Edinburgh International Science Festival
The programme for 2012 has still to be announced but expect over 200 educational and interactive activities for the wee ones, and lectures and talks for older heads in 40 or so venues across town.
Regular visitors to the Edinburgh International Science Festival include Richard Dawkins, Dr Bunhead (looking to break the world record for the longest glow-in-the-dark necklace), and Professor Richard Wiseman, who as guest director in 2011, brought a series of psychology orientated events.
The City Art Centre became the hub in 2011 for kids activities with the return of ER, Unwrapping the Mummy, Dr Clot's Blood-Curdling Adventure, Nina and the Neurons and Rampaging Chariots.
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2009 EISF
In 2009, the festival marked the International Year of Astronomy and the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth with special strands of events, including a look at the cosmos, From the Earth to the Universe, and a debate, Darwin, Ideology and God. There were 170 events in 26 venues over two weeks of the EISF 2009.
