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Upcoming lectures/talks in science

• Sat 6 Sep 08 · Festival of Science (the BA's Festival of Science, Liverpool)

Previous talks/lectures in this category

• Sat 14 Jun 08 · Science and Civilisation (Jodrell Bank Observatory, Macclesfield)

• Wed 11 Jun 08 · So long, and thanks for all the fishing: The sorry story of the Yangtze River dolphin (Grant Museum of Zoology, London)

• Tue 20 May 08 · A Beginner’s Guide to Cryptozoology (Grant Museum of Zoology, London)

• Tue 6 May 08 · Chiropractic - A 113 year struggle from pseudoscience to legitimacy (The Penderels Oak, London)

• Sat 19 Apr 08 · An Evening with James Randi & Friends (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 13 Mar 08 · Holidays beyond earth, the future of space tourism (Lady Mitchell Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 13 Mar 08 · Punk Science: Know it all? (Science Oxford, Oxford)

• Tue 11 Mar 08 · Stonehenge and beyond: the sky and ancient cultures (Royal Astronomical Society, London)

• Mon 10 Mar 08 · The Big Experiment (Lady Mitchell Hall, Cambridge)

• Fri 7 Mar 08 · Transforming British Science (Science Oxford, Oxford)

• Tue 19 Feb 08 · Why don’t creationists just shut up? (The Penderels Oak, London)

• Tue 19 Feb 08 · Confessions of a Spiritual Junkie: A Psychologist's Search for Enlightenment (The Penderels Oak, London)

• Tue 19 Feb 08 · Professor John Onians - Neuroarthistory: How the eye moves the artist's hand and how art moves us a (Louise T Blouin Institute, London)

• Tue 12 Feb 08 · Vision Impossible! :A lecture by Professor Colin Blakemore (Louise T Blouin Institute, London)

• Tue 15 Jan 08 · 'Art and Mind - a complete theory of art and the brain?' A lecture by Garry Kennard (Louise T Blouin Institute, London)

• Tue 15 Jan 08 · The British X-Files (The Penderels Oak, London)

• Tue 8 Jan 08 · Astronomy by Microscope (Royal Astronomical Society, London)

• Wed 12 Dec 07 · Professor Semir Zeki, "Empty Spaces - The Neurobiology of Nothingness (Louise T Blouin Institute, London)

• Tue 11 Dec 07 · Skeptics in the Pub (The Penderels Oak, London)

• Tue 4 Dec 07 · Exploring the first biotechnologies: Cheese and Bread making (Chandos House, London)

• Thu 29 Nov 07 · Consciousness Culture and Cosmos: Rupert Sheldrake and Andrew Cohen in Dialogue (EnlightenNext, Islington)

• Thu 22 Nov 07 · MasterClass: Exit Routes Life Science Companies (Novotel Hotel London, London)

• Tue 20 Nov 07 · Many happy returns? Investigating reincarnation claims in the Lebanon (The Penderels Oak, London)

• Tue 20 Nov 07 · How not to investigate the Paranormal (The Penderels Oak, London)

• Fri 26 Oct 07 · The battle over ethics and regulation (One Great George Street, London)

• Thu 25 Oct 07 · RSA Thursday: J Craig Venter - Do scientists get the media they deserve? (RSA, London)

• Mon 22 Oct 07 · Observing the Invisible - celebrating Leeuwnhoek's 375th anniversary (Cambridge Society for the Application of Research, Cambridge)

• Wed 17 Oct 07 · Dawkins, Hawking and God: Science and Spirituality (St. Augustine's- Queensgate, London)

• Tue 16 Oct 07 · Making Sense of Miracle Cures: How Psychology Makes Alternative Medicine ‘Work’ (Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit (APRU) - Goldsmiths College, London)

• Tue 16 Oct 07 · Science in an Age of Delusions: Some Examples from Scientific Fraud, Quackery, Religion and Universi (UCL, London)

• Tue 16 Oct 07 · Physical Fitness: Population Trends and Why They Matter (UCL, London)

• Thu 11 Oct 07 · A Lousy Tale of the Naked Ape (UCL, London)

