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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.
Monday 3 June
Wednesday 5 June
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.
- 20:30 – 22:30
- Edinburgh Café Scientifique
Tonight: 'MC1R, Red Hair and Evolution in Action' with Professor Ian Jackson. Find out why gingers are so common in Scotland (hint: it has something to do with the gene MC1R) and why this might be the case.
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.
Sunday 16 June
Monday 17 June
Tuesday 18 June
Wednesday 19 June
Thursday 20 June
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Professor Andrew Whiten Lecture
Tonight: The Myths and Realities of CCTV in the UK.
Friday 21 June
Saturday 22 June
- 10:00 – 17:00
- 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
Monday 8 July
Tonight: 'Two Faces of Plastics: Destroying and Saving Our Planet' with Dr. Michael P Shaver. The professor looks at both the good and bad sides of the easily vilified product.
Thursday 18 July
- 19:30 – 22:00
- Edinburgh Skeptics in the Pub
Tonight: Dealing Reasonably with Irrational Fear.
