What will the cities of the future inhibitions when it comes we’ll look at how fictional worlds ever-growing population. Will look like? How will people get to pornography? Renowned are designed and created, what laboratory produced meat and their energy and dispose of their obscenity lawyer Myles Jackman, paradigms the designers and vertical farms be the answer? Or rubbish? These questions may SCIENCE AND SCIENCE CULTURE psychotherapist Paula Hall and writers base them on, and the is growing food locally a global be hard to think about but maths OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT BUILT OUR cultural theorist John Mercer psychology of why so many people solution? Our future food experts ENVIRONMENT BUILT OUR just might be able to give us some A PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A join Richard Lucas of the Solas are drawn to them. Join our panel including Peter Verstate from answers! Join Prof Chris Budd, Dr Centre for Public Christianity for of experts including award winning Cultured Meat, senior research Hannah Fry, Prof Peter Grindrod, a lively debate examining key author Charles Stross and Emese fellow in public health nutrition Prof Des Higham, Dr Nick questions about pornography – is Domahidi, researcher in social Dr Joanna Kaniewska, Stuart McCullen and Dr Paul Shepherd it part of a healthy sexual freedom aspects of gaming, and Andy Guzinski from Leith Food Assembly to discuss how cities will evolve in of expression or something Robinson, games designer and GASTROFEST and Mark Horler, from the the future and why decisions and that can be both socially and creator of EVE: Valkyrie as they Association for Vertical Farming, interventions should be based on psychologically damaging, and EXPERIMENT READING discuss how fictional worlds can will explore how to feed the world. quantitative, testable predictions.
how can we map its influences help us deal with the real world. EVENTS ADULT and effects?
8pm | 90 mins 8pm | 90 mins 8pm | 90 mins 8pm | 90 mins
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Summerhall | Dissection Room Summerhall | Main Hall Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre Summerhall | Red Lecture Theatre Our Built Environment events are supported A Planetary Perspective events are supported Presented by the International Centre for
by Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture by Greener Scotland Mathematical Sciences and Design
A PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE
We are at a crucial turning point in human development; a point at which we can choose how we want to continue to develop our planet, resources and communities. We have at our disposal a wealth of technological advances and knowledge that might help us address the challenges we will face but how will we apply them?
A Planetary Perspective events will explore the ways in which scientific endeavours will help us to feed the world, fuel the world and maintain a beautiful world in the years to come. Covering topics as diverse as how we can feed our ever-growing population (p.51) and how to rebuild our world from scratch (p.49), these events will explore the role science has to play in helping to ensure environmental sustainability on Earth.
We’ll explore climate change with Prof Chris Rapley, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, as he presents his critically acclaimed one-man show 2071: The World We’ll Leave Our Grandchildren (p.61). Echoing an event from 2015 that looked at the road to the Paris climate talks, we’ll take a look at the most important resolutions arising from the 21st Conference of the Parties on Climate Change in The Road from Paris (p.52).
This important series of events features high profile speakers and hands-on experiences and are tagged throughout the brochure with A Planetary Perspective.
A Planetary Perspective is supported by
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A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION OLYMPIANS: BORN OR BUILT? LINNAEAN LIMBO: THE
TO... EVOLUTION What does it take to be a DINOSAURS THAT NEVER WERE Less than 250 years ago, most champion? Can you get there In a storytelling show blending European scholars believed that the through just blood, sweat and theatre, palaeontology and the Universe was created essentially tears? Or does elite athleticism history of science, Linnaean Limbo in its present state about 6,000 need to be hardwired in your takes a look at the dinosaurs READING EXPERIMENT READING EXPERIMENT READING years ago. Join Prof Brian AND SCIENCE CULTURE genes? Chaired by Paralympian that never really were. Illicit Ink Charlesworth and Prof Deborah Dan Gordon, join our panel of have mustered the very best Charlesworth as they explain the experts, Scottish Marathon writer-performers and science crucial role of evolutionary biology Champion Megan Crawford, communicators to make up a in transforming our view of human geneticist Yannis Pitsiladis, and cast of special guests, including origins and relation to the Universe. sports psychologist Edward author Emily Dodd. Together they’ll You’ll discover some of the most Coughlan to discover the relative celebrate how science constantly important basic findings, concepts, contributions of genetics and revises and updates itself... By and procedures of evolutionary training in the makings of an elite passing the mic to the discoveries biology, as it has developed since performer. On your marks, get that have become defunct as the first publications of Darwin and set, go! a result! MON DAY Wallace, over 140 years ago.
1pm | 1 hour 5.30pm | 90 mins 5.30pm | 90 mins £6/#SciPals students £3 | Summerhall £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25
4 APRIL Anatomy Lecture Theatre Summerhall | Dissection Room Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Presented by Oxford University Press Presented by The Physiological Society and Presented by Illicit Ink
Royal Society of Biology DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION
THE KNOTTED STRANDS OF LIFE NEXT GENERATION THE ROAD FROM PARIS Join Prof Davide Marenduzzo MINDFULNESS Following the IPCC climate talks from The University of Edinburgh Join writer and broadcaster in Paris, we take a look at the and Prof De Witt Sumners from Madeleine Bunting, youth most important resolutions arising BEING HUMAN BEING BEING HUMAN BEING Tallahassee University as they talk mindfulness advocate Michael from the summit. Do we have topology and journey through the Bready and buddhify founder and a realistic chance of fulfilling story of knots. They’ll travel from mindfulness technology expert the terms? What strategies their humble beginnings to today’s Rohan Gunatillake as they explore might emerge and what could A PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A cutting-edge science where knots the rapid rise of mindfulness. this mean for our economic and have important applications Part talk, part experience, this environmental future? Stephen for DNA and understanding event will explore the integration Smith, Senior Analyst at the the structure of genes, and are of meditation with technologies Committee on Climate Change is even informing the design of and how these can be used to joined by Andrew Bradley, Chief of
anticancer drugs. transform our engagement with Strategic Communications at the 29 page See the real and digital world, and how European Climate Foundation, and mindfulness methodologies are Michael McCarthy, Environmental being used to support learning and Commentator forThe Independent, promote better health. to discuss what happens next.
