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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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Date:

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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Date:

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
Date: Wednesday 4th June
Title: Whose land is it anyway? Market mechanisms and tropical conservation
Speaker: Julia Jones, Bangor University

Date:

Wednesday 2nd July

Title:

Science and the war on the 'English Disease': psychology, identity and the policing of football violence

Speaker:

Clifford Stott

Dr Stott tries to explain and predict how crowds behave on the basis of social identity and inter-group dynamics. He has worked closely with police forces across Europe, for example helping the Portugese police to plan their strategy for the Euro 2004 championships, and is funded by UK police forces to research responses to football related 'disorder' in the UK. He is also, according to an England fans website, 'a top bloke who always goes out of his way to speak up on behalf of England supporters'.

Date:

Wednesday 3rd September

Title:

Biofuels or food?

Speaker:

John Witcombe

Date:

Thursday 4 December

Title:

The sounds of music: art or science?

Speaker:

Sam Ellis from the School of Music, Bangor University, will demonstrate devices for making music.

Date:

Wednesday 4 February 2009

Title:

Food miles and rural livelihoods

Speaker:

Paul Cross, SENR, Bangor University

Is it better to buy banana from Barbados or a burger from Bethesda? Should we be supporting farmers in Gwynedd or Kenya? Or should we just leave it all to the market?

Date:

Wednesday 3rd February 2010 Re-launch event!

Title:

The future of Wales's environment

Speaker:

John Farrar, Professor in Biological Sciences, Bangor University

Date:

Wednesday 3rd March 2010

Title:

The neuroscience of why we believe things that aren't true

Speaker:

Oliver Turnbull, Professor of Neuropsychology and head of the School of Psychology, Bangor University

Date:

14th April 2010

Title:

Dear honey-bee, what have we done to you?

Speaker:

Wally Shaw from Anglesey Beekeepers’ Association

Date:

5th May 2010

Title:

Biodiversity

Speaker:

Tim Blackstock from the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW)

Date:

2nd June 2010

Title:

Plate tectonics in action: the geology of Snowdonia

Speaker:

Paul Gannon

 

 

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