Barcelona buzz

Barcelona buzz

Science writer and broadcaster Sue Nelson reports from the Euroscience Open Forum in Barcelona.The forum is a relatively new event that aims to showcase European achievements in the sciences.Over the next few days, Sue will track the trends, the issues and the gossip.

FRIDAY 18TH JULY: SCIENCE AND SIESTA

There are many reasons to go to Barcelona and I’ve now found a new one.It’s the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) 2008 where I’ll be presenting three events called The X-Change.

These are similar to the informal best-of-the-fest evenings during the annual British Association science festival. It’s an ideal job, to be honest, because I interview scientists who are great at communicating. In a bar.

Fortunately, it’s an English-speaking session. I once updated a travel guide to southern Spain and only discovered on my return that I’d mixed up the verb “to have” with “to speak”.I spent the entire month asking people if they spoke tapas… Or red wine… Or white wine….

Over the next four days, ESOF has a number of scientific themes such as the human mind, engineering the body and ‘what should we eat and how should we look’

This is particularly apt considering the event is held in Spain. Lectures may start at 0830 but it’s the only science festival I have ever come across that has scheduled in a two-and-a-half-hour lunch-break.Yes, you read right. Two and a half hours.Fantastic.<P

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