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An Evening of Unnecessary Detail is, in short, an event where 80% of the words in the title start with a vowel. Of the 16 unique letters in the title, 31.25% of them are used more than once. If you are enjoying this level of detail, it's likely that you will enjoy the show.
An Evening of Unnecessary Detail is, in short, an event hosted by some or all of Festival of the Spoken Nerd: Matt Parker, Steve Mould and Helen Arney. Each of them have 10 letters in their names. Each show will be 10,800 seconds long.
An Evening of Unnecessary Detail is, in short, an event where n scientists, enthusiasts, miscellaneous experts* and/or comedians talk about whatever they want. By attending this event, you revoke the right to complain that there is too much detail.
*actual experts in miscellany
This event is suitable for adults and older teens.
Guests (in alphabetical order by first name):
Dr Anna Ploszajski is an award-winning materials scientist, writer, presenter, comedian, trainer and storyteller based in London.
Dagmar der Weduwen is a behavioural ecologist who combines science and tabletop role-playing games, who be regaling the audience with everything they didn't know about archerfish, the spitty-est fish to ever spit.
Dan Plane is the Head of Public and Family Programmes, which includes heading up the Demonstration Team, at the Royal Institution. Dan will bring out his favourite demonstration, a new and improved type of plasma ball, with the ability to shape the plasma in a surprising way, with a link to the future of energy.
Ken Cheng is a stand-up comedian, professional poker player and board games enthusiast, who will be providing a presentation exploring The Beauty of Mathematics.
Lieven Scheire is a Belgian comedian, physicist and science communicator on stage and on TV, in both Dutch and English.
Rohin Francis is a consultant cardiologist in Essex, content creator as Medlife Crisis, comedian, and dreams of being crowned king of the quacks.
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