Events Calendar
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October 2010
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All events October 2010
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- Saturday 2 October 2010
- 11.00am to 4.00pm
Family fun day - The Chemical History of the Candle, 150 years on
Witness modern recreations of some of the awe inspiriting demonstrations first performed by Michael Faraday in his 1850 Christmas Lectures – see water explode in your hand, soap bubbles turn int... Read more >>
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- Monday 4 October 2010
October 2010 Fiction lab
7.00pm startJennifer Rohn of Lablit.com hosts the monthly book club dedicated to great fiction books with a science theme. If you're an interested reader who has something to say, then come along.... Read more >>
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- Tuesday 5 October 2010
- 7.00pm to 8.30pm
The strange friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung: When physics met psychology
- Prof Arthur I Miller
Arthur I Miller, recounts an extraordinary friendship between two equally brilliant yet very different men, the physicist Wolfgang Pauli and psychologist Carl Jung. Jung and Pauli were a truly unique ... Read more >>
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- Thursday 14 October 2010
- 7.00pm to 8.30pm
Whose genome is it anyway?
- Dr Daniel MacArthur, Dr Caroline Wright, Prof Sir Mark Walport
Guest curator; Mark HendersonA decade after the human genetic code was sequenced for the first time, genomics is coming to the masses. Companies such as 23andMe will already scan a snapshot of your DN... Read more >>
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- Thursday 21 October 2010
- 7.00pm to 8.30pm
Neutrino - Is the Sun Still Shining?
- Prof Frank Close
Neutrinos are as near to nothing as anything we know, and so elusive that they are almost invisible. What are they? Why does nature need them? Prof Frank Close, OBE, gives an account of the most enigm... Read more >>
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- Wednesday 27 October 2010
- 10.30am to 12.30pm
Maths masterclass: chases and escapes
Chases and escapes are everywhere: in the games we play at school; in nature with predators chasing their prey; sport; cartoons and adventure films. This member’s only maths masterclass will sho... Read more >>
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- Friday 29 October 2010
- 8.00pm to 9.15pm
Rhythms of the body
- Prof Stafford Lightman
It is popular myth that biological systems work best in ‘unstressed’ stable conditions in which their chemical processes can tick over smoothly and unchangingly. In this discourse, Staffor... Read more >>
