Science Safaris: The Trinity Trail

Description

The numbered entries, eg [1], correspond to the stops on the map; each title corresponds to the podcast track title and number;

Below is a short summary for each stop, and a link to the relevant podcast track, or get the full podcast here (ZIP, 66mB).

• 00. Introduction
• 01. Front Square: The Trinity Trail
• 02. Campanile: The date of Creation 4004 BC
• 03. Front Square: The Salmon of Knowledge
• 04. Berkeley Library: The man who challenged Isaac Newton about nothing!
• 05a. Museum Building: A Mythical Beast, and a gem in an attic
  05b. Museum Building: The humane hangman’s drop, and early colour photography
• 06. Path to east end: Ireland’s greatest scientist
• 07. Moyne Institute: The weird sex life of bacteria
• 08. Parsons Building: The engine that revolutionised the 20th century
• 09. Smurfit Institute: Where did prehistoric cows come from?
• 10. Chemistry: Perfumes, poteen, petroleum, and world’s first nicotine patch
• 11. FitzGerald Building: The man who split the atom
• 12. SNIAM: Beer, bubbles, buildings . . . and physics
• 13. Botany: How do tall trees drink?
• 14. Parade Ground: Leprosy, malaria and the science of your brain

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