"In some ways, people are scared of science," said Dr. Small, who started the science cafe series last year.
Google started the science fair to promote curiosity about science and experimentation among students, and it is one of the company's several education projects.
"I am really excited by the prospect of having festivalgoers being indulged in a private rowing boat experience chaperoned by a philosopher of physics musing over the possibility that we may not exist, or a cognitive neuroscientist chatting about artificial brains," says our founder Richard Bowdler, a chemistry graduate from Oxford who started the science camp four years ago".
Wii.i.am said he was inspired to start the "i.AM FIRST: Science is Rock & Roll" program after he was on tour and riding his Segway backstage.
But before I get to the cupcakes, let's start with the science.
"You always have to start with the science," Agassi says, riding shotgun in his sister's hybrid.
Unsurprisingly, as part of one of the world's biggest medical research charities, most of our projects start with the science of health and wellbeing, but we also invariably try to find intriguing links to other perspectives.
You have to start from the science and work it through in all its gory details...
Sitting on the floor, I started "The Sweet Science," with its introductory flourish: **{:.break one} ** It is through Jack O'Brien, the Arbiter Elegantiarum Philadelphiae, that I trace my rapport with the historic past through the laying-on of hands.
Geraldine Schofield, a microbiologist who now works for the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever, agreed that it is particularly difficult for women to get started up the science career ladder.
