Podcasts about Science museum

Research into humanoid robots is a rapidly advancing field, with companies around the world striving to produce robots that look and act more like us. But what is it about recreating ourselves in robot form that we find so captivating? Why do humanoid robots both enthral and terrify us? And is our obsession with robotic humans just vanity, or could they play valuable roles in our future society? In this special live recording at Imperial College London as part of the Great Exhibition Road Festival, Claire chatted to Ben Russell (Science Museum), Maryam Banitalebi Dehkordi (University of Hertfordshire) and Petar Kormushev (Imperial College London) about humanoid robotics. Ben Russell has been the Science Museum's Curator of Mechanical Engineering since 2004. He has curated six permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions at the museum, including Engineers (2023), Robots (2017), Cosmonauts (2015) and James Watt's Workshop (2011). He is the author of James Watt: Making the World Anew, (Reaktion Books, 2014), and editor of Robots (Scala, 2017), as well as numerous published and conference papers. Maryam Banitalebi Dehkordi is a Senior Lecturer in Robotics and AI at the University of Hertfordshire. She has a master's degree in Mechatronics and Automatic Control Engineering from the University Technology Malaysia and a Ph.D. in Perceptual Robotics from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Italy. Her expertise spans assistive robots, mobile robots, agricultural robots, industrial robots, humanoid robots, parallel manipulators, navigation, and outdoor autonomous vehicles. Petar Kormushev is Director of the Robot Intelligence Lab at Imperial College London and an Associate Professor in Robotics at the Dyson School of Design Engineering. His research focus is on reinforcement learning algorithms and their application to autonomous robots. Petar's long-term goal is to create robots that can learn by themselves and adapt to dynamic environments. His machine learning algorithms have been applied to a variety of humanoid robots, including COMAN and iCub. Join the Robot Talk community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ClaireAsher Sign up to the newsletter: https://www.robottalk.org/newsletter/ 

David Rives, founder of the Wonders Center & Science Museum discusses how America's moral crisis leads to our health crisis, and how spiritual health is deeply connected to overall wellness, both mental and physical.

David Rives, founder of the Wonders Center & Science Museum discusses how America's moral crisis leads to our health crisis, and how spiritual health is deeply connected to overall wellness, both mental and physical.

David Rives, founder of the Wonders Center & Science Museum discusses how America's moral crisis leads to our health crisis, and how spiritual health is deeply connected to overall wellness, both mental and physical.

David Rives, founder of the Wonders Center & Science Museum discusses how America's moral crisis leads to our health crisis, and how spiritual health is deeply connected to overall wellness, both mental and physical.

Owen, Allie, and Andy go to the Science Museum together, but they have to figure out what exhibit to see.

Fluent Fiction - Mandarin Chinese: Friendship & Discovery: A Day at Shanghai's Science Museum Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/zh/episode/2025-06-01-22-34-02-zh Story Transcript:Zh: 上海科技馆的早晨，阳光透过玻璃洒在地上，学生们在馆内四处走动，兴奋地交谈。En: In the morning at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, sunlight filtered through the glass and spilled onto the floor as students wandered around excitedly chatting.Zh: 芸芸展览像是一座美丽的科学迷宫，等待着每一个探险者的到来。En: The various exhibitions resembled a beautiful scientific maze, waiting for every explorer to discover.Zh: 易静和自汉是同班同学，也是最好的朋友。En: Yijing and Zihan were classmates and best friends.Zh: 他们今天参加学校的春季校外活动来到了这里。En: They were there for their school's spring outing.Zh: 易静对科学充满了好奇，她打算参观每一个展览，为即将到来的科学项目比赛寻找灵感。En: Yijing was full of curiosity about science, planning to visit every exhibition to find inspiration for the upcoming science project competition.Zh: 与此相反，自汉对这些展览毫无兴趣，她只想和朋友们一起玩，拍拍照片，聊聊天。En: In contrast, Zihan had no interest in the exhibitions; she just wanted to hang out with her friends, take photos, and chat.Zh: "易静，我们去拍照吧，然后去商店买些纪念品！"自汉拉着易静的手，兴奋地说。En: "Yijing, let's go take pictures and then go to the store to buy some souvenirs!" Zihan said excitedly, pulling Yijing's hand.Zh: 易静犹豫了一下，她的目光已经被一个关于可再生能源的展览吸引住了。En: Yijing hesitated for a moment; she had already been drawn to an exhibition about renewable energy.Zh: 她心里有些矛盾，和朋友在一起很开心，但也不想错过这个展览。En: She felt conflicted, happy to be with her friend but also unwilling to miss this exhibition.Zh: “你去吧，我想先看看这个展览，稍后会和你们会合。”易静终于下定了决心。En: "You go ahead; I want to check out this exhibition first and will meet up with you later," Yijing finally decided.Zh: 自汉有些不爽，皱起了眉头，“你总是这样，只关心你的学习和项目。”En: Zihan was a bit displeased and frowned, "You're always like this, only caring about your studies and projects."Zh: 易静深吸了一口气，她努力地解释：“我真的很想看看这次的展览，对我的项目会有帮助。”En: Yijing took a deep breath, trying to explain, "I really want to see this exhibition; it will help with my project."Zh: 两人之间的气氛有些紧张，自汉生气地走开了。En: The atmosphere between them was tense, and Zihan walked away angrily.Zh: 易静虽然感到难过，但她意识到自己不能放弃对科学的热爱。En: Although Yijing felt sad, she realized she couldn't give up her passion for science.Zh: 她走向了可再生能源展览，那里的模型和资料让她眼前一亮。En: She headed towards the renewable energy exhibition, where the models and information made her eyes light up.Zh: 她拿出笔记本，开始记录下有趣的点子。En: She took out her notebook and began recording interesting ideas.Zh: 几个小时后，易静在展览结束时满怀欣喜，她找到了很多关于太阳能和风能的资料，这对她的项目帮助很大。En: A few hours later, Yijing left the exhibition full of joy, having found a lot of information about solar and wind energy that would greatly aid her project.Zh: 走出展览，她还是有些担心自汉的态度。En: Exiting the exhibition, she was still a bit worried about Zihan's attitude.Zh: 不久后，易静在博物馆的餐厅找到了自汉。En: Soon after, Yijing found Zihan in the museum's café.Zh: 自汉看到易静，微微笑了一下。En: Zihan gave her a slight smile as she saw her.Zh: 易静主动走上前去，说：“对不起，自汉，我没有忽略你的感受。”En: Yijing walked over and said, "I'm sorry, Zihan, I didn't mean to ignore your feelings."Zh: 自汉轻轻点头，说：“不，应该我对不起。En: Zihan nodded gently, saying, "No, it's me who should apologize.Zh: 你的热情让我明白，支持朋友的兴趣也很重要。”En: Your enthusiasm made me realize that supporting a friend's interests is also important."Zh: 朋友俩相视一笑，过去的小矛盾消散无踪。En: The two friends smiled at each other, and the previous minor conflict melted away.Zh: 他们在博物馆外的草坪上坐下，阳光洒在他们的身上。En: They sat on the lawn outside the museum, with sunlight pouring over them.Zh: 他们明白了，即使有不同的兴趣，也可以一起享受这一段特别的时光。En: They understood that even with different interests, they could still enjoy this special time together. Vocabulary Words:filtered: 透过wandered: 走动exhibitions: 展览maze: 迷宫curiosity: 好奇inspiration: 灵感competition: 比赛renewable: 可再生conflicted: 矛盾displeased: 不爽frowned: 皱起眉头enthusiasm: 热情aided: 帮助apologize: 道歉tension: 紧张notebook: 笔记本recording: 记录solar: 太阳能wind: 风能attitude: 态度cafeteria: 餐厅slight: 微微embrace: 拥抱explorer: 探险者unwilling: 不愿supporting: 支持subjects: 学科models: 模型previous: 过去的realize: 意识到

Fluent Fiction - Hungarian: Unveiling Secrets: Mystery at Budapest's Science Museum Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hu/episode/2025-06-01-22-34-02-hu Story Transcript:Hu: A tavaszi zápor épp elvonulóban volt Budapest felett, ahogy a Szentháromság ünnepének vidám színeivel borított városban megnyílt a Tudományos Múzeum új kiállítása.En: The spring shower was just passing over Budapest, as the Science Museum's new exhibition opened in the city adorned with the cheerful colors of the Holy Trinity celebration.Hu: A csodálatos épület, amely ötvözte a klasszikus és modern stílust, élettel telt meg.En: The magnificent building, which blended classical and modern styles, was filled with life.Hu: Janos, a múzeum kíváncsi kurátora, izgatottan várt a bejáratnál.En: Janos, the museum's curious curator, waited excitedly at the entrance.Hu: Az ő szíve napok óta izgult az új kiállítás miatt, melynek fő látványossága egy ritka, ókori műtárgy volt.En: His heart had been excited for days about the new exhibition, whose main attraction was a rare ancient artifact.Hu: E műtárgy jelentősége éppen olyan nagy volt, mint amennyire sejtelmes.En: This artifact's significance was as great as it was mysterious.Hu: - Üdv, Janos!En: "Hello, Janos!"Hu: - kiáltotta Bela, kollégája, aki mindig versengésre készült, de egy jó rejtélyre is.En: shouted Bela, his colleague, who was always ready for competition, but also intrigued by a good mystery.Hu: - Hallottad, hogy valami érdekesről fecsegnek a látogatók?En: "Did you hear that the visitors are gossiping about something interesting?"Hu: Janos bólintott.En: Janos nodded.Hu: Az emberek izgatottsága nem csökkent a hír hallatán, hogy a ritka műtárgy titokzatos módon eltűnt.En: The excitement of the people didn't diminish upon hearing the news that the rare artifact had mysteriously disappeared.Hu: Janosnak bizonyítania kellett.En: Janos had to prove himself.Hu: Szerette volna megmutatni, hogy méltó a múzeum tiszteletére, és minden erejével azon volt, hogy bebizonyítsa, nem csupán egy egyszerű segédkurátor.En: He wanted to show that he was worthy of the museum's respect and was determined to prove that he was not just an ordinary assistant curator.Hu: A kiállítótermekben egy fiatal nő, Katalin, szorgalmasan figyelte a történéseket.En: In the exhibition rooms, a young woman, Katalin, diligently observed the happenings.Hu: Amatőr detektívként soha nem hagyta figyelmen kívül az izgalmas kihívásokat.En: As an amateur detective, she never ignored exciting challenges.Hu: Bár nem volt hivatalos képzettsége, elszántsága és éles elméje figyelemre méltó volt.En: Although she had no formal training, her determination and sharp mind were remarkable.Hu: Az idő szorításában Janos úgy döntött, hogy elfogadja Katalin segítségét.En: Under time pressure, Janos decided to accept Katalin's help.Hu: Ez új volt számára, de szüksége volt minden segítségre.En: This was new for him, but he needed all the help he could get.Hu: Bela, bár hajlamos volt a dolgokat túlzó módon kezelni, szintén a csapat részévé vált.En: Bela, although prone to handling things in an exaggerated manner, also became part of the team.Hu: Ahogy a nap perzselő sugarai behatoltak a szobákba, és egyre több látogató érkezett, a trió számtalan nyomot követett.En: As the sun's scorching rays penetrated the rooms, and more and more visitors arrived, the trio followed numerous clues.Hu: Egyik éjjel, amikor a múzeum elhagyatott és csendes volt, úgy döntöttek, hogy visszatérnek.En: One night, when the museum was deserted and silent, they decided to return.Hu: Katalin figyelmét egy régi falpanel ragadta meg, amely elütött a környezetétől.En: Katalin was drawn to an old wall panel that stood out from its surroundings.Hu: Janos gyanakodva lépett közelebb, és véletlenül elmozdította a panelt.En: Suspiciously, Janos stepped closer and accidentally shifted the panel.Hu: A panel mögött egy titkos átjáró tárult fel, amely mélyen a múzeum belsejébe vezetett.En: Behind the panel, a secret passageway was revealed, leading deep into the museum's interior.Hu: Az átjáró a bátor felfedezőket egy rejtekhelyre vezette, ahol megdöbbentően ott volt az eltűnt műtárgy!En: The passageway led the brave explorers to a hidden place where, astonishingly, the missing artifact was!Hu: - Ez elképesztő!En: "This is amazing!"Hu: - kiáltotta Bela, visszhangzónak tűnő hangon.En: shouted Bela, his voice seeming to echo.Hu: Katalin mosolygott, Janos pedig megkönnyebbült.En: Katalin smiled, and Janos felt relieved.Hu: Az elképesztő felfedezés tudatában Janos és csapata a múzeum igazgatósága elé álltak.En: Aware of the incredible discovery, Janos and his team stood before the museum board.Hu: A történet elmesélésével, a rejtély megoldásának részleteivel és a visszaszerzett műtárgy bemutatásával Janos megkapta a megérdemelt elismerést.En: By narrating the story, detailing the mystery's solution, and presenting the recovered artifact, Janos received the deserved recognition.Hu: Az igazgatóság meghajolt a három bátor nyomozó előtt, Janos pedig újra magára talált.En: The board bowed to the three brave investigators, and Janos found himself again.Hu: Megértette, hogy az igazi sikeres munkához csapatmunka kell, és hálát adott Katalin éleslátásáért és Bela lelkesedéséért.En: He understood that true successful work requires teamwork and was grateful for Katalin's insight and Bela's enthusiasm.Hu: Most már nemcsak egy ügyes kurátor, hanem egy olyan vezető is volt, aki tudta, hogyan hozza ki a legjobbat másokból is.En: Now he was not only a skilled curator but also a leader who knew how to bring out the best in others.Hu: Ahogy az ünnepi hétvége zárult, a napfény aranylóan tündökölt a múzeum fölött.En: As the festive weekend came to a close, the sunlight shone golden over the museum.Hu: A tavasz teljességében az emberek csodálkozva nézték a múzeum új hősét, Janost, aki most már nemcsak egy résztvevő volt, hanem a történelem részese is.En: In the fullness of spring, people gazed in wonder at the museum's new hero, Janos, who was now not just a participant but a part of history. Vocabulary Words:shower: záporexhibition: kiállításadorned: borítottmagnificent: csodálatoscurator: kurátorartifact: műtárgymysterious: sejtelmesgossiping: fecsegnekdiminish: csökkentdeserted: elhagyatottpassageway: átjáróastonishingly: megdöbbentőeninvestigators: nyomozórecognition: elismeréstsuccessful: sikeresenthusiasm: lelkesedésparticipant: résztvevőpenalized: büntetettteamwork: csapatmunkaremarkable: figyelemre méltóscorching: perzselőenthused: lelkesdetermined: elszántinterior: belsejébesolution: megoldáschallenges: kihívásinsight: éleslátásdeserved: megérdemelttrespassing: behajózottmaturity: érettség