• Tue 25 Sep 07 · Cafe Scientifique: (The Photographers' Gallery, London)

• Mon 24 Sep 07 · Networks: modelling and control (The Royal Society, London)

• Tue 7 Aug 07 · Nobel Laureate to Feature at 2007 Benjamin Franklin House Symposium with the Eccles Centre for Ameri (British Library, London)

• Mon 30 Jul 07 · The Strange Case of Intelligent Observers in the Cosmos (Science Oxford, Oxford)

• Tue 10 Jul 07 · Can science secure our skies? (Dana centre, London)

• Tue 10 Jul 07 · Conor Gearty: Can Democracy withstand the “War on Terror”? (Louise T Blouin Institute, London)

• Thu 5 Jul 07 · Be a beatbox (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 3 Jul 07 · SING LONDON @ the Dana Centre! (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 3 Jul 07 · Eric Herring: Iraq in Fragments – The Occupation and its Legacy (Louise T Blouin Institute, London)

• Wed 20 Jun 07 · Web 2.0 (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 31 May 07 · Skin Colour: Changing shades (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 30 May 07 · Punk Science: Climate change (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 24 May 07 · Work and Play 2025 (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 23 May 07 · Ethics of Progress (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 22 May 07 · Skin Colour: Vitiligo (Dana Centre, London)

• Mon 21 May 07 · Carbon based electronics: fundamentals and device applications (The Royal Society, London)

• Thu 17 May 07 · Clinical Trials and Tribulations (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 16 May 07 · Superfood Sellout? (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 15 May 07 · Dinner@Dana: Back to the Big Bang (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 15 May 07 · Can a Scientist Believe the Resurrection? (Babbage Lecture Theatre, Cambridge)

• Fri 11 May 07 · Takeaway festival (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 10 May 07 · Takeaway festival (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 9 May 07 · Takeaway festival (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 8 May 07 · Re-Defining Normality (Louise T Blouin Institute, London)

• Thu 3 May 07 · Engineered zinc finger proteins for the regulation of gene expression (The Royal Society, London)

• Thu 3 May 07 · Skin Colour: Should it matter? (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 2 May 07 · So You Want to Be a Brain Surgeon (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 1 May 07 · Tales of maths and science (The Royal Society, London)

• Tue 1 May 07 · Inside Out: meet the artist Angela Palmer (Hunterian Museum, London, London)

• Mon 30 Apr 07 · The Appearance of Light and Colour in Dreams (Louise T Blouin Institute, London)

• Thu 26 Apr 07 · Brainy Brave New World (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 26 Apr 07 · SCIENTIFIC WINE TASTING (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge)

• Wed 25 Apr 07 · Spinal-Cord Superheroes (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 24 Apr 07 · Tuesday Talk: Rob La Frenais (Visual Arts Education, Cornerhouse, Manchester)

• Tue 24 Apr 07 · Rights for Robots (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 19 Apr 07 · Is Water the Next Oil? (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 18 Apr 07 · People and Planet 2025 (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 17 Apr 07 · Genius (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 29 Mar 07 · Tracing Your Ancestry (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 28 Mar 07 · Venus Express (New Hunts House, London)

• Wed 28 Mar 07 · Crack the Code (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 27 Mar 07 · Keeping an Eye On (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 27 Mar 07 · Cafe Scientifique: The Biology of Belief with Lewis Wolpert (The Photographers' Gallery, London)

• Fri 23 Mar 07 · The 27km machine and the building blocks of the Universe (Babbage Lecture Theatre, Cambridge)

• Fri 23 Mar 07 · Inside Out: meet the artist Angela Palmer (Hunterian Museum, London, London)

• Thu 22 Mar 07 · A Warming Meal (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 22 Mar 07 · ARE SCIENCE AND ART BETTER OFF APART? (Royal College of Surgeons of England, London)

• Thu 22 Mar 07 · The Scale of Science Panel Discussion (The Faculty of Law, Cambridge)

• Wed 21 Mar 07 · Dinner@Dana: Bold Frontiers (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 20 Mar 07 · Private Identities, Public Property? (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 20 Mar 07 · We, the Weather Makers (Centre for the Study of Democracy, London)

