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Saturday 18 May
- 13:00 – 14:30
- The Mars Society Lectures
Today: Mars and society news with Graham Dale.
Topic: 'The Moon: Its History, Orbit and Geology' by Dr Gregory Beekman.
Tuesday 21 May
Wednesday 22 May
Part of National Geographic London's Cultural Calendar series.
Thursday 23 May
- 13:00 – 14:00
- Langside Talks
Today: 'Three Poets: Three Languages' with Glasgow-based prize-winning poets Maggie Rabatski, A C Clarke and Sheila Templeton, who will each read for 15 minutes.
Saturday 25 May
- 14:30 – 17:00
- Space Settlers' Society Meeting
Monday 27 May
Tuesday 28 May
- 20:00 – 22:00
- Big Ideas
Tonight, the question is 'What Is Gender?' Stella Sandford (Reader in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University and member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective) addresses the 'gender/sex' divide, looking at whether or not there is a meaningful difference between 'masculine and feminine' and 'male and female'.
Wednesday 29 May
This year's lecture is 'The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity', about the decline of violence in what are often perceived be highly violent times. Given by Prof Steven Pinker of Harvard University, who studies cognition and language.
Thursday 30 May
- 13:00 – 14:00
- Langside Talks
Today: 'The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society' by Stuart Robertson, who is the director of the society.
Thursday 6 June
- 14:00 – 15:30
- Connecting Parents to Paediatrics
- 18:00 – 20:30
- Best of the West: Meet the Ladies
Part of Glasgow Science Festival.
Friday 7 June
Saturday 8 June
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Genetics: Past, Present and Future
Monday 10 June
- 19:00 – 23:00
- Bright Club Meets Glasgow Skeptics: Festival Special
Today, a Glasgow Science Festival special. All over the world, many species of animals and plants are threatened with extinction, but especially amphibians. Herpetologist (amphibian expert) Professor Roger Downie outlines the evidence for amphibian decline, and its possible causes.
Tuesday 11 June
- 19:00 – 20:00
- Why We Die
Wednesday 12 June
- 18:30 – 20:00
- Tasty Science: The Art of Coffee
- 19:00 – 20:00
- Life Among Feathers
Saturday 15 June
- 15:00 – 16:00
- Taking Ashes into Orbit
Topic: 'New Frontiers in End of Life Celebration' by Tom Walkinshaw of Alba Orbital, about sending loved ones' ashes into space. Part of Glasgow Science Festival.
Thursday 20 June
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Professor Andrew Whiten Lecture
Tonight: The Myths and Realities of CCTV in the UK.
Sunday 23 June
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Natives, Aliens and Re-introductions
Tuesday 25 June
- 20:00 – 22:00
- Big Ideas
Tonight, the question is 'What sort of things are numbers?' Oxford lecturer Alexander Paseau tackles the abstract concept, determining whether numbers are subjective products of mental processes or if they in fact belong to a 'separate realm of ideal existence', as Plato believed.
Thursday 27 June
Thursday 4 July
Saturday 6 July
Thursday 18 July
- 19:30 – 22:00
- Edinburgh Skeptics in the Pub
Tonight: Dealing Reasonably with Irrational Fear.