TU ESDAY TALK TIGER AND PI OF LIFE
5.30pm | 90 mins 5.30pm | 90 mins 5.30pm | 90 mins 7.30pm £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25
5 APRIL Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre Summerhall | Red Lecture Theatre National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium Supported by Edinburgh Zoo Edinburgh
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THE VISIT THE RIGHTS OF THE MACHINE CHOCOLATE: FOOD OF THE GODS DON’T KNOW WHAT TO
Earth may not have been visited by In 2015, two chimpanzees in The seeds known to science BELIEVE? ASK FOR EVIDENCE aliens, but ever since the invention New York were granted ‘legal as theobroma cacao (meaning Every day, we hear claims about
of radio and television, humans person status’ by a court ruling. GASTROFEST ‘food of the gods’) have a long what is good for our health or
have been announcing their HUMAN BEING This action has potentially and fascinating history. In this bad for the environment and how existence to other civilizations. Join groundbreaking implications in special interactive evening, we to improve education, cut crime SCIENCE AND SCIENCE CULTURE See page 39 page See BEYOND PLANET EARTH PLANET BEYOND acclaimed film director Michael the field of medical ethics. Do will investigate the past, present and treat disease. But how do we Madsen and Royal Society intelligent robotic systems deserve and future of chocolate. Chocolate know what to believe? Join a panel scientist Martin Dominik for a civil rights? Or even human rights? writer and Chief Executive of of speakers from Sense About thought-provoking journey into the Join Kathleen Richardson from the the Royal Academy of Culinary Science, Research The Headlines, unknown. With unprecedented Campaign Against Sex Robots, and Arts Sara Jane Staynes OBE the Nappy Science Gang and The access to the UN Office for Outer Dr Patricia Vargas, Roboethicist is joined by Prof Paul Hadley, Young Academy of Scotland as Space Affairs, NASA and the SETI and Director of Heriot-Watt head of the Cocoa Project at the they share stories from allotment
Institute, this film builds a chillingly 43 page See University’s Robotics Laboratory, University of Reading, and master growers, powerlifters, personal believable scenario of first contact as they explore the rights of chocolatier Aneesh Poppat for a trainers and others who stood up on Earth. Introduced by Michael the machine. scientific feast for the senses not for science and asked for evidence. and Martin, the screening will be to be missed. Hosted by Susan followed by a drinks reception. Morrison. AT THE FRINGE OF REASON: SKEPTICS IN THE PUB THE IN SKEPTICS REASON: OF FRINGE THE AT EXTREME SOLDERING EXTREME
7pm 6pm | 2.5 hours 7.30pm 8pm | 90 mins 8pm | 90 mins 8pm | 90 mins
£10.50/£8.50 #SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 <£>£15 (includes tasters) | Summerhall £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25
Filmhouse Summerhall | Red Lecture Theatre Dissection Room Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre Hacklab |
Presented by The Royal Society Supported by Presented by Sense About Science Summerhall Banshee Labyrinth The DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL
LINKING OUR CITIES ERADICATING EBOLA AND LAVISH LEFTOVERS CLIMATE CHANGE: MIGRATE
What’s the cost of our reliance OTHER EPIDEMICS Households in Scotland throw TO ADAPT on roads and fossil fuel powered The recent outbreak in West away an incredible 566,000 Climate-induced migration is likely
vehicles? And, as we accelerate Africa brought Ebola to the GASTROFEST tonnes of food every year. It’s to be one of the big challenges the BEING HUMAN BEING into the future, what innovations attention of people around thought that three quarters of world faces in the 21st century. As and improvements can we hope the world. Join Prof Mark this waste could be avoided if the Earth’s temperatures rise and for to reduce these impacts? Woolhouse, infectious disease we practiced better management weather becomes more extreme OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT BUILT OUR Meet experts including Arup epidemiologist at The University in our buying, cooking and and unpredictable, more and more A PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A
Foresight Analyst Lynne Goulding, of Edinburgh, Dennis Kerr from 39 page See consumption. In this age of areas of our planet will become too autonomous vehicle research Médecins Sans Frontières and increasing strain on our natural harsh to live in and migration will leader Dr Natasha Merat and Prof Sarah Gilbert, professor of resources is it time we reassessed become a form of adaption. Join Prof Martin Tangney of Celtic vaccinology at the University of our food habits? In this interactive experts including Alex Randall, Renewables, to discover what Oxford, to examine this disease. event we’ll serve up dishes made from the UK Climate Change and changes are just around the corner They will look at its symptoms, from ingredients that might Migration Coalition, and climate and the big ideas leading us down how it spreads and how to stop otherwise have gone to waste change and conflict researcher the road to the future. it, as well as discussing how alongside advice and information Dr Christian Almer to explore this technology can be used to track from food experts including important topic. epidemics and how new deadly Pete Ritchie, director of Nourish pathogens emerge. Scotland, and a representative
AT THE FRINGE OF REASON: SKEPTICS IN THE PUB THE IN SKEPTICS REASON: OF FRINGE THE AT from The Real Junk Food Project.
