Today’s poem is from Holding Patterns: physics & engineering poems, published by The Poets Union. Tricia Dearborn Everything we’re made of comes from earth; we cry, returning borrowed salt; we give our bone and muscle back to the earth to suck, as ash, as rotting flesh: that calcium atom in your skull — star-fired, congealed…
Category: Science Week News
A Merging of Science and the Performing Arts
Each year, National Science Week is celebrated with a wide variety of event styles and approaches sharing the stories of science, and sometimes incorporating different or unusual projects. As STEM continually evolves so too do science engagement opportunities and practice. Science and technology as a part of the performing arts is an engagement opportunity that…
Celebrating Australia’s Women in STEM
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…
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…