From Mary Mulvihill » Communicating science:
Q: How much theoretical physics can you condense into a 5-minute Ignite talk?
A: A surprising amount!
Enlighten us, but make it quick!
You know the Ignite format? Five minutes, and 20 slides. That’s not much time, and rather a lot of slides.
Yet it is proving to be a popular evening’s entertainment at [...]
From Mary Mulvihill » Communicating science:
Q: How much theoretical physics can you condense into a 5-minute Ignite talk?
A: A surprising amount!
Enlighten us, but make it quick!
You know the Ignite format? Five minutes, and 20 slides. That’s not much time, and rather a lot of slides.
Yet it is proving to be a popular evening’s entertainment at [...]
From Mary Mulvihill:
Q: How much theoretical physics can you condense into a 5-minute Ignite talk?
A: A surprising amount!
Enlighten us, but make it quick!
You know the Ignite format? Five minutes, and 20 slides. And it is proving to be a popular evening’s entertainment at Dublin’s Science Gallery, where it is now a monthly attraction.
Most talks that [...]
From Mary Mulvihill:
March 24, 2010 –: when we honour Ada Lovelace, the ‘enchantress of numbers’ and the world’s first programmer.
This year’s Ada Lovelace day (ALD10) – when bloggers celebrate women in technology and science — falls in the week when Ireland’s national broadcaster began looking for the “greatest Irish person ever” . . . with [...]
From Mary Mulvihill:
Vote now, and help to put a scientist on RTE’s list of the greatest Irish people ever.
If you’ve been following the story so far, you’ll know that the short-list of 40 candidates includes three people associated with Boyzone, only three women, and not one scientist or engineer — for what promises to be [...]
From Mary Mulvihill:
Care to join me in organising a poll of the greatest Irish scientist? And let’s try and get a scientist on to RTE’s list for the greatest ever Irish person.
RTE is asking us to vote for the greatest Irish person from a shortlist of 40 people. The top five will then each become [...]
From Mary Mulvihill:
Did you know that the Irish invented Shamrock, put a man on the moon, changed the face of modern warfare and electrified the world?
What Ireland has done for the world, is the topic for the Big Ideas discussion, as part of the St Patrick’s festival (tonight).
William Rowan Hamilton's quaternions helped to put a [...]
From Mary Mulvihill:
There are many reasons for studying mathematics, at school and college. Everyday practical use being a big one, or maybe just the sheer joy of the logic, if you’re that way inclined. (And later, a fascinating TED talk about what we can learn from health statistics.)
But here’s another good reason: because, in [...]
From Mary Mulvihill:
Should reviewers in science remain anonymous? In peer-reviewing papers? What about reviewing grant applications?
This year marks the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Society in London and, with that, arguably, the start of the modern scientific establishment, including the principle of peer review.
Yet, thanks to the ‘climate gate’ e-mail controversy [...]
From Mary Mulvihill » Communicating science:
It’s all eyes on Kildare Street this week. And not just the budget . . .
The excellent Kildare Street.com — ‘a non-partisan website which lets people keep tabs on their elected representatives” — has just won €5,000, taking the first-ever Outvesting grant, and beating 60 other projects in the [...]
