Festival schedule: today and tomorrow. . .
Today
Plant hunting and animal collection: is it still part of science? (9am-noon, Trinity, Hamilton building, 7)
What's in a word? How your mind processes words and why they have meanings at different levels (9am-noon, Trinity, Chemistry building, €7)
Materials and methods for the 21st century, describing radical new materials and how they might be used in the future. (10am-noon, Trinity, Lloyd building, €7)
How can maths help solve crime? (2pm-4pm, Hamilton building, 7)
Prof Robert Winston: the man, the media and making babies (8.30pm-10pm, RDS, 5)
Who sets the agenda for science? (6.30pm-8pm, RDS, 5)
Tomorrow
Layers of the cultural mind: how human behaviour is often mimicked in animal behaviour (9am-1pm, Trinity, Panoz Institute, 7)
The science of Irishness (9.15am-12.15pm, Panoz Institute, 7)
Making a mockery of molecules: science in Flann O'Brien's comic novel (7pm-9pm, Sugar Club, 8 Leeson Street, 10)
Café scientifique: science promise vs science reality (8pm-9.30pm, Harbourmaster Pub, Custom House Dock, IFSC, free)
A window into the brain, how scans allow us to watch the brain as it thinks, feels and remembers (2pm-6pm, Trinity, Lloyd Institute, 7)