September 27, 2011
Wired: The Astronomer’s Ball
Wired Magazine has published a short piece our upcoming event, the Astronomer’s Ball – read more here!
September 13, 2011
Culture Lab: Dining On Dog Food At Bestival
Catherine De Lange, plunging her hand into a jar of maggots. For science!
At a festival, it’s normal to let your personal hygiene standards slip. But as I stood in a tent with a maggot in my mouth, I wondered if I’d gone a step too far. And that was just the half of it. This past weekend at Bestival on the Isle of Wight, UK, I’ve also dined on dog food and beetles, used a toilet brush as a drink stirrer and scooped up piles of live maggots in my bare hands. No, I was not on drugs – I was taking part in a competition with a fellow festival-goer to see who could hold out the longest in the face of disgust.
Read the rest of New Scientist reporter Catherine De Lange’s delightfully disgusting post for the New Scientist’s Culture Lab about eating dog food, exploring the dirty bits of the mind, and playing with a chameleon.
August 10, 2011
Scientific American
This month we found ourselves gracing the blogs of Scientific American not once but twice, first with a guest post on the Incubator Blog by our new American associate Olivia Koski, and then on the Science With Moxie blog (concerning neuroscience and music) by writer/scientist Princess Ojiaku.
July 26, 2011
SGP: New Scientist Culture Lab
This year’s Secret Garden Party deep in rural Cambridgeshire, UK, got off to an inauspicious start as a metal walkway leading into the festival proved a tad too springy to walk on with a heavy rucksack and bounced your CultureLab reporter – covered in an impressive amount of blood – into a 90-minute stay at the field hospital.
Nothing daunted and no sign of concussion detected by the fine paramedics, I was up, bandaged and heading straight for… the science, of course!
And flattered we were when the hardy and brave Liz turned up at our tent, head bandaged and bleeding. That’s the spirit we like to see. Read the rest of Liz Else’s wonderful post about our tent and Impossible Alone on the New Scientist website here.
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