The true story of the nutty Universe, crazy planet Earth, chaotic evolution and lucky old You!
Are we nearly there yet?" is what children say towards the end of a long journey. We have been on a very long journey - 14 billion years since the Big Bang - and we have had many adventures. I will be telling the best of them in 6 Zoom presentations, each Sunday between April 7 and May 12, so children can find out where we have come from, and how we got here.
I am director of the Brighton Science Festival, and I’ve made each hour-long session a mini-festival, using story-telling, video, images, Powerpoint, demonstrations, games, chat and experiments, based around the week's main theme and the questions that arise.
The tales are not just entertaining, amazing and funny, but also they link up to make a time-line which will be useful through life.
In fact, the stories overlap with the National Curriculum - from the beginning, and the birth of stars, to the appearance of life, evolution of animals and humans, to the growth of societies, up to the present. It has been fact-checked by the University of Sussex.
So: let’s have some serious fun! - Dr Richard Robinson
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