Entries from Londonist tagged with 'davidattenborough'
April 11, 2008
"Oh, the flesh-eating beetles are in there," shrugs our guide, pointing to a locked door. This is the Darwin Centre, where a gruesome surprise lurks around every corner. The annexe to the Natural History Museum holds some 22 million biological specimens bottled up in jars - it's like walking into David Attenborough's Facebook account. Much of the collection is freely available to anyone who wants to see it, and is stored over eight floors,......
Continue Reading "Where To See A Giant Squid And A Pickled Pangolin"April 8, 2008
We wouldn't normally advocate Facebook groups, but this is one you HAVE to sign up to. You just have to. How amazing would this be? So now Life in Cold Blood is over, and the great man has hung up his broadcasting boots for good, what better tribute than to replace the starchy, boring voice on the London Underground with the silky, enthusiastic utterances of Sir David Attenborough. We'd finally learn what lives beneath Warren......
Continue Reading "Campaign To Make David Attenborough Voice Of The Tube"March 29, 2006
These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com. This week's summary was brought to you with the help of Inky Circus ....thanks Inky! Event of the week Pixar: 20 Years of Animation opens at the Science Museum this Saturday. Prebooking is strongly recommended cause, us inkettes dunno, it’s Pixar and they are easily the coolest geekiest most-badass......
Continue Reading "Cogito Ergo Summary: Your Weekly Science Listings"March 22, 2006
These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week Seeing as M@, the Cogito Ergo Master, is sunning himself on a beach right now, us temps called in from the inkycircus felt the time was right for a slight break from tradition - this week’s Event of the Week is a TV programme. But......
Continue Reading "Cogito Ergo Summary: Your Weekly Science Listings"March 21, 2006
And headline writers across the Capital mourn. This one comes under the NSS (No shit Sherlock) heading; a man has been refused a licence to keep two clouded leopards at his home in Peckham. Yes, that's right. Peckham. Although apparently it's really Camberwell, and the posh part too. OK, so that's an even bigger NSS rating then. Anyway, Camberwell, Peckham, The Oval, Dulwich, we don't see the location making much of a difference. Keeping......
Continue Reading "Peckham Saved From Big Cat Trauma"