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DerbyshireScience @DerbyScience

Derbyshire branch of the British Science Association. Follow for all things science & stay tuned for local Derbyshire BSA events for all coming in 2014.

Joined September 2012
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Hello followers, we're busy planning our events for 2014. #DerbyBSA #Science #Events
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Science and Art

Those who’ve read the blog before might have noticed that I (that’s me below the words) have a fondness for the connections between science and other areas of life.  One of my favourite…

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Home made paint: youtu.be/ypiBY_F4e9Q?a via @YouTube

Home made paint

Agata and David from the Derby branch of the British Science Association demonstrate how to do home made paint

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Synthesis of Indigo Dye: youtu.be/6ctFxL6ePE0?a via @YouTube

Synthesis of Indigo Dye

David presents indigo dye synthesis (instructions available from the RSC at http://www.rsc.org/learn-chemistry/content/filerepository/CMP/00/000/632/microsca...

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Plea

Hello everyone, This is, quite bluntly, an open begging/pleading/cajoling/lying on the floor wailing letter. We need you. Seriously. The Derby and Derbyshire branch of the British Science Associati…

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Traffic Lights: youtu.be/RmJ3pQXSSiQ?a via @YouTube

Traffic Lights

In this experiment David demonstrates the traffic light experiment for the Derby and Derbyshire branch of the British Science Association ( Registered Charit...

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Guest Post: Top Apps for Teaching Science to Kids wp.me/pnaap-6y

Guest Post: Top Apps for Teaching Science to Kids

Another guest post from Samuel Clemens who shares his tips for  teachers and parents alike, for enthusing reluctant youngsters. Science can be a tricky subject to get kids excited about, but intera…

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Guest Post: 6 Must-Read Pieces of Literature for Budding Engineers by Samuel Clemens wp.me/pnaap-6p

Guest Post: 6 Must-Read Pieces of Literature for Budding Engineers by Samuel Clemens

Engineers shape our world and the various ways we interact with it and with each other: from bridges and buildings to shoes and cell phones. And books on the subject are a necessity for any budding…

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February Event

Do you like science? (of course you do what a silly question) Do you like comics? Well you might well enjoy the Science of Superheroes talk, given by branch chair and proud comic book guy Dr Ian Tu…

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A Sanguine Start to the Year

Blood, blood, glorious blood. Nothing quite like it for, emptying a room at a party… So blood. It’s one of those things we all have, and then spend most of our lives avoiding discussion…

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Guest Post: Discoveries of The Curiosity Rover wp.me/pnaap-64

Guest Post: Discoveries of The Curiosity Rover

It’s been an exciting time in the field of space exploration with NASA’s Curiosity Rover on a mission to Mars. Though the rover has a significant amount of time left in its mission, man…

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Kitchen Chemistry

Lots of people think of science as being this big thing that happens in sinister looking buildings filled with machines with names that sound like something Gene Rodenberry rejected for sounding to…

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Guest Post: Ian Turner-I want to be Spiderman!!!

This guest post is from Dr Ian Turner, mild mannered biologist by day, comic book hero in training by night… I want to be Spiderman!!! By Dr. Ian Turner aka a wannabe Spiderman As a young boy…

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Be the Bunny

One of the most important parts of science is the experimenting bit. It’s also probably the most enjoyable part for many scientists. Some experiments involve several hundred tiny cells, other…

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Taller, yet tinier, tower

So there you are. In the city of romance, fashion and copious amounts of stinky cheese. Beautiful Paris, and sat looking at one of civil engineering’s greatest creations. Sadly you aren’…

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Guest Post: Stacey Camilleri-Expirated Blood Patterns wp.me/pnaap-47
Interview: Heidi Sowter wp.me/pnaap-3R

Interview: Heidi Sowter

It could be quite easy to get the impression that scientists have a very simple career path. That at 15, when picking their A-level/Baccalaureate subjects they know exactly that they want to do res…

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Interview: Stephanie Archer

Stephanie Archer is a health psychologist currently based at the University of Derby, and for two years has been running the gynaecological cancer study that Heidi Sowter mentioned a few weeks ago.…

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Science things to do as summer ends

Those of you who are parents of younger humans may well be in countdown phase now, and seeking last minute entertainment prospects before one more episode of ‘Winx Club’ sends you over …

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Team derby are in there last talk of the festival before the long journey home, What makes a psychopath? A great way to end @BritishSciFest
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