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Ian RussellInteractive ScienceIan Russell is a UK-based science centre specialist and 'hands-on' consultant, living in Derbyshire. After an early background in teaching, marine biology and public aquariums, he has been actively involved in the European science centre scene for over ten years. He has personally developed several 'classical' hands-on science centres, including Great Explorations which is currently moving from Liverpool to assume a new identity in Sheffield. As a biologist, he is also interested in finding new interactive ways of presenting environmental subjects, as seen at Earthquest in Portrush, Northern Ireland, and the Discovery Centre at Cleethorpes. With respect to information and communication technology, he tends to disagree with those who say, 'the medium is the message'. He is currently considering how to make best practical use of the Internet and intranets in interactive exhibitions. Ian doesn't always believe in taking things too seriously, however, and likes to keep in touch with the public mind through frequent performances of his popular Exploding Custard show of do-it-yourself kitchen-table science experiments. Ian will present 'Symmetrical
transactions' through the Web in the Online Discussions.
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