After 12pm, Science

Timandra Harkness. Men read maps better, but women read emotions - so say brain scientists. Is the secret of human behaviour inside our skulls? Can neuroscience explain why Timandra throws like a girl but thinks like a bloke? You'll never look at your anterior cingulate cortex the same way again. Or a map. 'Harkness…

Three-dimensional printing existed for decades in science fiction, but now it's a reality and this show wants to introduce you to the technology which could revolutionise the way we … make stuff, in ways that we haven't yet begun to imagine. Although it has exhibitors, seminars and demonstrations, this is not a trade show…

Professor of Epistemics Jon Oberlander, Professor of Composition and Electroacoustic Composition Peter Nelson, and Chris Speed of the Edinburgh College of Art discuss historical, conceptual and philosophical relationships between the performing arts and technology. Chaired by theatre specialist Olga Taxidou.

Leonardo is celebrated as both an inspired artist and anatomist. This special event considers how contemporary artists, performers and scientists are informed by each other’s work in their exploration of the human body. Part of the Clod Ensemble’s Performing Medicine programme in collaboration with Wellcome Trust.

Big Ideas presents big questions, then lets an expert have a stab at answering it before turning it to the audience for discussion. Brief, informal and relaxed, the pub-based event is open to anyone and everyone.

A meeting on the last Monday of every month to explore and debate the latest scientific issues over a coffee or a glass of wine.

A meeting on the second Wednesday of the month to hear about the latest research from scientists over a coffee.

Look at the planet through the Royal Observatory's 18-tonne Victorian telescope and discover how our vision of Venus has changed over time. If there is dense cloud, rain or high winds that prevent looking through the telescope, footage of the planet will be displayed on the dome.

Explore the latest ideas in science and technology, outside a traditional academic context, at this forum for debating and promoting public engagement.

Try out some fun scientific experiments.

The lecturer looks at the content of two lectures given by Rudolf Steiner in London in May 1913 and a consideration of Christ at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha and of Christ in the present age.

The lecturer looks at what the philosophy says about what happens when we sleep and when we die, including the essential nature of dreams, and the various experiences we go through after death.

Esther Woolfson's book Corvus established her as one of our leading nature writers, and she currently observes the wildlife of Aberdeen, where she lives. RSPB naturalist Conor Mark Jamieson's Silent Spring Revisited updated Rachel Carson's environmental classic for the 21st century.

Although he went to Antarctica as an on-base medical doctor, Gavin Francis ended up spending a lot of time amongst emperor penguins during his fourteen months on the most icy and isolated of continents. Hear him talk about his life-changing experience amongst the birds.

Explore the latest ideas in science and technology, outside a traditional academic context, at this forum for debating and promoting public engagement.

A biweekly event where speakers expound on science, pseudoscience, politics and policy to increase public understanding and engagement of these issues.

British scientist, writer and broadcaster Susan Greenfield asks us to consider how technologies may be changing the human brain, both for good and for bad. Chaired by Alison Elliot, Convenor of the Church of Scotland Guild. Speech-to-Text Reported event.

Psychiatrist Andrew Powell explores the ways that technology affects relationships. As depression rapidly becomes the greatest burden of illness in developed countries, he examines safeguards for emotional and spiritual well-being. Chaired by Reverend Richard Coles, writer of TV comedy Rev. Speech-to-Text Reported event.

Prof Peter Abrahams gives this Heritage Society Festival Lecture about the original Renaissance man's career as an anatomist and his extremely detailed drawings, which came from the study of 23 corpses that the artist personally dissected. Prof Abrahams discusses how the unique concepts found in these ancient renderings…

After taking a look at the museum's collection of medical diaries and journals, artist Susie Wilson guides participants through the creation of their own books. Ages 16+.