Bangor Cafe
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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 |
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'Is
nature conservation in the UK simply gardening?' |
| Speaker: |
Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones,
University of Wales. |
| Description: |
(English/Welsh)
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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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Description: |
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| Date: |
Thursday 4th October |
| Title: |
Climate change |
| Speaker: |
Benny Peiser, Liverpool John Moores
University |
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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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Description: |
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| Date: |
Thursday 10th January 2008 |
| Title: |
Ending ageing |
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Speaker: |
Aubrey de Grey |
| Date: |
Thursday 8th February |
| Title: |
Quantum Mechanics |
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Speaker: |
George Lafferty, School of Physics &
Astronomy, Manchester University |
| Date: |
Thursday 6th March |
| Title: |
Climate Change: a long-term
(geological) perspective |
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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 |
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Speaker: |
Julia Jones, Bangor University |
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Date: |
Wednesday 2nd July |
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Title: |
Science and the war on the
'English Disease': psychology, identity and the policing of football violence |
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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'. |
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Date: |
Wednesday 3rd September |
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Title: |
Biofuels or food? |
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Speaker: |
John Witcombe
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Date: |
Thursday 4 December |
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Title: |
The sounds of music: art or
science? |
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Speaker: |
Sam Ellis from the School of Music, Bangor
University, will demonstrate devices for making music. |
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Date: |
Wednesday 4 February 2009 |
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Title: |
Food miles and rural
livelihoods |
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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? |
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Date: |
Wednesday 3rd February 2010
Re-launch event! |
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Title: |
The future of Wales's environment |
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Speaker: |
John Farrar, Professor
in Biological Sciences, Bangor University |
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Date: |
Wednesday 3rd March 2010 |
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Title: |
The neuroscience of why we believe things
that aren't true |
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Speaker: |
Oliver Turnbull,
Professor of Neuropsychology and head of the School of Psychology, Bangor
University |
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Date: |
14th April 2010 |
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Title: |
Dear honey-bee, what have we done to you?
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Speaker: |
Wally Shaw from Anglesey Beekeepers’
Association |
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Date: |
5th May 2010
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Title: |
Biodiversity
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Speaker: |
Tim Blackstock from the
Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) |
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Date: |
2nd June 2010
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Title: |
Plate tectonics in action: the geology of
Snowdonia
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Speaker: |
Paul Gannon |
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