The inaugural Liverpool Science Festival launches during the International Festival for Business 2014 - featuring leading national, international and regional scientists and science communicators. 25 June - 9 July 2014 liverpoolsciencefestival Liverpool Science Festival was founded with the mission to create a unique platform to engage the public in all things scientific - from natural science to science in its most interdisciplinary and cultural contexts. For 2014, we are part of the science programme of events during the UKs inaugural International Festival for Business (IFB 2014). We are also proud to be contributing events to the official 60th Anniversary celebrations of CERN - birthplace of the internet, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), site of the discovery of the Higgs Boson - and home to scientists from more than 100 countries. Highlights of the festival include: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Solar System: 1 river, 9 planets, 14 days and 70 miles An ambitious public engagement project setting off from the source of the Mersey on a journey to the sea, culminating in a series of pop-up astronomy events and happenings which will mark out the positions of the planets and a scale model of the Solar System. The journey begins on 25 June with astronomy at the source of the Mersey (Stockport, Cheshire) and ends on the evening of 9 July on Crosby Beach. liverpoolsciencefestival/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-solar-system ATLAS experiment, LHC © CERN If you want to know what being a professional scientist is really like, read Smashing Physics! - Professor Brian Cox Professor Jon Butterworth (CERN, UCL & Guardian Science) at Waterstones Liverpool One on 27 June - one of the UKs foremost physicists, on Smashing Physics, his smashing new science book about the hunt for Higgs Boson and real life as a real scientist at the cusp of scientific discovery. liverpoolsciencefestival/smashing-physics-ft-prof-jon-butterworth Dr Lyn Evans (chief engineer at CERN who spent 15 years leading the team constructing the LHC, the most complex machine ever built) flies in from CERN, Geneva, to speak on Engineering the LHCon 28 June at Stanley Dock. liverpoolsciencefestival/engineering-the-lhc-ft-prof-jon-butterworth-dr-lyn-evans Wax has an extraordinary mind, and she has brought it to bear with her trademark wit. - Stephen Fry Ruby Wax brings her unique wit to the festival with her Sane New World stage show, at Stanley Dock on the evening of 28 June. Since obtaining a Masters Degree in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy from Oxford University, Wax has become a respected campaigner for mental illness in the UK. liverpoolsciencefestival/sane-new-world-ft-ruby-wax As the scouts say - be prepared! Say your prayers that you never need this book - Bear Grylls Dr Lewis Dartnell presents The Knowledge, How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch, his guide to everything you need to know to survive the apocalypse, avert another Dark Age and accelerate the rebuilding of civilization. Based on Dartnells best-selling book which has been the top-selling science book on Amazon in recent weeks. liverpoolsciencefestival/the-knowledge-how-to-rebuild-our-world-from-scratch-ft-dr-lewis-dartnell Mind-blowing. - New York Times on Particle Fever Screening of Particle Fever - Liverpool Science Festival has special permission to screen this new movie on CERN and the hunt for the Higgs Boson, three months ahead of its UK general release. The screening will be followed by a Q&A featuring Professor Tara Shears, CERN particle physicist and the University of Liverpools first ever female professor of physics. The screening takes place on the evening of 5 July at Stanley Dock. liverpoolsciencefestival/particle-fever For more information on Liverpool Science Festival visit: liverpoolsciencefestival
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