"The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline that deals with the universe's divine revolutions, the stars' motions, sizes, distances, risings and settings . . . for what is more beautiful than heaven?" - Nicolas Copernicus
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Galaxy Zoo on the "Curious" Podcast
Just wanted to put up a quick post to point out that the latest podcast from the people who run Ask an Astronomer @ Cornell discusses citizen science, and I'm interviewed on it about Galaxy Zoo stuff.
Link to the podcasts in iTunes.
Merry Christmas! Karen.
Monday, December 5, 2011
A Frenk Discussion about Cosmology
Last week Prof. Carlos Frenk visited us in Portsmouth to give a research seminar. As part of my new role as Outreach Officer for ICG I suggested we ask him to also give a public lecture. Which he did:
The university coverage about the lecture is here: Carlos Frenk Draws a Big Crowd
And I made a Storify Story out of tweets which went out during the lecture.
As you can see the lecture was very popular, and I got a great warm fuzzy feeling for helping to educate almost 300 people about cosmology that night. :)
PS. Thanks is due to my office mate Chris D'Andrea for the blog title idea - it's a classic!
My favourite picture - Carlos Frenk sharing a snap of him showing Sir Patrick Moore around a dark matter detection experiment. |
The university coverage about the lecture is here: Carlos Frenk Draws a Big Crowd
And I made a Storify Story out of tweets which went out during the lecture.
As you can see the lecture was very popular, and I got a great warm fuzzy feeling for helping to educate almost 300 people about cosmology that night. :)
PS. Thanks is due to my office mate Chris D'Andrea for the blog title idea - it's a classic!
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carlos frenk,
cosmology,
icg,
storify,
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