Fluent Fiction - Japanese: A Young Inventor's Awakening: Confidence at the Science Museum Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/ja/episode/2025-06-01-22-34-01-ja Story Transcript:Ja: 春のある日、ハルトは学校の遠足で仲間たちと科学館にやって来た。En: One spring day, Haruto arrived at the science museum on a school field trip with his companions.Ja: 科学館の中は、子供の日を祝う明るいバナーが飾られ、人々で賑わっていた。En: Inside the science museum, bright banners celebrating Children's Day were hung, and it was bustling with people.Ja: ロボットや宇宙、自然界の不思議を展示するインタラクティブな展示がいっぱいだった。En: There were numerous interactive exhibits showcasing the wonders of robots, space, and nature.Ja: ハルトは科学が大好きだったが、クラスの中で最も人気のある存在ではなかった。En: Haruto loved science, but he wasn't the most popular in class.Ja: 彼は心の中で発明家になることを夢見ていたが、自分の才能に自信が持てないでいた。En: Secretly, he dreamed of becoming an inventor, but he couldn't find confidence in his own talents.Ja: その日、彼はクラスメイトのユキとミコと一緒に展示を見て回っていた。En: That day, he was going around the exhibits with his classmates Yuki and Miko.Ja: ユキはとても才能があり、いつもクラスの中心人物だった。En: Yuki was very talented and always the center of attention in class.Ja: 「これすごいね！」とユキが言った。彼は新しいロボットの展示に夢中だった。En: "This is amazing!" said Yuki, completely engrossed in the new robot exhibit.Ja: ハルトもロボットに興味があったが、ユキに比べると自分が小さく見えた。En: Haruto was also interested in robots, but compared to Yuki, he felt small.Ja: ハルトは心の中で決意を固めた。En: Haruto made a resolution in his heart.Ja: 「自分のペースで見てまわろう」。En: "I'll look around at my own pace."Ja: 彼はユキとミコから離れ、展示をじっくり見始めた。En: He distanced himself from Yuki and Miko and began to carefully examine the exhibits.Ja: 写真を撮り、メモを取りながら、自分が何を本当に好きなのか考えた。En: Taking pictures and notes, he thought about what he truly liked.Ja: 科学館のロボットコーナーに来たとき、ハルトは親切なガイドと出会った。En: When he arrived at the robot corner of the science museum, Haruto encountered a kind guide.Ja: ガイドは、簡単だけど魅力的なロボットの仕組みを説明してくれた。En: The guide explained the simple yet fascinating workings of the robots.Ja: この説明を聞いたハルトの頭の中に、ぱっと電球がともった。En: Listening to this explanation, a light bulb moment went off in Haruto's mind.Ja: 「これだ！」ハルトは思わず声を上げた。En: "This is it!" Haruto exclaimed unexpectedly.Ja: 自分のアイデアが輝き出したのだ。En: His own idea began to shine brightly.Ja: 彼はその日の初めに感じていた不安を忘れ、一生懸命ノートにアイデアを書き込んだ。En: He forgot the anxiety he had felt earlier that day and enthusiastically scribbled down his ideas in a notebook.Ja: 遠足が終わり、家に帰る途中でハルトはふと気づいた。En: On the way home after the field trip ended, Haruto realized something.Ja: 大事なのは、他の人がどう思うかではなく、自分が何を好きであるかだった。En: What was important wasn't what others thought, but what he himself liked.Ja: 彼の考えや好みは唯一無二のものであると分かった。En: He understood that his ideas and preferences were one of a kind.Ja: そうしてハルトは科学館を後にした。En: And so, Haruto left the science museum.Ja: 彼の歩くステップには、以前とは違う自信が満ちていた。En: Confidence filled his steps in a way it hadn't before.Ja: 科学展示会のプロジェクトに向けて、本当の興奮と意欲で取り組み始める準備が整ったのである。En: He was now ready to dive into the science exhibition project with genuine excitement and enthusiasm.Ja: ハルトの心には、唯一の目標があった。それは、自分自身を信じること。En: Haruto had a singular goal in his heart: to believe in himself.Ja: 自分の興味や直感を大切にすることで、新たな発見の旅が始まるのだと彼は確信していた。En: By valuing his own interests and intuition, he was certain that a new journey of discovery was about to begin. Vocabulary Words:spring: 春arrived: やって来たcompanions: 仲間たちbright: 明るいbanners: バナーcelebrating: 祝うbustling: 賑わっていたinteractive: インタラクティブなexhibits: 展示wonders: 不思議numerous: いっぱいpopular: 人気のあるdreamed: 夢見ていたinventor: 発明家confidence: 自信talented: 才能がありengrossed: 夢中だったresolution: 決意distanced: 離れexamine: 見始めたencountered: 出会ったfascinating: 魅力的なexplanation: 説明moment: ぱっとscribbled: 書き込んだenthusiastically: 一生懸命preferences: 好みconfidence: 自信intuition: 直感discovery: 発見

Fluent Fiction - Spanish: Darkness and Discovery: An Unexpected Museum Mystery Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/es/episode/2025-06-01-22-34-00-es Story Transcript:Es: En el corazón de Buenos Aires, el Museo de Ciencias vibraba con energía.En: In the heart of Buenos Aires, the Science Museum vibrated with energy.Es: Era un día de invierno, con el cielo gris sobre la ciudad.En: It was a winter day, with the gray sky over the city.Es: Las familias llenaban el museo, explorando sus exhibiciones interactivas.En: Families filled the museum, exploring its interactive exhibits.Es: Una de las áreas más populares era la nueva sala sobre energías renovables.En: One of the most popular areas was the new room on renewable energy.Es: Esteban, un técnico del museo, observaba a la multitud con un ojo crítico.En: Esteban, a technician at the museum, watched the crowd with a critical eye.Es: Siempre buscaba posibles problemas.En: He was always looking for possible problems.Es: Era un hombre práctico y no le gustaban las sorpresas.En: He was a practical man and didn't like surprises.Es: Lucía, por otro lado, era todo lo contrario.En: Lucía, on the other hand, was the complete opposite.Es: Ella era una nueva pasante.En: She was a new intern.Es: Sus ojos brillaban con emoción mientras atendía a los visitantes.En: Her eyes sparkled with excitement as she attended to the visitors.Es: Le fascinaban los misterios y siempre había creído que tenían una forma de enseñarnos algo nuevo.En: She was fascinated by mysteries and had always believed they had a way of teaching us something new.Es: Todo iba bien hasta que, de repente, las luces se apagaron en la nueva sala.En: Everything was going well until, suddenly, the lights went out in the new room.Es: La oscuridad sorprendió a todos.En: The darkness surprised everyone.Es: Los murmullos crecieron y los niños agarraron las manos de sus padres, sintiendo el cambio inesperado.En: The murmurs grew and the children grabbed their parents' hands, feeling the unexpected change.Es: Esteban rápidamente recibió un mensaje en su radio.En: Esteban quickly received a message on his radio.Es: "Resuelve el problema ahora," decían los jefes.En: "Resolve the problem now," the bosses said.Es: Esteban sabía que debían actuar rápido.En: Esteban knew they had to act fast.Es: No había tiempo que perder.En: There was no time to lose.Es: "Un corto circuito, seguramente," pensó Esteban.En: "A short circuit, surely," Esteban thought.Es: Pero Lucía, con su naturaleza curiosa, tenía otra idea.En: But Lucía, with her curious nature, had a different idea.Es: "¿Y si esto es algo más interesante?"En: "What if this is something more interesting?"Es: sugirió, con sus ojos brillando de emoción.En: she suggested, her eyes shining with excitement.Es: El dilema era evidente: Esteban debía decidir si dejaba a Lucía investigar o si solucionaba el problema de inmediato.En: The dilemma was evident: Esteban had to decide whether to let Lucía investigate or solve the problem immediately.Es: La presión del personal del museo era palpable.En: The pressure from the museum staff was palpable.Es: "Vamos a revisar la sala," dijo Esteban, sucumbiendo a la curiosidad de Lucía.En: "Let's check the room," said Esteban, succumbing to Lucía's curiosity.Es: Juntos, entraron con linternas en mano.En: Together, they entered with flashlights in hand.Es: Oyeron un zumbido bajo detrás de una de las paredes.En: They heard a faint buzzing sound behind one of the walls.Es: Era un sonido que no debería estar allí.En: It was a sound that shouldn't have been there.Es: "¿Qué es eso?"En: "What is that?"Es: preguntó Lucía.En: Lucía asked.Es: Había un pequeño panel oculto.En: There was a small hidden panel.Es: Al abrirlo, encontraron una serie de cables que no estaban en el plano original de la sala.En: Upon opening it, they found a series of wires that were not on the original plan of the room.Es: "Esto no estaba aquí antes," reflexionó Esteban, sorprendido.En: "This wasn't here before," Esteban reflected, surprised.Es: Al estudiar los cables, Lucía notó una inscripción oculta detrás del panel.En: While studying the wires, Lucía noticed a hidden inscription behind the panel.Es: Un pequeño sistema que debía ser una función de emergencia y que, curiosamente, mostraba detalles de un nuevo generador de energía que simulaba condiciones extremas.En: A small system that must have been an emergency function and, interestingly, showed details of a new energy generator simulating extreme conditions.Es: "Es un sistema de emergencia adicional," concluyó Lucía encantada.En: "It's an additional emergency system," Lucía concluded, delighted.Es: Pero para restablecer la energía, necesitaban desconectar toda la sala temporalmente.En: But to restore power, they needed to disconnect the entire room temporarily.Es: "¿Qué hacemos?"En: "What do we do?"Es: preguntó Lucía, sabiendo que implicaría detener la exhibición completa por unos minutos.En: Lucía asked, knowing it meant stopping the entire exhibit for a few minutes.Es: Esteban pensó en la presión del público y de los jefes, pero la idea de una función oculta le fascinaba.En: Esteban thought about the pressure from the public and the bosses, but the idea of a hidden function fascinated him.Es: Decidieron explicar el descubrimiento a la dirección del museo.En: They decided to explain the discovery to the museum management.Es: Con valentía, Lucía y Esteban expusieron la situación.En: With courage, Lucía and Esteban presented the situation.Es: Para su alivio, la dirección valoró su iniciativa.En: To their relief, the management valued their initiative.Es: Con su apoyo, la exhibición fue cerrada temporalmente, y luego reabierta con la nueva función.En: With their support, the exhibit was temporarily closed, and then reopened with the new function.Es: El museo presentó la función como una nueva atracción que mostraba cómo la energía puede ser controlada en situaciones inesperadas.En: The museum presented the feature as a new attraction demonstrating how energy can be controlled in unexpected situations.Es: Esteban y Lucía se observaron, una nueva comprensión entre ellos.En: Esteban and Lucía looked at each other, a new understanding between them.Es: Esteban había aprendido a valorar la curiosidad y la perspectiva diferente de Lucía, mientras que ella ganó confianza en sus instintos.En: Esteban had learned to value Lucía's curiosity and different perspective, while she gained confidence in her instincts.Es: En las frías tardes de invierno, el cielo gris sobre Buenos Aires seguía siendo un misterio, pero dentro del museo, dos colegas ahora compartían una conexión más profunda y una historia para recordar.En: On the cold winter afternoons, the gray sky over Buenos Aires remained a mystery, but inside the museum, two colleagues now shared a deeper connection and a story to remember. Vocabulary Words:heart: el corazóntechnician: el técnicointeractive exhibits: las exhibiciones interactivasrenewable energy: las energías renovablescritical eye: un ojo críticointern: la pasantesurprises: las sorpresasmysteries: los misteriosmurmurs: los murmullosshort circuit: un corto circuitodilemma: el dilemapressure: la presiónflashlights: las linternasbuzzing sound: un zumbido bajohidden panel: el panel ocultowires: los cablesinscription: la inscripciónemergency function: la función de emergenciaenergy generator: el generador de energíaextreme conditions: las condiciones extremasinitiative: la iniciativamanagement: la direcciónsupport: el apoyoattraction: la atracciónconfidence: la confianzainstincts: los instintosrelief: el aliviounderstanding: la comprensióncolleagues: los colegasconnection: la conexión

MPR News host Angela Davis talks with her producers about what happens behind the scenes of her 9 a.m. show.They'll tell you all about how they pitch, research and select topics and guests and screen phone calls. Guests: Maja Beckstrom is a producer for MPR News with Angela Davis. She was a reporter at the St. Paul Pioneer Press for over 20 years before joining the 9 a.m. team almost five years ago. She was also a reporter for a newspaper in Southern California and for MPR stations in Rochester and Collegeville. Cari Dwyer is the senior producer for MPR News with Angela Davis. Before joining the 9 a.m. team, she helped create exhibits for the Science Museum of Minnesota and was a producer and newscaster at Wisconsin Public Radio.Nikhil Kumaran is the associate producer for MPR News with Angela Davis. He has also worked for The Current and was the music director at Radio K, the award-winning student-run radio station of the University of Minnesota. He is also a concert photographer and music videographer.Subscribe to the MPR News with Angela Davis podcast on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify or RSS.    Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.    

t's nestled in the foothills of the Dublin mountains and is a hive of science, adventure and learning. It's 112,000 sq ft and it's a year since it reopened after Covid. The Explorium science immersion museum in Ballinteer is already the 9th most visited tourist site in Ireland and aims to become the nationally recognised Children's science centre. But it was a long bureaucratic journey to reopen and now there's talk of a rival city centre museum as well. Charlie Kelly is the owner and Managing Director of Explorium Science Museum joined Joe this morning on the show.

Today's episode of Oxford Lives feateres writer, poet, storyteller, historian and social anthropologist, JC Niala. With a career spanning cities and continents, JC NIala has a vast experience in multiple art forms and specialises in cultural preservation. JC currently serves as the Head of Research, Teaching, and collections at the History of Science Museum, University of Oxford.  Links: Oxford Male Voice Choir  www.oxfordwelshmvc.org.uk History of science museum www.hsm.ox.ac.uk  

One of London's big attractions is the Science Museum in South Kensington. In this podcast we look at what made it come to be. Join us for a scientific look at this popular museum...

