{"id":4093,"date":"2017-10-30T14:02:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2017-10-30T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:02:41","slug":"dundee-science-festival-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/dundee-science-festival-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Dundee Science Festival 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4096 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/10\/Pic22-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" \/>Dundee Science Festival 2017 \u2013 How Do Our Bodies Work? Find Out! \u2013 Amazing Brains Event<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4095 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/10\/Pic21-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Ourania Varsou (University of St Andrews), Dr Filip Zmuda (University of Dundee) &amp; Mr Henry Rae (University of St Andrews)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday 28<sup>th<\/sup> of October 2017, Dr Ourania Varsou, Dr Filip Zmuda and Mr Henry Rae participated in the Dundee Science Festival 2017 with the \u2018Amazing Brains\u2019 event under the theme \u2018How Do Our Bodies Work? Find Out!\u2019.\u00a0 A variety of hands-on scientific demos were used to explain neurons and the human brain.\u00a0 The audience had the opportunity to make neurons using plasticine and googly eyes, draw neurons on their hands using face paint, understand the development of the human brain from birth to adulthood using <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4094 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/10\/Pic10b-157x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"300\" \/>science slime, and finally explore difficult concepts using plastic anatomical models.\u00a0 Making a neuron proved to be a hit for adults and children!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4098\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/10\/Pic30-002-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 28th of October 2017, Dr Ourania Varsou, Dr Filip Zmuda and Mr Henry Rae participated in the Dundee Science Festival 2017 with the \u2018Amazing Brains\u2019 event under the theme \u2018How Do Our Bodies Work? Find Out!\u2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":4096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[69,370,419,568,581],"class_list":["post-4093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-amazine-brains-event","tag-dr-ourania-varsou","tag-dundee-science-festival","tag-henry-rae","tag-how-do-our-bodies-work"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}