Guerilla Science
For the last three years I have been involved with the Guerilla Science project. We bring science to summer music festivals: the first experiment of its kind in the UK. This summer we are featuring at Latitude and the Secret Garden Party. Talks are our main fare, but we also present live experiments, debates, installations, art, films and music. This July 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 video of me, Ben Allanach and MC Inja promoting Guerilla Science (some of the things I say are taken rather out of context and should be treated with a pinch of salt).
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 in 2009 I was president of the Cambridge chapter. Cambridge has a special connection to Pugwash through Bertrand Russell, after whom my hamster is 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.