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- Museums at Night takes place this weekend
- The Return of The Cough
- Testing being carried out on the new Cable Car route
- A look around the Leonardo exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
- A bookshop has opened inside the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner
- Birds nesting at Canary Wharf
- Ride in a 1938 era tube train at the Rickmansworth Festival
- Expect gunfire and explosions near Old St tube station this evening
- St Nicholas Church in Great Wakering
- A small museum inside a military firing range
Science Archive
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Animal Inside Out – the Body Worlds exhibition at the Natural History Museum
Posted on April 3, 2012 | 3 CommentsIf you are a large museum in a large city, it is now mandatory to have a blockbuster show lain on for the summer months to lure in the paying... -
Pay a visit to South London’s famous stuffed Walrus
Posted on January 24, 2012 | 2 CommentsIf you inherit a company from your dad, and build it up to become the world’s largest tea trading business, you might be inclined to start collecting things as you... -
Hurrah for Horizon as science returns to BBC2
Posted on September 1, 2011 | 5 CommentsOver the past couple of years I have lamented the slow death of decent science on BBC2 – specifically how the once flagship Horizon show had slowly reduced down to... -
Tours of the UK’s Synchrotron particle accelerator
Posted on August 22, 2011 | No CommentsSlightly to the south of Didcot sits a huge silver UFO shaped building that happens to house the UK’s synchrotron – a special type of particle accelerator that is used... -
Peering inside NASA’s Apollo 10 Command Module
Posted on August 19, 2011 | 1 CommentIn a Science Museum gallery next to, but not in the space gallery, is a relic of the Space Race, the command module used in the Apollo 10 mission to... -
Have you been to the new Grant Museum yet?
Posted on May 23, 2011 | 1 CommentIf not, then tomorrow night (Tues 24th May) is as good an opportunity as any as they are hosting one of their more “light hearted” lectures which will unveil what... -
Watt gets a dedicated display in the Science Museum?
Posted on March 22, 2011 | 1 CommentWatt gets a dedicated display in the Science Museum! I don’t know, what gets a dedicated display in the Science Museum? Yes, Watt does. I don’t know, what gets a... -
The Ig Nobel Tour Goes “After Dark”
Posted on February 28, 2011 | 3 CommentsAs mentioned earlier, the Ig Nobel tour is coming to London next month, and by a hideous clash of calendars, I might not actually be able to go this year.... -
An alternative history of space exploration
Posted on November 23, 2010 | 1 CommentLast week I had a ticket (at short notice) to a lecture by Jerry Stone of the Spaceflight UK organisation – officially titled “The Day They Launched A Woodpecker”, but... -
Visiting the UK’s Largest Particle Accelerator
Posted on November 14, 2010 | 5 CommentsJust outside Didcot lies a very distinctive huge silver ring doughnut that houses, what is basically, a gigantic microscope – and this weekend there was a fairly rare public open...