Imran Khan penned the text. Our surroundings are rapidly changing. With advances in research and technology, it is more crucial than ever to engage the general people in science; science has an impact on all aspects of our lives, including medicine, communication, and the environment. Projects like the Longitude Prize are educating people about some of the most pressing challenges of our time while also providing a venue for them to participate with science. The British Science Association’s mission is to make science a part of our culture by encouraging communities and individuals to value, influence, and challenge British science.
The British Science Festival is a six-day celebration of science, engineering, and technology that the BSA hosts as part of its objective to encourage people to connect with science. The Festival will be held in Birmingham this year, and will feature a variety of activities, seminars, and workshops organized by local scientists, TV stars, and Nobel Prize winners to help share their enthusiasm for science and advancement. We are really delighted to welcome you all to Birmingham for the festival, which begins on Saturday, June 6th, and have put together some helpful hints to help you make the most of your visit.
1. Become familiar with the program.
Get a copy of the schedule and a pen to make a list of the events you want to attend. Keep a copy of the Festival program in your bag at all times so you can prepare a ‘plan B’ in case your ‘plan A’ is sold out (but it’s still worth going to sold-out events because tickets may be available at the door). You should also bring a journal (you never know who you’ll meet or what you’ll learn!).
2. Plan ahead of time, but don’t overbook.
To ensure that you have a seat for the events you don’t want to miss, purchase your tickets in advance. Remember that you don’t have to pay for every event because many of them are free, but double-check whether you need to make a reservation or if it’s a drop-in session. Allow some free time so you can try something new and take in the festival atmosphere of the city and campus.
3. Be pleasantly surprised.
If you see something that looks fun, go for it! Aim for a variety of experiences; choose an event you wouldn’t normally attend and you could be surprised. Yes, it may not be precisely what you had hoped for – but hopefully in the best possible way! Step away from the typical program – yeah, all the renowned faces are here, and you can go see them, but also check out the new events, theater events, trips and tours, and everything else that goes on in and around the Festival sites.
4. Keep a festival map on hand.
Allow adequate time to travel between activities by checking times and locations to prevent having to rush, as some events are held on campus while others are held in the city center. The maps on pages 44 and 45 of the program will show you where the venues are located (and Google Maps is always a good friend when it comes to checking travel time).
5. Get a feel for the Festival
Get a taste of the Festival with the x-change at The Flask and Bunsen on Chancellor’s Court. This Festival highlight event (Monday – Thursday, 1:15pm) is half talk show, part science cabaret, and features all the finest elements from the program, including speakers, important topics, entertaining science facts and experiments… You might even run into some inspiring celebrities!
6. Get to know future celebrities
“I knew this scientist before he/she was on TV!” be the first to say. – Meet the 2014 National Science + Engineering Competition winners, who are all under the age of 18 and have come up with remarkable projects like producing an early cancer diagnosis tool and designing an arcade machine from the ground up. The Award Lectures are given by more established (but still young!) scientists who are recognized, active, early career researchers who are adept in conveying their research and are invited to give a special presentation during the Festival. Brian Cox is one of the previous Award Lecturers. Wiseman, Richard To mention a few, Maggie Aderin-Pocock!
7. Be inquisitive
If you don’t ask questions when you have the chance, you might regret it later because it’s a terrific opportunity to speak directly with scientists. No inquiry is too large or small, and our lecturers and scientists will be ecstatic to learn that you’re interested in their field.
8. Take a breather
Make sure you refuel your batteries, as much as science is food for contemplation. Find food and drink options on and near campus, and include lunch and tea breaks in your Festival schedule; we don’t want you to be tired for the day’s or night’s final event.
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What scientific knowledge would help you survive if you were sent back in time? It’s a more difficult question than you may imagine!