8pm | 90 mins 8pm | 90 mins 7.30pm 8pm | 90 mins 8pm | 90 mins £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £15 (includes 3 courses) | Summerhall £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25
National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre Main Hall Summerhall | Red Lecture Theatre Our Built Environment events are supported by Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design The Banshee Labyrinth The
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A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION POWERING THE FUTURE: HOW HEALTHY, HAPPY CITIES
TO...THE BODY WILL YOU POWER YOUR HOME Design principles are increasingly
Explore the challenges associated IN 2025? being used creatively to influence with our perceptions of the In 2014 renewable energy how we interact with urban BEING HUMAN BEING human body in this fascinating provided the single largest source spaces. Our built environment introduction. While conventionally of electricity in Scotland for the has a direct impact on how we thought of as biological entities, first time, however this energy humans feel, think, and behave, OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT BUILT OUR since the mid-1980s there has PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A supply varies hugely with weather but how can our cities help us been a rising awareness of how conditions. Learn about smart live healthier lives? Introduced our bodies, and our perception of grids, a new technology that helps by Jane-Claire Judson, National them, are influenced by the social, match energy supply with our Director of Diabetes Scotland, cultural and material contexts in electricity needs, and hear how this event brings together experts READING EXPERIMENT READING which we live. Prof Chris Shilling, we can balance energy supply and in the field, including Edinburgh Professor of Sociology, looks at demand from The University of architect Richard Murphy OBE and issues ranging from cosmetic and Edinburgh’s School of Engineering Professor of Design Management transplant surgery to conceptions researchers Prof John Thompson Rachel Cooper OBE, to discuss the of the body as sacred. and Dr Aristides Kiprakis in this history and future of city design. WEDNESDAY interactive event.
1pm | 1 hour 5.30pm | 90 mins 5.30pm | 90 mins £6/#SciPals students £3 | Summerhall £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25
6 APRIL Anatomy Lecture Theatre Summerhall | Main Hall Summerhall | Dissection Room
Presented by Oxford University Press Presented by The University of Edinburgh Supported by
SHOW DISCUSSION DISCUSSION SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL
THE SEVEN AGES DEBATE WHY DO GUITARS TASTE TO SPACE IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JAMES
Technology, medicine and the OF HOPS? Scientist and performer Dr Niamh CLERK MAXWELL manipulation of mitochondria have 18+ AGES Award winning beer writer and Shaw has dreamed of space travel James Clerk Maxwell, Scotland’s enabled humans to live beyond passionate music fan Pete Brown from the age of eight. Throughout greatest physicist, made massive BEING HUMAN BEING the frontier of our traditional began pairing his favourite beers 2014 she interviewed astronauts, leaps forward in our knowledge fourscore years and ten. But and tracks for fun, but a few astrophysicists, space industry and understanding of electricity,
what could, or should, be the years ago he discovered scientific EARTH PLANET BEYOND experts and potential colonists magnetism and light. Prof Sir
limitations of the human body? GASTROFEST principles behind the matches. of Mars to put together this David Payne, director of the Senescence expert Prof Aubrey Since then he’s been on a journey multimedia performance which Optoelectronics Research Centre de Grey is joined by sociologist of discovery, investigating how explores the beauty, darkness and at the University of Southampton, Prof Steve Fuller, philosopher and our senses enhance, complement humanity of space. is building on those foundations. A physician Prof Raymond Tallis and sometimes confuse each ‘What begins as a show about pioneer of technology, he has led and Prof Dominic Wilkinson, other. Join him for an interactive space slowly shifts to become the field of telecommunications Director of Medical Ethics at show that’s part neuroscience, something far more profound and and laser research for many the Oxford Uehiro Centre, to part memoir and part comedy, with personal about dashed hopes years and achieved international debate questions that have been real-time scientific experiments and disillusion – and the crucial acclaim in the area of photonics. submitted by our audience and and some fine beer tasting. importance of retaining a sense of Join us for a special event where others around the world through wonder.’ David Kettle, The List Prof Payne shares stories of the #sevenagesdebate. Hosted by trials and tribulations from the the BBC’s Pennie Latin. research world.
