Cambridge Geek Night, Tue 21 August
A missive from the Cambridge Geek Night organisers, shared because this looks like it will be a good one!
The next Cambridge Geek Night is confirmed for Tuesday 21st August, and we’ve got a bit of a special evening lined up for you. As before, we’re holding August’s Geek Night in the Cambridge Union Society on Bridge Street, with the evening kicking off around 7:30pm. Sponsorship for the event will be provided by the kind folks at ecm.
The Click programme from the BBC World Service will be recording parts of the evening. It’s radio, so there are no cameras, but please clap extra loudly when CGN friend Bill Thompson requests it.
Beyond the Geek Manifesto
Does science matter in a policy and political environment? How can it matter more? What can we do to help? What shouldn’t be done?
Mark Henderson wrote a book, “The Geek Manifesto”, to address some of these questions, and the book has now been out in the world for a few months. What’s changed? How has the geek community reacted, and what does he know now that he wishes he knew then?
Dr Julian Huppert has been MP for Cambridge since the 2010 election. He’s known as “the Science MP”: unfortunately, he’s the only one. He’ll comment on what can be done to change that, what possibly shouldn’t be done, and whatever else he wishes to talk about. Mark and Julian will comment on each other’s ideas, and then answer your questions. Michelle Brook will be keeping them in line as moderator and chair.
For those who haven’t read the Geek Manifesto, (and Mark will happily sign as many copies as you wish to buy), Mark's standard talk is available online and there are extracts from the book on his blog.
The evening will follow the usual timing formats (i.e. two halves), but will be a slightly different structure due to extended Q&A. Lightning talks (more elevator pitches) will be towards the end of the evening, looking at what people may be interested in doing related to the evening's discussion, principally looking to get like-minded people to chat about your project in the bar afterwards.
We expect this event to be somewhat busy, despite it being in the middle of August.
For more information, our website is http://cambridgegeeknights.net, or you can follow @camgeeknights on Twitter.
The next Cambridge Geek Night is confirmed for Tuesday 21st August, and we’ve got a bit of a special evening lined up for you. As before, we’re holding August’s Geek Night in the Cambridge Union Society on Bridge Street, with the evening kicking off around 7:30pm. Sponsorship for the event will be provided by the kind folks at ecm.
The Click programme from the BBC World Service will be recording parts of the evening. It’s radio, so there are no cameras, but please clap extra loudly when CGN friend Bill Thompson requests it.
Beyond the Geek Manifesto
Does science matter in a policy and political environment? How can it matter more? What can we do to help? What shouldn’t be done?
Mark Henderson wrote a book, “The Geek Manifesto”, to address some of these questions, and the book has now been out in the world for a few months. What’s changed? How has the geek community reacted, and what does he know now that he wishes he knew then?
Dr Julian Huppert has been MP for Cambridge since the 2010 election. He’s known as “the Science MP”: unfortunately, he’s the only one. He’ll comment on what can be done to change that, what possibly shouldn’t be done, and whatever else he wishes to talk about. Mark and Julian will comment on each other’s ideas, and then answer your questions. Michelle Brook will be keeping them in line as moderator and chair.
For those who haven’t read the Geek Manifesto, (and Mark will happily sign as many copies as you wish to buy), Mark's standard talk is available online and there are extracts from the book on his blog.
The evening will follow the usual timing formats (i.e. two halves), but will be a slightly different structure due to extended Q&A. Lightning talks (more elevator pitches) will be towards the end of the evening, looking at what people may be interested in doing related to the evening's discussion, principally looking to get like-minded people to chat about your project in the bar afterwards.
We expect this event to be somewhat busy, despite it being in the middle of August.
For more information, our website is http://cambridgegeeknights.net, or you can follow @camgeeknights on Twitter.
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