{"id":2324,"date":"2017-02-07T09:28:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T09:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2017-02-07T09:40:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T09:40:04","slug":"2324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2324","title":{"rendered":"Science Showoff cabaret returns this March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/stand-up.jpg\" alt=\"stand-up\" width=\"800\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/stand-up.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/stand-up-300x170.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/stand-up-500x283.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What happens if you fill a pub with clever and lovely people then invite loads of amazing Goldsmiths scientists to entertain them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us on Wednesday 15 March for a chaotic science cabaret in the Amersham Arms,\u00a0featuring a line-up of Goldsmiths experts who will delve into the weird and wonderful side of computer science and psychology.<\/p>\n<p>Expect laughs, serial killers, Brad Pitt, a high-tech smart glove, facts that sound totally made up but aren&#8217;t, and loads of terrible PowerPoints. Compered by comedian\u00a0Steve Cross.\u00a0The line-up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark d\u2019Inverno (Computing): Why machines can never be creative &#8211; the history and future of creativity<\/li>\n<li>Hadeel Ayoub (Computing): Let&#8217;s have a talk&#8230; glove to glove<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Wiseman (Computing): People are weird:\u00a0Why we shouldn\u2019t experiment on students<\/li>\n<li>Caoimhe McAnena (Psychology): The psychology of the Croydon Cat Killer<\/li>\n<li>Ashok Jansari (Psychology): What&#8217;s the difference between Brad Pitt and a Super-cop?<\/li>\n<li>Robert Chapman (Psychology): Why science reporting isn&#8217;t funny<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong>\u00a06:30pm for 7pm start,\u00a0Wednesday 15 March 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong> Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road, SE14 6TY<br \/>\n<strong>Tickets:<\/strong> \u00a36 (\u00a35 for Goldsmiths staff\/students). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wegottickets.com\/event\/389234\">Buy online<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Part of British Science Week. All proceeds from ticket sales will go to CARA, the Centre for At-Risk Academics.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/calendar\/?id=10096\">Science Showoff in November 2016<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2042\">Science Showoff in March 2016<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens if you fill a pub with clever and lovely people then invite loads of amazing Goldsmiths scientists to entertain them? Join us on Wednesday 15 March for a chaotic science cabaret in the Amersham Arms,\u00a0featuring a line-up of Goldsmiths experts who will delve into the weird and wonderful side of computer science and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2324\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Science Showoff cabaret returns this March<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[105,107,74],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions\/2329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}