8pm | 90 mins 8pm | 90 mins 8pm | 1 hour 5.30pm | 90 mins
£8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £12/£10 | Summerhall Dissection Room <£>£8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25
National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium Supported by the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation
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OCEAN JUNKYARD SHORT SIGHTED CINEMA: CAN WE ADDRESS FUEL
Dive into our oceans and discover MIND’S EYE POVERTY AND RESPOND TO
how they are under threat. Plastic The power of the human mind CLIMATE CHANGE? waste is a huge problem with can be a creative might, but Are the UK and Scottish BEING HUMAN BEING around 8.8 million tons of plastic the limits of its abilities lie in Governments’ actions to address being dumped into the world’s a delicate balance. Our mortal fuel poverty and climate change
oceans each year, a number that 39 page See bodies are bombarded by risk compatible? The Church of
A PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A is set to increase. Join professor and our minds plagued by the PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A Scotland will report on this of environmental science Prof pressures of progress. Have we issue at the General Assembly in Teresa Fernandes, oceanographer become too fragile to evolve? A May. Join Sarah Boyack MSP, with Marine Scotland Dr Barbara programme of short films followed Elizabeth Leighton, Policy Advisor Berx, Matt Barnes from Marine by live discussion with specially and secretariat at the Existing Conservation Society and another invited guests. Homes Alliance Scotland, John expert in ocean plastics to discuss Please Note: these independent short films Cunningham, Head of Energy some of the big problems facing have not been certified and adult viewers Unit for Western Isles Council our oceans. are responsible for assessing the risk if and Shona Stephen, Chief See page 39 page See
accompanying young people under 18 years Executive, Queen’s Cross Housing EVENTS ADULT
of age.
Association, to explore the issues. AT THE FRINGE OF REASON: SKEPTICS IN THE PUB THE IN SKEPTICS REASON: OF FRINGE THE AT SOLDER ON! SOLDER7pm 5.30pm | 90 mins 7.30pm 8pm | 2 hours 8pm | 90 mins
£8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25
Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre Summerhall | Red Lecture Theatre Summerhall | Main Hall Hacklab |
A Planetary Perspective events are supported Presented by Short Sighted Cinema Presented by the Church of Scotland by Greener Scotland Summerhall Banshee Labyrinth The
Showcasing the importance of science in the most delicious way possible, GastroFest returns in 2016 with a packed menu featuring producers, artisans, scientists and chefs. From the tempting and tantalising to the downright delicious, this smorgasbord of insightful discussions, thought-provoking presentations and out-of-this-world foodie experiences offers options to suit all tastes.
Go beyond the beyond at the unique event The Futurist Meal (p.44) and enjoy an experimental meal inspired by Marinetti’s 1930 Manifesto of Futurist Cuisine. Celebrate the scientific masterpiece that is the cocktail with A Short History of the Cocktail (p.56) – a history lesson that’s guaranteed not to be dry.
Pick up some tasty treats as you explore a farmers’ market with a scientific twist atSciMart (p.50), explore the food science that lies behind the development of flavour in different cheese varieties in Cheeseology (p.48) or investigate the past, present and future of chocolate in our interactive event, Chocolate: Food of the Gods (p.53).
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A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION SPOTLIGHT ON: CELTS BRIDGING THE FORTH
TO... SOUND SILVER, THE GLENMORANGIE Cross the Firth of Forth, from the
Sound is integral to how we RESEARCH PROJECT old to the new. Celebrate the new experience the world, both in the Join National Museums Queensferry Crossing and look form of noise as well as music. Scotland’s analytical scientist back at the history of the existing But what is sound? What is Lore Troalen and archaeologist bridges. What innovative designs READING EXPERIMENT READING the physical basis of pitch and and Glenmorangie Research and cutting edge engineering is harmony? And how are sound Fellow Alice Blackwell as they ENVIRONMENT BUILT OUR behind the Queensferry Crossing? waves exploited in musical discuss some of the precious silver And why is the Forth Rail Bridge instruments? Mike Goldsmith pieces featured in the museum’s referred to as a ‘masterpiece of looks at the science of sound Celts exhibition, organised in human creative genius’? Join a and explores sound in different partnership with the British panel including Jenni Meldrum contexts, covering the audible Museum. Lore and Alice will share and Frank Hay, researchers for the and inaudible, sound underground insights into the archaeological book The Briggers, and experts and underwater, acoustic and and scientific research used to find from the Forth Crossing Bridge electric, and hearing in humans out more about these compelling Constructors and Amey to look at and animals. objects. Supported by The all three bridges. THURSDAY Glenmorangie Company.
