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What Phrenology Teaches Us About Ourselves
Phrenology was a pseudoscience introduced in the late 18th century that tried to explain your behaviour, personality, intelligence and so on based on the shape of your head. It was almost all wrong but it had many positive impacts, or example in promoting a more compassionate approach to mental illness. On the negative side it fuelled many baseless racist ideas. In this talk, Professor David Price will discuss what phrenology was and why it became particularly prominent in Edinburgh, how…
Find out more »Glasgow Skeptics visit Cafe Sci: Antarctica – The Case of the Missing Water
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 time: Antarctica - The Case of the Missing Water When ice sheets grow, global sea level lowers. At the time of the last glacial maximum, about 22,000 years ago, the global sea level was about 132m lower than it is today. But estimates of the volume of ice held…
Find out more »The Secret World of Bats
Bats: Creepy as heck? Or cute and cuddly? Come along and be amazed by all of the wonderful things there are to know about these elusive creatures, courtesy of Fife's very own 'Batwoman' Tracey Jolliffe. Tracey, a former veterinary nurse, nurses sick, injured and orphaned bats in a custom-built bat hospital in her home until they are fit to return to the wild. The bat hospital has space for assessment and first aid and there’s even room for a short…
Find out more »Pixie Turner: Why Diets Don’t Work – and other myths about food
Despite a wealth of information at our fingertips there are still so many things we get wrong about our health, and with a new diet book out every other day it’s no wonder people are confused. What should we be eating? When? How often? Just how important is food when it comes to our overall health? Humans have always been a bit weird around food. We’re told eating certain foods are the key to living longer, some foods are ‘sinful’…
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