• Mon 19 Mar 07 · It's a Gas! (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge)

• Sun 18 Mar 07 · Cabaret: Science of Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll (ADC Theatre, Cambridge)

• Sat 17 Mar 07 · Science and Religion (Michaelhouse Centre, Cambridge)

• Thu 15 Mar 07 · Words Cannot Say It All (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 15 Mar 07 · Science in the Real World and Stem Cell Science (Lady Mitchell Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 14 Mar 07 · Rewired (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 14 Mar 07 · Inside Out: meet the artist Angela Palmer (Hunterian Museum, London, London)

• Tue 13 Mar 07 · Can’t Sing, Won’t Sing (Dana Centre, London)

• Sat 10 Mar 07 · Science Horizons - The Future of the Mind (Science Oxford, Oxford)

• Thu 8 Mar 07 · Blow Your Mind – Back by popular demand! (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 7 Mar 07 · The Scientist Who Loved Me (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 6 Mar 07 · NESTA FameLab (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 1 Mar 07 · Losing My Marbles? Who, Me? (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 27 Feb 07 · Punk Science: Know it all? (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 22 Feb 07 · Glimpses of the Wonderful: Phillip Henry Gosse (Friends of the Horniman, Forest Hill)

• Wed 21 Feb 07 · Dinner@Dana: Adventures in the deep sea! (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 21 Feb 07 · Frontline Confidential with John Willis –Cover–ups and Double Standards in the Asbestos Industry (The Frontline Club, London)

• Thu 15 Feb 07 · Catwalk extravaganza at Science Museum’s Dana Centre to show off best green fashion designs (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 8 Feb 07 · Eat More Healthily (Science Oxford, Oxford)

• Thu 18 Jan 07 · Wrath: Road Rage (Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne)

• Tue 16 Jan 07 · Placebos and the Power of Belief - Professor Irving Kirsch (Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit (APRU) - Goldsmiths College, London)

• Thu 11 Jan 07 · Be Better Informed (Science Oxford, Oxford)

• Wed 10 Jan 07 · Our Sci-Fi Future (Science Museum, London)

• Wed 6 Dec 06 · Dreaming of a Green Christmas? (Science Museum, London)

• Tue 5 Dec 06 · Mismatch: Why our bodies are no longer fit for the Universe (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Thu 30 Nov 06 · Mixing with the Stars (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 28 Nov 06 · Chinese Kitchen Medicine (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 28 Nov 06 · What Makes us Happy? (Soho Theatre, London)

• Mon 27 Nov 06 · Colours in Art and in the Brain (Louise T Blouin Institute, London)

• Thu 23 Nov 06 · Death@Dana (Dana Centre, London)

• Sat 18 Nov 06 · Roads to Reality: Matter, Mind and Symbol (UCL, London)

• Fri 17 Nov 06 · Where Buddhism and Science Meet (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 14 Nov 06 · Genesis Machines: Engineering Life? (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Tue 14 Nov 06 · The early history of the universe (The Museum of London, London)

• Thu 9 Nov 06 · When Science Hits the Headlines (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 7 Nov 06 · How to Stimulate Creativity and How to Stifle it (ZSL London Zoo's Meeting Rooms, London)

• Sat 4 Nov 06 · Islamic Astronomy (Thinktank, Birmingham)

• Wed 1 Nov 06 · Fairground: Thrill Laboratory – Excitement (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 31 Oct 06 · Fairground: Thrill Laboratory – Excitement (Dana Centre, London)

• Mon 30 Oct 06 · Introduction to Astronomy (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

• Thu 26 Oct 06 · Did Einstein get it right? (The Museum of London, London)

• Thu 26 Oct 06 · Science of Race (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 26 Oct 06 · The BA Prestige Lecture (Thinktank, Birmingham)