1pm |
7 APRIL Anatomy Lecture Theatre National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium Summerhall | Red Lecture Theatre
Presented by Oxford University Press Presented by the National Museum Our Built Environment events are supported
of Scotland by Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ARUP LECTURE WATER, THE ELIXIR OF LIFE LEVEL UP HUMAN
THE COCKTAIL 2016: MEANINGFUL CITY Water is a wondrous substance: Evolution has gotten lazy and AGES 18+ AGES A cocktail is a scientific INFRASTRUCTURE it washes, it rinses, and needs a prod. Combining gene masterpiece, the perfect As the world becomes more it’s delicious. But for many splicing and transhumanism, BEING HUMAN BEING combination of ingredients, urbanised, our cities are under communities on the planet, the medical advancement and processes and equipment. From rapid transformation. To support scarcity of this precious resource surgical enhancement, biology the first cocktail made in 1806 this change requires more and makes day-to-day life difficult. In and ambition, Level Up Human OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT BUILT OUR A PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A
GASTROFEST to the proliferation of drinks more infrastructure – whether this session we’ll introduce some takes a light-hearted look at what
See page 39 page See available today, it has had an this is the physical infrastructure innovators who are coming up with it means to be human, and what exciting life throughout the eras. of transport, water, and energy ways to secure sources of water the alternatives might be. Join Join Donald Reid, food and drinks systems, or the soft infrastructure and ensure it remains drinkable. Simon Watt and guests Aubrey de editor at The List, food scientist of the likes of education and Industrial designer Arturo Vittori, Gray and Susan Morrison for the Steve Pearce and award winning healthcare. Join Malcolm Smith, The Oxford Water Network’s live recording of an exciting new mixologist Rosie Paterson, colour Arup’s Global Urban Design Dr Katrina Charles and Helen podcast series where you will get psychologist Angela Wright and Leader, to explore the importance Anderson, Head of WaterAid the chance to contribute to the Paul Donegan from Pickering’s of meaningful infrastructure in Scotland and Northern Ireland, design spec for the next stage of Gin, for an evening of mixology the cities of the future and why will present their inventions human evolution. mastery that will show how the optimised systems and multiple and research and discuss their art of cocktail making has become outcomes must be the future of our motivations to capture and protect a science. new urban infrastructures. the elixir of life. AT THE FRINGE OF REASON: SKEPTICS IN THE PUB THE IN SKEPTICS REASON: OF FRINGE THE AT
Summerhall | Dissection Room National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre Summerhall | Main Hall Planetary Perspective events are supported Supported by by Greener Scotland The Banshee Labyrinth The
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BIG BROTHER IS NUDGING YOU UNBOTTLING THE AI DEMON SCIENCE EDUCATION: WHY DO HOW WILL WE POWER THE UK
From David Cameron’s Behavioural Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk WE NEED IT? IN THE FUTURE? Insights Team to Barack Obama’s has predicted that AI might be How can education inspire and We’re delighted to welcome the executive order on behavioural the greatest existential threat nurture curiosity? Is science UK Government’s Chief Scientific BEING HUMAN BEING science, people in power are humans will have to face and Prof education simply a supply system Adviser Sir Mark Walport, and increasingly embracing insights from Stephen Hawking has warned that for future scientists, or should it Prof Iain Stewart to the Science SCIENCE AND SCIENCE CULTURE
SCIENCE AND SCIENCE CULTURE psychological science to ‘nudge’ the development of full artificial provide us with a scientifically Festival. We rely on energy every
citizens towards ‘better’ choices. intelligence could spell the end of adept society, one ready to PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A day to run our homes and power But do they know what a better the human race. But is technology understand, critique and mould our cars but how we get this choice is? Psychologist Stuart already hurting us? And should the future of research? Join energy is changing and the UK now Ritchie, behavioural scientist Philip we put the brakes on AI before it scientist Dame Julia Higgins, faces a series of choices about Newall, Director of The University of is too late? Prof Raymond Tallis education researcher Prof Sally energy as we look for sources Edinburgh’s Behavioural Laboratory EXPERIMENT READING will chair a discussion featuring Brown and teacher Adrian that are secure, affordable and Michele Belot, philosopher of AI researcher Dr Joanna Bryson Allan, as they discuss the role sustainable. In this free public talk, ethics, government and coercion, and scientist and author Prof of science education in shaping Sir Mark and Iain will introduce Ben Sachs and Gregor Urquhart, Kevin Warwick as we investigate society’s future with journalist and you to the options we have for
Head of Smarter, Wealthier & the risks that could arise from broadcaster Kenneth Macdonald. powering the UK in the future. EVENTS ADULT Fairer Marketing with the Scottish the development of human-level Government, investigate. artificial intelligence.
5.30pm | 90 mins 5.30pm | 90 mins 5.30pm | 90 mins 7pm | 90 mins £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 Free (ticket required) | Dynamic Earth
Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium Summerhall | Main BeyondHall Planet Earth Biosphere Presented by the Royal Societyis supported and the by: Royal Society of Edinburgh
BEYOND PLANET EARTH
DISCUSSION From Greek philosophers to young children with Space finds its social side in our popularBig Bang Bash telescopes, humans have always been fascinated with (p.47) that sees the National Museum of Scotland the stars in the sky and what could lie beyond our sight. transformed into a late night out-of-this-world space UNBELIEVABLE: SCIENCE Beyond Planet Earth is our series of events that explore party complete with space-themed cocktails and roving EXPLORES THE PARANORMAL the non-Earthbound opportunities and challenges scientists. Bringing a down to earth view of out of this Go with your intuition and join us that we will face as we attempt to build better worlds world experiences, European Space Agency Astronaut for a rare opportunity to explore beyond the little blue planet we currently call home. Jean-François Clervoy will share his insights into life paranormal mysteries with the in space and will bring the latest news on Tim Peake's Koestler Parapsychology Unit. As private businesses begin to drive space exploration Principia Mission on ISS (p.32 and p.45). SCIENCE AND SCIENCE CULTURE Parapsychologist Dr Caroline forward as much as government agencies, we present Watt will be your host in this an evening exploring the surprisingly reachable areas In our Beyond Planet Earth series of events we’ll be interactive talk launching her of space in DIY Space Exploration (p.38). Sticking with joined by top astrophysicists, space explorers and new book Parapsychology: A space exploration, we look at what Scotland’s role innovators and we’ll explore what the not-so-distant Beginner’s Guide. Discover could be in venturing beyond our planet and if the next future may have in store in terms of discovery, travel the science behind dowsing, generation of space-launch vehicles could find a home in and understanding. Join us for a journey that is truly out telepathy and psychic readings. Scotland in Spaceport Scotland (p.50). of this world! Look out for Beyond Planet Earth tagged How intuitive are you? Would you events throughout this brochure. READING EXPERIMENT READING make a good fake psychic? And Beyond Planet Earth how do parapsychologists test for supported by extra-sensory perception? Skeptics
