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cnet — google takes on lecture-hall chaos

This is a good idea (if you think democracy is the right way to make decisions). It's a tool which lets lecture-goers reveal questions they'd like to ask and then lets the audience vote for the one they most want answered.

Meanwhile I think I just heard Steve Jones on the BBC Today podcast saying that evolution was like riding a bike in that if you stop moving you fall off. I think part of his message is that we haven't stopped yet.

B-)

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Tuesday 14 October Francis Bacon's Art of Distortion Examines one of the 20th century's greatest painters

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Wednesday 15 October Is Human Evolution Over? Professor Steve Jones explores, confirms and debunks beliefs about inheritance and genetics. He insists that creationism is "anti-science".

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Thursday 16 October The Routledge David Crystal Lectures Professor David Crystal presents three of his most popular lectures in this special one day event.

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Monday 20 October Surgeons’ Lives Surgery in the 19th Century

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Saturday 25 October Slide Lecture Performance Artist Doug Fishbone, who is participating in '100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art' will be performing one of his celebrated comic slide-show lectures, taking his audience on a journey through his mildly warped imagination.

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