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What the movies get wrong about fire – Kristen Salzer-Frost
One of the drawbacks of expertise is that it can frequently ruin the cinematic experience. With the proliferation of explosive content in action movies, Kristen Salzer-Frost frequently has to make extra efforts to suspend her disbelief. Join us as she grabs her blamethrower to point a critical finger at the big screen's representation of fire. About the speaker Kristen Salzer-Frost is a Lecturer in Fire Engineering at Glasgow Caledonian University. She started her career in the industry 20 years ago…
Find out more »Why is Critical Thinking not encouraged in RE Classes?
Event Description In the mid 1960’s Clare started teaching Biology in a Large comprehensive school in Glasgow and encountered some hostility from staff, parents and the school chaplain when trying to teach the science that directly contradicted their long-held beliefs. This talk will cover some of those frustrating and occasionally hilarious encounters that were had in those early teaching days. It will also outline the huge amount of evidence, readily available online, which would help pupils decide on the true…
Find out more »Psychedelic Renaissance – magical thinking or mental health breakthrough?
What are psychedelics? How do they work? What are the risks? How effective are they? All these questions and more will be answered as we take a trip into the wider universe of therapeutic psychedelics. Our speaker, Kate Mollison, has been a Psychotherapist for over two decades, and is a member of the Psychedelic Health Professionals Network, an organisation created in 2020 to keep up to date with latest developments in research in relation to therapeutic use of psychedelics -…
Find out more »Can you 3D-print bone marrow? Using engineering approaches to tackle human disease
View event on Facebook here View event on Meetup here View event on Eventbrite here Animal models and culturing cells on flat plastic surfaces have been crucial in discovering new medicines, however, these methods can fall short, as over 90% of possible medicines fail when given to humans. Why? Because humans and animals harbour many differences, and because plastic cell culture dishes are such a different environment compared to the human body. Can we replace these with new, cheaper and…
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