and believers welcome. Science & Technology Facilities Council
8pm | 70 mins £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25
Summerhall | Red Lecture Theatre Science & Technology Facilities Council
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A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION DEATH ON EARTH, ADVENTURES BIKES VS CARS : A PEDAL
TO… MOONS IN EVOLUTION AND MORTALITY POWERED SCREENING Moons are far more common Planet Earth teems with trillions Enjoy guilt-free cinema as we than planets in our Solar System. of life-forms, each going about present this bike-powered movie On the moons of the giant outer their own business: eating, night. You’ll enjoy a screening of planets, scientists have glimpsed reproducing, thriving; yet the life Bikes vs Cars, a feature length READING EXPERIMENT READING BEYOND PLANET EARTH PLANET BEYOND volcanic activity on Io, found of almost every single entity draws movie that investigates the daily
oceans of water on Titan, and nearer and nearer to certain death. PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A global drama in traffic around the captured photos of icy geysers Why is death such a universal world, along with a series of short bursting from Enceladus. Join companion to life on Earth? Why films – all powered by human Prof David Rothery as he gives haven’t animals evolved to break beings. The film will be followed a fascinating introduction to free of its shackles? Join science by a panel debate with creative the moons of our Solar System, communicator Simon Watt for a thinkers from the world of politics, beginning with the early conversation with Jules Howard, journalism, science, art and discoveries of Galileo and the early author of Death on Earth, in an technology. use of Jupiter’s moons to establish attempt to shed evolutionary light position at sea and to estimate the on one of our biggest and most FR I DAY speed of light. unshakeable taboos.
1pm | 1 hour 5.30pm | 1 hour 7.30pm | 2 hours
£6/#SciPals students £3 | Summerhall £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £5 | Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation
8 APRIL Anatomy Lecture Theatre Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Presented by Oxford University Press In association with Bloomsbury Publishing full spectrum SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL
Following its sell out first year, our Science Festival club night
AGES 18+ AGES will this year bring together DJs and tech wizardry to fine-tune this legendary late night experience. DJs Astrojazz and Main Ingredient will get the floor moving, while digital artworks from Unstable Creations, bespoke visuals from Bright Side Studios and audience responsive rave aids will keep you dancing through the night. More acts are still to be announced – keep an eye on our website: sciencefestival.co.uk for details.
<£>£11/£9 | Dissection Room
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SYMMETRIES IN LIGHT: MORE THAN A GAME: NATIONAL MUSEUMS MAKE A SILVER RING
THE LIFE AND WORK OF MATHEMATICAL ADVENTURES COLLECTION CENTRE TOURS Have a taste of jewellery making
DAVID BREWSTER IN THE BEAUTIFUL GAME Ever wondered about what by creating your own silver ring Invented 200 years ago by Football is riddled with numbers, happens behind the scenes at with jeweller Scarlett Erskine. Scottish scientist Sir David patterns and shapes. What’s the National Museums Scotland? On Learn basic skills of saw piercing, Brewster, the kaleidoscope was similarity between an ant colony this guided tour you’ll visit the texturing and soldering metal by one of the must have toys of AND SCIENCE CULTURE and Total Football, Dutch style? new ‘state of the art’ research making your own silver ring to the 1800’s and this fascinating How is the Barcelona midfield facility for the museums' Natural take home. gadget is still popular today. Join linked geometrically? The answer Sciences collections, home to us to learn about the life and lies in the world of mathematical over 10 million specimens, and work of Sir Brewster, one of the modelling, expressed brilliantly learn about how they care for founding figures in physics in the by David Sumpter through the their internationally important mid-nineteenth century, and find prism of football in his thrilling collections. Limited places out why his discoveries are still book Soccermatics. Join us to available. relevant today. hear David in conversation with ex-footballer Pat Nevin to look at
the fascinating area where maths EVENTS ADULT and football collide.
6pm | 1 hour 8pm | 90 mins 10am, 11.45am and 2pm | 75 mins 2.30pm and 6.30pm | 2 hours
£5 | Playfair Library £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 on until Saturday 9 April £30 | Summerhall | Basement Gallery 1
Presented by the University of Edinburgh National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium £6/£5 | National Museums Collection Centre
Presented by National Museums Scotland
The Reading Experiment returns as part of the 2016 Science Festival to reunite the worlds of science and words. We’re bringing together the very best writers in an exciting range of events which dive into the creative nexus where these two genres meet.
This year we see the return of our popular Very Short There’s a chance to live out your Willy Wonka Introduction strand, a series fantasies with our Golden Ticket competition, of author-led events giving running with Edinburgh City Libraries. If you borrow you the perfect introductory any of the books on our special science reading insight into a variety of list, you could be our lucky Golden Ticket winner fascinating topics such as and will be rewarded with a pair of tickets to the forensic science, sound, Big Bang Bash. Visit our website to find the reading stars and psychotherapy. list and visit your local Edinburgh City Library to get Get your short, accessible borrowing today! kick from these expert authors who are ready to Look out for our Reading Experiment tags on our whet your appetite for events listings throughout the brochure. We’ll be science and words. bringing you reading lists and recommendations so that you can get inspired to start your own reading experiment and delve into science writing in all its forms. Keep an eye on our website to keep up to date with these literary extras and follow us on twitter for updates.
ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 557 2686 59 ACTIVITY ACTIVITY DISCUSSION
THE BLOOD DOCTOR BIKES VS CARS FUTURE GUT FEELING
Join Haemophilia Scotland, VEHICLE SHOWCASE Discover the important role your Blackwell’s and forensic artist Edinburgh Centre for Carbon gut plays in your overall health. Gillian Taylor to solve The Blood Innovation, the UK’s leading hub Prof Adam Hart, author of The Life BEING HUMAN BEING Doctor mystery. As morning breaks for low carbon ideas, give you of Poo, will chair this fascinating on South Bridge, Blackwell’s the chance to explore new low panel event, supported by the staff come in to discover a body carbon technologies, vehicles British Society for Immunology,
in the bookshop. This area of PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A and ideas with a full day event at featuring immunologist Prof Fiona Blackwell’s is now a suspected their award winning, low carbon Powrie and microbiologist Dr crime scene, open to you, our hub. Explore display stands, new Lindsay Hall. You’ll be introduced Science Festival detectives. During technologies and a series of to bacterial biology and the the investigation, your job will be lectures and discussions looking immune system, followed by a to establish murderer, motive and at how and why electric vehicles discussion on the latest research weapon. Join us to examine the are an important part of our future connecting gut bacteria with crime scene, exploring rare blood mobility. inflammatory bowel disease, disorders and learning how blood Crohn’s disease, asthma, eczema stains can be used to solve crimes. and even mental health. SATU R DAY
10am, 12pm, 3pm | 90 mins 11am–5pm | drop-in 12.30pm |
Free (ticket required) | Blackwells Bookshop Free | Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 9 APRIL Presented by Haemophilia Scotland National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL
The Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire is back for its fourth year, highlighting the diversity of human creativity by bringing together makers from all sorts of unexpected areas under one big roof. This year we’re better than ever before and you’ll be treated to gadgets, hardware, software, knitwear and food. This is your chance to come out and interact with unbelievable technology and discover the hidden gems that are worked away at by creative makers across the country. SU N DAY 10am–5pm | drop-in £6/under 3s free | Throughout Summerhall Supported by Headline Sponsor Supported by 10 APRIL Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire is independently organised and operated
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60 ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 557 2686 SHOW DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION
BATTLEFIELD PATHOLOGY IN 2071: THE WORLD WE’LL LEAVE ELECTRIC AUTOMOTIVE INSPIRED BY NATURE
THE FIRST WORLD WAR OUR GRANDCHILDREN ADVENTURES WITH Nature has been perfecting In the First World War, World leaders agree that climate ROBERT LLEWLLYN solutions to problems since life flamethrowers and poison gas change presents humans with one Join Robert Llewellyn – actor, began 4.1 billion years ago. The were used on a large scale for of our most difficult challenges. comedian, writer and star of hit results of natural selection have the first time. The new injuries Momentum for change is building, Fringe show Electric Cars are already inspired our innovation created by this new weaponry but not at the scale or pace Rubbish. Aren’t They? – as he and creativity. Now we need to A PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A were accompanied by a that climate science shows are PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A makes a special stop at ECCI, the PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A look to nature again if we are to remarkable co-evolution of surgical necessary. Delivered by Prof Chris UK’s leading hub for low carbon invent elegant manufacturing practice and treatments. Prof Ken Rapley, one of the world’s leading ideas, to recharge his batteries solutions for a sustainable future. Donaldson will discuss the main climate scientists, 2071: The World and share stories of his electric Join Prof Thomas Speck from the types of battlefield wounds and the We’ll Leave Our Grandchildren is automotive adventures. Botanic Gardens of Freiburg and
tissue injury, repair and infection 29 page See a one-man play about our climate: Dr Kalina Raskin from CEEBIOS that resulted. how it has changed in the past, (the first European Excellence Warning: This talk will show graphic images how and why it is changing now, Centre dedicated to Biomimicry) READING EXPERIMENT READING of wounds and their consequences which and the need for humanity to act to discuss developments in some people may find distressing. to avoid dangerous disruption in biomimetics. the future. SCIENCE NIGHT AT THE ZOO THE AT NIGHT SCIENCE
2pm | 1 hour 4pm 3pm | 1 hour 3.30pm | 90 mins 7pm | 90 mins
Free (ticket required) £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £5 | Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation £8/£6/#SciPals students £4
The Scottish Parliament Education Room National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Presented by John Murray Press Lecture Theatre Edinburgh Zoo Edinburgh A Planetary Perspective events are supported In association with Heriot-Watt University by Greener Scotland DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION
THE SERENGETI RULES: THE LIFE IN THE EXTREMES TAM DALYELL PRIZE LECTURE QUEST TO DISCOVER HOW Our planet has an amazing variety In this year’s Tam Dalyell lecture,
LIFE WORKS of extreme environments, from the Prof Sethu Vijayakumar, Professor How does life work? How does hottest deserts that can reach a of Robotics and Director of the nature produce the right number baking 70°C to the deepest point Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, of zebras and lions on the African in our oceans, a staggering seven looks at how humans and robots
savanna, or fish in the ocean? miles down from the surface. Join AND SCIENCE CULTURE will work together in the future. A PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A How do our bodies produce the PERSPECTIVE PLANETARY A us for three engaging talks on the The next generation of robots right numbers of cells? Join award different aspects of Life in the will work much more closely winning biologist and author of Extremes, looking at its importance with humans, other robots and The Serengeti Rules, Prof Sean in our soils, what it tells us about interact significantly with the B Carroll to hear the stories of early life on the planet and environment around it. With the pioneering scientists who whether life might exist elsewhere significant autonomy devolved to sought the answers to simple yet in the Universe. the robotic platforms, will we be profoundly important questions able to share control in a way we READING EXPERIMENT READING and learn how their discoveries EARTH PLANET BEYOND are comfortable with? Sethu will matter for our health and the highlight the impact in domains health of our planet. ranging from self-driving cars, mining, shared manufacturing, to prosthetics and rehabilitation.
