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We humans are the tops. Our awesome creativity and technical wizardry can think up brilliant ways to cheat at sport, our pharmaceutical companies can devise ingenious ways to detect it, and our cheating ways can outwit them again and again. Forget brawn, it's scientists' brains that win the Olympics. The British Pharmacological Society will be digging into it on February 23rd. That may seem a long way off, but don't worry; this scandal will run and run.
Tickets for Rio 2016 are on sale now, but the Science Festival won't open for business before January. Right now we are preparing the pictures and text for the website and brochures.
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More records broken!
We've done it; we've broken the one degree barrier. This is genuine teamwork by everyone on the planet, putting on the heating when it gets a bit cool and the air conditioning when it feels warm, guzzling gas at every spare moment, pumping up the CO2. And finally it looks like we've managed to raise global temperatures by one whole degree celsius above pre-industrial levels Well done, humanity. It has been a marathon!
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Heavyweight champs
The biggest, the widest, the heaviest folk in Europe; for nearly a decade, Team GB has prided itself on its girth, making up in pure mass what it lacks in clout. And all this in spite of recent news reports of the dangers of red meat, the menace of carbohydrates, the fatal attraction of sugar and the obvious need to avoid fat, plus the uselessness of vitamins... So what is there left to eat, roughage? Brighton Science Festival has the answer, as ever - INSECTS! On Sunday February 21st we'll be learning how to suck, nibble and gulp our way to a healthy life. 800 million sparrows can't be wrong.
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Fom ignoble to Ignobel
This year's Ignobel Prizes have been awarded, and will be pored over in the next newsletter. The prizes, awarded for scientific achievements that “first make people laugh, then make them think” included a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg, the mystery of how Moulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty managed to father 888 children and why chickens with a stick stuck to their bum should make you very afraid.
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