Last Years' Error Bars

2007

2nd March: Liquid Nitrogen Ice cream
9th March: Treasure Hunt
16th March: Bell Ringing
23rd March: Water Purity
30th March: The History of Physics
20th April: Electoral Systems
27th April: Gambling
4th May: Sound Temperament
11th May: Nuclear Power
18th May: Who Wants To Be A Physicist?
25th May: Butcher's Paper Error Bar
1st June: Movie - Black Hole
27th July: Trivia Night
3rd August: Physics of Boomerangs & Didgerdoos
10th August: Treasure Hunt
17th August: Translation Squared
24th August: Language Acquisition
31st August: Honours Error Bar
7th September: New Ideas On The Universe
14th September: Poetry Night
21st September: Intellectual Property and You!
5th October: MacGuyver Physics
12th October: Physics Tonight
19th October: Election Error Bar
26th October: Movie - Cypher

Ancient Error Bars

2003

Mar 7: Beyond the Fridge Magnet / The Physics of Mass Distraction
Mar 14: Liquid Nitrogen Icecream
Mar 21: Anti Gravity / Trivia
Mar 28: Physics Schmysics
Apr 4: Cosmology
Apr 11: Brisbane Astronomical Society OGM: Black Holes
May 9: Raiding the Past: Physics and Maths in Ancient Civilizations
May 16: The Physics of Flight
May 23: Game Theory and The Prisoner's Dilemma
May 30: Bees!
Jun 6: The Physics of Swing Dancing
Aug 1: Frisbees
Aug 8: Fizzy Drinks
Aug 15: Champagne
Aug 22: The Mayne Inheritance
Aug 29: Fireworks
Sep 5: Psychological Physics
Sep 12: Jokes

2002

Mar 8: Construction
Mar 15: Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
Mar 22: Physics of Music
Apr 12: Scavenger Hunt
Apr 19: Maths and... ORIGAMI!
Apr 26: Physics board games
May 3: Physics of flight
May 10: Slime and Bubbles
May 17: Biophysics
May 24: Visual Illusions
May 31: Treasure Hunt
Aug 2: Sideshow Alley
Aug 9: Sideshow Alley Capers II: The Error Bar goes on the Road
Aug 16: Happy Birthday Liz
Aug 23: The Senses: Touch
Aug 23: The Senses: Taste
Aug 30: The Senses: Sight
Sep 6: The Senses: Hearing
Sep 13: The Senses: Smell
Sep 20: The Casimir Effect
Sep 27: Quantum Teleportation
Oct 11: The Ig Nobel Prizes
Oct 18: Honours Error Bar
Oct 25: Photography
Nov 1: Physics Poetry Competition Greek Night

2001

Mar 9: Pitch Drop Party
Mar 16: Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
Mar 30: How YOU can find the man/woman of your dreams!
Apr 6: Eggcelent Error Bar
Apr 27: Soccer Physics vs Maths
May 4: Chess Competition
May 11: Catapults and Trebuchets
May 18: Bet you can't
Jun 1: Mystery Error Bar
Aug 3: The Error Bar of Truth
Aug 17: Good News Week
Aug 31: Sonoluminescence
Sep 7: Amanda's EB
Sep 14: Honours
Sep 21: EB Rejigged
Oct 5: Tumbling Toast
Oct 12: Complex Maths in the "Real World"
Oct 19: Physics Museum and ViSAC Tour
Oct 26: Black Hole Greek Night

2000

Feb 18: The Physics of Unicycling
Feb 25: "Someone should blow microwaves up!"
Mar 3: Physics Charades
Mar 10: Quantum Cryptography
Mar 17: St Patrick's Day Special
Mar 24: The Millennium Clock
Mar 31: Tia Maria
Apr 14: Roswell, Here We Come!
Apr 21:
Apr 28: The Error Bar in Review
May 5: Playing Poker by Phone
May 12: Playing Poker by Phone... again
May 19: A Straw and Sticky Tape Nim-playing Computer
Jul 14: James Bond - From Russia with PAIN
Jul 21: Toothpaste Twister
Jul 28: Turing Test
Aug 4: Team Building Exercises
Aug 11: Honours Error Bar
Aug 18: Memory
Aug 25: Good News Week
Sep 1: The Joys of Chemistry
Oct 6: Wet'n'Wild Error bar
Oct 13: This Week's SPOOKY Error Bar

1999

Feb 26: The Physics of Flying Papers
Mar 5: The Physics of Parties
Mar 12: Voluntary Student Unionism
Mar 19: Pub Quiz III
Apr 1: Homemade Laser Weapons
Apr 16: JS Miller's coffee and Freezing Boiling Water
Apr 23: Balloon-Pwered Cars
Apr 30: The Most Useless Physics Theory of History
May 7: The Art of Communication
May 14: Laser Weapons
May 21: Interacting Fluids
Jul 23: Logic Puzzles
Aug 6: Optical Illusions
Aug 20: The Second Crackpot Theory Error Bar
Sep 10: Sound
Oct 8: Gravitational Lenses
Oct 15: Minimum Uncertainty
Oct 22: Pub Quiz
Oct 29: Cold Stuff

1998

Feb 27: A Super String Problem
Mar 6: The Inaugural Error Bar Pub Quiz
Mar 13: The Prisoner's Dilemma: An introduction to Complex Systems
Mar 27: Ball Bearings in 20kV/cm Electric Fields
Apr 3: The Physicist's Mind
Apr 30: Aerospace Exploration via Chupa Chup
??? ??: Nanoscale Machines as Designed and Modelled by PAIN
May 29: Life, The Universe and Everything
Jul 24: Planetary Orbits nad Flatland, 3-Space, 4-Space and 5-Space
Jul 31: Making Money by Sending Signals Faster Than Light
Aug 14: Pin the Tail on the Donkey
Aug 21: A Square Peg in a Round Hole
Aug 28: Buoancy and Archimedes' Law
Sep 4: "Good News Week"-Style Quiz
Sep 11: Explosives, Explosions and Bang-Going-Stuff
Oct 9: Error Bar at the Camp
Oct 16: Second Biannual Pub Quiz
Oct 23: Kelvin's Water Dropper
Oct 30: Liquid Nitrogen Ice-Cream

1997

Feb 21: The Physics of Parties
Feb 28: How to ride a Bicycle
Mar 7: The Mathematics of Chance
Mar 14: Neural Networks and Searle's Chinese Room
Jul 18: Hand-Drawn Holograms and Stereograms
Aug 8: Smoke Ring Generators and Vortices
Aug 15: Crazy Cans: Physics of a Rolling Food Time
Aug 22: Home Made Microscopes
Aug 29: All aboard for the magical mystery tour
Sep 5: Liquid Nitrogen Lunacy
Sep 12: Tesla Coils and Metre Long Sparks
Sep 19: Hot Air Balloons and Teabags and just plain old hot air
Sep 26: Cosmolgy and Chaos
Oct 3: Error Casino Strikes Again
Oct 10: Organic Illumination - Tales of an Electric Picke
Oct 17: Can you Communicate with Aliens?
Oct 24: A Comic Look at the Physics Department

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