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Gifts: the Lord Ashcroft Gallery vs Liberate Tate

Exhibit A: A friend who likes to take the piss gave me a gift last month. It’s a small metal pin badge from the Imperial War Museum with the words “the Lord Ashcroft Gallery” cut into it. It’s named after Lord Ashcroft because he gave £5 million to the museum along with his large personal [...]

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Dino Demo (roar!) at the Natural History Museum

On Monday night I had the pleasure of attending the ‘Dino Demo’ outside the Natural History Museum. There were many inflatable dinosaurs in attendance, as well as people of all ages dressed up in silly outfits ranging from funny hats with coloured spikes on them to full-on dinosaur outfits (and Boris masks!). This was all [...]

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Welcome

We’re science, unstained. Welcome to our new site. We’re still working on it, but we hope you’ll stick around to see how it develops and possibly get involved too. We worry about the corporate sponsorship of science communication. Scroll down under the photo for more on why – a first draft of a manifesto of sorts – [...]

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