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9th October 2008 – Knutsford Literary Festival

Dave Thompson (Founder of Knutsford SciBAr) wrote a poem for the “Knutsford Literary Festival – Poetry Night” taking a Proton’s view of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Perhaps you can see why he focussed his life … Continue reading

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6th, 7th October 2008 – Science Explosion, Liverpool

Exhibition at the World Museum Liverpool Knutsford SciBAr recently attended the “Science Explosion” event run by the BA for children at The World Museum, Liverpool to launch the 2008 BA Festival 2008. Following on previous themes we took with us … Continue reading

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6th October 2008 – Mining in Space

What’s out there and how could we get it back here? Dr Benny Peiser from Liverpool John Moores University returns to inform and entertain us, yet again, leading the discussion on Mining in Space. We are talking about minerals in … Continue reading

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5th October 2008 – Daresbury Science Festival

Daresbury Science Festival – Exhibition at Daresbury Laboratories   Knutsford SciBAr set up stalls at Daresbury Science Festival where in a sizeable area we featured Dragon Visual Illusions and gave away dragons for the kids to make at home, Chaotic … Continue reading

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1st September 2008 – Liquid Crystals

What are they and why are they appearing everywhere? Professor Helen Gleeson from Manchester University helped us understand how something can be both a liquid and a crystal. Normally, we consider matter to have three distinct states: solid, liquid and … Continue reading

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7th July 2008 – Consciousness: What is it? How Might it Work?

Professor John Jefferys from Birmingham University helped us understand what we know about consciousness. Of course some things are not yet known but good progress is being made. Among other areas, Prof Jefferys has been researching how the brain solves … Continue reading

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