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Glasgow Skeptics visit Café Sci: Influenza and Ignorance
Please note: The venue is Waterstones on Sauchiehall Street (top floor), and the start time is set for 7pm. 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: Influenza and the Inevitability of Ignorance In 1918-9 a new strain of influenza caused the most severe outbreak of disease in recorded history. In the century that followed we…
Find out more »Man’s Best Friend – A Skeptical look at Bestiality
Come join us on February the 11th for an alternative evening of Valentine's entertainment as we discuss one of the most taboo topics of them all... Bestiality. View event on Facebook or Meetup In 2005 a man named Kenneth Pinyan was anonymously dropped off at a Hospital in Washington, where he was later found dead in the emergency room. The man had died from a perforated colon from receiving anal sex from a full grown horse. In the following investigation…
Find out more »PubhD: Glasgow Empire, Education Accessibility & Artificial Data
This event comes to you in association with our friends from PubhD Glasgow. The format is nice and simple: 1: Three researchers will each have 10 minutes to talk about their subject area to an interested audience in a pub 2: There will be up to 20 minutes of (friendly!) Q&A per speaker. 3: Each speaker gets at least one pint (or other drink of their choice). A whiteboard/flip chart and coloured pens will be provided. Speakers & Topics: William…
Find out more »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…
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