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fromianVisits
15 hours ago

Tickets Alert: Animal Dissection Live!

Hosted at the Royal Institution, the lion, which died of old age and was then donated to science, will be dissected to demonstrate how animal biology works. Medical and veterinary students will be used to seeing such demonstrations, but doing the same for the voyuristic public might not seem very scientific, but it certainly does tick the classic idea of public demonstrations of science to educate the curious.
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fromNature
2 months ago

How the Royal Institution made science a seasonal spectacle

The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures, founded in 1825 and now 200 years old, have popularized science through public demonstrations using iconic figures Faraday and Aderin-Pocock.
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