Who do you imagine when you think of an engineer, scientist, or mathematician? If you’d been asked that forty years ago, it’s pretty likely that you wouldn’t have pictured a woman. Times (and stereotypes) are changing, but still women make up just 16% of Australians qualified in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), according…
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Science Poem of the Day #3
Today’s poem is from Law & Impulse: maths & chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union. Magdalena Ball 10 digits of e tracing the slope of your tangent around a bell curve the irrationality of your decimal expansions left me breathless there was no room for doubt in the ice of your bedroom and watched…
Cheeky Neurons Build Neural Networks
It was a busy few days in a bustling building full of fun and exciting science at Canberra’s Science in ACTion science fair. We saw everything from Daleks, slime, fossils and snakes come by us and we heard there was even a piece of Mars in the building! For the last two days Cheeky Neurons,…
Science Poem of the Day #2
Today’s poem is from Earthly Matters: biology & geology poems, published by The Poets Union. Martin Langford The Silence of the Frogs So many silences. Wharves. Or the silence of caves. The silence of big skies. Of forests. Of sunlight on carpet. The silence of frogs. You hear it round Sydney: wherever the soil has…
Science Week truly is a national festival
National Science Week officially kicks off today. Communities right around the country have begun to run an impressive array of science events for the public. And we really mean *right around* the country. We have Science Week events taking place in all sorts of locations across the breadth and width of our nation. Opportunities to…
Science Poem of the Day #1
To celebrate National Science Week we’ll be publishing a science poem of the day this week. The poems are from the Science Made Marvellous series of poetry books published in National Science Week in 2010 by The Poets Union. The three books are: Holding Patterns: physics & engineering poems (1.2MB PDF) Earthly Matters: biology &…
Magnify your curiosity: Arts Vs Science Festival in Lismore
Bringing its own unique mix of science and art to The Quad for a one day festival on 18 August 2018 to celebrate National Science Week, the Arts Vs Science Festival is Lismore’s own petri dish of creative exploration – and its paint palette of scientific discovery has just dropped. Find out what happens when…
Experimental rhyming or scientific stanzas?
Do you find technical talk and scientific jargon sometimes feels like an alien language or scrambles your brain into mush? Do you sometimes feel creative writers are also speaking another language full of colourful flourishes, mixed metaphors and abstract concepts? Can the two be combined successfully? Scientific and artistic endeavours have always intertwined throughout our…
Ready, Set, Go!
What comes but once a year? What brings joy and wonderment to young and old alike? Yes, the annual celebration of all things amazing, astonishing and just plain mind-boggling – National Science Week 2018 – is here!!! Ready, set, go! So, go to the event calendar to find events near you and start choosing. There really…
Science Week 2018 launches!
National Science Week has today been officially launched with a joint media release, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Minister Michaelia Cash also attending an early CSIRO STEM in Schools event at Kent Street Senior High School in Perth, WA. The students eagerly took selfies with the Prime Minister and happily chatted about their STEM…