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Glasgow Skeptics Field Trip: Holistic Ways Festival
Note: You will need to buy your own ticket for this event. Visit http://www.holisticwaysfestival.co.uk/ for details Our plan: We'll meet at O'Neills in Merchant Square at 11 for a coffee/beer and a quick chinwag, then head off to the festival from there. What we're doing and why: Glasgow Skeptics is an organisation which promotes Science & Understanding, and Critical Thinking. So why are we paying a visit to a Holistic Ways Festival? The answer ... because we're curious: We're curious about the…
Find out more »PubhD: Three researchers and a flipchart
Doors open at 7 ... kickoff at 7.30 This special event comes to you in association with our friends from PubhD Glasgow. The format is nice and simple; Three researchers will each have 10 minutes to talk about their subject area to an interested audience in a pub There will be up to 20 minutes of (friendly!) Q&A per speaker. Each speaker gets at least one pint (or other drink of their choice). A whiteboard/flip chart and coloured pens will…
Find out more »Maggots, Murder & Museums
Ashleigh Whiffin, Assistant Curator of Entomology at National Museums Scotland (NMS) Presents “Maggots, Murder & Museums" She’ll be sharing her passion for insects, explaining what happens behind the scenes at the museum and why the insect collection is so important, as well as delving deeper into the delights of carrion insects and forensic entomology. About the Speaker: Ashleigh caught the Entomology buzz when studying for a BSc in Forensic Science, becoming fascinated by carrion insects; the insects attracted to…
Find out more »Where is my Flying Car?
In 2011 the Scientific community celebrated 100 years since the discovery of the superconductivity, which is an ability of a material to conduct electric currents without any resistive losses. When a superconductor is placed in a magnetic field it can float over it. This peculiar effect, known as superconducting levitation, fascinated sci-fi writers and the imminent appearance of flying cars on our street seemed to be just the matter of time. Indeed, flying cars have been just 30 years away…
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