Clayton Home founder and philanthropist Jim Clayton has abandoned plans to build a science museum in East Knoxville. In this week's installment, Scott looks at the decision and what's next for the 11-acre site next to the Civic Auditorium and Coliseum. He also talks about the Justice Knox Nehemiah Action Assembly, a “rails to trails” lawsuit stemming from a proposed South Knoxville greenway, Stuart Hohl's election as Knox Dems Chair, and more. Scott also looks ahead to opening day at Covenant Health Park, where Knoxville Smokies owner Randy Boyd has honored members of the Knoxville Giants, the city's team in the Negro Southern League during the 1920s and 30s.

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Ali and Harmony are back for this week's episode where they talk with Alyssa Kressel, the VP of R&D at Estée Lauder regarding their current event, “The Science and Sustainability of Beauty" at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Later they call up Grant Whittaker for the Galleria's upcoming event partnered with Hope Chest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ali and Harmony are back for this week's episode where they talk with Alyssa Kressel, the VP of R&D at Estée Lauder regarding their current event, “The Science and Sustainability of Beauty" at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Later they call up Grant Whittaker for the Galleria's upcoming event partnered with Hope Chest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What is humanity's greatest achievement? Language? Science? Space travel? I'm not sure how you define greatness, but I would offer this one for consideration: A little over 40 years ago, humankind eradicated smallpox. In today's episode, a celebration of the knowledge, the work, and the people who made it happen. And why they deserve to be remembered and celebrated.ReferencesAli Maow Maalin. (2025). Wikipedia; Wikimedia Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Maow_MaalinBBC. (2008, March 25). War-torn Somalia eradicates polio. Bbc.co.uk; BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7312603.stmBerche, P. (2022). Life and Death of Smallpox. La Presse Médicale, 51(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lpm.2022.104117Breman, J. (2017). Donald Ainslie (D. A.) Henderson, MD, MPH (1928–2016) smallpox eradication: Leadership and legacy. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 215(5), 673–676. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiw640Brink, S. (2019). What's the real story about the milkmaid and the smallpox vaccine? Npr.org. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/02/01/582370199/whats-the-real-story-about-the-milkmaid-and-the-smallpox-vaccineCDC. (2024a, November 6). History of Smallpox. Smallpox. https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/about/history.htmlCDC. (2024b, November 6). Signs and Symptoms of Smallpox. Smallpox. https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/signs-symptoms/index.htmlDiepenbrock, G. (2015, April 21). Book details misconceptions about smallpox's role in Native depopulation. KU News. https://news.ku.edu/news/article/2015/04/20/book-details-misconceptions-about-smallpoxs-role-native-depopulation-and-europeanGibbons, A. (2016, December 8). Virus found in child mummy suggests recent rise of deadly smallpox. Www.science.org. https://www.science.org/content/article/virus-found-child-mummy-suggests-recent-rise-deadly-smallpoxInstitute of Medicine (US) Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. (2009). SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND ON SMALLPOX AND SMALLPOX VACCINATION. Nih.gov; National Academies Press (US). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK221063/Jonathan , J. (2023, June 9). The white lie at the heart of vaccine history. Office for Science and Society. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-history/white-lie-heart-vaccine-historyMayo Clinic. (n.d.). History of Smallpox: Outbreaks and Vaccine Timeline. Mayo Clinic. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/history-disease-outbreaks-vaccine-timeline/smallpoxNational Foundation for Infectious Diseases. (2023, May 8). The Triumph of Science: The Incredible Story of Smallpox Eradication - NFID. Https://Www.nfid.org/. https://www.nfid.org/the-triumph-of-science-the-incredible-story-of-smallpox-eradication/O'Neill, A. (2024, October 7). Number of countries where smallpox was eradicated 1872-1977. Statista. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1108182/smallpox-eradication-by-country/Science Museum. (2019, April 25). Smallpox and the story of vaccination. Science Museum. https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/smallpox-and-story-vaccinationWorld Health Organization. (1998, March). Building on success. World Health, 51(2), 10–11. https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/331271/WH-1998-Mar-Apr-p10-11-eng.pdfWorld Health Organization. (2025). History of Smallpox Vaccination. Www.who.int; World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/history-of-vaccination/history-of-smallpox-vaccination

Patrick Kruse is a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and a descendant of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. He lives and works along the shore of Mille Lacs Lake and has been creating birchbark art since the late ‘80s.  As a young adult, he says his mother had a dream where he worked with birchbark.  “My mom, kind of, not scolded, but warned me of the cultural significance of birchbark and not to be wasting it, because it's sacred,” he said.  He creates wall hangings and baskets, with scenes and images of nature. Kruse has even made birchbark cradles with colorful Ojibwe floral designs. Kruse says birchbark has always been used to tell stories. A prominent figure in several of his pieces is the Thunderbird, a spiritual figure in Ojibwe culture. He depicts the Thunderbird, using birchbark of various tones, surrounded by florals to show the changing of seasons. “When Native Americans hear the first thunder and lightning coming, they understand that it's the change of season — spring, flowers and rain. So, everything, instead of frozen ground, frozen tundra, everything starts growing,” Kruse said.  Melissa Fowler is a birchbark artist from the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. She began working with birchbark 14 years ago after becoming more involved in learning cultural traditions.  She fears that working with birchbark could become a lost artform someday.  Fowler has created elaborate pieces, including contemporary ones. She hopes to inspire younger people with pieces, such as earrings and a crossbody handbag. “I know that we don't preserve our food in it [birchbark] anymore but maybe wearing it as an adornment is something that really excites people and makes people feel good about themselves as a way to push that forward into our contemporary society,” Fowler said.  Kruse shares those sentiments. He says he doesn't know many other people who work with birchbark. Alongside his work as an artist, he shares the knowledge of birchbark with those wanting to learn. “I'm trying to teach a better way about the birch and the forest, the water and the rice, different things I promote them things because it's important,” Kruse said. “I'm not going to be here, but these children, and the children's children are going to be here.” According to Fowler, the Ojibwe word for birchbark is “wiigwaas.” She says the wiigwaas and birch tree are referred to as the tree of life, an important part of the survival of Ojibwe people.  “We would use birchbark on a daily basis, from gathering to preserving our food and water, our canoes, our shelter.  We'd use it for medicine. We'd even use it to record our teachings and stories on birchbark scrolls,” she said.   Not a single piece of bark goes to waste either. Kruse says he uses leftover pieces to create smaller artworks or to make baskets.  “I learned that even the most smallest birchbark can be used to make a nice little piece of art,” Kruse said. “So, we try not to waste nothing.” He says learning about culture and participating in traditional crafts gives people strength.  “It brings hope, and it gives you better strength, because you're actually doing some work in whether it's small, big, medium." Fowler currently has an exhibit at the MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids, titled, “Endazhi-Dabendaagoziyaan - The Place Where I Belong.” She says her artwork will be at the Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center in Duluth in August.  Kruse's artworks are featured in various collections and locations, including but not limited to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, the Science Museum of Minnesota and Minnesota Historical Society in downtown St. Paul and the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post in Onamia.  

Learn about the origins and current status of the - once - magical Day Hoot.SOURCES “OTHER IMPORTANT ECOSYSTEMS: Mature Forest.” islandtrust. Accessed 14 June 2018.“Barred Owl.” Science Museum of Minnesota. Accessed 14 June 2018.“Barred Owl Life History.” The Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Accessed 15 June 2018.CREDITSThis public broadcast is made possible thanks to these BCWPA Agents: Brandon Ruch, Colten Williams, Daniel Berry, Donovan Scherer, Kimberly Nichols, Layla Leutwyler, Madelynn ODell, Matthew Schang, Shawn Murphey, Pyper Wilson, Lenin Roman, Ronald Miller, PHouseGames, Anthony Ferries, Dandan, Fox & Brambles, Jim Walke, Claire, Hallesy, Heather, HELGA, Kris Mitchell, Kylie Reed, Rick Belcher, Cryptid Clyde, T. Carter Ross, Agus Mercado, Ead Daniels, Elizabeth Lukjanczuk, Shelby Fulton, Veronica Mulvaney, Zodiac Gaming Industry, Mr. Blue Sky  Send the BCWPA a message!Support the showDo you have a story, sighting, or piece of folklore to share? Visit our office.Grab a cryptid study, visit the Ballyraven store.

Dr. Ray Vandiver, New President and CEO of the St Louis Science Center, joins Megan Lynch as he takes the helm of the museum and returns home to his St Louis roots.

An intimate account of Albert Einstein's visit to Oxford in the 1930's, casting new light on why he continues to be the world's most famous scientist.In 1931, Albert Einstein visited Oxford to receive an honorary degree and lecture on relativity and the universe. While teaching, he naturally chalked equations and diagrams on several blackboards. Today, one of these boards is the most popular object in Oxford's History of Science Museum. Yet Einstein tried to prevent its preservation because he was modest about his legendary status. Having failed, he complained to his diary: “Not even a cart-horse could endure so much!”Nevertheless, he came back to Oxford in 1932 and again in 1933—then as a refugee from Nazi Germany. In many ways, the city appealed deeply and revealed him at his most charismatic as he participated in its science, music, and politics, and wandered its streets alone. Einstein in Oxford is an eye-opening exploration of the world's most famous scientist, told through the personal writings he left behind from an important period of his life. From the pages of his diary entries, poem, and other written observations, readers gain a deeper understanding of the unique man—and humor—who continues to fascinate the world.Buy the book from Wellington Square Bookshop - ​https://www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

Fluent Fiction - Hindi: Holi at the Science Museum: A Tale of Courage and Connection Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hi/episode/2025-03-16-22-34-02-hi Story Transcript:Hi: भारतीय विज्ञान संग्रहालय में होली के धूमधाम के बीच चारों ओर रंग-बिरंगी ऊर्जा थी।En: Amidst the vibrance of Holi at the भारतीय विज्ञान संग्रहालय, there was colorful energy all around.Hi: चारों ओर परिवार और बच्चे उत्साहित होकर अंतरिक्ष यान और विज्ञान के प्रदर्शनों के बीच घूम रहे थे।En: Families and children excitedly wandered among the spacecraft and science exhibits.Hi: वसंत ऋतु की फूलों की महक और होली के रंगीन वातावरण ने पूरे दिन को खुशनुमा बना दिया था।En: The scent of flowers from वसंत ऋतु and the colorful atmosphere of Holi made the whole day delightful.Hi: आवश्यक प्रदर्शनों को देखने का इंतजार कर रहे आरव के लिए यह सबसे खास दिन था।En: For आरव, waiting to see the necessary exhibits, it was a very special day.Hi: विज्ञान की उसकी जिज्ञासा उसे संग्रहालय की ओर खींच लाई थी।En: His curiosity about science drew him to the museum.Hi: उसका चचेरा भाई, नेहा, अधिक साहसी था।En: His cousin, नेहा, was more adventurous.Hi: वह हर मौके पर कुछ नया करने को तत्पर रहती थी।En: She was always eager to try something new at every opportunity.Hi: दोनों ने होली ब्रेक में इस यात्रा की योजना बनाई थी।En: Both of them had planned this visit during the Holi break.Hi: जैसे ही वे संग्रहालय में दाखिल हुए, नेहा ने आरव को हर कोने में घुमाना शुरू किया।En: As they entered the museum, Neha started showing Arav around every corner.Hi: चमकदार रोशनी, वैज्ञानिक यंत्र, और जानकारी से भरी दीवारें, आरव के लिए दुनिया का सबसे सुंदर दृश्य बन गईं।En: The bright lights, scientific instruments, and information-filled walls became the most beautiful sight for Arav.Hi: लेकिन, उसके दिल के कोने में एक अनहोनी की चिंता भी थी, उसका अस्थमा।En: However, in one corner of his heart, there was a worry about an eventuality, his asthma.Hi: होली के रंग और धूल उसके लिए कठिनाई बन सकते थे।En: The colors and dust from Holi could pose a challenge for him.Hi: आरव ने नेहा को देखते हुए सोच में पड़ा कि क्या उसे अपनी स्थिति के बारे में बताना चाहिए।En: Arav pondered whether he should tell Neha about his condition.Hi: नेहा ने एक शोरगुल वाले प्रदर्शनी हॉल की ओर इशारा किया, जिसे देख आरव का चेहरा खुशी से खिल उठा।En: Neha pointed towards a noisy exhibition hall, which made Arav's face light up with joy.Hi: लेकिन तभी उसका दम घुटने लगा।En: But suddenly, he began to feel short of breath.Hi: उसके सीने में हल्का भारीपन था।En: There was a slight heaviness in his chest.Hi: हवा में उड़ते रंग और धूल तेजी से बढ़ रहे थे।En: The colors and dust in the air were rapidly increasing.Hi: आरव ने लाख कोशिश की खुद को संभालने की, परंतु उसकी सांस अब बाधित हो रही थी।En: Despite his best efforts to compose himself, Arav's breathing was now getting obstructed.Hi: अंत में, उसने नेहा को अपनी स्थिति बता ही दी।En: Finally, he decided to tell Neha about his situation.Hi: नेहा का चेहरा चिंता से भर गया।En: Neha's face filled with concern.Hi: "आरव, हमें जल्दी से मदद चाहिए," उसने कहा।En: "Arav, we need help quickly," she said.Hi: दोनों ने संग्रहालय के अधिकारियों को बताया।En: They informed the museum officials.Hi: अधिकारी तत्काल आरव को चिकित्सा सहायता देने में जुट गए।En: The officials immediately set to provide medical assistance to Arav.Hi: नेहा आरव के पास बैठकर उसके कंधे पर हाथ रखते हुए उसे आश्वस्त करने लगी।En: Sitting beside him, Neha comforted him by placing her hand on his shoulder.Hi: बात करने से आराम मिला, और आरव को तुरंत एक इनहेलर दिया गया।En: Talking brought relief, and Arav was promptly given an inhaler.Hi: आरव ने राहत की सांस ली।En: Arav breathed a sigh of relief.Hi: उसने महसूस किया कि अपनी ज़रूरतों को साझा करना कितना महत्वपूर्ण था।En: He realized the importance of sharing his needs.Hi: नेहा ने भी समझा कि उसे अपने प्रियजनों की जरूरतों के प्रति हमेशा सजग रहना चाहिए।En: Neha also understood that she should always be aware of her loved ones' needs.Hi: आरव और नेहा बाहर आए, और संग्रहालय के बगीचे में बैठे।En: Arav and Neha came outside and sat in the museum's garden.Hi: आरव ने मुस्कुराते हुए कहा, "अब शायद हम सुरक्षित तरीके से होली मना सकते हैं।En: Smiling, Arav said, "Now maybe we can celebrate Holi safely."Hi: "नेहा ने उसके कंधे पर हाथ थपथपाया और हँसी।En: Neha patted him on the shoulder and laughed.Hi: इस अनुभव ने उन्हें एक दूसरे के और भी करीब ला दिया।En: This experience brought them even closer to each other.Hi: होली का ये दिन उन्हें हमेशा के लिए यादगार बना गया।En: This day of Holi became a memorable one for them forever. Vocabulary Words:amidst: बीचvibrance: उमंगdelightful: खुशनुमाcuriosity: जिज्ञासाadventurous: साहसीeventuality: अनहोनीheaviness: भारीपनobstructed: बाधितpromptly: तुरंतassistance: सहायताcomforted: आश्वस्तawareness: सजगbreathed: सांस लीimportance: महत्वchallenges: कठिनाईnecessary: आवश्यकopportunity: मौकाpondered: सोच में पड़ाconcern: चिंताheaviness: भारीपनrelief: आरामinhaler: इनहेलरscent: महकexhibit: प्रदर्शनsafely: सुरक्षितmemorable: यादगारwandered: घूम रहे थेdrawn: खींच लाईpromptly: तत्क्षणcompose: संभालना

The crew delve more into vanguards, and discover that Colin belongs in a museum.

