{"id":762,"date":"2016-09-30T09:59:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T09:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/?p=762"},"modified":"2016-12-06T14:39:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T14:39:53","slug":"the-scientific-village-fete-at-new-scientist-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/30\/the-scientific-village-fete-at-new-scientist-live\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scientific Village Fete at New Scientist Live"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From 22 to 25 September, we ran the Scientific Village Fete at New Scientist Live<\/a>, a four-day festival of ideas and discovery.<\/p>\n

Our\u00a0corner of the festival\u00a0invited passers-by to play traditional village-fete-style games – but with an astronomical twist.<\/p>\n

In the\u00a0Planet Shy<\/strong>, people threw balls coconut-shy style – but their aim was to knock down a scale model of the Solar System.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0The Two-Body Problem<\/strong>, a classic demonstration of how gravity works became a head-to-head challenge, as groups of players rolled\u00a0marbles<\/del> planets into orbit.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Space on Earth<\/strong>, a co-operative game created by Saffron Parker<\/a>, players put their hands into simulated spacesuit gloves and had to try to screw on nuts and bolts and tie ropes together.<\/p>\n

And in game-show-style\u00a0So Wrong It’s Right<\/strong>, performers drew the crowds before challenging players to go head-to-head against the quirks of their own brain, with a challenge that used the Stroop Effect to\u00a0turn something quite simple (say seven random words) into a real challenge.<\/p>\n

The games drew thousands of players over four days – including real live astronaut Al Worden, shown playing here with Sumit Paul-Choudhury, the festival director (and editor-in-chief of New Scientist).<\/p>\n

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