Science, Myths and Media - T1179906672 | |
| 14 Nov 08 | Dorchester Arts Centre, Dorchester :: V1068 listing details L1560664203 |
Sonar, Dolphins and Whales - T0441209442 | |
| 1 Jul 08 | Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury :: V925 listing details L1550875441 |
Epigenetics - T0235980277 | |
| 10 Jun 08 | Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury :: V925 listing details L0985013646 |
Forensic Entomology - T1406747556 | |
| 6 May 08 | Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury :: V925 listing details L01194966257 |
Pretty Pretty Bang Bang - T842853945Performer Jackie Akhavan. | |
| 1 Apr 08 | Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury :: V925 listing details L0945356264 |
Jim Feast - Nanotechnology: Phoenix or Phantasy? - T863271907 | |
| 18 Jul 06 | ARC, Stockton-on-Tees :: V01950064742 listing details L1415670442 |
Pete Edwards - Einstein: A Superstar's Legacy - T0874459644 | |
| 20 Jun 06 | ARC, Stockton-on-Tees :: V01950064742 listing details L805163759 |
Fred Tauylor - Exploring the Planets - Why Bother? - T0569659720 | |
| 6 Jun 06 | Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury :: V925 listing details L978795251 |
T585663257Performer Dick Bird (Chaos and Evolution E2). | |
| 21 Mar 06 | ARC, Stockton-on-Tees :: V01950064742 listing details L01287661960 |
T01768097118Performer Alan Martin (Quarks). Performer Leptons and Higgsboson. | |
| 21 Feb 06 | ARC, Stockton-on-Tees :: V01950064742 listing details L177046213 |
The Search for a Soul - T0734612582How do we define the haecceitas of human life? If it requires memory, desire, self-consciousness and self-reflection, where does it begin and where does it end? Are we born with it, or does it require interaction with others? Could we construct it - or would a robot have to construct its own? Does the aged - or diseased - brain lose verbal communication yet retain a core imprint of character in the physical self? Speakers: Paul Broks, neuropsychologist; Aaron Sloman, computational philosopher and cognitive scientist, based at Birmingham Univ. School of Computer Science; Margaret Rustin, head of Child Psychotherapy at the Tavistock, whose books, jointly authored with Michael Rustin, include Narratives of Love and Loss; and Daniel Glaser, neuroscientist at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. | |
| 29 Sep 04 | ICA, Inner London :: V205 listing details L0234884451 |
Perilous Procrastination - T1499131543Now even oil company chiefs agree climate change is a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism. Computer simulations suggest sea level around the South East of England will rise by half a meter by 2050, and it has been estimated that the worldwide cost of dealing with the effects of climate change is spiralling towards 0 billion. Is it too late to take effective remedial action? Would the money set aside for the Kyoto Protocol be better spent helping those already suffering in the developing world? Mark Maslin, associate professor at the Environmental Change Research Centre and author of Global Warming: a Very Short Introduction outlines some of the scientific predictions regarding climate change and examines their implications. Chair: Daniel Glaser, neuroscientist at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. | |
| 28 Sep 04 | ICA, Inner London :: V205 listing details L677506222 |
Fred Taylor: Exploring the Planets: Why Bother? - T1373827657The American space agency, NASA, has sent many unmanned probes to explore our planetary neighbours in the Solar System. Now the European Space Agency has its own smaller, but growing, planetary exploration programme. What are we trying to do? What will we gain from it? And is it worth the trouble (and the money)? | |
| 21 Jun 04 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L1961963624 |
In Deep - T293738673 | |
| 25 May 04 | ICA, Inner London :: V205 listing details L0636544656 |
Elaine Perry: Medicinal Plants in Mind - T0703377577The prospect of new and safer treatments for preventing or treating disorders of mind and brain, based on plant medicines, is the motivation behind the Medicinal Plant Research Centre - a collaboration between Newcastle's two Universities. Come and hear how the traditional uses of plants like sage and lemon balm have inspired modern clinical trials into how plants can enhance memory and mood. | |
| 17 May 04 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L56297582 |
We Are All Mutants - T844843369While most of us are born with one nose, two legs, ten fingers and two eyes some of us are not. How different are we from people who, at first glance, appear physically dissimilar to us? And, since there is no such thing as genetic perfection and each of us carries hundreds of mutations, how does the human body work around - and hide - these misprints in our DNA? Tonight Armand Leroi discusses physical variety and how it can help us understand human development, growth and aging. Armand Leroi is Reader in Developmental Biology at Imperial College London; he was awarded the 2001 Scientist for the New Century award by the Royal Institution; he has published many scientific papers and is the author of Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body. In the chair: Daniel Glaser, neuroscientist at UCL. | |
| 2 Apr 04 to 8 Apr 04 | ICA, Inner London :: V205 listing details L091523064 |
Joao Magueijo: Faster Than the Speed of Light? - T1135072800 | |
| 15 Mar 04 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L249547003 |
