UPCOMING EVENTS
Meet Dr. Len Fisher: Opening the Door to Science
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Ig Nobel Prize winning physicist Dr. Len Fisher has captured the public imagination with his personal and imaginative approach to popular science writing. His books cover topics from the physics of biscuit dunking to the mathematics of cooperation and how we can use it to help resolve problems such as global warming. |
Dr. Fisher will describe the secrets of his success to encourage others to try fresh approaches to science writing and making science more accessible.
Date: Monday, 30 November 2009
Time: 6pm - 7pm
Venue: State Library of Queensland, Auditorium 1
Questions? Contact Lynelle Ross
Free
Presented by Brisbane Writers Festival in association with BrisScience
Meet Richard Dawkins
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Britain's greatest science writer, Richard Dawkins, comprehensively rebuts the creationists by pulling together the incontrovertible evidence for evolution. Richard is the renowned academic responsible for such works as The Selfish Gene through to the phenomenal The God Delusion. |
Date: Thursday, 4 March 2010
Time: 6pm for 6:30pm
Venue: Concert Hall, Queensland Performing Arts Complex
Tickets: $15 concession $18 Full Price at qtix
Presented by Brisbane Writers Festival in association with Brisbane Better Bookshops and QPAC
The Brisbane Writers Festival acknowledges the assistance of the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, the Gambling Community Benefit Fund and the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.