EDIT: THIS GIG HAS BEEN MOVED TO JANUARY 24TH. UPDATES TO FOLLOW.
At Science Showoff, we don’t rest on our laurels. After the magnificent Last Best Party last night, we are back next week with yet more bright and beautiful science.
We will be at the Wilmington Arms, London (put EC1R 4RL into your GPS) on Thursday 12th January. As ever, the gig is unticketed and we’re not charging for entry but we will be collecting for a local charity. This month we will be donating to CALM, a charity set up to reduce the high suicide rate among men under 35. They run a helpline, magazine and online community for anyone that needs help – not just young men. CALM’s helpline is open four days a week and it costs £6,400 every month. They are struggling to find the money to do this and would love to run the helpline 7 days a week, double capacity, and stay open until 3am every morning. Please give as generously as your post-Christmas wallets will allow – we recommend a fiver.
Steve Cross is your compere again. He will be presenting, in inimitable style (because who else can pull off aluminium spectacles?) the following performers:
Simon Watt: “My mate Dan is getting married and, as best man, I need to write a speech. I have had Darwin’s help. Now I need yours.”
Andrew Holding: “Back for a second Science Showoff, Andrew will be leaving the slide-show behind this time and demonstrate some of the colour-changing chemistry you can find in the kitchen!”
Chiara Ceci: “They say that behind every great man there is a great woman and the Darwin were no exception. This will be a very intimate chat set as a nineteenth century tea party where I will “gossip” you into Emma’s and Charles’ lives and loves.”
Sheila Kanani: “Here we are, everyone showing off about science, but tonight I give
you nine reasons to put you off! We know so much about the fluffy haired lovely scientists, but what about the true crazies who used science as an excuse to do mad things?”
Nicola Howe: “How far would you go to prove a theory? Would you sail a wooden ship across a frozen ocean and gamble your life on being right? This is the story of the first expedition of the Fram and the fearless explorer-scientists who laid the foundations of today’s polar oceanography.”
David Jones: “Dr David Jones is an entomologist at the Natural History Museum. He will be talking about the evolutionary arms race between insect predators and their prey.”
Kate Webster: “I’ll be talking about the science of Voyager and the golden record, the mixtape for the universe that’s attached to it – what do you say to hypothetical aliens and will they have a record player?”
Karen Bultitude: “As a mid-winter special I’ll be exploring the science of low-temperature materials using liquid nitrogen. Join me for a set of creative demonstrations that avoid the usual smashing-random-objects-for-no-apparent-reason to get to the bottom of the cool science involved.”
Katie Steckles: “A lot of people have heard of the Golden Ratio, but many, even those who have read Dan Brown books, might not know exactly what it is. I will give several illustrative explanations, using stuffed rabbits and slagging off TV presenters, and hopefully give you some idea of why I think it’s incredibly lovely.”