Wholly Indivisible - T2030500395Divisible only by themselves and the number one, prime numbers underlie the security of international banking. They also represent one of the most tantalising enigmas in the pursuit of human knowledge. For centuries mathematicians have striven to find a way of predicting when the next prime number will occur in a list of numbers. Is there a formula which could generate primes? Why does it matter? Tonight Marcus de Sautoy goes in search of mathematicsÕ Holy Grail Ð and explains why so many mathematicians have gone mad on the same journey. Marcus du Sautoy is professor of mathematics at Oxford and Royal Society University Research fellow. In addition to scientific papers, he has written and broadcast widely and is author of The Music of the Primes. In the chair is Daniel Glaser, neuroscientist at UCL. | |
| 24 Feb 04 | ICA, Inner London :: V205 listing details L1929760580 |
Wholly Indivisible - postponed until February 2004. - T852755172Divisible only by themselves and the number one, prime numbers underlie the security of international banking. They also represent one of the most tantalising enigmas in the pursuit of human knowledge. For centuries mathematicians have striven to find a way of predicting when the next prime number will occur in a list of numbers. Is there a formula which could generate primes? Why does it matter? Tonight Marcus de Sautoy goes in search of mathematics' Holy Grail - and explains why so many mathematicians have gone mad on the same journey. Marcus du Sautoy is professor of mathematics at Oxford and Royal Society University Research fellow. In addition to scientific papers, he has written and broadcast widely and is author of The Music of the Primes. In the chair is Daniel Glaser, neuroscientist at UCL. | |
| 25 Nov 03 | ICA, Inner London :: V205 listing details L027211953 |
Catherine Blackledge: The Vaginal Revolution - T1547121395 | |
| 17 Nov 03 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L0177866758 |
Matt Ridley: Nature via Nurture - T01222385684 | |
| 20 Oct 03 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L463603063 |
Tim Harper: Nanotech and Me: What is it and Why Should I Care? - T0998628255 | |
| 22 Sep 03 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L1621021152 |
Mark Birch-Machin: We know what your DNA did last summer. - T01056835342Is there such a thing as a safe tan? What is 'Sunburnt DNA'? Come and find out what your mitochondrial DNA can tell you about your risk of skin cancer, and what to do to avoid the dangers of a disease which affects another 46,000 Britons every year. Mark is a dermatologist at the University of Newcastle, and a leading expert on skin cancer. He is a Skin Cancer spokesman for Cancer Research UK and his recent research has attracted national media attention. | |
| 21 Jul 03 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L1970224213 |
Professor Julian Leff: The Unbalanced Mind - T518614927Can biology explain all disturbances of mind and behaviour? What about the psychological, social and cultural factors underlying mental illness? The author of The Unbalanced Mind will raise questions including: what is the difference between sadness and depression. Are psychiatric conditions culturally specific? Is there a link between schizophrenia and deprivation? Julian is a researcher in social psychiatry at London's Institute of Psychiatry with a particular interest in the relationships between family members and people with psychiatric illness. | |
| 16 Jun 03 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L975258758 |
Steve Wright: Surveillance - T01293582955Steve is Director of The Omega Foundation, and author of An Appraisal of the Technologies of Political Control, a groundbreaking report written for the European Parliament. He will speak on the development and proliferation of automatic surveillance, killing and paralyzing systems. | |
| 19 May 03 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L01721080732 |
Maddening Sadness - T01500809061Depression is the most common psychiatric illness worldwide. It is estimated that 1 in 5 of us will suffer from depression at some point and that, by 2020, depression will have overtaken heart disease as the single biggest illness in the world. How can we disentangle biological causes from complex social and cultural factors? Can social treatments compete with Prozac? And why, when materially life is better than ever before, are we all feeling so blue anyway? Tonight's speaker is Julian Leff, Professor of Social and Cultural Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry. Winner of the Burgholzi prize for outstanding contributions to psychiatry, he contributes regularly to television and radio and has published widely, including his recent book, The Unbalanced Mind. In the chair is Daniel Glaser, neuroscientist at UCL. | |
| 1 May 03 | ICA, Inner London :: V205 listing details L1520321858 |
Martin Conway: Diseases of Memory - T856569642 | |
| 17 Mar 03 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L0796602771 |
Carlo Leifert: Is Organic Farming Based on Sound Principles or Consumer Hysteria? - T01384867353 | |
| 24 Feb 03 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L1792812862 |
Cindy Engel: How Animals Keep Themselves Well - T1365128473Why do dogs eat grass? Why do cattle dig and lick at clay? Why is it important for us to know? Understanding the ways animals manage their own health in the wild can help us improve our own health and that of animals in our care. Author of Wild Health, Cindy has a PhD in animal behaviour, has been an associate lecturer in environmental science with the Open University for 15 years and is a regular contributor to the livestock health and welfare debate. | |