Dr. Robert Johnson (botanist) and Dr. Shawn Clark (entomologist) discuss the day to day work they do managing the plant and insect collections at the Bean Museum. In this episode they talk about their research interests and why they love the work that they do.This episode was recorded on November 7, 2024.

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is Paul Marden.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website SkiptheQueue.fm.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter  or Bluesky for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this podcast.Competition ends on 5th March 2025. The winner will be contacted via Bluesky. Show references: https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/https://www.linkedin.com/in/zakmensah/Zak Mensah is the co-CEO of Birmingham Museums Trust. He is passionate about helping their service make an impact by focusing on the needs of over 1 million visitors. He is encouraging the organization to adopt a "digital by default" approach. Zak's mission is to ensure that their people, skills, and services remain adaptable to the rapidly changing landscape of the cultural sector. He is exploring new ways of doing things, including innovative business models, partnerships, and arts-related KPIs, while sharing as much as possible publicly.With a background in staff development and digital, Zak has been involved with the web since the late 90s and has seen its influence grow in all aspects of life. Prior to joining the arts sector in 2013, he helped small businesses, charities, Jisc, universities, and the Heritage Lottery Fund "do" digital well.Zak also runs his own consultancy to promote positive change and keep his skills sharp. His goal is to make a ruckus. https://www.vam.ac.uk/https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyakino-wittering/Amy Akino-Wittering is Head of Operations and Commercial at Young V&A, which opened July 2023 and recently won Art Fund Museum of the Year and Kids in Museums, Family Friendly Museum of the Year awardsResponsible for the general management of Young V&A she directly manages the visitor experience and teams, catering contract, volunteering and back of house operations, collaborating closely with central V&A colleagues to deliver operations and income for Young V&A. Previously Amy worked at V&A South Kensington as Senior Visitor Experience Manager-Sales and was on the opening project team leading on visitor experience and retail at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery.She started her career at Imperial War Museums working across sites from assistant to management roles in Retail and Admissions and systems management.  https://www.hampshireculture.org.uk/​​https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-sapwell-b3b2a281/Paul Sapwell has been Chief Executive at independent arts and culture charity Hampshire Cultural Trust since 2018, having joined the trust in 2016 as Chief Operating Officer following an early career primarily in hospitality and leisure. Paul is a passionate believer in the transformative power that cultural experiences can have on the wellbeing of individuals and communities, and a prominent advocate for the role of commercial growth, underpinned by a flexible, entrepreneurial team culture, in sustaining museum and arts organisations. Transcription: Paul Marden: The museums and culture sector are facing unprecedented headwinds. Static or reducing funding from local government, fewer grants from trusts and foundations, all while dealing with increased people costs. The continued headwinds from cost of living crisis. But this sector continues to deliver more with less and support the cultural life of our country. Paul Marden: Welcome to Skip the Queue. I'm your host, Paul Marden and in today's episode recorded the Science Museum at the Association of Cultural Enterprises View from the Top event. I'm joined by Amy Akino-Wittering, Head of Operations and Commercial at Young V&A. Zak Mensah, Co CEO of Birmingham Museums Trust, and Paul Sapwell, CEO of Hampshire Cultural Trust. Paul Marden: And we're going to talk about how the cultural sector can innovate in order to thrive. Anyone that's listened to the podcast before will know. And this is the nervous bit. Paul Marden: We always start with an icebreaker question which my lovely guests victims have not been prepared for. So, Zak, I'm afraid you go first, my friends. So if you were a cartoon character, which cartoon character would you be? Zak Mensah: That's easy. I think I would be the thing that gets chased by the. Is it the wild Cody who runs around all his home? But I'd be the. What's the little, the stupid Roadrunner. Yeah, so I would be Roadrunner because you constantly are literally running 100 miles an hour and then a giant piano lands on you at 4:00 on a Friday afternoon, but you respawn on the Monday and you start all over again. Pretty much feels like me. Paul Marden: I love that. I love that. Amy, you're next. Let's think of all of the inventions over the last hundred years that were offered. Flying cars, those sorts of things. What is the one thing were promised that you really miss and think we really need in our lives? Amy Akino-Wittering: I think a Time Turner, which is basically from Harry Potter. Basically you can just go and do things like six. They do six days all at once. Paul Marden: You can be Hermione if you've got a Time Turner. Amy Akino-Wittering: Yeah, great. Paul Marden: Excellent. I love that, Amy. Thank you. Paul. Paul Sapwell: You said these were going to be under no pressure. I wouldn't have liked. I wouldn't have liked either of those. Paul Marden: Oh, well, you're not going to like this one then. I'm sorry, mate, I'm, I, I live in Hampshire. Paul runs Hampshire Cultural Trust. Paul. Paul Sapwell:  Oh, even better. Paul Marden: Saints or Pompey? Paul Sapwell:  Oh, blimey. Okay, well that's, I'm an Arsenal fan. Paul Marden: So there we go. Paul Sapwell: I couldn't possibly answer Saints or Pompey? I mean, we border both. So I would just be in so much trouble if I pick one or the other. So I can. I've got to get out. Paul Marden: Are you dodging that one? Paul Sapwell: Yeah. I thought you might watch Arsenal regularly. Paul Marden: I thought you might. So we are going to start with a question from somebody from the audience, a young man named Gordon. Apparently he might be a millennial. And he says, After 15 years of turmoil, financial crash, austerity, Brexit, Covid, we face continuing cost of living issues, rising national insurance and a Trump presidency. Are we doomed in 2025? Or to put it slightly better, what are the biggest risks for your organisation and the wider sector, and what are you each doing to thrive in the year ahead? And I'm going to start with you, Paul. Paul Sapwell: That's an easy question, isn't it? Paul Marden: You can thank young Gordon. Paul Sapwell: Brilliant Gordon, Yeah. I mean, I think 2025 is going to be an incredibly tricky year, but to sort of look further than that. I'm certainly an optimist, but I think we're in a time of transition, particularly in terms of our sector, in the cultural sector, in terms of what's going to fund us and what's going to sustain us going forward. You know, I think the years of the level. I think a lot of the speakers have touched on it, but the years of the level of public sector funding is, whatever happens with this government and next is going to be going down and we just have to face that. I run an organisation which we started out in 2019. We're about 85% publicly funded. Now we're 34% publicly funded with the same turnover, I hasten to add. Paul Sapwell: And so we've made a good go of it, but I think the headwinds this year are really difficult. That said, I think that we have to be confident investing for the longer term and particularly, obviously, in this conference in areas of commercial growth. I think that, okay, the growth projections have been downgraded. I am confident that we will, as the decade continues, move into a period of growth. And we've got to be looking at the long term rather than the short term. The trick is, of course, not running out of money in the short term. And that's a really difficult place to be. Paul Marden: In the water, just here. Paul Sapwell: I don't have an easy answer to that, but I think fundamentally, you've got to give the customer what they want and the customer is still there. Paul Sapwell: And we have a fantastic product. But we've got to certainly pivot much further towards what customers want commercially, in my view, than putting as much emphasis as probably we did 10 years ago on trying to find more and more public funding, because I think that's going down. Paul Marden: Zak, have you got any thoughts on that? Zak Mensah: Yeah, I mean, in terms of money, just generally people want to back winners. So I think one of the difficult things that internally we can all say it's doom and gloom, because it does feel that doom and gloom. There are definitely days, weeks and months. I think it's right to say that it's doom and gloom. Like you can be optimist but still understand it's difficult time. And I think a lot of our, you know, a lot of our workforces certainly feel that, it can feel very difficult because every year they ask, will they have their job? Right. And that's a really fair question to ask. And we sometimes as leaders kind of say, “Oh, if we can get through the next two years, but two years for normal staff are sometimes a very long time to try and say, “You or may have not have a job to make life through.”Zak Mensah: So I think that's something I always think back in back of my mind. I think a lot of the difficulties, whichever flavour of government is about understanding how to be more savvy, about understanding the trends, about things that are fundable. Because there are lots of things that were funded 10, 20 years ago, that money has dried up. And so we've all got to think about, for example, a lot of people now looking at, well, being a speaker this afternoon was talking about more on EDI, for example, and how younger people certainly are interested in having more of a purpose driven business. Is how for us, we can make sure we're focused on the, what I was called, the user need. So the needs that people use us. Zak Mensah: Because if you can concentrate and focus on what they want, whether it be money, otherwise that ultimately does lead to a business model. Because there's no point saying just because museums and galleries have been around for 100 to 200 years, they have an absolute right to exist. The only way they exist is because every decade or whatever there's another crisis comes along and a group of people, including ourselves here, live in this room, but also listening to this make it happen. Like, we've got to convince councillors, government, businesses to be part of that journey. Because the funny thing I will say is that, you know, at Birmingham Museums, the art gallery was founded in 1885 by industry people. It was industry people that founded it. It was industry people who wanted the city to have great arts. Zak Mensah: And so now we're turning back to those same people and saying, "We need you to now step up and contribute." It doesn't always have to be money. It could be in kind support, could be advocacy. That's the kind of thing that we need to do as leaders right now, in addition to the normal making the money work and stretch as far as we can. Paul Marden: Absolutely. Amy, what are you doing at Young V&A to thrive in the year ahead and face some of these challenges? Amy Akino-Wittering: Yeah, absolutely. So we've now been open for just over two years, so I feel kind of, well, coming up to two years. And so I feel we're kind of in that stage where we kind of opened and sort of just try to make sure that we are operationally savvy. And last year was very much about refining that. And I think this year is very much about what's next and how can we build upon kind of success of opening, looking at ways in which we can innovate through doing new kind of commercial opportunities, but also how can we develop our audiences. And as well as part of kind of the wider V&A, we've got two more sites opening as well. Amy Akino-Wittering: So how as an organisation are we going to work together to kind of be in this new family of sites and work together through there? So I think for us in the kind of coming year is all about, what's next? We've opened the door. We started with a really strong foundation and a really strong vision, but then how can we keep on innovating and keep iterating that to improve? Paul Marden: Excellent. I'm going touch on stuff that Lewis talked about a minute ago. One of his reflections I really liked was thinking about how do we create a space for colleagues to engage with some of these really important issues that have been on the PowerPoints. Zak, maybe you could start. What do you think your organisation can do to act as bottom up catalyst for change as opposed to trying to drive these changes from the top down? Zak Mensah: I think the first thing is about understanding that there are a lot of people who do want to be able to voice their hopes and fears around a whole host of subjects, whether it be specifically around, if you're ethnic minority, about your fear of living in the UK, if you have climate, lots of important subjects people want to talk about. You know, I think certainly internally, and I'll be very clear about this, I think there's a very different view sometimes about the difference between internal and the external voice of the organisation. So what we see a lot of is staff individually believe that as a service there are lots of things we could and should be talking about publicly that may or may not directly align with how as a leader we see it. Zak Mensah: So, you know, there are lots of fights we do get into. We can't get into every single fight. And sometimes there's a real fine balance around what we decide to go for. So if you take during Black Lives Matter example, me and Sarah Shropshire started in November 2020, there was an expectation that immediately we would be like the spokesperson for the whole museum sector about black and brown issues. And like, it's really hard to say, actually. I am not speaking on behalf of every single person in the whole country. I do take it seriously and we set up internally ways people to talk about it, but didn't always feel appropriate. Zak Mensah: And I'll give another example is around, for example, war. Any one time there's something like 15 global conflicts happening and, you know, we talk and go backwards and forwards internally sometimes about, you know, do we talk about them publicly? If we talk about them internally, how we talk about them, do we single one out or do we talk about them all? Are they equal? How do you equally talk about things are very horrific for a number of people?Zak Mensah: And knowing that we've got staff from dozens of countries who all have different views on how their homeland or area they're interested in is impacted. Things are very horrific for a number of people. But I do think that there's always. It's always really tricky because the best conversations and the best conversations need care and a lot of the conversations happen in like, pockets that we have no control over. Zak Mensah: And so it's again, how do you set an environment as a leader that is allowing the bottom up to do their own thing, but in a way that isn't going to be detrimental to the whole workforce? Because I think it is. Again, I mentioned it's been. It's really tricky and that's the simple truth. It is no easy answer to these things because if it was easy, we'd all solved it. Yeah. But acknowledging it there, it's the elephant in the room, I think is really important and growing to be more and more important for us as leaders. Paul Marden: I think Lewis was saying it's really important to know where you stand on issues and it is okay for you to have a stance on issues that says, I'm not going to make a stand on this one issue. I thought that was a really interesting perspective. Imy's talk. I think were talking a lot about the journey of Titanic Belfast, which I love as a museum, to go to a museum that emotionally moved me as much with so very few actual artefacts. I just think it's an amazing storytelling experience. But you talked a little bit about the team and what you do to be able to nurture that team. And one of the things that we're talking about is trying to get 110% out of everybody getting to more with less, getting them to innovate. Paul Marden: How do you balance all of those challenges and not break the people and maintain a 98% retention rate like Titanic does? Paul? Paul Sapwell: Well, maintaining a 98 retention rate, I think fairly unprecedented and huge congratulations. I mean, I think it follows on a bit from what Zak was saying, actually. You know, it's tough, isn't it, being leaders in terms of whether you're making that kind of external message or whether you've got a tough internal message. I mean, I've always taken a stance that you've got to be as transparent as you possibly can be and people will go a long way with you if it doesn't appear that things are being taken in a dark room somewhere. And I think for us, what we've tried to do is to put in the mechanisms for that to happen. I've been really fortunate to work with a fantastic people director, Hampshire Cultural Trust. Paul Sapwell: One of the first things, I think you've also got to make a stance, by the way, on people being important. One of the first things I did as CEO was say we need a people director. It's quite rare in the heritage sector. I came from hospitality, it was the norm. It's an odd thing that people and HR doesn't always sit at the top table. Sometimes it's sort of delegated down in operations or even finance. So I think that's really important and we needed a strategy and part of that is putting in place a lot of the stuff that you talked about of the Titanic, which I think is really impressive. And we're somewhere on that journey, but not quite as far along, but proper employee forums where you listen. Paul Sapwell: I meet with an employee elected employee forum quarterly and talk to them about all issues with nothing off the table. We also have an EDI group with a mix, again, senior leadership on there talking about these issues. And I think that, you know, if there was one thing I would say it's, you're not always going to be able to give easy answers, are you? This year we're being hit with an enormous national insurance hit to the staff costs and that is going to affect pay. I can't pretend that it isn't. And if we're going to not run out of money in the next few years, we're going to have to give less of a pay increase this year than we would like to. Paul Sapwell: But we've been talking about that openly since it hit and I hope that our team will go, will understand, but obviously that doesn't make it, make it easy. And I think the same is true with the issues that you're talking about. You can't take a stance on every single issue that comes through each of these forums every quarter, but you have a conversation about it. And I think that's the most important bit for me. Paul Marden: Amy, I'm going to segue wide away from today's talks. Regular listeners will know that I'm a Trustee of Kids in Museums and I was chatting with my fellow trustees about today's event and we wondered, given the impact of the cultural sector, on the impact that it has on the lives of young people and how there are so many challenges at the moment for disadvantaged young people to engage in the sector. You know, we all know that post Covid, many schools have cut their school visits into museums and galleries. I pick you because Young V&A was the winner of Kids in Museums Family Friendly Awards last year. So let's just start with you and talk about what are the innovative things that you've done to break down barriers to encourage children and families to engage in the museum. Amy Akino-Wittering: Yes, of course. So Young V&A when we kind of opened its entire purpose is about engaging children. It's all about kind of that creative confidence in Generation Alpha. And so the whole museum has been designed with and for young people. So its target audience is between naught to 14 year olds. We spoke with over 22,000 young people in the development of the museum to hear what do they want from it. I think there's a survey which said that 40% of children thought that museums were boring and it weren't places for them. So, well, what can we do as we've got this opportunity to redevelop, to make sure that it is a place that people want to go and enjoy and be themselves. Amy Akino-Wittering: And so that was kind of like the North Star in terms of what every kind of decision in the kind of opening and making and running of Young V&A is really centred around this as well. And so it goes from the aesthetic in terms of the height of things, the bright colours from this swirling staircase that we have at Young V&A, which came from an idea that someone wanted to helter skelter in the space to the tone of voice in our interpretation and also how the objects are displayed. We've got objects from across the V&A, we've got over 2,000 objects. But it's not just the museum as was the Museum of Childhood collection, it's from across all of the different departments of the V&A. And it's been curated with that kind of child centred and child focused way. Amy Akino-Wittering: Co design is also a really kind of core part of it as well. So we kind of co designed with local audiences and children for various design displays and also co curation. So each gallery was co curated between the learning team and the curatorial team as well. And then obviously we've kind of got to actually open the building and have a team to deliver that visitor experience. And again, that is all very much fed through that audience lens. And so we looked at our structures of, you know, what types of people do we want in the space? You know, our core audience are children. We need people who want to engage with that audience. It's a very specific kind of audience, but