Author Archives: auntygillian
Periodic Table scarecrows at Bollington Festival are go!
As part of the Bollington Festival 2019, local primary schools, guide and brownie groups, busiensses and residents have come together to create a Scarecrow Trail throughout the town from 10 to 27 May. The trail is supported by the Royal … Continue reading
May: Bollington Festival talk: James Chadwick and the Discovery of the Neutron
Tuesday May 21, 7.30pm Bollington Cross School, Bollington Road, Bollington, SK10 5EG Free event during the Bollington Festival. Dr Peter Rowlands of University of Liverpool Physics Department and a member of the Institute of Physics history group talks about the … Continue reading
March SciBar: A Ranger’s Perspective
11 March 2019 We welcome Ed Pilkington, a Cheshire East Ranger. Ed says: The talk will be about how the ranger service manage their sites and specific habitats, I will be looking at the Middlewood Way, Poynton Coppice, Jacksons Brickworks … Continue reading
April SciBar: The Air We Breathe: experience investigating occupational and environmental causes of “asthma”
Monday 8 April 2019 Asthma is the most common respiratory disease in the UK outnumbering all other lung diseases combined. More than 8 million people have been diagnosed with asthma and currently more than 5 million people are on treatment. … Continue reading
Bollington Festival science scarecrows
2019 is the official International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements. Having obtained a small grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry for the creation of a Periodic Table themed Scarecrow Trail for the Bollington Festival, the organisers now … Continue reading
Bollington Festival periodic table scarecrows
2019 is the International Year of the Periodic Table and 150 years since Mendeleev first published his influential periodic table. As part of the 2019 Bollington Festival in May 2019, scarecrows depicting the discovery and uses of different chemical elements … Continue reading
