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Cancelled: no cafe Tuesday 4th March 2025
Unfortunately, we have been unable to find a speaker for the March Cafe. We have therefore had to take the difficult decision to not hold a cafe in March. We continue to work hard to find speakers for the remainder of this year’s programme and expect to host our next event in April as planned. We have…
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Moral Psychology: How People Think about Right and Wrong
The February talk will be given by Dr Paul Conway from the University of Southampton who will present a broad overview of the scientific study or morality: why people care about it, how people think about it, and what this means for living in our modern world. Paul Conway is Associate Professor at the Centre…
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Generative AI
Moving into 2025, we will be using more generative AI to support the website. To begin with, we are experimenting with using AI to generate featured images. WordPress (our Content Management System) can now generate images based on the textual content of the post, like the one for this post. See here for our first…
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Cave deposits above the Arctic Circle – a window into past human and animal distribution in the far north
The January talk will be given by Dr Sam Walker from Bournemouth University who will be talking about his research into ancient fauna. When the Glaciers retreated during the end of the Late Glacial (c. 14,600-12,900 BP) and into the Early Holocene (11,700-7300 BP), Northern Europe experienced extreme environmental and climatic changes. As the climate…
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Why did the hedgehog cross the road?
The December talk will be given by Hugh Warwick talking about his work with hedgehogs. Hugh Warwick goes where few hedgehogs dare … after countless hours radio tracking, counting, talking about (and to) hedgehogs he is well placed to reveal the truth to that seminal question. He is the spokesperson for the British Hedgehog Preservation…
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Digital Forensics
The November talk will now be on the topic of Digital Forensics, with Professor Sarah Morris from the University of Southampton talking about her research. Professor Sarah Morris has over 14 years of experience in complex technical digital forensic investigations and is currently based within the Cyber Security group in the School of Electronics and…
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Freezing atoms with light – how and why?
The October talk will be given by Dr Carrie Weidner from the University of Bristol who will be talking about her research into quantum engineering. When people ask my mother what I do for a living, she tells them that I freeze atoms. This is pretty much 100% true, but I don’t make things cold…
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The Astronomy of Stonehenge
The July talk will be given by Simon Banton on his astronomical work on Stonehenge. An illustrated talk about the generally accepted as well as the more controversial astronomical alignments at Stonehenge. Which of the theories are plausible, and which aren’t? Did the builders really have the depth of understanding of the movements of the…
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Uncovering biodiversity: Herbarium digitisation, analysis, and engagement
The June talk will be given by Sally Swannell who will be talking about her work with herbaria. Herbaria have evolved over centuries and have been described as largely unexplored biodiversity time machines. The Royal Agricultural University herbarium could be characterised as the same, containing approximately 10,000 specimen records, many dating back to the early…
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Upcoming events from Sherborne Cafe Sci
Full details of all their events on their website.
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