also we are a hyper local organisation as well and so how can we encourage applicants from the local boroughs? Amy Akino-Wittering: So we drove a very inclusive recruitment process where we basically did a behaviour led process for recruitment, we redid all the job descriptions, went out into our local community, did workshops and CV surgeries and basically just made it as easy as possible for people to apply and get interview. And the kind of core things that were looking at was behaviours. We can teach people how to go on a till or to learn how to do fire evacuations, but actually it's much harder to get people because that's what the job is. You know, the majority, you know, all your visitors will come to a touch point with the front of house team. They are your most important ambassadors. Amy Akino-Wittering: So we need to make sure that we've got the best kind of resources and time and structure in place to support them, to give the best possible experience that we can. So we spent a lot of time doing that. We spent a lot of time as well working Kids in Museums come in and do training about specific family engagement training as well, which has been really beneficial. And then also we really believe that, you know, the customer experience, the visitor experience is directly impacted by the employee experience. You can't expect the team to deliver this amazing, joyful visitor experience if actually they're pretty miserable behind the scenes. So how can we make sure that the structures that we have and the environment that we have is reflective of how we want them to be on the floor as well? Amy Akino-Wittering: So we make sure that we have forums to make sure that, you know, people can have their say. We make sure. So we did this team charter, which was this sort of collaborative effort to see, like, how do you want to feel in the workplace, but also how do you want your visitors to feel? And actually, it was all very similar in terms of the outcomes that came from that kind of exercise. And it's these kind of agreement that we have together to how we're going to work together and those kind of things which we do to ensure. It's that kind of frequent communication and making sure that we're on the same page and it kind of brings that joy which then comes out to the visitors. Amy Akino-Wittering: And that is kind of I think all those things together has all really helped in terms of when someone comes into the space, children, they're front and centre. They really feel like it's a place for them and they've got kind of people around them which really get them and that they will help facilitate their curiosity and things like that. So that's what we've done. Paul Marden: Amazing. Paul, have you got some thoughts? Paul Sapwell: Yeah. I love what you're saying about the visitor. The visitor services guys on the front desk. I mean, they are the most important people, essentially, and that's why I was nodding vigorously. I think that's part of what I was talking about earlier in terms of pivot into more of a commercial view, because a commercial company completely relies on their customer who comes in. And I think my experience of being in an organisation that's moved out of being run predominantly by a council to one that's independent now was, I've got to be honest, at the start, that wasn't how it felt. Paul Sapwell: And actually you could produce big lists of visitor figures, but ultimately, if they went up or down, it didn't really matter because the funding was going to stay the same, whatever, and there would be other metrics, and I think that's the big shift in mentality, because if you don't give the customer what they want, and that means really valuing people on your front line. And, you know, we've had conversations at the Museum Association about it, about how there's almost been that divide in museums between the people who talk to your customers and the museum staff. And I think that's a really. Or people who would see themselves doing proper museum work. And I think that, you know, that's something we've got to. We're moving in the right direction, but we've got to move quicker. Paul Marden: All of our best memories, aren't they, of going to these places are not necessarily about the amazing artefacts, it's the stories that your team tell people when they interact with them. You feel so happy as a result of it. I think of some amazing experiences. Zak, have you got any thoughts on this? Innovative ways in which we make museums family friendly, how we encourage make them more children friendly? Zak Mensah: Well, the first thing is it's something like 50% of people have children. And so knowing that is in the UK is a thing. Just knowing that as a fact. Right. Means that thinking then about families who will come, but also the staff workforce. Because again, like, you know, if your staff, you're your biggest advocates we just talked about is making it friendly for people to have children in the workforce means that most people recommend it and word of mouth is the biggest way that you can influence people and then from that when people come. So we've got nine venues overall pre pandemic, have a million visitors a year. Zak Mensah: We say we're family friendly, but I've got two young children and quite often the experience, not just my place, but other places doesn't actually say match up with that because like just saying to a seven year old, you must love art, doesn't really work, right, if it's Blue. Paul Marden: Can't tell them. You can't just make them like, yeah. Zak Mensah: I can't tell anything because anyone in my family anything. If you convince about bluey=, then you've got another chance. But you know, you've got to think about actually what is their experience going to be. So, you know, have you got picnic area? Have you got toilets? Lots of toilets. Do you allow your staff, for example, in previous roles? We allow people, if they want to do potty training, they could do potty training in the gallery. Because the reality was if they didn't use the potty that they had in their bag, it was going somewhere else. And so I remember watching in horror as someone literally tried to scoop up a child and move their parent out of a gallery to start to go to the toilet. Zak Mensah: And I was like, there was no way they were going to make it out that door. I would love to have that CCTV footage because I bet that was quite interesting. But, you know, it sounds, you know, some sort of flippant and fun. Zak Mensah: But that's the little thing because like all those little things about making it, you know, enjoyable. Because if you can make it enjoyable for the. For the parent or the guardian, you can make it fun for the, you know, for the kids. You know, you have to have sharp crayons and pencils. Whatever it is, like always things that's really kids don't want much. That's the little thing because like all those little things about making it, you know, enjoyable. Right. Like, if you can give them almost that version of experience to make people think it's good. Because I think we sometimes dissociate the child's experience with the fact they're with someone else. So actually you've got to make it good for the people that they're with. And quite often people do it, you know, who take. Zak Mensah: They might take the extended family. So they'll say like, you know, I'll take my niece or whatever, I'm there. And they don't usually actually have to have the children. So sometimes they need help as well, you know, to make sure the experience. Paul Marden: Extra needs to be able to solve the kids' problems. Zak Mensah: Absolutely. So for me it's about making it that friendly from that perspective. So often with school trips, for example, it's how can you make the school trips fun? Because I see quite a lot of kids on school trips that they sort of being marched through and forced to go. So then they're less likely to recommend it to their parents and their parents just like to come. So for me, it's kind of like trying to use that learning visit which often people's first. Most people tell me, I've been to museum as a child and they usually get towards school age, secondary school, and they don't go anymore. Paul Marden: Yes. Zak Mensah: So it's like, how do we make sure that. I don't think as a sector where family friendly enough, other than those people who already are super engaged, they make the kids have fun. I'm probably talking about my trauma now. Paul Marden: Let's return today's speakers. Let's just talk a little bit about Mike's discussion of using behavioural models to influence buying decisions. Yeah. What are the biggest behavioural barriers that you see within your organisation? In terms of visitor experience, from kind of awareness through to decision making, what could you do? What could you change? Zak Mensah: So the first obvious one is a lot of people are terrified of being in spaces because they're not sure how to behave. There's this weird secret code that doesn't. It's not actually written down anywhere that people think the museum experience has got to be quiet, that it's got to be. That you've got to know what you're looking at. It can't just be fun. And actually having. Just having fun is a really important part of what you want to do. So for us, I think the problem is, as well as once you work in the sector, those barriers are invisible because you just work there. You feel comfortable now coming. Yeah. And so the behaviour part is super interesting. And so, for example, it's a phrase I sometimes use around, like. Zak Mensah: It's around this idea of, like, “People like us do things like this”, which I stole from Seth Godin. So, you know, what we did, for example, is w e now don't have staff uniform because we've got quite a diverse. We're dividing diversity in Birmingham and we want people to feel comfortable and recognise people outside the building who then might be going, like, sure, I might. Hoodies, for example. If you wear a hoodie, you might own. The museum's. Not for me, the museums for other people who wear suits, etc. So actually, if they see staffing. Yeah, if they see staff in hoodies or whatever, in hijabs or niqab, whichever outfit they want to wear, then that is a signal about those people are welcome. Zak Mensah: That's one example where that idea came from the team about how we can show and tell and do what we say we're going to do, rather than just saying, “Oh, but we're really friendly museums are great and come in.” Because actually they are intimidating from the outside. They're often intimidating intellectually. Paul Marden: Yep. Zak Mensah: The train, the media, all the time is being really high brow all the time. So it's like actually we. We have to find ways to accept that those barriers exist. And that often means finding people who don't use you to actually tell you that. And we've just finished a citizen's jury, for example, which had almost 30 people who are representative of the city come in and 80% of them at the first meeting said they didn't think the museum is relevant to them. Those are ordinary people who live in the city who. That's 80% of those people. Four in five people don't think the museum is relevant for them, even though we know that we could make it relevant to them. And that was a really sad, shocking figure, but also is motivating. Zak Mensah: And I think our job, you know, as leaders is how do we help people feel inclusive, to be an inclusive space and then like. And go for it. Paul Marden: Excellent. Thank you, Amy. Amy Akino-Wittering: Yeah, I think a lot of what we have done as well is to try and go out of our four walls of Young V&A as well. So we do a lot of kind of community engagement as well through kind of the learning team as well as for volunteering programme. Like we rocked up at stores at Whitechapel Market and kind of saying, “This is our kind of programme”, just chatting with people where they haven't heard of Young V&A even though it's down the road. And so it's like, how can we, yeah, kind of go out and about and also kind of advocate across as well. And then also it's like when people do kind of take that step to actually go onto our site and then come into the building making sure that the visitor experience is as inclusive, as welcoming as possible. Similar. Amy Akino-Wittering: We also just have aprons and they can wear whatever they want underneath and just again, so as people feel relaxed and they feel when our audiences come in, they say, oh yeah, no, that's something that I might wear. Or you know, they just feel more kind of settled and at home. So that's something that's really important that we kind of do as well. Paul Marden: Lovely, Paul. Paul Sapwell: The biggest challenge for us, I mean being a smaller organisation and a brand that isn't known. As well as it could be, I think our biggest challenge now is that customer journey from online through to what you get when you arrive and we're not consistent enough. And I know we'd all talk about this forever but you know, big commercial organisations do this really well. You know, you're going to sell a ticket within a couple of clicks from a social media piece, you're going to get a follow up email that looks exciting and you know, then your product is either going to arrive or you're going to arrive at it and it will be like you thought you were buying. And I'm not sure that we always do that. Paul Sapwell: I've got to be honest and I think to do that you've got to put a lot of investment in it. And that's what we're part of the strategy that we've launched, we launched back in November is about that. Paul Sapwell: And again, that comes back to, you know, commercial mindsets that matters. It matters that we put the right image in whatever way that is to the right customer who we're trying to attract. We've got to understand those customers better and then make sure that's, that's seamless. And, you know, we run 20 venues. They're really different. We've got everything from the Great Hall, Mediaeval Hall in Winchester, which is full of people on from travel trade have come off of cruises and things. And then we've got Milestones Museum in Basingstoke, which is a sort of family living history museum. Paul Sapwell: They don't get any international tourists. So having a really limited pot of marketing to be able to go all these sort of areas is really difficult. But I think that would be the challenge. But thinking about it holistically, really, because it's the same person who clicks on the social media ad to the person who ends up arriving in your venue. And that needs to be really consistent. Yeah, it sounds like cash is the barrier. We're going to try and work with it. But that's the important bit for me. Paul Marden: I'm grinning like the village idiot because this is what I advocate all the time. I'm looking at my marketing friends in the audience who would also share. Share your thoughts on this. We know from the Rubber Cheese survey that it's eight to 10 steps it takes people to checkout. I tried to buy tickets for an aquarium last year and they made me enter a password along with the names and addresses of everybody that was joining me and then told me off three times for getting the password wrong in the checkout process. I had to be really to buy those tickets and. Paul Sapwell: Well, yeah, you touch on. Yeah. I mean, we could have a whole conversation, but no, I mean, we love a complicated ticketing system in the cultural sector, don't we? I mean, with all the right intentions. I mean, even the list in some places of different concessions. I mean, you don't want to go. I think I'm that or I'm that. You know, and it's done with the right intention. But it's an enormous barrier. Paul Marden: Yeah, completely. Paul Sapwell: And you know, we make things so complex and I don't have the fix, but I know we've got to fix it. And that means putting sort of. Again, learn from companies who do this really well rather than. Yeah. Looking for ideas ourselves. Lots of people do it really well out there. That's what we got to do. Paul Marden: Thinking of lots of my team who might think that this is something somebody should solve. Zak Mensah: The fix is simple, isn't it? Because you just said then that there are other people doing it well. What we're not really good at artists actually copying people. Zak Mensah: Like just copy someone else who's done it better than us. It's really. It really does annoy me. Let's just say that what always happens is that we make decisions by committee, don't we? So it would have been two steps, but then someone from marketing said, but you've got to have a newsletter. And someone from another team would say, “You've got to also ask for this. And then you've got to do this. Then you've got to try and get the kids to come for school trip.” Before you know it, people mean well and they've made it really complicated. I think sometimes it's like, actually, let's just do the simplest thing. Let's do all the hard work to remove those barriers and then we can try and flog them stuff when they get there. Paul Marden: So friend of mine, Andy talks a lot about you don't go to a fine dining restaurant and walk up to the maitre d and he says to you, “Would you like a table, by the way, are you going to have dessert? And would you like a coffee? And what are you going to have for your starter main course and dessert? Oh, right, I'll take you to your table.” You have a conversation with people and you lead them and you don't try and pack everything into the very first time you ever talk to the potential client. Zak Mensah: Which is why Greg's does so well. Paul Marden: Yeah, look guys, I could carry on about this conversation, but we are the barrier to everybody getting to their drinks and nibbles and so we've got. Paul Sapwell: Including us. Paul Marden: I know, sorry. We've got a couple of things that I must cover. So we always ask our guests for a book recommendation. It can be a novel, it can be work related. So Zak, would you like to go first with yours? Zak Mensah: Yeah. Turn the ship around! I think it's David Marquet. It's a book about a nuclear submarine commander who basically realises all these stupid rules. And so he just said to everyone, just tell me you intend to. So say to him, I intend to turn the ship left, I intend to take holiday, etc, because he realised that there were so many stupid rules and I think museum will have loads of stupid rules. It's a really good thing. And I know most of you won't read the book because most people say, “Yeah, I'll read it. They don't read it.” There's a 10 minute YouTube video. Surely you can spend 10 minutes of time if you can't be bothered to do that. There is literally a 30 second Wikipedia article about it. But please don't do it. Paul Marden: Zak feels very strongly about this. Paul, your book recommendation, please. Paul Sapwell: Well, last year I read Wild Swans by Jung Chang and I'm trying to find a way of getting into a business conversation. I think there's so much that comes out of that book, but I think, yeah, striving for Utopia is often, you know, the book. Right. Most people in terms of living under communist China and we know we could go on about utopian things that haven't worked, but I think there's, for this conversation, that's perhaps where we need to think, you know, going forward here. There isn't a sort of utopian way that things should be done for our sector. There is, you know, we're making our way here and yeah. Obviously it's a fantastic book. Paul Marden: Excellent. Thank you, Paul. Amy, your recommendation? Amy Akino-Wittering: Yeah, so mine isn't linked to like professional development at all. Mine. Paul Marden: Well, you did have one. Amy Akino-Wittering: Well, I did have one and you were like, no, just go for your favourite one. So I was like, Persuasion by Jane Austen. It's a classic. Paul Marden: We've got, we've got big anniversary at the moment, haven't we? In Chawton where Jane Austen lived has got big thing about 200 years, 250 years? Amy Akino-Wittering: Celebration for the whole year. So I'm gonna go in. Paul Sapwell: Yeah, everyone's trying to get in on this, by the way. I just have to put this out there. You know, she was born in Hampshire. Paul Marden: I know. Paul Sapwell: Born in Hampshire, actually. Born Basingstoke. Paul Marden: I know.Paul Sapwell: Yes. Paul Marden: There's a lot of celebrations for Jane this year. Paul Sapwell: Yeah, everyone's trying. I've seen so many angles for her. Oh, she was here and she went to the toilet. Fair enough. I mean, it's a big celebration. Paul Marden: If you'd like a copy of the book or any of these books, head over to Bluesky and like and repost the show announcement saying, I want Zak, Paul or Amy's book. And the first person to do that will get the book sent to them. Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this episode, then please leave us a five star review. It really does help more people to find us and remember to follow us on Bluesky , X or Instagram for your chance to win the book. 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The opulent halls of 17th and 18th-century Versailles were not just filled with dazzlingly dressed courtiers and royal intrigue. They also positively buzzed with scientific discovery and innovation, making the French royal court a crossroads of science and power. Professor Suzannah Lipscomb visits a fascinating exhibition at London's Science Museum which peels back the gilded layers of the famous palace to reveal its lesser-known role as a hotbed of scientific thinking. Along the way, she hears about innovative and dangerous new surgeries, sees the Sun King's actual pet rhinoceros as well as the world's most famous watch, designed for Marie Antoinette.Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Alice Smith, audio editor is Amy Haddow and the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.Theme music from All3Media. Other music courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.Not Just the Tudors is a History Hit podcast.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. You can take part in our listener survey here: https://insights.historyhit.com/history-hit-podcast-always-on

