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Recent Blog Posts
- The British Library explores the dark arts of Propaganda
- A look around an empty office block in Victoria
- Steam trains to run along part of the Central Line in June
- How to get tickets to the 2013 Last Night of the Proms
- A few Crossrail construction site photos
- Public Tours of HMS Illustrious Next Weekend
- Tom Daley’s swimming trunks become a Museum artefact
- Cyclists wanted to test “Dutch Roundabouts”
- Thoughts about the Acid on the Jubilee Line
- 20 years ago – Queen announces public tours of Buckingham Palace
Science Archive
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Get your tickets for the Ig Nobel tours
Posted on January 31, 2013 | No CommentsOne of the highlights of the annual science entertainment calendar is making a return to Imperial College in March, with an evening comprising of an oddly eclectic mix of science, really bad poetry and a small girl walking up to people and repeatedly saying “Please Stop, I’m Bored” when a speaker has droned on for too long. -
Three Enigma Machines on display in the Science Museum
Posted on January 28, 2013 | 3 CommentsA temporary exhibition has been set up in the Science Museum to that increasing icon of computing, Alan Turning. -
Chance to visit a Nuclear Fusion Reactor
Posted on January 22, 2013 | 8 CommentsWhile a huge fusion reactor is being built in France to prove the technology, it is the UK that leads the development work - and their facility is open for public tours. -
A museum devoted to eye surgery – open this month only
Posted on August 7, 2012 | 1 CommentFor the next few weeks, we mere mortals are being permitted to enter the hallowed halls of medical heritage as the Royal College of Ophthalmologists holds its first ever open... -
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...