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General Information

 
Where : Falmouth Arts Centre, Falmouth
When : Tuesdays - see below for exact dates - 7:30pm
Contact:

Clare Hearn

LAUNCH - Tuesday 10th October

Upcoming Events

Date:

Tuesday 10th October

Title:

The human genome project: who owns and controls genetic information?

Speaker:

Steve Hughes, Exeter University

Date:

Tuesday 21st November

Title:

Global warming and acid oceans - should we care about the effects of CO2 on Earth?

Speaker:

Kelvin Boot, National Marine Aquarium

Date:

Tuesday 12th December

Title:

The law and the environment

Speaker:

Rory MacPhee, environmental law lecturer at Falmouth Marine School and well known local boat-builder and sculptor will open a discussion on using the law as a tool to achieve environmental objectives, e.g. the proposed marine bill. We will consider and debate the notion of environmental justice, and develop a raft of ideas that support the work of scientists concerned about biodiversity degradation.

Date:

Tuesday 16th January

Title:

Offshore wave technologies and their place in the UK - a wave hub for the south-west?

Speaker:

Amanda Foreman, MSc Environmental and Energy Studies

Date:

Tuesday 13th February

Title:

All things bright and beautiful: the science of natural colour

Speaker:

Pete Vukisik, Exeter University

Date:

Tuesday 20th March

Title:

Animation through the eyes of the great apes

Speaker:

Martin Shann, former head of production technology, Aardman Animation

Date:

Tuesday 15th May

Title:

Why sex, why the sexes?

Speaker:

David Hosken, Centre for Ecology & Conservation, Exeter University

Date:

Tuesday 14th August

Title:

Myths and science ...

Speaker:

Helen Haste, Dept of Psychology, University of Bath

Date:

Tuesday 11th September

Title:

The first billion years of history - finding galxies early in the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope

Speaker:

A cafe sci at night, with (weather permitting!) our first star party

Andrew Bunker, School of Physics, University of Exeter

Date:

Tuesday October 16th

Title:

Finisterre - making environment and ethics bottom line ...

Speaker:

Tom Kay, founder of Finisterre

Finisterre is a local ethical and environmentally driven surf inspired brand. Their groundbreaking work has been globally recognised and the team are presenting at conferences alongside Nike and M & S, on subjects ranging from successful biomimetics to ecotextiles.

Date:

Tuesday November 13th

Title:

Time is nature's way of stopping everything happening at once: theories of time and time travel

Speaker:

Darren Smithson
Time travel is impossible: right? What if I told you that it may be possible and not just under one theory, but several?

Darren Smithson is a long-time futurist who has worked for twenty years with some of the world's largest and most influential companies, such as IBM, Microsoft and the BBC.

Last year, he launched the first village Cafe Scientifique and he has recently become a governor of a Science Specialist College in his home town of Barnsley. He describes his favourite hobby as ‘finding new brains to fry’.

Darren is currently writing a book (The 50-Year Horizon) to accompany his presentations and a new website will be coming soon.

Date:

Tuesday December 11th

Title:

Film Screening A Crude Awakening - the Oil Crash in partnership with Transition Falmouth.

Speaker:

A Crude Awakening tells the story of how our civilisation’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.

Transition Falmouth is part of a movement addressing two great issues of our time: a changing climate and declining oil production through working to develop low energy solutions in all aspects of our lives. For more information, visit http://transitionfalmouth.org.uk/

This is a two part Cafe Sci; on Tuesday January 15th at 7.30 we will be debating the oil and climate crises with Dr Mike Haywood, peak oil specialist.

Date:

Tuesday January 15th

Title:

The oil and climate crises

Speaker:

Mike Haywood

 

 

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