Previous Events at Café Scientifique - Bishops Stortford

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2005

 

Wednesday December 14th The Human Interface with Reality:    "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?" - Richard Epworth
2006

 

Monday January 30th Counter-Intuitive Science - Kevin Byron
Monday February 27th Human interface with the Universe - Stan Allen
Wednesday March 29th What Makes Science Education Memorable? - Jonathan Forgham
Wednesday April 26th Alzheimer's Disease, Past Present and Future - John Atack
Wednesday June 21st Energy Literacy - How do we make sense of the Energy debate? - Damian Bevan
Wednesday October 18th Mismatch - Why our world no longer fits our bodies - Mark Hanson
Monday November 20th An Evening of Brief Rants - on various "Scientific" Topics
2007

 

Monday January 15th The Threat from Near Earth Objects - Jerry Stone
Monday February 26th Stem Cells to Therapy - A view from the UK Stem Cell Bank - Glyn Stacey
Monday March 19th The next Influenza Pandemic - Real threat or Panic? - Jane Leese
Monday April 16th LASERS Fact & Fiction! - Light Sabres, Holodecks & Photon Torpedoes - Kevin Byron
Monday June 18th When Vesuvius erupts again… Peter Baxter
Monday July 2nd Digital Dynamics - Science with a Digital Camera - James Collett
Monday October 29th What the ..(Bleep !!) do We know? Quantum Physics, Consciousness & Spirituality  - Kevin Byron
Monday November 26th The relentless march of tuberculosis into the 21st century? - Dr Jane Leese
Monday December 10th Fun Quiz Night - Is Science Ever Trivial? - Kevin Byron
2008

 

Monday Feb 18th The Science and Beauty of Nebulae - Carolin Crawford
Monday March 31st How to Win a Nobel Prize! - Sir Tim Hunt FRS & 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
Monday April 28th It's Play Time! Bishops Stortford College opened their "Science Action Centre"
Monday May 12th

How the Brain creates the Mind - Chris Frith, University College, London

Monday July 7th The Frontier of Particle Physics &  the Large Hadron Collider Nick Evans, University of Southampton
Thursday September 25th

"To Sleep, perchance to Dream" - The Science of Sleep & Dreams, Dr Omar Daniels

Monday October 13th The Science of Music  - Matt Fradley
Monday November 17th

A Phoenix on Mars - Carolin Crawford

Monday December 8th

Another Science Trivia Quiz: Universally Challenged? - Kevin Byron
2009

 

Monday January 19th The Amazing Science of Hearing, How your ear uses soft components to do a hard job - Jonathan Ashmore
Thursday February 5th Genetic Genealogy: The history hidden in your genes - Bryn Carr of Family Genetics
Monday March 9th Is a little bit of Polonium good for you? - Current Issues in Radiation Protection By Jim Thurston
Monday April 27th Sustainable Energy, Without the Hot Air - Prof. David J.C. MacKay
Thursday June 25th Sailing Towards 100 Knots - Bob Spagnoletti

Thursday October 1st

Looking into Arty Questions - Helen Saunderson
Monday November 9th Don't Sleep there are Snakes - Life and Language in the Amazon Jungle - Daniel Everett
Monday December 14th A History of Communicating with Light.  from a wave of the hand to the World Wide Web - Richard Epworth
2010  
Monday February 15th Is it creative to believe in the paranormal? by Dr. Christine Mohr
Monday March 15th Risk: Can we quantify our uncertainty? - by Professor David Spiegelhalter
Monday, May 10th The MoD X-Files - by Nick Pope
Monday July 5th The Curious Life and Complex Legacy of Alec Reeves  - by David Robertson
2011 See 2011 Calendar
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