Hi Michael and PSCI

I was just about to email PSCI with the highlights of the (original and best) Cambridge Science Festival UK - and we wish our colleages in Cambridge, MA every success for their first Festival!

You can see our events at www.cambridgescience.org - over 100 events for all ages from 12 to 25 March including the Ig Nobel Prize Show on 17 March, lots of hands-on demonstrations for all the family at Science on Saturdays on 17 and 24 March in departments from astronomy to zoology at locations across the city and surrounding area including many University laboratories.

Almost all events are free of charge and unticketed - with exceptions being the Ig Nobel Prize Show in the Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, at 3pm on Sat 17 March, for which you need to email [log in to unmask] if you would like a ticket

(We always thought www.cambridgescience.org was an easier and shorter URL to promote on posters etc and I believe we have the www.cambridgesciencefestival.co.uk URL lined up for anyone who likes typing in longer versions! )

All the best

Nicola Buckley
Co-ordinator
Cambridge Science Festival
Office of Community Affairs
University of Cambridge
9 Jesus Lane
Cambridge
CB5 8BA

Tel: +44 (0)1223 7 64069
Fax:+44 (0)1223 7 64062
Mobile: +44 (0)7774 017688

www.cambridgescience.org

The Cambridge Science Festival will take place from 12 to 25 March 2007, with the theme 'The Big and the Small'

From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Kenward
Sent: 02 March 2007 10:49
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PSCI-COM] The other Cambridge finally gets festive

Some Brits, and most Americans, love to think that they do things so much better on “the other side of the pond”. We all know that this is tosh, and that the only thing that they have that is missing here is excessive self confidence, some might even call it arrogance.

So it is good to read that we are to have “The first annual Cambridge Science Festival”:

http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/

The Cambridge in question is, of course, that upstart on the outskirts of Boston, although you have to look hard to detect this.

Note that they have managed to grab a neat web address. Where were the fenland mob when that was on offer?

____________________________

Michael Kenward

ABSW e-minder

http://www.absw.org.uk

http://absw.blogspot.com/

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