In the latest episode of Sausage On A Fork, we're joined by Kate Bell aka Kelly Bradshaw. Kate tells us how her character went from someone who just had the occasional line to someone who was involved in one of Grange Hill's most controversial storylines; what the sleepover in the Science Museum was really like and how her she might not have been the best choice to be part of the skating and skiing storylines!

In this mind-expanding episode, Raghunath sits down with astrophysicists, astronomers, and Vedic scholars to explore one of the most ambitious scientific and spiritual projects on the planet—the Science Museum of the Vedic Planetarium in Mayapur, India. What did ancient Vedic texts reveal about the cosmos that modern science is only now beginning to explore? How does the universe function as a consciousness-based reality? And why did Śrīla Prabhupāda envision a Vedic planetarium as a centerpiece of his global mission? Key Highlights: ✨ The 14 planetary systems—higher realms, subterranean heavens, and the forgotten concept of Vedic cosmography ✨ The James Webb Telescope and modern physics—how contemporary discoveries align with the Bhagavatam ✨ Are UFOs, multi-dimensional beings, and subtle matter crafts real? A scientist's take on unexplained phenomena ✨ How the Vedas challenge the materialistic worldview and offer a paradigm shift in modern science Join us for an electrifying conversation where Vedic wisdom meets cutting-edge astrophysics—unpacking timeless knowledge that could reshape our understanding of reality itself.

In this mind-expanding episode, Raghunath sits down with astrophysicists, astronomers, and Vedic scholars to explore one of the most ambitious scientific and spiritual projects on the planet—the Science Museum of the Vedic Planetarium in Mayapur, India. What did ancient Vedic texts reveal about the cosmos that modern science is only now beginning to explore? How does the universe function as a consciousness-based reality? And why did Śrīla Prabhupāda envision a Vedic planetarium as a centerpiece of his global mission? Key Highlights: ✨ The 14 planetary systems—higher realms, subterranean heavens, and the forgotten concept of Vedic cosmography ✨ The James Webb Telescope and modern physics—how contemporary discoveries align with the Bhagavatam ✨ Are UFOs, multi-dimensional beings, and subtle matter crafts real? A scientist's take on unexplained phenomena ✨ How the Vedas challenge the materialistic worldview and offer a paradigm shift in modern science Join us for an electrifying conversation where Vedic wisdom meets cutting-edge astrophysics—unpacking timeless knowledge that could reshape our understanding of reality itself.

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Many dangerous creatures lurk in the Appalachian Mountains. Transmogrified animals - those transformed by magic - are some of the most threatening. All that remains of these creatures are folk stories associated with them. How much of the tales are real? How many tragedies can be attributed to them today?SOURCES “OTHER IMPORTANT ECOSYSTEMS: Mature Forest.” islandtrust. Accessed 14 June 2018.“Barred Owl.” Science Museum of Minnesota. Accessed 14 June 2018.“Barred Owl Life History.” The Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Accessed 15 June 2018.CREDITSThis public broadcast is made possible thanks to these BCWPA Agents: Brandon Ruch, Colten Williams, Daniel Berry, Donovan Scherer, Kimberly Nichols, Layla Leutwyler, Madelynn ODell, Matthew Schang, Pyper Wilson, Lenin Roman, Ronald Miller, PHouseGames, Anthony Ferries, Dandan, Fox & Brambles, Jim Walke, Claire, Hallesy, Heather, HELGA, Kris Mitchell, Kylie Reed, Rick Belcher, Cryptid Clyde, T. Carter Ross, Agus Mercado, Ead Daniels, Elizabeth Lukjanczuk, Shelby Fulton, Veronica Mulvaney, Zodiac Gaming Industry, Mr. Blue Sky Send the BCWPA a message!Support the showDo you have a story, sighting, or piece of folklore to share? Visit our office.Grab a cryptid study, visit the Ballyraven store.

As usual there are spoilers ahead! Description Forbidden Planet (1956) is a somewhat overlooked 50s classic. Although it often fails to make lists of the greatest sci-fi films of all time it has come across often in my written research and when speaking to guests. It's a film that not only seems to excite avid fans of sci-fi cinema but also influenced some of the genre's heavy hitters like both Star Wars and Star Trek. A costly, slick, colourful movie which takes a break from the red scare themes and invites us to delve into the dangers of the human mind. We mention Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics in the episode which are: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. The fourth law also known as Law Zero or Zeroth Law is: A robot cannot cause harm to mankind or, by inaction, allow mankind to come to harm.I have two amazing guests to help unravel the threads in this space opera. The ExpertsJay Telotte is Professor Emeritus of film and media studies at Georgia Tech. He has written/edited numerous books and articles about science fiction film including the 2023 book Selling Science Fiction Cinema. Glyn Morgan is Curatorial Lead at the Science Museum in London and a science fiction scholar. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to the film, some historical context and the guests 02:25 The impact of Forbidden Planet 07:56 MGM does big budget sci-fi 13:52 Robby the Robot: a new type of robot and Asimov's laws 22:02 Special effects 23:15 Altaira: miniskirts, the Hays Code and sexism 32:44 The monster: Disney, the id and technological hubris 38:01 The sound of electronic music: Bebe and Louis Barron's breakthrough 43:50 The legacy of Forbidden Planet 50:09 Recommendations for the listenersNEXT EPISODE! The next episode we will focus on The Incredible Shrinking Man. You can buy or rent the 1956 film from many outlets or check the Just Watch website to see where it may be streaming in your region. It is worth checking platforms like Tubi and Pluto if they are available. 

