Keyword results: Melbourne Museum

Giant squid dissection

16th Jul 08
Ambience: Indoor
Difficulty: Won't hurt a bit
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Remember science class in fifth period? Rushing to your desk after snatching a half-price hot food special, and discovering the surprisingly pukeadelic implications of sausage roll and frog intestines.

Think on a larger scale; 245 kilos of squid - only 30 kilos lighter than the largest giant squid ever found - being attacked (presumably with some sort of giant saw) by scientists.

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RUN Melbourne Museum, The Movement Movement

12th May 08
Ambience: Indoor
Difficulty: Start training like, last month
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The Movement Movement. Or: your chance to make like Anna Karina running through the Louvre in Jean Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders. Canadians Jenn Goodwin and Jessica Rowe organise large groups to participate in ‘choreographed jogging expeditions through the world's major cultural institutions.

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Drugs: a social history

7th May 08
Ambience: Indoor
Difficulty: Won't hurt a bit
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We’ve come a long way since prescribing heroin to pregnant women. And Queen Victoria isn’t around to smoke a joint with her tea. Nor is Baudelaire chewing cannabis with Flaubert. But pre-pubescent kids are still getting the “it’s okay to try it once” pep-talks from their folks.

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