http://www.oxfordscibar.com/podcast.html The Oxfordshire Branch of the British Science Association runs SciBar events on the 3rd Thursday of the month at the Port Mahon Pub in St Clements. SciBar is literally science in a bar and is a free and relaxed event.
Ecosystem Ecology Crash Course
Ecosystem Ecology Crash Course Hank brings us to the next level of ecological study with ecosystem ecology, which looks at how energy, nutrients, and materials are getting shuffled around within an ecosystem (a collection of living and nonliving things interacting in a specific place), and which basically comes down to who is eating who. More … Continue reading Ecosystem Ecology Crash Course
The aesthetics returns of Islam’s golden age of mathematics
The aesthetics returns of Islam's golden age of mathematics Decagonal and Quasicrystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture Physicist Peter Lu explains how Islamic craftsmen incorporated tessellations, which were thought to be only recently discovered, into their mosques and shrines.
Lit Sci Med
Lit Sci Med ‘Theories and Methods: Literature, Science, and Medicine’ From 2009 to 2011, the University of Salford co-ordinated an innovative AHRC-funded doctoral training programme, teaching PhD students the ‘Theories and Methods: Literature, Science, and Medicine’.
Festina Lente
Two stops on our walk about the history of mental health at the Wellcome Collection in the Science Museum for Cooltan Arts Largactyl Shuffle@Science Museum LATES City life Innovations such as the steam engine and the telegraph revolutionised the speed of transport and communications, spurring on the expansion of the British Empire, and this fuelled the … Continue reading Festina Lente
History of British Sign Language
Food for Thought
My stop on the August Largactyl Shuffle for CoolTan Arts in the old dioramas at the Scince Museum for their LATES program. What’s eating us In the late nineteenth century Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch led the way in identifying and describing many pathologies and showed that many infections were the result of bacterial infestations. … Continue reading Food for Thought
Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NNnIGh9g6fA (March 29, 2010) Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky gave the opening lecture of the course entitled Human Behavioral Biology and explains the basic premise of the course and how he aims to avoid categorical thinking
Emergence and Complexity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o_ZuWbX-CyE (May 21, 2010) Professor Robert Sapolsky gives a lecture on emergence and complexity. He details how a small difference at one place in nature can have a huge effect on a system as time goes on. He calls this idea fractal magnification and applies it to many different systems that exist throughout nature.
Joey O'Gorman 