National Science Week: Science City

19 Mar 1997 — 1 min read

Full list of events on the internet: http://www.britassoc.org.uk

Nature and Nurture

Whiteley’s Shopping Centre, Free

An interactive travelling show looks into the old problem of how our inherited genes and our experiences combine to make us who we are. Until 20th March.

London Planetarium, cost Ł4.75

Galileo presents his view of the universe. Until 20th March.

Play tricks on your brain, improve your memory and learn some psychology at this hands-on, brains-on exhibition.

Linnean Society, Burlington House

20 March, 4:30 pm, cost Ł1:00

Debate about one of the longest running frauds in scientific history.

Dr Ackerman from the National Library of Medicine, USA talks about the project to build a digital library of internal sections of the entire bodies of a human male and female.

A chance to visit a working observatory and view the heavens.

Find out why doctors were called ‘Sawbones’ and how people discovered they couldn’t sail off the end of the earth 300 years ago

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