Category: Events
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The Nuclear debate
This event organised by the Sherbourne Science Cafe will take the form of a debate, the motion being: This house believes that the risks involved in the generation of electricity by nuclear power make it unusable There will be speakers for and against the motion, followed by questions and discussion; Alister Scott (Sussex University) and…
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Navitus Bay Wind Park – a project update
A discussion about the challenges of off-shore wind farming with Chris Sherrington (Projects Director) & Helen Cassini (Consents Manager) of Eneco. This event is being run by Dorchester Arts in partnership with the Thomas Hardye School as will take place on Friday 18th November at Dorchester Arts Centre. The Arts Centre can be found at…
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Meet your brain – Royal Institution Christmas Lectures preview event
The RI Christmas lecturer this year is Prof Bruce Hood from Bristol University, director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre. Whilst the Christmas lectures themselves are fully booked, there is a special preview event suitable for anyone aged 7 or over; full details are available here. Tickets are £10 standard, £7 for concessions or £5…
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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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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…
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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.