Fluent Fiction - Catalan: Starry Connections: Uniting Under Barcelona's Winter Sky Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/ca/episode/2024-12-29-08-38-19-ca Story Transcript:Ca: El fred penetrava els carrers de Barcelona.En: The cold penetrated the streets of Barcelona.Ca: Era ple hivern, i la ciutat estava embolicada per una atmosfera màgica mentre la gent es preparava per a la Nit de Cap d'Any.En: It was the middle of winter, and the city was wrapped in a magical atmosphere as people prepared for New Year's Eve.Ca: Júlia, una estudiant d'astrofísica, caminava cap al Museu de la Ciència.En: Júlia, a student of astrophysics, walked towards the Science Museum.Ca: Li agradava la tranquil·litat de la ciutat en aquells moments, quan l'aire era fresc i net.En: She enjoyed the tranquility of the city at those moments, when the air was fresh and clean.Ca: Al Museu de la Ciència de Barcelona, el bullici era com una melodia constant.En: At the Science Museum of Barcelona, the hustle and bustle was like a constant melody.Ca: Júlia va entrar amb el propòsit de trobar inspiració per a la seva tesi.En: Júlia entered with the purpose of finding inspiration for her thesis.Ca: La seva passió pel cosmos la portava sovint a aquests llocs.En: Her passion for the cosmos often led her to these places.Ca: Avui, havia decidit assistir a una demostració interactiva sobre fenòmens celestials.En: Today, she had decided to attend an interactive demonstration on celestial phenomena.Ca: Malgrat preferir la solitud, sabia que de vegades les idees brillants venien de les experiències col·lectives.En: Despite preferring solitude, she knew that sometimes brilliant ideas came from collective experiences.Ca: Dins del museu, l'energia era palpable.En: Inside the museum, the energy was palpable.Ca: Famílies, estudiants i curiosos es movien d'un costat a l'altre, explorant les exposicions.En: Families, students, and curious onlookers moved from one exhibit to another, exploring.Ca: Pau, un periodista amb un amor profund per les històries de ciència, havia estat observant el públic.En: Pau, a journalist with a deep love for science stories, had been observing the audience.Ca: Buscava quelcom especial per al seu article de Cap d'Any.En: He was searching for something special for his New Year's article.Ca: Volia mostrar com la ciència i les experiències humanes es poden entrellaçar.En: He wanted to show how science and human experiences could intertwine.Ca: Quan la demostració va començar sota la cúpula del planetari, Júlia no va poder evitar perdre's en la bellesa de les estrelles projectades damunt seu.En: When the demonstration began under the dome of the planetarium, Júlia couldn't help but lose herself in the beauty of the stars projected above her.Ca: Eren com petites finestres a l'univers.En: They were like small windows to the universe.Ca: Al seu costat, Pau va notar l'absorció total de Júlia en l'espectacle.En: Next to her, Pau noticed Júlia's complete absorption in the spectacle.Ca: Sentint una connexió instintiva, va decidir apropar-se.En: Feeling an instinctive connection, he decided to approach her.Ca: —És fascinant, oi?En: "It's fascinating, isn't it?"Ca: —va comentar Pau amb un somriure acollidor.En: Pau commented with a welcoming smile.Ca: Júlia, sorpresa, va mirar cap a ell.En: Júlia, surprised, looked towards him.Ca: Al principi dubtosa, va sentir una espurna de curiositat.En: Initially hesitant, she felt a spark of curiosity.Ca: Potser compartir amb algú més del seu interès no seria tan dolent.En: Maybe sharing her interest with someone else wouldn't be so bad.Ca: —Sí, ho és —va respondre amb un lleu somriure.En: "Yes, it is," she responded with a slight smile.Ca: Van començar a xerrar, i Pau va descobrir que Júlia tenia un coneixement increïble sobre els fenòmens que estaven veient.En: They began to chat, and Pau discovered that Júlia had incredible knowledge about the phenomena they were observing.Ca: Júlia, al seu torn, se sentia cada vegada més còmoda compartint les seves idees.En: Júlia, in turn, felt increasingly comfortable sharing her ideas.Ca: En Pau, no veia només un periodista, sinó algú realment interessat en la meravella i complexitat de l'univers.En: In Pau, she saw not just a journalist, but someone truly interested in the wonder and complexity of the universe.Ca: L'intercanvi intensificà sota la llum etèria del planetari.En: The exchange intensified under the ethereal light of the planetarium.Ca: Júlia, inspirada per la conversa, va compartir una idea personal, una hipòtesi que havia estat considerant per a la seva tesi.En: Inspired by the conversation, Júlia shared a personal idea, a hypothesis she had been considering for her thesis.Ca: Aquesta revelació va encendre una connexió entre tots dos.En: This revelation sparked a connection between them.Ca: —Haurem de seguir parlant-ne —va suggerir Pau mentre sortien del planetari, la seva veu plena d'entusiasme.En: "We'll have to keep talking about it," Pau suggested as they left the planetarium, his voice full of enthusiasm.Ca: —M'agradaria —va coincidir Júlia, amb un somriure que no es podia amagar.En: "I'd like that," Júlia agreed, with a smile she couldn't hide.Ca: Van sortir del museu junts, decidits a seguir la conversa amb un cafè.En: They left the museum together, determined to continue their discussion over coffee.Ca: La ciutat, embolicada en l'esperança d'un any nou, feia de teló de fons per a una relació que començava a florir.En: The city, wrapped in the hope of a new year, served as a backdrop for a relationship beginning to blossom.Ca: Pau va entendre que a vegades la història més captivadora no es troba en les paraules, sinó en les connexions que aquestes poden crear.En: Pau understood that sometimes the most captivating story isn't found in words but in the connections they can create.Ca: I Júlia va aprendre que el compartir el seu món podia obrir noves possibilitats.En: And Júlia learned that sharing her world could open up new possibilities.Ca: Sota el cel estrellat de Barcelona, Pau i Júlia van caminar cap al que prometia ser un any nou ple d'exploracions, tant en els seus camps respectius com en la seva nova amistat.En: Under the starry sky of Barcelona, Pau and Júlia walked towards what promised to be a new year full of explorations, both in their respective fields and in their newfound friendship. Vocabulary Words:the cold: el fredthe winter: el hivernthe tranquility: la tranquil·litatthe hustle and bustle: el bullicithe melody: la melodiathe purpose: el propòsitthe thesis: la tesithe cosmos: el cosmosthe solitude: la solitudthe inspiration: la inspiracióthe curiosity: la curiositatthe knowledge: el coneixementthe phenomenon: el fenomenthe energy: l'energiathe exhibit: l'exposicióthe article: l'articlethe universe: l'universthe connection: la connexióthe journalist: el periodistathe idea: la ideathe demonstration: la demostracióthe hypothesis: la hipòtesithe exchange: l'intercanvithe revelation: la revelacióthe enthusiasm: l'entusiasmethe background: el teló de fonsthe relationship: la relacióthe exploration: l'exploracióthe friendship: l'amistatthe starry sky: el cel estrellat

Fluent Fiction - Mandarin Chinese: Adventures with a Robot: A New Year at Beijing's Science Museum Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/zh/episode/2024-12-29-08-38-20-zh Story Transcript:Zh: 北京的科学博物馆装饰得五光十色，新年的气息弥漫在空气中，吸引了众多游客。En: The Science Museum in Beijing was decorated with vibrant colors, and the atmosphere of the New Year filled the air, attracting many visitors.Zh: 李伟、小张和美琳三人兴致勃勃地走进博物馆，他们对眼前的一切充满了好奇。En: Li Wei, Xiao Zhang, and Meilin entered the museum with great enthusiasm, full of curiosity about everything before them.Zh: “我们先去哪儿？”小张笑嘻嘻地问。En: “Where should we go first?” Xiao Zhang asked with a grin.Zh: 他显得比平常更兴奋。En: He seemed more excited than usual.Zh: “先去未来科技展览吧！”李伟对新技术充满热情，他的眼睛在看到展览牌时立刻亮了起来。En: “Let's go to the Future Technology Exhibition first!” Li Wei, passionate about new technologies, his eyes lit up the moment he saw the exhibition sign.Zh: 美琳则低头翻看手中的展览指南，说：“等一下，我看到有个互动机器人展，En: Meanwhile, Meilin was looking down at the exhibition guide in her hand and said, “Hold on, I see there's an interactive robot exhibition.Zh: 一定要去看看！”En: We definitely have to check it out!”Zh: 三人朝着机器人展览区走去。En: The three headed towards the robot exhibition area.Zh: 展厅里有很多神奇的机器人，其中有一个特别引起了大家的注意。En: There were many amazing robots in the hall, one in particular caught everyone's attention.Zh: 它居然能够和人对话，还能做出各种有趣的动作。En: It could actually talk to people and perform various interesting actions.Zh: 然而，突然间，机器人开始不受控制地四处走动，紧紧地跟在李伟他们身后。En: However, suddenly, the robot began to move around uncontrollably, closely following Li Wei and the others.Zh: “怎么回事？”美琳惊讶地说。En: “What's going on?” Meilin exclaimed in surprise.Zh: 机器人不断重复着简单的欢迎语：“欢迎欢迎！新年快乐！”En: The robot kept repeating a simple welcome message: “Welcome, welcome! Happy New Year!”Zh: 李伟苦笑道：“真是个‘热情'的迎宾员。”En: Li Wei smiled wryly and said, “What an ‘enthusiastic' greeter.”Zh: 大家试图甩掉这个‘黏人'的机器人，但它就像魔术贴一样，紧追不舍，四处追逐的样子让游客们纷纷驻足，笑声不断。En: They tried to shake off this ‘clingy' robot, but it was like a piece of Velcro, persistently chasing after them, causing the tourists to stop and laugh continuously.Zh: “我们得想办法阻止它。”美琳灵机一动。En: “We have to find a way to stop it,” Meilin suddenly had an idea.Zh: 李伟抓住机会，决定试着和这个古怪的机器人成为朋友。En: Li Wei seized the opportunity and decided to try to befriend the quirky robot.Zh: “也许我们可以重新编程它。”En: “Maybe we can reprogram it.”Zh: 小张捂着肚子笑，但还是马上帮忙找来了工具箱。En: Xiao Zhang clutched his stomach laughing, but he quickly helped by bringing over a toolbox.Zh: 三人在越来越多的好奇观众面前，开始尝试修理机器人。En: In front of a growing audience of curious onlookers, the three began to try and fix the robot.Zh: 李伟冷静沉着，美琳提供策略，而小张则负责递工具。En: Li Wei was calm and composed, Meilin provided strategies, and Xiao Zhang was responsible for handing over the tools.Zh: 经过一番努力，他们终于恢复了机器人的程序。En: After some effort, they finally restored the robot's program.Zh: 不过，他们没有让它回到原来的迎宾状态，而是把它变成了一个有趣的讲解员。En: However, instead of returning it to its original greeting state, they turned it into an engaging explainer.Zh: 机器人现在用颇具幽默感的语调开始介绍展览：“各位准备好了吗？En: The robot now began to introduce the exhibition in a humorous tone: “Are you all ready?Zh: 让我们来探索未来的世界！”En: Let's explore the world of the future!”Zh: 人群中响起了热烈的掌声。En: A burst of applause erupted from the crowd.Zh: 李伟感受到心中的成就感。En: Li Wei felt a sense of accomplishment.Zh: 他学会了如何在混乱中保持冷静，并将意外的挑战化为教学的机会。En: He learned how to stay calm amidst chaos and turn unexpected challenges into learning opportunities.Zh: 随着机器人的引导和解说，三人愉快地参观了博物馆的其他展览。En: Guided by the robot's narration, the trio happily visited other exhibitions in the museum.Zh: 这个意外插曲不仅让他们的博物馆之旅更有趣，也让即将到来的新年多了一份难忘的回忆。En: This unexpected episode not only made their museum visit more exciting but also added an unforgettable memory to the upcoming New Year.Zh: 当他们走出博物馆时，李伟微微一笑：“有时候，意想不到的挑战正是学习新的开始。”En: As they walked out of the museum, Li Wei smiled slightly and said, “Sometimes, unexpected challenges are just the beginning of learning something new.”Zh: 小张和美琳也露出了会心的微笑，同意地点了点头。En: Xiao Zhang and Meilin also smiled knowingly and nodded in agreement. Vocabulary Words:decorated: 装饰vibrant: 五光十色atmosphere: 气息enthusiasm: 兴致勃勃curiosity: 好奇grin: 笑嘻嘻passionate: 热情interactive: 互动uncontrollably: 不受控制unexpected: 意外opportunity: 机会wryly: 苦笑clingy: 黏人persistent: 紧追不舍quiver: 颤抖restore: 恢复engaging: 有趣applause: 掌声accomplishment: 成就感chaos: 混乱narration: 解说episode: 插曲exciting: 有趣memory: 回忆explainer: 讲解员composed: 沉着strategies: 策略toolbox: 工具箱onlookers: 观众seized: 抓住

Fluent Fiction - Japanese: New Year's Spark: Reigniting Passion at Osaka Science Museum Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/ja/episode/2024-12-29-23-34-01-ja Story Transcript:Ja: 大阪科学館は、新年のイブに特別なイベントを開催していました。En: The Osaka Science Museum was hosting a special event on New Year's Eve.Ja: 館内は多くの人々で賑わい、いたるところに飾られた照明が硝子の展示に反射して、輝かしい雰囲気を醸し出しています。En: The venue buzzed with many people, and the lights adorning the space reflected off the glass exhibits, creating a brilliant atmosphere.Ja: 由紀（ゆき）は、このイベントにひとりで参加しました。En: Yuki attended this event alone.Ja: 彼女は技術系の仕事をしていましたが、最近は情熱を失っていると感じていました。En: Although she worked in a technical field, she felt she was losing her passion lately.Ja: 「何か新しい視点が欲しい」と彼女は考え、科学館を訪れることに決めました。En: "I want a new perspective," she thought and decided to visit the science museum.Ja: 一方、春樹（はるき）は、科学への情熱を持つボランティアとして働いていました。En: On the other hand, Haruki was working as a volunteer passionate about science.Ja: 彼は、訪れる人々に科学の楽しさを伝え、さらにその中で写真のインスピレーションを探していました。En: He aimed to convey the joy of science to visitors while seeking inspiration for his photos among them.Ja: しかし、なかなか特別な瞬間を捉えることができず、もどかしさを感じていました。En: However, he was frustrated at not being able to capture any special moments.Ja: 由紀が館内を歩いていると、インタラクティブな展示ブースが目に留まりました。En: As Yuki walked through the museum, an interactive exhibit caught her eye.Ja: そこにいたのは、春樹でした。彼は展示を訪れる人々と積極的に話をし、どうしてこの展示が興味深いのかを尋ねていました。En: Haruki was there, enthusiastically talking with visitors and asking why they found the exhibit interesting.Ja: 由紀は少しためらったが、春樹の熱意ある話し方に引き寄せられ、彼に話しかけることにしました。En: Although she hesitated a little, Yuki was drawn to his passionate way of speaking and decided to talk to him.Ja: 「この展示、面白いですよね」と由紀が言うと、春樹は笑顔で答えました。「そうですよね！科学の発見には、いつも驚きがあります」と答えました。En: "This exhibit is fascinating, isn't it?" Yuki said, to which Haruki replied with a smile, "Yes, indeed! There's always something astonishing in scientific discoveries."Ja: 二人は話が弾み、互いの視点や感じていることを共有しました。En: Their conversation flowed, and they shared their perspectives and feelings with each other.Ja: 春樹は、由紀の話から新しいインスピレーションを受け取りました。En: Haruki was inspired by Yuki's words.Ja: 「科学の瞬間を、人の心を通して見ることができれば、また違った写真が撮れそうだ」と感じました。En: "If I can see scientific moments through people's hearts, I might be able to capture different kinds of photos," he felt.Ja: 彼はカメラを取り出し、会場の人々の笑顔や驚く瞬間を捉えることにしました。En: He took out his camera and captured the smiles and moments of wonder among the people in the venue.Ja: 由紀もまた、春樹との会話を通じて、自分の仕事に新たな意味を見出すことができました。En: Yuki also found a new meaning in her work through the conversation with Haruki.Ja: 「もっと人とのつながりを大事にしよう。それがきっと、新しい視点を与えてくれる」と心に決めました。En: "I should value connections with people more. That must offer me a new perspective," she decided in her heart.Ja: 夜が更け、新年のカウントダウンが近づくと、由紀はすっきりとした気持ちで会場を後にしました。En: As the night grew later and the countdown to the New Year approached, Yuki left the venue with a refreshed feeling.Ja: 春樹も満足のいく写真を撮影することができ、新たなプロジェクトを始める決意をしました。En: Haruki managed to take satisfying photos as well and resolved to start a new project.Ja: 新しい年の始まりを前に、二人はそれぞれの道で新しい発見とつながりを求め、心新たに歩み始めたのでした。En: Before the start of the new year, both of them set out on their respective paths, seeking new discoveries and connections, embarking on their journey with renewed spirits.Ja: 大阪の夜風は冷たくも、未来への期待で二人の心は温かく満たされていました。En: The Osaka night wind was cold, but their hearts were warmly filled with anticipation for the future. Vocabulary Words:venue: 館内adorn: 飾られたexhibit: 展示brilliant: 輝かしいperspective: 視点passionate: 情熱convey: 伝えfrustrated: もどかしさinteractive: インタラクティブenthusiastically: 積極的にastonishing: 驚きdiscoveries: 発見flowed: 弾みinspiration: インスピレーションcapture: 捉えるembark: 歩みrenewed: 心新たにanticipation: 期待eve: イブreflect: 反射field: 技術系values: 大事にhesitate: ためらうsatisfying: 満足project: プロジェクトresolve: 決意respective: それぞれのcold: 冷たくhearts: 心fulfilled: 満たされていました

