“Do you recycle? “
Do you recycle? Do you know how to recycle? Do you know what to recycle? Come join us at Macclesfield SciBar on the 25th September to go through what goes where, how to support local and national charities from your waste and what to do to get stop adding to landfill.
What if it’s a perfect storm?
In the UK wintertime storms and floods can cause large losses that can reach billions of pounds, and if they happen at the same time this would be worse! By worse, think “hard to manage”. This will be an interactive talk on natural hazard risk, with a focus on wintertime in the UK.
The Ecology of Peat bogs and why save Cheshire’s peatlands?
Dark, peaty soils cover an increasing part of Britain as you head to the higher rainfall areas in the north and west. In many poorly drained upland and lowland landscapes, a peat layer formed over thousands of years and is several metres deep, rich in organic matter – and therefore rich in carbon. Globally, peatlands …
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Circular Microeconomies: how the internet inspires 21st century sustainability
Ethar is an applied mathematician, technologist and owner and CEO of ReallyRecycle.com A first of it’s kind distributed doughnut economy for plastic waste that combines mechanical recycling, and 3D printing to deliver low emission products, whilst also working on regenerative work across all 17 SDGs.
Environmental Issues of Our Time
In his talk tonight Peter will concentrate on the science behind the ‘Environmental Issues of our Time’ and would welcome, after the interval, a discussion on our various options for the future.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HbOT)
Sarah Todd from Oxify Leeds Ltd is coming over to talk to us about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HbOT), it’s uses, the health and sports injuries it can assist with as well as some of the research behind HbOT.
The Science of Comics: What are the rules?
Join cartoonist Marc Jackson for a talk about ‘The science of comics!’ If you thought making comics was just drawing funny pictures, with people wearing their underpants over their tights, you thought WRONG! Comics has a science to it, from panel layouts, sequential storytelling and learning and breaking the rules of creating them, you’ll learn …
The vole truth: observing our native endemic vole subspecies on skomer island across the decades
Datasets get more valuable the longer they are collected and Dr Claire Risley has been lucky enough to be involved in the continuation of data collection on one of our most interesting mammals: the skomer island vole. Please join us on the 26th February to see the first albino skomer vole discovered! About Claire: Claire …
Human Factors Engineering and Psychological Safety
Human Factors Engineering and Psychological Safety – two buzz-phrases which are becoming increasingly hot topics in the Engineering world and beyond, but what do they really mean? Laura will take us through an interactive journey of what these mean to her, and explore how they impact our lives. Laura is a Chartered Engineer with a …
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One Medicine: How horses can help us understand human osteoarthritis
Have you heard of one medicine? This is an approach where human and animal healthcare advance hand in hand. In research we can learn a lot about disease and how treatments work by studying different species. In the case of musculoskeletal conditions, such as osteoarthritis, horses can be used as a model organism, with veterinary …
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