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We The Curious (previously @Bristol) is a science centre and charity in Bristol, England. [1]

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Air source heat pumps

An air source heat pump (ASHP) is a system which transfers heat from outside to inside a building, or vice versa.

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Arnolfini

Arnolfini is an international arts centre and gallery in Bristol, England.

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Art museum

An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.

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Baxter (robot)

Baxter is an industrial robot built by Rethink Robotics, a start-up company founded by Rodney Brooks.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek is an American weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. Businessweek was founded in 1929.

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Blue Reef Aquarium

Blue Reef is a national chain of public aquariums in England.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.

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Bristol Harbour

Bristol Harbour is the harbour in the city of Bristol, England.

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Bristol Industrial Museum

The Bristol Industrial Museum was a museum in Bristol, England, located on Prince's Wharf beside the Floating Harbour and which closed in 2006.

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Bristol Temple Meads railway station

Bristol Temple Meads is the oldest and largest railway station in Bristol, England.

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British Empire and Commonwealth Museum

The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum was a museum in Bristol, United Kingdom exploring the history of the British Empire and the effect of British colonial rule on the rest of the world.

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Butterfly

Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths.

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Cabot, Bristol

Cabot is a council ward that covers the centre of Bristol.

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Chameleon

Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 202 species described as of June 2015.

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Charitable organization

A charitable organization or charity is a non-profit organization (NPO) whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. charitable, educational, religious, or other activities serving the public interest or common good).

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Chris Wilkinson (architect)

Chris Wilkinson is a British architect and founder of WilkinsonEyre.

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Computer science

Computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation, together with practical techniques for the implementation and application of these foundations.

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Crab

Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen) (translit.

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CyberWorld

CyberWorld (also known as CyberWorld 3D) is a 2000 American 3-D animated anthology film shown in IMAX and IMAX 3D, presented by Intel.

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Cycad

Cycads are seed plants with a long fossil history that were formerly more abundant and more diverse than they are today.

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Ecology

Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a registered charity that manages the National Heritage Collection.

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Eutectic system

A eutectic system from the Greek "ευ" (eu.

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Exploratory (museum)

The Exploratory was a science museum in Bristol.

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Finch

The true finches are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Fringillidae.

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Force

In physics, a force is any interaction that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object.

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Frog

A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (Ancient Greek ἀν-, without + οὐρά, tail).

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Goéry Delacôte

Goéry Delacôte, Légion d'honneur, is a French theoretical physicist and science educator.

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Goods shed

A goods shed is a railway building designed for storing goods before or after carriage in a train.

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Human brain

The human brain is the central organ of the human nervous system, and with the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system.

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Images of England

Images of England is an online photographic record of all the listed buildings in England at the date of February 2002.

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IMAX

IMAX is a system of high-resolution cameras, film formats and film projectors.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Magnet

A magnet is a material or object that produces a magnetic field.

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Mechanics

Mechanics (Greek μηχανική) is that area of science concerned with the behaviour of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment.

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Memory

Memory is the faculty of the mind by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.

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Michael Hopkins (architect)

Sir Michael John Hopkins, CBE, RA, AADipl (born 7 May 1935) is an English architect.

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Millennium Commission

The Millennium Commission, a United Kingdom public body, was set up to celebrate the turn of the millennium.

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Millennium Square, Bristol

Millennium Square is a location in the centre of Bristol, England.

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Movie theater

A movie theater/theatre (American English), cinema (British English) or cinema hall (Indian English) is a building that contains an auditorium for viewing films (also called movies) for entertainment.

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Museum

A museum (plural musea or museums) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance.

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Nao (robot)

Nao (pronounced now) is an autonomous, programmable humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics, a French robotics company headquartered in Paris, which was acquired by SoftBank Group in 2015 and rebranded as SoftBank Robotics.

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National Lottery (United Kingdom)

The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery in the United Kingdom.

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Nestlé

Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss transnational food and drink company headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.

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Newquay

Newquay (Tewynblustri) is a town in the south west of England, in the United Kingdom.

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Optical illusion

An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is an illusion caused by the visual system and characterized by a visual percept that (loosely said) appears to differ from reality.

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Partridge

Partridges are medium-sized non-migratory gamebirds, with a wide native distribution throughout the Old World, including Europe, Asia, and parts of Africa.

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Pero's Bridge

Pero's Bridge is a pedestrian bascule bridge that spans St Augustine's Reach in Bristol Harbour, Bristol, England.

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Phase-change material

A phase change material (PCM) is a substance with a high heat of fusion which, melting and solidifying at a certain temperature, is capable of storing and releasing large amounts of energy.

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Photovoltaics

Photovoltaics (PV) is a term which covers the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry.

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Piranhas

Piranhas is a historic municipality near the western limit of the State of Alagoas, in the Northeast Region of Brazil.

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Planetarium

A planetarium (plural planetaria or planetariums) is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation.

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Public aquarium

A public aquarium (plural: public aquaria or public aquariums) is the aquatic counterpart of a zoo, which houses living aquatic animal and plant specimens for public viewing.

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Queen Square, Bristol

Queen Square is a Georgian square in the centre of Bristol, England.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between, and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.

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Regional development agency

In the United Kingdom, regional development agencies (RDAs) were nine non-departmental public bodies established for the purpose of development, primarily economic, of England's Government Office regions between 1998 and 2010.

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Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete (RC) (also called reinforced cement concrete or RCC) is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are counteracted by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility.

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Richard Gregory

Richard Langton Gregory CBE FRS FRSE (24 July 1923 – 17 May 2010) was a British psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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Science museum

A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science.

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Scorpion

Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones.

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Seahorse

Seahorse (also written sea-horse and sea horse) is the name given to 54 species of small marine fishes in the genus Hippocampus.

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Sky News

Sky News is a 24-hour international multimedia news organisation based in the UK that started as a 24-hour television news channel.

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Snake

Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

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Sound

In physics, sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.

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Space

Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction.

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Spider

Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is the process of change, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations.

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Tarantula

Tarantulas comprise a group of large and often hairy arachnids belonging to the Theraphosidae family of spiders, of which about 900 species have been identified.

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Television studio

A television studio, also called a television production studio, is an installation room in which video productions take place, either for the recording of live television to video tape, or for the acquisition of raw footage for post-production.

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Train shed

A train shed is a building adjacent to a station building where the tracks and platforms of a railway station are covered by a roof.

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Triggerfish

Triggerfishes are about 40 species of often brightly colored fish of the family Balistidae.

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University of the West of England, Bristol

The University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE Bristol) is a public university, located in and around Bristol, England, which received university status in 1992.

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10:10

10:10 is a charity that enables people to take practical action on climate change, and combines these local actions to inspire a more ambitious approach to the issue at every level of society.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_The_Curious

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