12.30pm |
Supported by <£>£8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 £8.50/£6.50/#SciPals students £4.25 Free (ticket required) | Playfair Library
National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium National Museum of Scotland | Auditorium Playfair Library Presented by the Scottish Consortium for Presented by The University of Edinburgh
Rural Research
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1 The Banshee Labyrinth (29-35 Niddry 8 Edinburgh Printmakers (23 Union 15 National Museum of Scotland 22 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LG) Lothian Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LR) Lothian (Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF) Art (75 Belford Rd, Edinburgh EH4 3DR) Buses: 3, 5, 7, 8, 14, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35, Buses: 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, Lothian Buses: 2, 23, 27, 35, 41, 42, 45, Lothian Buses: 13 37, 45, 49 19, 22, 25, 26, 34, 44, 45 47, 67 23 The Scottish Parliament (Edinburgh, 2 Blackwell’s Bookshop (53-59 South 9 Filmhouse (88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, 16 National Museums Collection Centre EH99 1SP) Lothian Buses: 6, 35, 60 Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1YS) Lothian EH3 9BZ) Lothian Buses: 1, 2, 10, 11, (242 West Granton Road, Granton, 24 Scottish Seabird Centre (The Harbour, Buses: 3, 5, 7, 8, 14, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35, 15, 16, 24, 34, 35, 36, 47 Edinburgh EH5 1JA) Lothian Buses: 8, North Berwick, EH39 4SS) First Bus 37, 45, 49 10 Grassmarket (Edinburgh, EH1 2JU) 16, 32 Service: 124, X24 3 The Centre, Livingston (Almondvale Lothian Buses: 2 17 Playfair Library (Old College, University 25 St Giles Cathedral (High Street, Boulevard, Livingston, EH54 6HR) First 11 Jupiter Artland (Bonnington House of Edinburgh, South Bridge, EH8 9YL) Edinburgh, EH1 1RE) Lothian Buses: 3, Bus Service: 21, 22, 27, 28 Steadings, Wilkieston, EH27 8BB) First Lothian Buses: 3, 5, 7, 8, 14, 29, 30, 31, 5, 7, 8, 14, 23, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37, 4 City Art Centre (2 Market Street, Bus Service: 27, X27 33, 35, 37, 45, 49 41, 42, 45, 49, 67 Edinburgh, EH1 1DE) Lothian Buses: 5, 12 The Mound Precinct (Edinburgh, EH2 18 The Queen’s Hall (85-89 Clerk St, 26 Summerhall (1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, 7, 8, 1, 45, 49 2EL) Lothian Buses: 3, 6, 10, 11, 12, 16, Edinburgh, EH8 9JG) Lothian Buses: 2, EH9 1PL) Lothian Buses: 41, 42, 67 5 City Chambers (253 High St, Edinburgh, 23, 25, 26, 27, 31, 33, 41, 42, 101, 102, 3, 5, 7, 8, 29, 30, 31, 33, 37, 47, 49 27 Surgeons' Hall Museum (Nicolson EH1 1YJ) Lothian Buses: 3, 5, 7, 8, 14, 106, 124, tram 19 Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DW) Lothian 23, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37, 41, 42, 45, 13 National Library of Scotland (57 George (Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR) Buses: 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 14, 29, 30, 31, 33, 49, 67 IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW) Lothian Lothian Buses: 8, 23, 27 37, 41, 42, 47, 49, 67 6 Dynamic Earth (112-116 Holyrood Buses: 23, 27, 41, 42 20 Royal College of Physicians (9 Queen 28 Talbot Rice Gallery (Old College, South Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AS) Lothian 14 National Museum of Flight (East Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ) Lothian Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9Yl) Lothian Buses: 6, 35, 60 Fortune Airfield, East Lothian, EH39 Buses: 10, 11, 12, 16, 26, 44 Buses: 3, 5, 7, 8, 14, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35, 7 Edinburgh Centre for Carbon 5LF) Eve Coaches Service: 121 21 RZSS Edinburgh Zoo (134 Corstorphine 37, 45, 49 Innovation (High School Yards, Road, Edinburgh, EH12 6TS) Lothian Infirmary Street, Edinburgh, WH1 1LZ) Buses: 12, 26, 31, 100 Lothian Buses: 3, 5, 7, 8, 14, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37, 45, 49 ONLINE BOOKING: sciencefestival.co.uk BOOKING HOTLINE: 0844 557 2686 63 10 APRIL 10am–5pm SUMMERHALL SEE CREATIVITY COME TO LIFE Robotics • 3D printing • Tech Gadgets • Craft • Gaming • Zines • Food
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