Episode 281 In this special episode recorded live at the Science Museum in London, we celebrate some of the best, most awe-inspiring science stories of 2024.  Round one kicks off with the panelist's stories of the year, including the discovery that thousand-year-old preserved brains are much easier to find than we realised, that metallic nodules found on the sea floor could be acting as “geobatteries”, creating oxygen in the deep sea, plus a surprising finding involving Dyson Spheres that may hint at the existence of advanced alien life. In round two the panelists discuss their cultural highlights of the year. On the line up is an installation in London called ‘Breathing with the Forest', a time-travel novel called ‘The Other Valley', the stage show reimagining of ‘Dr Stangelove' and an absurdist comedy about climate diplomacy called ‘Rumours'. Round three is a quiz for the audience asking questions like, do warm drinks taste more alcoholic than cold ones? What animal can be added to milk to initiate the yoghurt-making fermentation process? And which animal can survive with almost no sleep?  And round four celebrates stories that will make you say “Wow!”, plus a moment of good cheer. These include flowers that can sequester nickel and be turned into metal, how brains and other body parts can be brought back from the dead, the discovery of the world's largest coral reef and the invention of a hospital for fungal-infected frogs. On the panel are Rowan Hooper, Catherine de Lange, Sam Wong and Madeleine Cuff. To read more about these stories, visit https://www.newscientist.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Transport for London has announced fare increases for Tube travellers next year at more than double the rate of inflation.Mayor Sadiq Khan confirmed the cost of travelling on the Underground, London Overground and Elizabeth line would increase at double the rate of inflation - but bus fares remain frozen, stay tuned for details.The London Standard's transport editor, Ross Lydall, interviewed the mayor following Friday's announcement, and joins us to examine cost, policy and politics.In part two, the Science Museum's curatorial lead of exhibitions Dr Glyn Morgan on Versailles: Science and Splendour, which includes a late 18th Century Breguet No.160 watch created for Marie Antoinette - once valued at almost £24 million. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple boss Tim Cook met King Charles on Thursday at Apple's HQ in London - it came after Cook told The London Standard that the wealth of the capital's tech and creative talent makes it a “great hub” for the artificial intelligence revolution.Puberty blocker ban for children with gender dysphoria made indefinite.The world's most famous watch, made for Marie Antoinette, now on display in London as part of the Versailles: Science and Splendour exhibition - Tech & Science Daily speaks with Dr Glyn Morgan, curatorial lead at the Science Museum.Also in this episode:US scientists investigate the Firefly Sparkle galaxy - could it shine a light on how early galaxies formed?Jerry! Netflix documentary looks behind the scenes at The Jerry Springer Show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TOKYO EXPRESS by Seichō Matsumoto, translated by Jesse Kirkwood, chosen by Sir Ian Blatchford THE LETTERS OF ABELARD AND HELOISE, translated by Betty Radice, chosen by Charles Fernyhough SOLDIERS OF SALAMIS by Javier Cercas, translated by Anne McLean, chosen by Harriett GilbertDirector of the Science Museum group and president of the Royal Literary Fund, Sir Ian Blatchford, chooses a cult classic from 1958 for his good read. A double love suicide wrapped up in suspicious government corruption and a whodunnit hinging on train timetables, Sir Ian makes the case for one of his favourite books.Travelling to the middle ages for Charles Fernyhough's pick, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise were once much more widely known than they are today. Charles, an amateur medievalist alongside being an author, musician and Professor of Psychology at Durham University, recommends this book as one of the greatest love stories of all time. The letters of Heloise he especially believes should be celebrated, as they showcase a great early feminist philosopher and writer.Presenter Harriett Gilbert's good read takes readers into the Spanish Civil War: Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas, from 2001. This is a book exploring the role of memory when unpicking the past, and asks questions about whether we can ever remember what really happened. What will the others make of it?Producer: Eliza Lomas for BBC Audio, Bristol Join the book club on Instagram, @agoodreadbbc

Ceri speaks with Dhikshana Turakhia Pering, who has over 18 years of experience in museums, galleries and the wider cultural and creative world. As Head of Creative Programmes at London Museum, Dhikshana talks to Ceri about her journey from Science Museum explainer to cultural leader and reveals how her neurodiversity shaped her approach to leadership. She discusses the importance of joy and hope in creative programming, authentic leadership and making culture accessible to all. Throughout the episode, it is clear that Dhikshana's mission is closely aligned with her own experiences and upbringing, giving her authentic passion in everything she does. KEY TAKEAWAYS Dhikshana manages her neurodiversity through good preparation, practising presentations three times, detailed scripting, and developing organisational systems that help her lead effectively while maintaining high standards Throughout her career, Dhikshana has developed programming based on starting from a place of empathy and respect, actively listening to communities, and ensuring representation becomes embedded in institutional structures Her leadership style evolved from recognising that being authentic means maintaining consistency across all interactions while learning to set boundaries between her professional and personal life She created the "triangle model" framework at London Museum, focusing on intellectual depth, lived experience, and universal themes to build strong creative programmes that resonate with diverse audiences Her involvement with Museum Detox has shown her the vital importance of professional networks in providing support, solidarity, and advocacy for diversity in cultural institutions Dhikshana's career transitions were guided by listening to her gut instinct while building support systems that allowed her to make bold moves when necessary At London Museum, she combines programming that sparks joy and hope while addressing serious social issues and civic action, drawing from her personal experiences growing up in Camden Her approach to team leadership focuses on creating psychological safety while maintaining clear structures, drawing from both positive and challenging experiences throughout her career journey BEST MOMENTS "If you can hold the attention of 14 year old boys while you're on stage delivering a show about digestion, where you're talking about poo, like you can pretty much hold the attention of anyone." "I'm glad we're in a world now where 12 year old me right now somewhere would find out they were dyslexic and be like, cool. Like, what do I need? How do I do it?" "I was told I would never be a leader because I smile too much...The smile is a big thing. It makes people feel welcome and comfortable with me. And then they tell me lots of stuff that's really helpful." "Being your authentic self means being genuine to everyone around you...They know, they meet you, they hear you, they hear what you're interested in and how you're going to do this." "The way I am, my empathy, the way I love chatting to people, the way that I can listen to someone and then retain loads of information is really important."   EPISODE RESOURCES Guest Resources: https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/dtpering PODCAST HOST BIO With over 30 years in the art world, Ceri has worked closely with leading artists and arts professionals, managed public and private galleries and charities, and curated more than 250 exhibitions and events. She sold artworks to major museums and private collectors and commissioned thousands of works across diverse media, from renowned artists such as John Akomfrah, Pipilotti Rist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Vito Acconci. Now, she wants to share her extensive knowledge with you, so you can excel and achieve your goals. **** Ceri Hand Coaching Membership: Group coaching, live art surgeries, exclusive masterclasses, portfolio reviews, weekly challenges. Access our library of content and resource hub anytime and enjoy special discounts within a vibrant community of peers and professionals. Ready to transform your art career? Join today!  https://cerihand.com/membership/  **** Build Relationships The Easy WayOur self-study video course, "Unlock Your Artworld Network,"  offers a straightforward 5-step framework to help you build valuable relationships effortlessly. Gain the tools and confidence you need to create new opportunities and thrive in the art world today. https://cerihand.com/courses/unlock_your_artworld_network/**** Book a Discovery Call Today To schedule a personalised 1-2-1 coaching session with Ceri or explore our group coaching options, simply email us at hello@cerihand.com **** Discover Your Extraordinary Creativity Visit www.cerihand.com to learn how we can help you become an extraordinary creative.

"The more we explore of the natural world, the more it points back to the love, care, diversity, and variety of our Creator." ~ David Rives Watch this full interview on our YouTube Channel. Yvette Hampton is joined by David Rives, founder and CEO of the Wonders Center and Science Museum in Tennessee. Dive into the exciting world of science education for homeschoolers, with practical tips for teaching science across various grade levels, from elementary to high school. Discover how to use hands-on activities and a biblical worldview to make science both fun and impactful for your students, and discover great resources to enhance your homeschool curriculum. Has the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast been a blessing to you? Support from our listeners allows us provide resources, support, and encouragement to homeschooling families around the world. Would you please consider a year-end gift to support the Schoolhouse Rocked ministry? Recommended Resources: David Rives Ministries Wonders Center and Science Museum Creation SuperStore Genesis Science Network 21 Verses Backed by Science, by David Rives Creation Club Print Magazine Creation Club Online Magazine Podcast Recommendations: Homeschooling Every Subject Series Changing the Narrative Podcast Ken Ham, of Answers in Genesis, on the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast Eric Hovind, of Creation Today, on the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast Thinking Dad Podcast

"Evidence is all around us, vindicating our belief system that we've held to for so long." ~ David Rives Watch this full interview on our YouTube Channel. Yvette Hampton sits down with David Rives, founder of the Wonders Center and Science Museum in Dixon, Tennessee. David dives deep into the intersection of science and faith, revealing the harmony between the two. Learn how to debunk evolution myths and understand the importance of teaching science from a biblical worldview.

“While science is trying to better understand creation, religion is trying to better understand the creator. You can't have design - the world around us - without a designer. And if we're being intellectually honest, we can admit that.” ~ David Rives Watch this full interview on our YouTube Channel. Yvette Hampton chats with David Rives, founder and CEO of the Wonders Center and Science Museum, about teaching science from a biblical perspective. David shares his journey from being homeschooled to leading one of the largest creation science ministries in the world. Discover how science and faith intersect as we explore topics like astrophotography, fossil hunting, and animal biology. Learn practical tips on how to homeschool science while integrating the truth of God's Word, making science an exciting discovery of God's creation. Come back Wednesday and Thursday for the rest of this conversation.  Has the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast been a blessing to you? Support from our listeners allows us provide resources, support, and encouragement to homeschooling families around the world. Would you please consider a year-end gift to support the Schoolhouse Rocked ministry? Recommended Resources: David Rives Ministries Wonders Center and Science Museum Creation SuperStore Genesis Science Network 21 Verses Backed by Science, by David Rives Creation Club Print Magazine Creation Club Online Magazine Podcast Recommendations: Homeschooling Every Subject Series Changing the Narrative Podcast Ken Ham, of Answers in Genesis, on the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast Eric Hovind, of Creation Today, on the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast Thinking Dad Podcast

1851 it is, and the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs, exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century. Famous people of the time attended the Great Exhibition, including Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Samuel Colt, writers like Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson, and William Makepeace Thackeray. Schweppes was the official sponsor. The Great Exhibition was a celebration of modern industrial technology and design - mainly for the British who were trying to show how through tech, the world would be a better place - leading the nations in innovations so to speak. Six million people, equivalent to a third of the entire population of Britain at the time, visited the Great Exhibition, averaging over 42 000 visitors a day, sometimes topping 100 000. Thomas Cook managed the travel arrangements for the Exhibition, and made the equivalent of 33.2 million pounds in today's cash - or 186 000 pounds back in 1851, and promptly used the money to found the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Science Museum, as well as the Natural History Museum. Inventor Frederick Bakewell demonstrated a precurser to something that we know as a Fax Machine. The New Zealand exhibit was well liked, featuring Maori crafts such as flax baskets, carved wooden objects, eel traps, mats, fish hooks and the scourge of the British army in Kiwiland, their hand clubs. A couple of conservative politicians let it be known they were not happy about the Exhibition, saying visitors would turn into a revolutionary mob. Considering that Karl Marx was part of the visitors - perhaps not unsurprisingly. But did Karl Marx use the services of Thomas Cook? Not exactly a question destined for a dissertation. This Exhibition went on to become a symbol of the Victorian Era. Meanwhile … a serious War in one of its colonies, the Cape was more than disquietening - it appeared this war was more a Victorian error. AS in mistake. amaNgqika chief Maqoma was causing Harry Smith sleepness nights, and Colonel Fordyce and his colleagues were fighting for their lives along the Amathola mountains. The Waterkloof ridges — in a place to the west of Fort Beaufort — was where the Khoekhoe and coloured marksmen made their greatest impact. The ex-Cape Mounted Rifles members amongst the rebels had other uses. They understood the British bugle calls, having been trained by the British, further exasperating men like Henry Somerset and Colonel Fordyce. The amaXhosa and Khoekhoe rebels were also much more organised than in previous wars against the invaders. They targeted the Messengers reading updates from British commanders intended for Grahamstown and been reading the reports, and some of the rebels were actually being supplied directly from Grahamstown itself. Then Henry seemed to receive an injection of spine - of determination. On November 6th 1851 he massed two large columns, one under Colonel Fordyce, and the other led by Colonel Michel. Unbeknownest to him, this was to be Fordyce's last mission. Michel's column had to advance up the Waterkloof aka Mount Misery, while Fordyce's column would wait above, on the summit. Michel would drive the rebels up the mountain, Fordyce would trap them and voila! Victory. It didn't quite work that way.

Join host Pam Bordelon as she visits with Karen Soniat, the new executive director of the Louisiana Art & Science Museum, who is now back in Baton Rouge after several years in New Orleans working with the National World War II Museum. She's excited about her first LASM Gala -- Party in the Valley of the Kings, which takes place Oct. 4.

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