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A short post from me today. Science Communication dissertations are all handed in, but I will write later on what the Science Communication course has meant for me. A subject which came up in the Pub t'other night - our ideas for documentaries. My idea begins with a tunnel. There is a tunnel which runs from just outside the Science Museum, all the way underneath Exhibition Road to South Kensington Tube station. Distant voices and foreign tongues mix with buskers' notes as the sound bounces off the tiled walls. On a wet day, the concrete floor is slippery and dark, and the air is damp and cave-like. About half-way down the tunnel, a sign, mechanical and modern, directs visitors (or travelers) to the V&A Museum . The journey could begin here... (Flickr, swh) Unfortunately the V&A is the only South Kensington museum accessible by tunnel (although there is debate, particularly among Imperial College students as to whether there are more tunnels underneath Albert...

It seems hoards of X-Factor-watching, One-Direction-listening, giggling teenagers are wearing 'Geek' T-Shirts, apparently admitting that they are geeks, nerds or dorks. I think it's fairly obvious that this is just a fashion fad, as some articles suggest – geek has never been 'conventionally-cool'. ' Geek chic ' has now entered the Oxford English Dictionary, an action indicative of the increased acceptance that there is such a thing as a 'geek' and that sometimes this geek can be cool. I despise anecdotal evidence, but I am also a hypocrite ( a hungry, hungry hypocrite ) so here we go...  "A lot of my friends are far from what some would consider is 'geekishness' – they are not scientific, do not use maths to solve basic problems, some don't even know who Brian Cox is! (But they can tell me who scored a goal against Chelsea or who is a decent candidate in the X-Factor). However, of an evening, one of my mates blurted out th...