Events Calendar

• Monday 1 March 2010

• March 2010 Fiction lab

7.00pm startJennifer Rohn of Lablit.com presides over our monthly book club dedicated to great fiction books that feature science at their heart. If you're an interested reader who has something t...   Read more >>

• Wednesday 3 March 2010
• Morning session: 11am-12pm
• Afternoon session: 1.30pm-2.30pm

• Schools event: Flight and paper planes: why do aircraft fly?

• Dr Eric Webster

This talk will explain with the aid of simple demonstrations why aircraft fly. The talk begins with demonstrations explaining Bernoulli's theorem with the aid of sheets of A4 paper. The levitation...   Read more >>

• Monday 8 March 2010
• 7.00pm-8.30pm

• Little minds, big ideas

• Dr Charles Fernyhough

Decades of psychological research have told us much about the mental worlds of babies and small children. In this talk, Dr Fernyhough will explore how the study of young children's minds can shed ...   Read more >>

• Monday 15 March 2010
• 6.30pm start

• The Case of the Deviant Toad - art-science cafe

Accompanying our temporary art exhibition the artist, activist and ecological researcher, Brandon Ballengée will be in conversation, chaired by Nicola Triscott, Director of The Arts Catalyst. T...   Read more >>

• Tuesday 16 March 2010
• 7.00pm-8.30pm

• The eerie silence: Are we alone in the universe?

• Prof Paul Davies

To coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of SETI - the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence - Paul Davies' new book treats one of the most intriguing questions in science: are we alone in th...   Read more >>

• Tuesday 16 March 2010

• Exhibition: The Case of the Deviant Toad

Exhibition runs from 16 - 31 March 2010New York artist, activist and ecological researcher, Brandon Ballengée brings his startling high-resolution scanner photographs, video and preserved speci...   Read more >>

• Friday 19 March 2010
• 7.00pm-8.30pm

• The miraculous disaster of immortality

• Prof Colin Blakemore

Since the early 19th century, life expectancy in the developed world has been increasing by 6 hours or more a day. The trend is extraordinarily regular, despite the fact that very different factors ha...   Read more >>

• Tuesday 23 March 2010

• Visit to BADA antiques fair

The BADA fair (British Antique Dealers' Association) is the UK's leading art and antiques event, bringing together approximately 100 of the UK's leading experts who offer for sale a stunni...   Read more >>

• Wednesday 31 March 2010
• 7.00pm-8.30pm

• Laughlab

• Prof Richard Wiseman

In 2002, psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman travelled the world on a year-long search for the world's funniest joke. In this entertaining but informative talk he explains how the resulting res...   Read more >>