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Transit of VenusTuesday, May 15th, 2012

We can’t give you the stars – but we can promise you a (literally) once-in-a-lifetime planetary experience. More…

SURVEY-TASTICTuesday, April 24th, 2012

We’ve got two short surveys we’d like your help with please:

The annual feedback form is a forum to give your views on the MadLab – what you loved and what we can improve. Your opinions will direct how MadLab is developed in the future and help us raise funds in order to keep all MadLab’s activities free or heavily subsidised.  We’re particularly keen to know about new ideas MadLab’s helped spark, personal or professional development as well as how you’ve used skills learnt at MadLab in other contexts

The DIY Bio MCR form  will help us to do more of the science-y stuff we’ve been running this year.  We’d love to hear your ideas.  Even if you’ve not attended yet, please feel free to tell us what you think about DIY Bio and citizen science.

Thank you!

Blog

CRITgroup BlogMonday, April 30th, 2012

Six months since the seminal meeting, MadLab felt very much like ‘home’ for the fourth group meeting. Five of us came along this month and there were plenty of varied projects to cover with some interesting debates being generated in many cases.

James Pashley started by sharing the exciting news that he has now confirmed an offer of employment working as a teaching assistant in Japan! He will be working as part of a cultural exchange programme to support English teaching beginning in late July or early August. While his insights and contributions will be missed in meetings, we are all looking forward to seeing his new website, which we briefly discussed, and to hearing updates on his experiences via his new blog. Meanwhile I am wondering if this means we can now label CRITgroup as an international art collective…! More…

The Boot Strapping Startup Show and Tell NightFriday, March 16th, 2012

Last week Josh and I “launched” Northology at the very friendly Social Media Cafe. Friendly until I mentioned that we weren’t really going to be covering web design and social media companies but concentrating on Technology Startups. The crowd turned against us and I only just escaped with my life!

Tonight I’m at Manchester MadLab for the Boot Strap Business Club “Show and Tell” event which is all about tech companies who are making new products and services which are able to pay for them selves from day one. Here’s the “live” blog. Please comment below or email me nathan@nathanrae.co.uk with any comments or corrections I need to make. More…