• Wed 25 Oct 06 · Fairground: Thrill Laboratory – Frisson (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 24 Oct 06 · Fairground: Thrill Laboratory – Frisson (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 19 Oct 06 · Diabetes in the African-Caribbean Community (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 18 Oct 06 · Fairground: Thrill Laboratory – Pleasure (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 17 Oct 06 · Fairground: Thrill Laboratory – Pleasure (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 12 Oct 06 · Dinner@Dana: Gastro Physics (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 11 Oct 06 · Wilderness Junkies (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

• Wed 11 Oct 06 · Superstrings (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 10 Oct 06 · Forum Theatre: Power Predicament (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 10 Oct 06 · The View from the Centre of the Universe (Queen Mary, University of London, London)

• Mon 9 Oct 06 · Collision Course - how Science is Abused by the Media (Cockroft Theatre, Cambridge)

• Wed 4 Oct 06 · Structure and the living cell (The Royal Society, London)

• Wed 4 Oct 06 · You know it makes sense! (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 3 Oct 06 · Randomness and Certainty (Dana Centre, London)

• Sat 30 Sep 06 · Simon Young: Transhumanism – a new religion? (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 28 Sep 06 · Senster (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 28 Sep 06 · An evening with John Dobson (Thinktank, Birmingham)

• Wed 27 Sep 06 · Criminal Minds? (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 27 Sep 06 · Is the world simple or complicated? (Allen & Overy, Docklands)

• Tue 26 Sep 06 · Power Predicament (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 21 Sep 06 · Art of the Brain (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 20 Sep 06 · Tomorrows Textiles (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 19 Sep 06 · Lifting the Lid on Radiation Risks (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 14 Sep 06 · Drug Users and Abusers (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 14 Sep 06 · Life in Antarctic Extremes by Prof Lloyd Peck (British Antarctic Survey) (Thinktank, Birmingham)

• Wed 13 Sep 06 · Dinner@Dana: Food Tasting (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 12 Sep 06 · Brain Training (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 12 Sep 06 · Nanotechonology (Gresham College, London)

• Tue 29 Aug 06 · Symposium on Quantum Technologies (Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge)

• Sat 19 Aug 06 · Consciousness and the transhuman (Conway Hall (Bertrand Russel room), London)

• Thu 27 Jul 06 · Punk Science: Know It All? Edinburgh Fringe Preview (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 26 Jul 06 · Dr Karl’s Dis-Information (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 25 Jul 06 · DECIDE: HIV+ Criminals? (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 20 Jul 06 · Big Brother: Conflict and Lies (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 19 Jul 06 · Dinner@Dana: The dream director (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 18 Jul 06 · Sourcing sexuality (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 13 Jul 06 · The ‘C’ Word: Demystifying cancer (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 12 Jul 06 · Wired Waste (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 11 Jul 06 · What Makes us Happy? (Soho Theatre, London)

• Tue 11 Jul 06 · Punk Science: Know It All? Edinburgh Fringe Preview (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 6 Jul 06 · Summer Science Exhibition 2006 (The Royal Society, London)

• Thu 6 Jul 06 · An Idiots Guide to Genetics (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 5 Jul 06 · Summer Science Exhibition 2006 (The Royal Society, London)

• Tue 4 Jul 06 · Summer Science Exhibition 2006 (The Royal Society, London)

• Tue 4 Jul 06 · In Pursuit of Pain (Dana Centre, London)

• Mon 3 Jul 06 · Summer Science Exhibition 2006 (The Royal Society, London)

• Thu 29 Jun 06 · Future Worlds: Better by design? (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 28 Jun 06 · The Technology of Mind-Reading (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 27 Jun 06 · Punk Science: News review (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 22 Jun 06 · Evening Lecture with Dr Ervin Laszlo (Imperial College, London)

• Thu 22 Jun 06 · Read My Lips – Can You Hear Me? (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 20 Jun 06 · DECIDE: Engineering embryos (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 20 Jun 06 · The $15 Billion Telecoms Masterclass (UNiversity of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Cambridge)

• Thu 15 Jun 06 · Electronic City (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 14 Jun 06 · Carnal Knowledge (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 13 Jun 06 · Queer Speed Dating (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 8 Jun 06 · Tricks of the Psych Trade (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 7 Jun 06 · Gender: Who's in the Box? (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 7 Jun 06 · A Gender Box? (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 7 Jun 06 · Lonesome George: the life and loves of a conservation icon (Ottakar's Greenwich, London)

