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Date: |
Tuesday 10th
October |
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Title: |
The human genome project: who
owns and controls genetic information? |
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Speaker: |
Steve Hughes,
Exeter University |
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Date: |
Tuesday 21st
November |
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Title: |
Global warming and acid oceans
- should we care about the effects of CO2 on Earth? |
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Speaker: |
Kelvin Boot,
National
Marine Aquarium |
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Date: |
Tuesday 12th
December |
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Title: |
The law and the environment |
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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.
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Date: |
Tuesday 16th
January |
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Title: |
Offshore wave technologies and
their place in the UK - a wave hub for the south-west? |
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Speaker: |
Amanda Foreman,
MSc Environmental and Energy Studies |
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Date: |
Tuesday 13th
February |
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Title: |
All things bright and
beautiful: the science of natural colour |
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Speaker: |
Pete Vukisik,
Exeter
University
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Date: |
Tuesday 20th
March |
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Title: |
Animation through the eyes of
the great apes |
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Speaker: |
Martin Shann,
former head of production technology, Aardman Animation
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Date: |
Tuesday 15th May |
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Title: |
Why sex, why the sexes? |
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Speaker: |
David Hosken,
Centre for Ecology & Conservation,
Exeter University
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Date: |
Tuesday 14th August |
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Title: |
Myths and science ... |
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Speaker: |
Helen Haste, Dept of Psychology, University
of Bath |
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Date: |
Tuesday 11th September |
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Title: |
The first billion years of
history - finding galxies early in the Universe with the Hubble Space
Telescope |
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Speaker: |
A cafe sci at
night, with (weather permitting!) our first star party
Andrew Bunker,
School of Physics, University of Exeter |
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Date: |
Tuesday
October 16th
|
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Title: |
Finisterre - making
environment and ethics bottom line ... |
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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. |
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Date: |
Tuesday November 13th |
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Title: |
Time is nature's way of
stopping everything happening at once: theories of time and time travel |
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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. |
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Date: |
Tuesday December 11th
|
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Title: |
Film Screening
A Crude Awakening - the Oil
Crash in partnership with
Transition Falmouth. |
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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. |
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Date: |
Tuesday January 15th |
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Title: |
The oil and climate crises |
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Speaker: |
Mike Haywood |
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Date: |
Tuesday 10th June |
|
Title: |
Ice, mud
and blood: lessons from climates past |
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Speaker: |
Chris Turney, School of
Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources, University of Exeter
Imagine a world of wildly escalating
temperatures, apocalyptic flooding, devastating storms and catastrophic sea
level rises. This might sound like a prediction for the future or the
storyline of a new Hollywood blockbuster but it’s quite different: it’s our
past. In an age in which where we’re bombarded with worrying forecasts for
future climate, it seems hard to believe that such things could come to
pass. Yet almost everywhere we turn, the landscape screams that the world is
a capricious place.
If we don’t tune in, the
message will be lost. We need to decipher the past and learn from it. In
Ice, Mud and Blood, Professor Chris Turney explores the changing climate
and the risks facing us as we continue to drive our planet to new extremes.
See Chris's website at
www.christurney.com |
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Date: |
Tuesday 15th July |
|
Title: |
First
generation: European communications satellites |
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Speaker: |
Geoff Fuller
Join us to learn about the evolution of the design of the first operational
European communications satellites, their construction, test, launch and
operation.
Where did it all begin? |
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Date: |
Thursday 16th October |
|
Title: |
The biology of Ostrea
edulis - the European Flat Oyster |
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Speaker: |
A talk by
Craig Baldwin of Falmouth Marine School with his team of madcap
scientists and his famous binocular microscope. Discussions afterwards at
the Oyster Festival, Events Square |
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Date: |
Thursday 11th November |
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Title: |
The pivotal role of the
volunteer in scientific research |
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Speaker: |
Colin Speedie: adventurer,
photographer, sailing master, shark trust trustee, researcher and author.
Download a poster for this
cafe here
(pdf) |
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Date: |
Tuesday 25th April 2009 at 18:15 |
|
Title: |
Family Matters -
cooperation and conflict in animal families |
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Speaker: |
Nicholas Royale
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