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Where : |
The
Old Cooperage Bar, Jennings Brewery, Castlegate, Cockermouth |
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When : |
The
third Tuesday of each month whenever possible (there may be
exceptions, depending on speakers' availability);
start at 7.30pm prompt - doors open at 7pm. |
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Contact:
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Contact
Ann or John Lackie on 01697 321967 |
Previous Events
Upcoming Events
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Date: |
Tuesday September 16th |
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Title: |
Farming for Animal Welfare |
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Speaker: |
Marian Stamp
Dawkins, Oxford University Zoology Department |
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Description: |
The Food Animal
Initiative (FAI) aims to show that putting animal welfare and environmental
protection at the heart of farming still enables farmers to make a living.
The talk will describes the unique partnership between FAI and the
University of Oxford that provides a link between research and practical
farming (www.farfarms.co.uk)
Marian Dawkins is Professor of Animal Behaviour at the University of Oxford.
She is the author of 'Through Our Eyes Only?: the Search for Animal
Consciousness' and has recently edited (with R. Bonney) 'Future of
Animal
Farming: Renewing the Ancient Contract'. She has also published numerous
research papers on the welfare of farm animals, particularly broiler
chickens and laying hens. |
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Date: |
Tuesday October 14th |
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Title: |
Cosmic indigestion – or things that go bump in the night |
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Speaker: |
Carole Mundell,
Liverpool John Moores University, Astrophysics Dept |
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Description: |
Carole writes: 'I aim to
introduce some of my research interests, namely astrophysical phenomena that
are driven by black holes, big and small, i.e. active galacti nuclei and
gamma ray bursts. These two classes of
objects share many physical processes, but change their observed properties
on vastly different timescale - millions of years vs seconds or
minutes. I'll compare and contrast what we know (and more of what we
don't know) and I'll try to give a flavour of how it is to be an
observational astronomer in the modern era of robotic telescopes and
real-time discoveries'. |
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Date: |
Tuesday November 11th |
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Title: |
Public Health: Rise or Fall? |
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Speaker: |
Peter Tiplady
(formerly Director of Public Health for Cumbria) |
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Description: |
Some of the greatest
improvements in health were made through the Public Health movement of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sanitary engineering, clean water,
healthy food, vaccination against infectious disease and good housing have
all contributed to improvements in life expectancy and to a greater
proportion of us surviving to old age than ever before. Effective treatments
for a range of diseases are now pushing public health into the background
and swallowing more and more resources. Are the glory days of public health
over? Or will the twenty-first century bring a new public health movement
with answers to some of our biggest health problems? |
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Date: |
Tuesday December 9th |
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Title: |
The
science behind brewing |
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Speaker: |
Jeremy Pettman,
Jennings Brewery |
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Description: |
A brewery tour, instead
of an introductory talk, followed by sampling in the usual venue and a
discussion of the science that lies behind the brewing.
Jennings
regards itself as a traditional brewer using water drawn from the brewery’s
own well, and only the finest natural ingredients, including malt made from
Maris Otter barley, Golding hops from Kent and Fuggles hops from
Herefordshire. Jeremy, as Head Brewer at Jennings, is well placed to give us
some insights into the process.
As our
regulars know, Jennings have been very supportive of our Café Sci and we are
extremely grateful to them. Please note that the tour does require several
steep stairways to be negotiated. |
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