• Tue 6 Jun 06 · Sex, Drugs and Debate, (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 1 Jun 06 · SCIENCE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ART FORGERY (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge)

• Thu 1 Jun 06 · Party Animals (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 31 May 06 · Hearing colours, seeing sounds (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 30 May 06 · Punkscience – News Revue (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 25 May 06 · Football Fever (Dana Centre, London)

• Fri 19 May 06 · Cybersonica 2006 – International Festival of Music, Art, Sound and Technology, (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 18 May 06 · So you want to be a Brain Surgeon? (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 17 May 06 · Optics in the living world: from imaging to mimicking (The Royal Society of Medicine, London)

• Wed 17 May 06 · Van Gogh – Method in his Madness? (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 16 May 06 · Creative Cyborgs (Dana Centre, London)

• Sat 13 May 06 · Transhumanism, existential art and Russian diamonds (Tate Modern, London)

• Fri 12 May 06 · Are you comfortably numb? (The Royal Society of Medicine, London)

• Wed 10 May 06 · Subtle Science Short Story Challenge (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 9 May 06 · Evening Lecture with Elisabet Sahtouris (Colet House, London)

• Tue 9 May 06 · Personalised Medicine: Cure or Quandary? (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 4 May 06 · The Politics of Science (The Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 4 May 06 · The Politics of Science (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 3 May 06 · DECIDE: The origin of stem cells (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 3 May 06 · DECIDE: The origin of stem cells (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 2 May 06 · A Pub Guide to… Robots (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 27 Apr 06 · Dinner@Dana: How feathers saved the dinosaurs (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 27 Apr 06 · DECIDE: Better brains (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 26 Apr 06 · Chernobyl and the nuclear debate (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 26 Apr 06 · AN INTRODUCTION TO MOLECULAR GASTRONOMY (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge)

• Wed 26 Apr 06 · 20 years on… the Dana Centre links live to scientists at Chernobyl in a world-exclusive (Dana Centre, London)

• Mon 24 Apr 06 · Forensic Science: Principles and Practice (Science Oxford, Oxford)

• Sun 9 Apr 06 · You know it makes sense (Dunard Library, The Hub, Edinburgh)

• Sun 9 Apr 06 · A Day in the Life (Cafe Hub, Edinburgh)

• Thu 6 Apr 06 · You know it makes sense (Dunard Library, The Hub, Edinburgh)

• Tue 4 Apr 06 · Reinventing Technology (Dana Centre, London)

• Sat 1 Apr 06 · FameLab™ - Auditions (Dana Centre, London)

• Fri 31 Mar 06 · TAKEAWAY Festival - Creative Computing - Open-source culture (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 30 Mar 06 · TAKEAWAY Festival - Free Audio Culture (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 29 Mar 06 · TAKEAWAY: Festival of do-it-yourself Media (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 29 Mar 06 · TAKEAWAY Festival - Free Culture (Dana Centre, London)

• Mon 27 Mar 06 · The mesoscopic world - from plastic bags to brain disease - structural similarities in physics (The Royal Society, London)

• Thu 23 Mar 06 · Cybersalon: Creative Software (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 22 Mar 06 · Dinner@Dana : Decoding the mind (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 16 Mar 06 · Should we have more say in our treatment? (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 15 Mar 06 · Deep Brain Stimulation (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 14 Mar 06 · Food for Thought (Dana Centre, London)

• Mon 13 Mar 06 · My Climate Is Changing (The Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 9 Mar 06 · Tricks of the Psyche trade (Dana Centre, London)

• Wed 8 Mar 06 · Open to All - Get In-to-Net Art (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 7 Mar 06 · Film screening of onedotzero Graphic Cities 05 (Programme repeats every 70mins) (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 7 Mar 06 · Digital Reality Fly-through (Dana Centre, London)

• Mon 6 Mar 06 · Creating Brains: the science of genius (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 2 Mar 06 · Media Art Soap Box (Dana Centre, London)

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