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Science Picnic
The Science Picnic is Europe's largest outdoor science-popularization event organized jointly by Polish Radio and the Copernicus Science Centre. It has been held every year since 1997. A wide range of research fields are represented at the Picnic, including the hard, natural, and social sciences together with the humanities. Research and teaching institutions from Poland and abroad reveal here behind-the-scenes aspects of their work and present science in ways accessible to visitors of various ages, using hands-on experiments and interactive exhibits. The Science Picnic was commended by the European Commission in 2005 as one of 10 model European projects in the "Science and Society" field. The event has served as the inspiration for many other popular science initiatives, including the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw. History The first Science Picnic (as Science Picnic of Polish Radio BIS) was held in the Old Town district of Warsaw. During the first edition, 17 scientific ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piknik Naukowy 1
Picnic (), or Piknik, is a Russian rock band known for its unique style, a mixture of art rock, progressive rock and original Russian rock. The band was formed in 1978 in Leningrad, though the members consider the band's official starting point to be Edmund Shklyarsky's arrival, in 1981, or the year the first album was recorded—1982. Some of their early songs are in Polish, due to Shklyarsky's paternal heritage. In 2016, the band was barred from playing in Ukraine due to their performance in Crimea Crimea ( ) is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukrain ... after it was annexed by Russia. Music critic Andrei Burlaka notes the group as a cult phenomenon in Russian rock music. Picnic were set to perform at the Crocus City Hall on 22 March 2024 before a terrorist attack took pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
