Category: Salisbury Café Scientifique events
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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…
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Visual Illusions in Art, Birds and Butterflies
Professor Philip Howse has published several books and numerous research articles on insect behaviour and ecology. He has developed novel environmentally-friendly methods of control of insect pests. After a career spent mainly at the University of Southampton during which he travelled widely setting up projects for the control of tropical insect pests, he has now…
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Methane Levels in the Atmosphere
Prof. Euan Nisbet is in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Royal Holloway College, where he specialises in Archaean Geology. He is a leading expert on atmospheric methane, CH4, and is co-ordinator of Meth-MonitEU, which is the European Union methane monitoring programme. Global atmospheric levels of the gas now stand at 1,790 parts per…
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The Science of Wine, part II; The Science behind growing the Grapes
Mark was the Wine Trade’s last indentured apprentice & has been involved in wine for 43 years. In this long career Mark has worked for the Wine Society, Diageo, Hall & Woodhouse brewery, the Clansouth consortium of 26 breweries, has tutored catering students on the WSET courses at Bournemouth College & is a member of…
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Cut the Killer Calories
Sugar addiction in obese people follows the same biochemical pathway as addiction to cocaine, heroin, alcohol and nicotine. This is the second visit to Salisbury by Prof Rod Bilton and Dr Larry Booth, of the School of Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University who are authors of Get Healthy, Beat Disease