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Glasgow Skeptics & BSA Glasgow Pub Quiz
British Science Association Glasgow Branch and Glasgow Skeptics invite you to join us and test your levels of general ignorance on all things Science-y and Skepticism-y. You don't need to have a team in advance ... come join us in the evening and you can team up with others when you get there. This is event is free to attend, although we will be asking for donations at the end of the talk. Participants are under no obligation whatsoever to…
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PubhD: A Trio of Talks
This special event comes to you in association with our friends from PubhD Glasgow. Speaker details to follow. Please note that we're not in our regular venue, and that we'll start promptly at 7pm 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 ... or in this case a bookshop There will be up to 20 minutes of (friendly!) Q&A per speaker. Each…
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Asexuality: Thinking Critically about Sexuality
Since the turn of millennium, new sexual orientations have emerged. Asexuality is a sexual orientation defined by a lack of sexual attraction. Asexuality challenges many of the assumptions that Western societies hold about sex, love, and relationships. This talk will briefly introduce Asexuality, and then go on to describe the ways in which researchers have used Asexuality to think critically about sexuality, and contest many assumptions that we take for granted, including monogamy, sexual attraction, and romantic relationships. About the…
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The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets: Simon Singh
Get your FREE tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-simpsons-and-their-mathematical-secrets-tickets-36925903371 Glasgow Skeptics are proud to host this special event in association with European Researchers' Night: Simon Singh, author of Fermat’s Last Theorem and Big Bang, delves into mathematical themes hidden in The Simpsons. Everyone knows that The Simpsons is the most successful show in television history, but very few people realise that its team of mathematically gifted writers have used the show to explore everything from calculus to geometry, from pi to game theory, and…
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