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Nature Network London Pub Night…Part 11
Tagged Under : Nature, Networking
Date for your diaries (or Google Calendars): 15 July, from 6.30, The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street (We’re back in the upstairs bar).
Yes, we’re putting on another drinks and networking night for London researchers, and anyone else working in a vaguely scientific role, to which you’re warmly invited.
The invitation is open to anyone in London who works in the sciences. These gatherings offer the opportunity to meet other researchers, science communicators, editors, curators etc. in a very informal setting. Last time, around 70 people came along, including celebrities!
If you’d like to come, please say hello in our London forum. To claim a free drink, bring along a print-out of your Nature Network profile.
If you’ve not been before it works a little something like this. Turn up, chat to other local scientists, have fun. And that’s it. No presentations, no obligations – just an informal atmosphere in which to mingle with other scientists and a few Nature folk.
Please drop me a line (m.brown – at – nature.com), if you’d like to come along. This makes it easier to keep track of numbers.
Feel free to pass this invitation on to colleagues.
Best regards,
Matt Brown
Editor, Nature Network
Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
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Tagged Under : "Dumbth News", Tim Minchin
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tim minchin
Ready For This
23-26 July, 9.45pm
Having performed his first London run at Soho, the 2005 Perrier Best Newcomer and winner of the Best Alternative Comedian at the 2007 US Comedy Arts Festival returns with a series of exclusive work in progress shows.
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Mobile Phone Popcorn Penn & Teller
Tagged Under : cellphone, microwaves, mobile, phone, popcorn
Pop corn with cell phones
Revealed
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Save the Skeptics Guide Wikipedia Article!
Tagged Under : SGU, wikipedia
Hi All,
I just noticed that some genius has marked SGU’s Wikipedia article [1] for deletion. Head over to the articles for deletion page [2] and add keep labels. If you have time it will help to add evidence that SGU is notable.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skeptics%27_Guide_to_the_Universe
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_Skeptics%27_Guide_to_the_Universe
John Jackson and Graham Lappin have organized a meet up in York.
July 15th 7 - 7:30 pm @
The Punch Bowl, 5–9 Blossom Street, York.
A map can be found at
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=YO24%201AU
Anyone who can make it is very welcome. To start with we thought we would keep it informal, with just a social get together but depending on who turns up we might be able to arrange guests etc. Hope to see you there.
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Measles ‘endemic’ in Britain
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SELFS future talks & walks
Tagged Under : london, Scott Wood, SELFS, talks, walks
SELFS regular meet at The Old King’s Head, Kings Head Yard, 45-49,
Borough High St, London, SE1 1NA.
Nearest stations are London Bridge and Borough. It is just off
Borough High Street, a map is here: http://tinyurl. com/y7yoh2
Talks start at 8.00pm
£2.50 / £1.50 concessions.
Website: www.selfs.org. uk
Contact: Scott Wood scott@selfs. org.uk
We’re all over the web:
Facebook
Flickr
Yahoo Groups
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Future SELFS talks & events
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The Horseman’s Word Ghost Tour
8.20pm
Saturday 14th June
The Sun & Doves, 61–63 Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell to
The Dark Horse, 16 Grove Lane, Camberwell
(approx 30mins)
Camberwell’s haunted histories uncovered on a journey between The Sun
and Doves & The Dark Horse. Take this opportunity to join a free walk
around the ghosts and legends of Camberwell, taking in drunken gods,
a lost saint and the folklore of the Horseman’s Word, a secret
society who made The Dark Horse their home.
This walk is in conjunction with The Horseman’s Word & Lottie Leedham
This is part of the `Pub Crawl’ event for Camberwell Arts Festival.
Website: http://www.camberwe llarts.org. uk/pub-crawl
Interesting events include:
Pub Crawl
Camberwell Arts Festival
Saturday 14th June, 2008, 7pm – 2am
• 1. A Pub Quiz by Yara El-Sherbini @ The Sun & Doves, 61-63
Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell, SE5 9NS, quizzes starting at 7pm &
8.30pm
• 2. The Horseman’s Word by Lottie Leedham @ The Dark Horse, 16
Grove Lane, Camberwell, SE5 8SY, ongoing installation 7pm – 11pm
• 3. The Dulwich Ukulele Club @ The Castle, 65 Camberwell
Church Street, Camberwell, SE5 8TR, playing between 8pm – 10pm
• 4. Duckie Camberwell Cabaret @ The Royal Vauxhall Tavern,
372, Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11, 10.30pm – 2am
Camberwell Wildlife
Local historian Eleanor Margolies leads
a walk as part of Camberwell Green
Sunday 15 June, 2pm (walk approx. 2 hours)
Starting from Camberwell Green
Discover a lake and a walled garden hidden in a park the size of St
James’s and Green Park combined. Along the way, spot a children’s
guide to birdlife, the sculptural transformation of a derelict
building and the location of Goldfrapp’s latest video as Eleanor
Margolies guides you through some of the intriguing green spaces of
Camberwell.
