The Times Cheltenham Science Festival
9–13 June 2010
Watch our video below — Science Festival 2010
The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 2010 was a fantastic success yet again!
“I love Cheltenham. It’s really well organised — they somehow balance professionalism with a personal touch.”
One of our 2010 sponsors
Visitor numbers increased by an amazing 23% over 2009 drawn by an outstanding programme of events that included subjects as diverse as Dark Matter and Hormones! Our speaker list looked like a ‘Who’s Who’ of British science joining together with international experts and media personalities — all committed to creating an inspirational celebration of Science and Engineering.
“It perfectly illustrates that science is alive and an everyday thing.”
A 2010 visitor
Two Guest Directors — for Science 2010…
Brian Cox
- Watch five minutes with… Brian’s science heroes, music and the Big Bang
- CERN’s Supercollider Brian gives a tour of the huge project (TED lecture)
- What went wrong at the Large Hadron Collider the future of a supercollider (TED lecture)
Heston Blumenthal
- Channel 4, Heston’s feasts catch up with the latest series of madcap dishes
- Our 2009 interview Heston was at the festival last year — we grilled him!
- Heston and the wobble test The Times find out how Heston uses science
LabOratory — bringing biomedical science to life…
LabOratory is one of our most exciting projects, bringing biomedical science to life across the four Cheltenham Festivals: Jazz, Science, Music and Literature.
This year’s theme is performance under pressure. We’ve got a simulated operating theatre and an amazing series of events lined up including…
Operation Live a simulated emergency operation!
Stressed Out? — how stress affects our minds and bodies and ways to improve wellbeing
More about the simulated operating theatre, more events, video and links…
visit our LabOratory pages
Decadence — our festival theme for 2010…
Decadence is a provocative word: luxurious, sensuous and self-indulgent, a celebration of the good things in life but redolent of moral and social decline.
This year at the Science Festival we’ll be exploring decadence, and what it means to us — with events asking how and why science has given us the luxuries that we find difficult to sacrifice.
The Discover Zone — free interactive science…
Free interactive science for all ages, every day during the festival
more about the Discover Zone
“Unquestionably the leading science festival in the country.”
Professor Lord Winston
Science 2009 video clips — The Times Online…
- Cheltenham Science Festival: the highlights
- Heston Blumenthal: I’m no scientist but I know a wobble test
- Lord Drayson: Why we should all cheer up about climate change
- John Zeisel: Alzheimer’s care ‘reminiscent of the Victorian approach’
- Professor Lord Winston: Disastrous Science Experiments
- Bruce Hood: Would you accept a dead murderer’s heart?
- Cheltenham Science Festival: round-up of posts from The Times Online blog
Science.TV 2009 — watch the video…
Listen! — 2009 Science Festival highlights…
Find out what Dara Ó Briain, Alice Roberts and all thought, did and enjoyed about the 2009 Science Festival.
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by Sounds of Science — www.soundsofscience.co.uk
