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(Previous events)
Upcoming Events
Previous Events
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Date: |
Wednesday 22nd October 4 - 5:30pm |
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Title: |
Nanotechnology - what's it
all about? |
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Speaker: |
Steve Feist,
Cefas |
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Date: |
Wednesday 23rd April 3:45 - 5pm |
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Title: |
Power for the future:
putting nuclear in its place |
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Speaker: |
Kevin McIntyre (UKAEA Winfrith)
Rod Axell (Infinergy Wind Farms)
Ian
Harris (Thomas Hardye School)
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Date: |
Wednesday 12th March 4 - 5:30pm |
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Title: |
Does science make for a
better world? |
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Speaker: |
Allan Reese,
Centre for fish and aquaculture science |
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Date: |
Wednesday 14th November 4 - 5:30pm |
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Title: |
Biofuels - are they good
news for the environment? |
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Speaker: |
George Hosford, farmer; Richard Belding, Natural England; John
Waltham, Green Spirit Fuels Ltd |
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Date: |
Wednesday 24th September 4 - 5:30pm |
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Title: |
Immune system: friend or
foe? |
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Speaker: |
Catherine Whitlock,
Birkbeck College |
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Date: |
Friday 14th November 7:30pm
Dorchester Arts Centre |
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Title: |
Science myths and the media |
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Speaker: |
Jim Smith, Portsmouth University
Download a poster for this cafe
here
(jpg) |
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Date: |
Wednesday 11th February 4 - 5:30pm
in the 6th form Centre |
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Title: |
Darwin, religion and reason |
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Speaker: |
Robert Stovold
Download a poster for this cafe
here |
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Date: |
Friday March 6th 7:30 - 10pm
Dorchester Arts Centre |
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Title: |
A sea-change: has science
failed to save our oceans? Followed by a quiz challenge. |
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Speaker: |
Simon Cripps, Dorset Wildlife Trust
Download a poster for this cafe
here |
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Date: |
Wednesday 22nd April 4 - 5:30pm
in the 6th form Centre |
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Title: |
Cigarettes and alcohol:
addictive behaviours? |
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Speaker: |
Marcus Munafo, University of Bristol
Download a poster for this cafe
here |
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Date: |
Thursday 17th September 2009 4 - 5:30pm
Thomas Hardye School 6th Form Centre |
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Title: |
Embryology and the law |
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Speaker: |
Nicola Monks |
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Date: |
Thursday 6th October 2009 4 - 5:30pm
Thomas Hardye School 6th Form Centre |
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Title: |
HOW DID GALILEO CHANGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF ASTRONOMY?
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Speaker: |
Percy Seymour and Arthur Davis |
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Date: |
Friday 6th November 2009 7:30pm
Dorchester Arts Centre |
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Title: |
Music,
Art & the Brain' by Prof Keith
Kendrick |
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Speaker: |
Keith Kendrick
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What are the adaptive advantages of
having musical and artistic skills?
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What makes the brain responsive to
music and art?
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Are listening to music or learning how
to play an instrument or sing, beneficial to mental functioning?
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This lecture will address these general
questions.
Poster |
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Date: |
Thursday 28th January 2010 4 - 5:30pm
Thomas Hardye School Drama Studio |
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Title: |
Should extinct species be
reintroduced? -
Butterflies, bumblebees and biodiversity |
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Speaker: |
Bill
Jordan and Zoe Randle
To
celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity, Bill Jordan and Zoe Randle
will talk about species - respectively the Great Bustard and Large Blue
butterfly - which have been reintroduced to the UK following extinction. We hope
the discussion will free-range beyond these to a wider discussion about
biodiversity.
Download a poster
for this event
here (PDF) |
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Date: |
Friday 12th March 2010 7:30pm
Dorchester Arts Centre |
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Title: |
Land speed records - inspiring a new generation of engineers with the
Bloodhound project |
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Speaker: |
Ian Galloway, Education Director,
Bloodhound SSC
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How can we confront and overcome the impossible using
science, technology, engineering and mathematics?
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How can we push the limits and inspire young engineers
and scientists with an incredible car capable of 1,000mph?
Download a poster
for this cafe here. |
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Date: |
Thursday 22th April 2010 4 - 5:30pm
Thomas Hardye School 6th Form Centre |
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Title: |
A journey through the South West’s sustainable energy needs
and how the Environment Agency is facing up to them |
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Speaker: |
Nick Lyness
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poster for this cafe (ppt) |
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