Chutney II – The Rot Sets In
North East corner of Camberwell Green, SE5
Sunday 22 June, 2pm–sundown
Free
A damned collection of muddy egos, bog artists, clear sighted seers,
witches, clipped poets and wrestlers of the dark imagination.
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Two London Bridge Walks
July 12th
Hays Galleria. London SE1. London Bridge
11am Scott Wood will take a short tour around London Bridge which
will feature ghostly, monstrous and magical sites.
1pm Chris Roberts will take a short circular stroll from the Galleria
over Tower Bridge and back south over London. Different beasts and
ghosts, tons of bridge folklore and how London itself is shaped by
the Thames crossings.
Scott Wood takes a short tour around London Bridge which will feature
ghostly, monstrous and magical sites. See the sites of a magical
battle with a ghost, the legend of Mary Overy, a wife’s ghostly
onslaught, the wizard-artist’ s studio and much more..
Chris Roberts will take a short circular stroll from the Galleria
over Tower Bridge and back south over London. Different beasts and
ghosts, tons of bridge folklore and how London itself is shaped by
the Thames crossings.
This is part of London Magtastic: The event for those who love London
and those who love reading about it. There are millions of stories in
this well dressed city and this is the place to find some of the best.
Details at:
http://www.fandmpub lications. co.uk/pages/ londonmagtastic. htm
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There will then be an intermission until September.
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More things for your June Eyes
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Solstice: Hilly Fields Stone Circle, sunrise and sunset.
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Want to help make a cob oven?
SPIKE, a permaculture arts centre in Peckham, are having their open
day on the 15th June. There will be workshops all day and a party
during the evening.
“We are trying to impress the councillors because Spike is getting
evicted. The permaculture garden is looking stunning. On the day we
will be sculpturing the new cob oven. Lovely food for volunteers”
Interested folk should contact: merlynpeter@ talktalk. net
Spike website: http://www.spikesur plus.org/ index.html
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This is ganked straight out of Transpontine. Thanks Neil:
http://transpont. blogspot. com/2008/ 06/bloomsday- at-montague. html
The 16th June is Bloomsday, celebrated in Ireland and elsewhere to
commemorate James Joyce and in particular his novel Ulysses. The
novel, whose main character is Leopold Bloom, is set on 16th June
1904.
The event has also been celebrated in Hungary for some years, in the
town of Szombathely, where the fictional Leopold Bloom’s Jewish
family is said to have come from.
For some reason I have yet to fathom this year’s Hungarian
DadaBloomsday is being celebreated in South East London, starting off
on with a pre-Bloomsday afternooon on Sunday 15 June at 5 pm at the
Ivy House (40 Stuart Road, SE15). The main event is on Monday 16 June
at the Montague Arms (289 Queens Road, SE15 - 8 pm start)– with
Trombone Poetry, Foul Geese and Hungarian artists.
Bloomsday: http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Bloomsday
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It’s Refugee week this week. Go to the Celebrating Sanctuary Festival:
[It gets a bit quote-y and marketing from here-on-in.]
http://www.refugeew eek.org.uk/ InYourArea/ London/
Celebrating Sanctuary London
Sunday 15th June, Bernie Spain Gardens, Upper Ground, South Bank, SE1
FREE
Celebrating Sanctuary is a day long festival which gathers together
established and emerging refugee musicians, dancers and artists to
celebrate the positive cultural contribution of refugees to the UK.
This year’s headliners are Noisettes - an exciting 3 piece whose mesh
of punk, funk and the blues has gained them a reputation as one of
Britain’s rowdiest live bands, and included in Rolling Stones’ 10
Artists to Watch list
Other acts confirmed include Angelina and The Gypsy Punks, Muka
(featuring Eddie Noiman), Los Desterrados and loads more to be
confirmed. Check this page in the coming weeks for a full line up!
The festival will also introduce the Spoken Word stage in partnership
with Book Slam, where we will be providing a platform for some of
London’s most exciting new writing.
For more information about Celebrating Sanctuary please call 020 7346
6752 or visit www.myspace. com/celebratings anctuary
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