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WHAT IS KNUTSFORD SciBar ???
IT's only £1/person/session !!! - so that's a good start !!
Knutsford SciBar consists of ordinary people who meet informally at a cafe/bar
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a beer or wine
in Knutsford at 7:30pm on the Tuesday after the first monday in the month.
A leading scientist attends and talks for 30 minutes on his topic .
A discussion between attendees & the scientist then follows usually till around 8:15pm
The discussion then continues for days afterwards on line on the SciBAr discussion website http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kscibar
until the topic is exhausted and others take over
You don't have to join,
You don't have to know any science,
Just ring and then turn up with an enquiring mind .
You never know
Something may strike you!
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Knutsford Scibar What's On ?
KNUTSFORD SPORTS CLUB - Mereheath Lane
The Higgs boson is it still there and does it matter?
FRACKING -
The benefits and the risks
Professor Peter Styles of Keele University ,returns to our Scibar to update us on the Fracking - the facts and the implications.He previously addressed Knutsford Scibar on "Cheshire - How did tou get here? and where have you been"
Professor Styles, is co-author of a government-commissioned report on fracking, and will discuss with us the opportunities , the risks and what all the fuss is about
Tuesday 5th of November at 7:30pm at The Knutsford Sports Club ,Mereheath Lane
Professor Rob Lucas
will dicuss with us the different ways that animals detect light and what they use that light for. We are all well aware that we rely upon specialised light-sensitive cells in our retina (photoreceptors) to see. In fact this is only one of the uses to which animals put photoreceptors. I will describe some of the other ways in which photoreceptors help animals to adapt to their environment. I will then continue to address the question of how this knowledge can contribute to human health and well being.
The Science Book Reading Group
by Nobel prizewinner Daniel Kahneman
by Nobel prizewinner Daniel Kahneman
It is an excellent time to join the group -Lots of fascinating stuff to discuss
If you'd like to join us ring us 07768-355-814
or ring me - Dave Thompson --01565-632-845
Dave Thompson (founder of Knutsford SciBar) is, in 2007, presented with the " Sir Walter Bodmer Award" by Sir Walter
of The British Science Association for his work on Knutsford SciBar
VENUE
The Knutsford Sports club, Mereheath Lane
on the Tuesday after the first Monday in the month
Any questions e-mail me -just click
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OR PHONE Dave Thompson 07768-355-814
AT THE KNUTSFORD SciBar
Below are Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe from Cardiff University and SciBarian Dr Ken Griffiths who studied with Professor Wickramasinghe at Cambridge under the tutelage of Professor Fred Hoyle. Professor Wickramasingher led the Knutsford SciBar discussion on Panspermia - The theory that life did not originate on earth, rather the basic building blocks were created elsewhere and arrive on the earth carried by comets
above is Dr Aubrey de Grey at Knutsford SciBar leading the discussion on Immortality and Ageing
If you would like to see some video clips (17 mins)of Knutsford SciBar "Relativity" session- CLICK HERE..
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