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SCIENCE QUESTION TIME
S47 Town Hall 4.30 – 5.30pm Free Explore today’s biggest debates, newest discoveries and favourite Festival moments with a selection of the day’s speakers, The Times’ journalists and the Festival team.
ASTHMA
S48 Town Hall 5 – 6pm £7 (£6) Asthma affects over 5 million people in the UK and that number is increasing. Can air pollution, eating habits or super clean environments be blamed for the rising figures? Nazir Qureshi, who is living with asthma, joins researchers Clive Page and John Price to explore why some of us are struggling for breath and how we might be able to breathe easier in the future.
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THE AIR THAT WE BREATHE
S50 Town Hall 6.30 – 7.30pm £7 (£6) There was a time when ‘pea soup’ smog in cities meant that you couldn’t even see the end of the road. Our air certainly looks cleaner than in the 1950s but is it really that much better? Get a breath of fresh air with environmental health expert Roy Harrison, atmospheric scientist Ally Lewis and toxicologist Ken Donaldson as they explore the links between ‘invisible pollutants’, the weather and our health.
THE TIMES INTERVIEW PAUL DAVIES: ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?
S51 Town Hall 6.30 – 7.45pm £8 (£7) Paul Davies is a truly innovative thinker who tackles the big questions of existence. The theoretical physicist and cosmologist from Arizona State University, and author of many books including The Goldilocks Engima and The Eerie Silence, talks to Antonia Senior, Editor of The Times’ Eureka magazine, about 50 years of silence in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and what it tells us about the origins of life and the nature of time.
OVER-AMBITIOUS DEMO CHALLENGE 2010
S52 Town Hall 7 – 8pm £8 (£7) Roll up, roll up for the annual Cheltenham Science Festival Demo Challenge! Four scientists compete to see who can deliver the most spectacular, impressive and showstopping science demo. Our host Steve Mould is joined by last year’s champion Andrea Sella and challengers James Soper, Mark Miodownik and Maggie AderinPocock. Who will win your vote tonight?
FRIDAY 11 JUNE TONY ROBINSON
BLITZ STREET
S54 Town Hall 8.45 – 9.45pm £10 (£8) Res Channel 4’s Blitz Street marks the 70th anniversary of the ferocious bombing campaign that Germany unleashed on Britain. Presenter Tony Robinson and Executive Producer Paul Wooding talk about their experiences making the series and what they and scientists learned when a specially-built row of terraced houses was subjected to a range of bombs and explosives. With impressive high-speed footage and personal testimony from survivors, explore the psychological effects of living under constant bombardment.
A QUESTION OF SCIENCE
S55 Town Hall 9 – 10.30pm £7 (£6) The bar will be open during this event
Test your knowledge against teams from New Scientist, The Times and our own team from Cheltenham Science Festival. Join quizmaster Quentin Cooper and use your own personal keypad to give your answers. No revision required, conferring almost certainly allowed and watch out for answers that are unexpected and even downright odd! In association with New Scientist
Includes Thorntons chocolate tasting
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S56 Town Hall 9 – 10pm £6 (£5) Four researchers, each working at a different scale of the micro world, explore the possible applications of their blue sky research for solving real world problems. From batteries that use the energy in the nuclei of atoms to carbon nanotubes that could provide a novel way of filtering water Radu Sporea, Charles Opoku, Samantha Shaw and Emma Suckling share their fascinating stories.
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In association with Thorntons
MICRO WORLD TO REAL WORLD
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As well as tingling our tastebuds, chocolate has the power to ignite the pleasure centres of our brains. For a melt in the mouth experience join Clive Page, Mark Miodownik, Andrea Sella and Thorntons’ Master Chocolatier Keith Hurdman to explore the history, science and sensations of this most prized global delicacy.
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S49 Town Hall 6.30 – 7.30pm £8 (£7) Many of us are familiar with stress at work – the adrenalin buzz of a hectic schedule and tight deadlines as well as that scary out-of-control feeling when it all gets too much. Leading experts on workplace stress Cary Cooper and Doug Carroll explore how it affects our minds and bodies and look at positive ways to improve wellbeing in the workplace.
S53 Town Hall 8.45 – 10.15pm £12 (£10)
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PERFORMANCE UNDER PRESSURE: STRESSED OUT?!
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