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Invisible Worlds takes in everything from microscopic insects to whole galaxies
Boom The Science Festival is back with a bang Words: Anna Millar
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I llusions, experiments, fire-walking and food are just some of the treats in store at this year’s Edinburgh International Science Festival. With events in more venues than ever before, 2012’s programme welcomes scientists, comedians, psychologists, dancers, chefs and photographers to look at scientific phenomena from every angle.
Highlights include photography project Invisible Worlds, presently at St Andrews Square, examining the hidden realms of the big and small, InMotion, at the National Museum of Scotland, celebrating the science of human movement and mind-man Derren Brown appearing in conversation with Richard Wiseman. As ever the programme is suitably attired for young and old: adults can walk across burning coals in Firewalking, challenge their senses in Sensory Dining, or discover the science behind dad dancing with The Dancing Brain. Don’t miss the
BBC’s Bang Goes the Theory team, either, presenting free live shows in the Usher Hall and drop in activities on the Mound Precinct, Coinciding with the Easter school holidays, there are, of course, a lot of events for little ones: Edinburgh’s City Art Centre will be transformed into a science playground, complete with skeletons, robots and manic monsters, with Visual-Eyes (see what they did there?) allowing children the chance to peek inside a giant eye. Elsewhere, the Scottish Storytelling Centre and National Museum of Scotland will be offering up science trails and illuminating stories.
We’re exhausted and excited just thinking about it.
Edinburgh International Science Festival, 30 March–15 Apr, various venues, sciencefestival.co.uk
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