Images of criminals with tattoos (arm on the left a thief, on the right a deserter). From Henry Havelock Ellis’s 1895 novel “The Criminal.” Image courtesy of the Wellcome Collection in London. Images of criminals with tattoos (arm on the left a thief, on the right a deserter). From Henry Havelock Ellis’s 1895 novel “The Criminal.” Image courtesy of the Wellcome Collection in London. Vanessa Heggie is a model and actress. Monday, September 1, 2014, at 4:05 a.m. EDT On Monday, September 1, 2014, at 4:00 p.m. EDT, it was first published. This year during the British Science Festival, I’ll be conducting an event called “Tattoos for Time Travellers.” It’s a thought experiment in which the following scenario is presented:
Assume we’re about to transport you back in time. You won’t be able to take anything with you (not even your clothing! ), but we do have an incredible tattoo artist who will write or draw anything you want on your body before you leave. What information do you require in order to survive, thrive, and influence the future? Will you be lauded as a genius or burned at the stake for being a witch? Make good use of your ink!
The University of Birmingham is hosting the festival this year, and if you’re in the area on Saturday, between 6 and 8pm, you may speak or debate your tattoo scheme in the festival bar, the Flask and Bunsen. Even if you won’t be able to attend the festival, you can still participate by leaving a comment below or tweeting your ideas with the hashtag #BSFtattoos.
Some Twitter users have already shared some fantastic ideas as well as hints and tips for would-be time travelers.
…despite certain reservations regarding the safety of getting a tattoo at all.
History of tattoos
Tattoos were undoubtedly utilized as status symbols and ways of identifying certain individuals, their abilities, vocations, or tribal affiliations; nevertheless, they may also have had medical functions. Tattoos discovered on Egyptian corpses were linked to healing practices, according to French doctor Daniel Marie Fouquet in the late 1800s.
As gruesome as it may sound, tattoos were collected by 19th century surgeons and anatomists, either as part of anatomical collections or for anthropological research. The Wellcome Collection in London houses hundreds of tattoos on human skin, the majority of which appear to have been applied by French soldiers and prisoners. Tattoos have been used to mark or brand condemned offenders in a variety of locales and eras.Tattoos were also employed as an early form of forensic identification, particularly during the nineteenth century, when the telegraph enabled police forces to convey descriptions of wanted offenders over large distances quickly.
Tattoos were regarded a dubious kind of bodily ornamentation by most 19th century collectors, no matter how artistic they were. One of the first criminologists, Italian doctor Cesare Lombroso, produced an essay for the American magazine Popular Science Monthly in 1898 titled ” The Savage Origins of Tattooing “. The usage of the word “savage,” which conjures up images of both violent crime and “primitive” peoples, was purposeful. Tattoos, according to Lombroso, originated in inferior “savage” societies (that is, non-white societies), but were growing increasingly popular among Europe’s criminal underclass.
Lombroso is most known for his idea that criminality is intrinsic, that it is fixed physiologically (or genetically) and not the result of psychological or social circumstances. He felt it was possible to determine someone’s personality based on their physical look since it was inherited – in other words, that you could physically see if someone was (or would grow up to be) criminal, violent, or lustful based on their physical appearance. Lombroso’s beliefs were part of a racist eugenics movement that claimed that non-white races were inferior to white races, with the slope of their foreheads or the size of their noses indicating which were more inferior. Getting a tattoo was considered a “savage” act, and when a white European did so, it signaled a flaw in their character, particularly if it was a woman. There were exceptions, of course: both King Edward VII and his son George V had at least one tattoo.
Tattooing, at least before antiseptic procedures and medicines, could be an extremely risky activity. After a naval surgeon wrote an article about the perils of infection and mortality, the French army and navy attempted to outlaw tattooing in 1861. A syphilis outbreak in a British naval barracks in the 1880s was linked to an infected tattooist.
A graphic depiction of what could go wrong with a nineteenth-century tattoo. ‘Three Cases of Tuberculosis Inoculation from Tattooing’ is an illustration from the book ‘Three Cases of Tuberculosis Inoculation from Tattooing’ (British Medical Journal, 1 June 1895). London’s Wellcome Library is featured in this image.
So, if you’re still interested in getting a time traveler’s tattoo, what would you get? How would it be beneficial to you? Here are some pointers… Choosing an appropriate tattoo for time travel
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