• Ways to save the oceans

    Following on from the talk given by Dr Simon Cripps of the Dorset Wildlife Trust, here is some more information about ways to get involved and to find out more about conservation and sustainable seafood.

  • Is Science Failing to Save the Oceans?

    The world’s oceans are in a perilous state, but because they are remote and underwater we often don’t see how bad things are. Overfishing, bycatch, pollution and climate change take their toll. We know so much about the oceans and they are so important to our survival that science should have solved the problems. .…

  • October talk – a reminder!

    Just a quick reminder that the October talk will be next tuesday (11th) October due to the venue being booked for another event this week.

  • Getting the latest info from Salisbury Café Scientifique

    If you are interested in any of the topics on the website you can use RSS to follow them. You can even use an RSS application on your mobile phone to ensure you always get notified of upcoming events. Here on the website, there is a button in the menu area to the right which…

  • Plague

    Not a Salisbury Café Scientifique event but should be of interest to many: Professor Petra Oyston of DSTL will give the September Tetricus seminar on 28th at the DSTL Conservation Museum. The seminar will cover a brief history of plague, the pandemics and their impact, the lifestyle of the bug, its evolution from a stomach…

  • Change of date for the October talk!

    Due to another booking at the venue, the talk for October will take place on October 11th, the second Tuesday of the month.

  • What Happens when we run Out of Oil?

    Professor Chris Rhodes is Director of Fresh-lands Environmental Actions and is based in Reading. He has written numerous scientific articles and recently published his first novel called University Shambles, a black comedy on the disintegration of the British university system. The subject of the talk is of course highly topical and will remain so as…

  • Flies in the Face of Disease

    Blue bottles, green bottles and house flies are usually a source of annoyance at picnics and barbecues and considered a ‘bad thing’. In food shops they are excluded in order to prevent the spread of disease. However in their larval stage the maggots of blowflies have been found to be valuable sources of alternative disease…

  • Weather

    Colin Macklin will give a talk on meteorology, from an air traffic controller’s viewpoint. Colin is not a trained “Met Man” but his interest and enthusiasm in weather have led to him lecturing in the subject to air traffic control trainees at the ATC College at Hurn Airport.

  • The Quest for Antimatter

    Dr Glenn Patrick is a particle physicist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near to Oxford and works on one of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, studying the subtle differences between matter and antimatter. Usual time, usual venue.

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