Mental Wellbeing, Trauma and the Road to Recovery
Unnatural cycles: impact on human and planetary health
Talk based on the publication ‘Unnatural cycles: impact on human and planetary health’, by Gibson and Stewart, 2022.
Future Medicines – what have we learned from mRNA vaccines?
Future Medicines – what have we learned from mRNA vaccines? The Covid vaccines are estimated to have saved 20 million lives since the start of the pandemic. Two of these vaccines used a revolutionary biological approach to generating a medicine rapidly and flexibly (mRNA), and a revolutionary innovation in delivering these medicines safely and effectively …
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The Future of Manufacturing and the 4th Industrial Revolution
Digital Twins, Smart Technology and Artificial Intelligence are just some of the key technologies that support the data-centric fourth Industrial Revolution. This talk will seek to demystify some of these concepts with real case studies from the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and close with an overview of the skills required for the manufacturing engineer of …
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Why the Green Road Begins in the Brown Earth
A talk on the important role that obscure but critical metals such as rare-earth elements, lithium and cobalt play in our modern high-tech society, for electric vehicles, wind turbines and beyond. There is little doubt that the increased electrification of transportation and energy systems will be a pivotal part of our society’s response, to the …
The Art of Nuclear Safety
World energy needs have evolved over recent years which has driven countries to want energy independence by ever increasingly low carbon electricity. Therefore, a new nuclear renaissance is emerging as a source of low carbon base load in the energy mix. With the changes in country needs and evolution of nuclear technology, safety remains paramount …
Save Danes Moss – what’s the threat? Why do we need to protect our peatland?
In a last minute change we now have Gordon Richardson from Save Danes Moss coming along to explain to us what the current situation is in this fast moving game to Save Danes Moss, why we need to save it and what is the threat if we lose it? There is a deeper reason to …
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‘Flourish’
Having grown up
Baringa, in the middle of the African jungle which was on an old Leprosy colony where even though based at the other end of the village, the Leprosy Community
were a central part of the community – contrary to the local culture they were cared for and fed by the village.
Golden Egg or Poisoned Chalice? The story of nuclear power in the UK
Tony discusses how two key organisations, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and the Central Electricity Generating Board, evolved over time and the how key individuals such as Christopher (Lord) Hinton played a pivotal role.
The Science of Astrology
Deborah will be looking at the difference between Astronomy and Astrology, brief history of Astrology, the memory of water and brief science overview and then how I hypothesise that Astrology works.