Category: Salisbury Café Scientifique events
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Breathing – The Secret Weapon in Sporting Performance
Dr Mitch Lomax is Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Physiology and BASES Accredited Sport and Exercise scientist at the University of Portsmouth, Department of Sport & Exercise Science Dr Lomax will be explaining how Breathing may be considered as ‘the Secret Weapon in Sporting Performance’. She will cover the role of how the breathing…
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Co-evolution between bats and insects
Every night a battle between bats and their insect prey rages above our heads as bats call and listen for the echoes of their dinner. Many insects have evolved anti-bat defences: unlike us, they can hear the ultrasonic calls of bats and avoid an attack with evasive flight. Dr Holger Goerlitz is a Research Fellow…
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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. .…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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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Psychology and Cancer
Leslie G Walker is Emeritus Professor of Cancer Rehabilitation at the University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom. Until November 2009, in addition to holding the Foundation Chair of Cancer Rehabilitation, he was the Clinical Lead for the Division of Cancer in the Postgraduate Medical Institute, University of Hull. He was also Director of…
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The work of the Forensic Linguist
Forensic linguistics is the investigation of authorship for forensic purposes. During the past ten years there has been a rapid growth in the frequency with which lawyers and courts in a number of countries have called upon the expertise of linguists in cases of disputed authorship. The texts examined range from questioned suicide notes, through…