| 20 Jan 03 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L738037880 |
Across the Multiverse - T01985762393Looking into space using increasingly sensitive technology, it seems that the universe stretches nearly thirty billion light years across. So far as we can tell, there is no visible boundary to space time. But could our model of the universe as infinite be as flawed as the old view that the world is flat? Perhaps, as Einstein suggested, space-time is curved, connected and compacted. Tonight's speaker, Janna Levin, will ask whether by searching for the shape and extent of space we will eventually be able to locate ourselves in this vast cosmos. The Café Scientifique is a place where layperson and expert alike can come to explore the latest issues in science and technology over a glass of wine or a cup of coffee. No scientific knowledge will be assumed by the speakers so that everyone can participate in an informal and accessible atmosphere. | |
| 19 Nov 02 | ICA, Inner London :: V205 listing details L786323454 |
John Burn: We Are What We Ate - T589568253 | |
| 18 Nov 02 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L0621037972 |
What is the Future of Cancer Research? - T0810656522One in three people in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their life. One in four will die. Encouraged by the media, are we getting ahead of ourselves in hoping that the new tools of cellular biology and genetics might eradicate the disease during our lifetimes? Tonight's speaker, Nobel Laureate and interim Chief Executive of Cancer Research, UK, Sir Paul Nurse, will address these questions. In the chair is Daniel Glaser, ICA Scientist-in-Residence. Café Scientifique is a place where layperson and expert alike can come to explore the latest issues in science and technology over a glass of wine or a cup of coffee. No scientific knowledge will be assumed by the speakers so that everyone can participate in an informal and accessible atmosphere. | |
| 24 Sep 02 | ICA, Inner London :: V205 listing details L01219946775 |
John Dupre - Beyond Human Genetics - T0151802468The genome is an integrated whole that interacts continuously with the environment in human development. This undermines both evolutionary psychology and the idea that single genes define people. The relevance of genomics to medicine has yet to be determined, but its limited relevance for understanding human nature is already clear. John is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Head of Sociology at the University of Exeter, and has previously worked at Stanford and Birkbeck. His latest publications are Human Nature and the Limits of Science (Oxford, 2001) and Humans and Other Animals (Oxford, 2002). | |
| 16 Sep 02 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L0407648281 |
T2104073990Selling promises, ignoring causes: The role of genetics in health prevention. Claims that genetics will revolutionize health care often hail a new era of "prediction and prevention" using genetic tests. Will an over emphasis on genetics shift attention and resources from tackling the underlying causes of ill-health, such as poverty, diet, pollution and smoking? Helen Wallace is Deputy Director of GeneWatch UK, the science-policy organisation which campaigns for public accountability in genetic research and the application of genetic technologies. | |
| 20 May 02 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L0556647623 |
The Conscious Machine: Oxymoron or Slave to the Future? - T0969736232Can a machine be conscious? Is the brain a machine? In tonight's Café Scientifique, Igor Aleksander argues that giving up ideas of the 'specialness' of human consciousness will improve our understanding of how a brain can allow for the generation of a mind, and how machines could become more compatible with humans. Professor of Neural Systems engineering at Imperial College and author of How to Build a Mind, Igor Aleksander has been researching artificial intelligence and brain modelling for over 30 years. Daniel Glaser, ICA scientist-in-residence will be chairing. Come along to air your thoughts and ask questions, or just listen to the latest ideas in science and technology. | |
| 17 May 02 | ICA, Inner London :: V205 listing details L01801280365 |
Chris MacManus: Left Hand, Right Hand - T0417072683 | |
| 25 Mar 02 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L1717746084 |
Lawrence Whalley: Can Nutrition Solve the Problems of Brain Ageing? - T1784617990 | |
| 18 Feb 02 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L2004929593 |
Tom Wakeford: Liaisons of Life: the symbiotic revolution - T01576485362Suppose Darwin's theory of evolution is incomplete. Imagine the missing link is one-thousandth of a millimetre long. Tom explains how microbes have been innovative players in the evolutionary process. Tim is a Research Fellow at PEALS, a former Young Science Writer of the Year, and author of Liaisons of Life. | |
| 21 Jan 02 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L0606761760 |
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| 17 Oct 06 | ARC, Stockton-on-Tees :: V01950064742 listing details L01852130199 |
| 19 Sep 06 | ARC, Stockton-on-Tees :: V01950064742 listing details L546055950 |
| 16 May 06 | ARC, Stockton-on-Tees :: V01950064742 listing details L403625898 |
| 18 Apr 06 | ARC, Stockton-on-Tees :: V01950064742 listing details L1861341418 |
| 15 Jul 02 | Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V567 listing details L291558651 |
