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Glasgow Skeptics visit Café Scientifique: Hormone Replacement Therapy
So we don't have an official Glasgow Skeptics event on this date ... but our friends over in Cafe Scientifique have got something to tickle your fancy instead. The topic this month: Hormone Replacement Therapy Speaker: Professor Maryann Lumsden For more information about Café Scientifique: http://www.gla.ac.uk/events/cafescientifique/ === Drop-in event. No tickets required, just turn up! The talk is free - although they do ask for donations Accessibility: The talk is on the top floor of the store. There is a…
Find out more »A Skeptical Look at Necrophilia
Come join us for the perfect Valentine's warm-up ❤ In 1995 dutch biologist Kees Moeliker was sitting in his office when he heard the thud of a bird hitting the glass wall of his building. Upon inspection, he discovered a male mallard duck lying dead on the ground. As he watched, a second living duck appeared, poked around the body for a moment, before copulating with it for 75 minutes. Moeliker had recorded the first known instance of Necrophilia in…
Find out more »PubhD: Solar Flare Special
This event comes to you in association with our friends from PubhD Glasgow. The Sun: Solar Flares and Their Connection to Us: Solar flares are incredibly energetic events that we regularly observe in the Sun's atmosphere, releasing vast quantities of energy, heating the atmosphere. They could pose insight in the so-called "coronal heating problem": the Sun's atmosphere is more than 100 times hotter than its surface. Are events like solar flares behind this counterintuitive temperature difference? Furthermore, solar flares often…
Find out more »What Does Gender Actually Mean?
Christopher Ward is a S X Health Improvement Worker and Humanist member. This talk will be an introduction to issues around gender and sexuality, a subject which has had considerable attention in the media without much sensitivity or explanations of the terminology. Come to learn and understand how to show tolerant, Humanist attitudes on gender issues View event on Facebook View event on Meetup About SX SX is about improving the sex, health and wellbeing of gay and bisexual men,…
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