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Thanks so much to all of you who suggested weird and wonderful experiments. All your suggestions were very helpful. Apologies for not replying individually. Best wishes, Liz ________________________________ From: Liz Biggs Sent: 11 May 2007 17:21 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: bizarre experiments Dear all, I contacted Lisa Hendry at the BA about a project I'm working on and she suggested I contact you for ideas and inspiration, so I hope you'll have a quick think and email me anything you think might be helpful! I'm trying to find out weird and wonderful experiments, mainly contemporary but perhaps historical if interesting. One example is a study into collision avoidance in locusts where they were played the battle scenes from Star Wars to see how they avoid hitting the X-Wings! Apparently the results were very helpful in developing new anti-collision technologies for cars. Another, contested experiment involved flatworms being taught behaviour and then fed to other flatworms to see if they would 'learn' from their meal. If you can think of any other experiments with unusual methods or bizarre focuses (not just animal ones!), please can you email me with details? Even if it's only a vague recollection, it'd be great to hear from you. Ideally we'd like to draw unusual connections between disciplines and experimental focuses - such as Prof. Sir Mike Brady's work on robot image analysis leading to great strides forward in cancer detection. Also, if any of you are working on anything weird and wonderful right now, or have done in the past, please get in touch. I'm hoping to get a big list together by the 18th May. I think this show could be a great way to showcase the talents of those scientists who aren't afraid of thinking outside the particular box for solutions and inspiration, and also enable more exploration into the scientific method, something rarely shown on TV. Thanks in anticipation, Liz Liz Biggs Associate Producer (Development) outlineproductions dl: +44 (0) 20 7428 6030 fax: +44 (0) 20 7428 1561 55 Rochester Place, London NW1 9JU www.outlineproductions.co.uk ********************************************************************** 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail 2. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set psci-com mail 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com 4. Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html 5. The psci-com gateway to internet resources on science communication and science and society can be found at http://psci-com.ac.uk **********************************************************************