Guerilla Science
For the last four years, since its inception, I have been involved with the Guerilla Science project. We bring science to summer music festivals and events in and around London: the first experiment of its kind in the UK. We present interactive installations, live experiments, debates, art, films and music. We invite you to taste a brain made of cake, spy the moons of Jupiter, dance to fractals, hunt for the Higgs, and ponder how utterly astounding it is that you are reading these words at all.
Below is a highlights video from this summer's events. (Guerilla Science is currently exploring setting up a US branch. If you would like to be involved please email me.)
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is an international organization that brings together scholars and public figures to work toward reducing the danger of armed conflict and to seek solutions to global security threats. It was founded in 1957 by Joseph Rotblat and Bertrand Russell in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, following the release of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto in 1955.
Pugwash and Rotblat jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for efforts on nuclear disarmament. International Student/Young Pugwash groups have existed since 1979 and whilst at Cambridge I was president of their chapter. Cambridge has a special connection to Pugwash through Bertrand Russell, after whom my hamster was named, since he spent much of his life there.
Below is the trailer for The Strangest Dream, an excellent new film about the history of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs.