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When I was at the Science Museum Lates event this week, I attended a talk on the perception of music by researchers from the Music, Mind and the Brain group at Goldsmiths, University of London. The first half of the talk was by Lauren Stewart, a cognitive neuroscientist, who outlined how the brain understands music. Music [...]
This evening my friends and I went to the Science of Music event at the Science Museum in South Kensington. The evening was part of Science Museum Lates, a monthly adults only event where the museum is open until 10pm and special talks and displays are laid on. The place was pretty packed out with [...]
Would you let a completely unmanned robot operate on you? Or what about one manned by a surgeon thousands of miles away? Sounds out of the question, the stuff of science fiction. But you’d be wrong, robotic surgery is here and has huge implications for medical efficiency and safety, as the Sci-Fi Surgery: Medical Robots [...]
Today my friends and I went to see the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, and it was AMAZING! The aim of this shiny new wing is to show visitors “the hidden world of museum science”. The Natural History Museum is rightly most famous for it’s natural history collection, which comprises more than 70 [...]
Not my words, but those of the choreographer for Britain’s Got Talent winners Diversity. If you’ve been in the UK at all in the past month you can’t help but have read about the Britain’s Got Talent TV show. In this nationwide talent contest, people from all walks of life with talents ranging from the [...]
I recently blogged about the alarming rates of obesity among children in England, with one in four 4-5 year old children and one in three 10-11 year olds in this country obese or overweight. The Foresight report, published in 2007, ominously predicts that by 2050 90% of British children will be overweight or obese. The [...]
Today December 1st is World AIDS Day. As many as 33 million people worldwide are living with HIV, and there are 80,000 people with HIV in the UK. The aim of World AIDS Day is to raise awareness of the challenges and consequences of the epidemic – ultimately halting the spread of the HIV virus [...]
Tomorrow the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) is leading World Diabetes Day, the primary global awareness campaign of the diabetes world. World Diabetes Day is celebrated annually November 14th, the birthday of Frederick Banting, who in 1922, along with Charles Best, conceived the idea that led to the discovery of insulin. The theme for this year [...]
This evening I attended The Nature Debate: Enhancing the Body at King’s Place in King’s Cross, north London. Today’s discussion is the second of two panel events on “the risks, benefits and extent of how far research can extend our mental and physical abilities”. Chaired by Kerri Smith, Nature Podcast Editor and presenter of Nature [...]
To celebrate the launch of the book Medical London: City of diseases, city of cures, the Wellcome Collection is hosting a selection of events in the city. Written by Richard Barnett and Mike Jay, Medical London offers “a unique … view of the roles played by diseases, treatments and cures in London’s sprawling story”. Yesterday [...]