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What Manchester does today, the rest of the world does tomorrow

This city is alive with music, magic and dance
Underpinned with an industrial heart
That beats with the vibrancy of scientific discovery.
From the transit of Venus to the first railway station,
Manchester has a place in the soul of our nation;
With Turing’s ‘baby’ computer and the first test-tube baby,
This is a city of can do and not maybe.
Continuing in this fine scientific tradition
Manchester Science Festival has as its mission
A desire to not just thrill and inform,
But help bring about wider social reform.
Exploring the rise of the robots
And giving us access to dreams
There’s something for children, and adults, and teens;
Come and climb through a


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