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Date: Tuesday 3rd May, 7.30pm  LAUNCH EVENT!!
Title: 'Is anybody out there?'
Speaker: Simon Godwin, Astrophysicist
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Date: Monday 25 April, 7.30pm
Title: 'Does Science have the whole story?'
Speaker: Toby Murcott, Science Writer
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Tuesday 6 September, 7.30 pm

Title: 'Does religion have an evolutionary history?'
Speaker: Professor Robin Dunbar, University of Liverpool
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Date: Tuesday 4 October, 7.30 pm    
Title: 'Uranium, Oil and our Energy Future'
Speaker: Paul Mobbs, Mobbs' Environmental Investigations
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Tuesday 8 November, 7.30 pm

Title 'Is nature conservation in the UK simply gardening?'
Speaker: Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones, University of Wales.
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(English/Welsh)

Date: Tuesday 7 March 2006
Title: Why climate change in polar regions should concern us all
Speaker:

Geraint Tarling, British Antarctic Survey

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Date: Tuesday 4 April 2006
Title: Everything you wanted to know about evolution, but were too afraid to ask...
Speaker:

David Booth, Queen's University, Belfast

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Date: Tuesday 6th June
Title: Heavy metals from the sky
Speaker:

Ed Tipping, Centre for ecology & hydrology

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Date: Tuesday 1st August
Title: Life without water
Speaker: Ehsan Masood, The Gateway Trust
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Date: Tuesday 5th September
Title: Mad cows and Englishmen
Speaker: John Jeffreys, University of Birmingham
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Date: Thursday 7th December
Title: Power from deserts: concentrating solar energy
Speaker: Gerry Wolff, Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Co-operation
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Date: Thursday 11th January
Title: Trusting doctors: parental perceptions of MMR vaccination
Speaker: Shona Hilton, Medical Research Council
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Date: Thursday 1st February
Title: Organic agriculture cannot feed the world
Speaker: John Witcombe, Centre for Arid Zone Studies
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Date: Thursday 8th March
Title: The psychology of artificial life
Speaker: Rob Ward, Bangor University
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Date: Thursday 3rd May
Title: Wildlife DNA forensics: Badgers, bombs and bestiality
Speaker: Rob Ogden, Wildlife DNA services
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Date: Thursday 4th October
Title: Climate change
Speaker: Benny Peiser, Liverpool John Moores University
Description: Dr Peiser is sceptical about apocalyptic pronouncements about global change, so this will make quite a contrast to previous Science Cafes.
Date: Thursday 1st November
Title: Genetically modified organisms: good science or awful sin?
Speaker: Chris Giddon, Bangor University
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Date: Thursday 10th January 2008
Title: Ending ageing
Speaker: Aubrey de Grey
Date: Thursday 8th February
Title: Quantum Mechanics
Speaker: George Lafferty, School of Physics & Astronomy, Manchester University
Date: Thursday 6th March
Title: Climate Change: a long-term (geological) perspective
Speaker: Mike Hambrey, Institute of Geography and Earth Science, Aberystwyth University

 

 

 

 

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