Listing
Events are listed alphabetically by talk title. To view events chronologically go to the home page and use the calendar button at the top of the page.
A Pessimist in Paradise or Why Intelligent Design is Stupid.
Professor Steve Jones, Geneticist, author and broadcater (University College London)
Steve Jones in his latest book takes us on a journey through the world of coral – which tells us some startling things about genes, cloning, and cancer, not to speak of the past, present and future of our planet.
5 April, 8pm (1 hour)
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
Busting the Myths of Climate Change
Dr Dave Reay, Greenhouse Gas Researcher and author; Dr Mark Lewney
Join us as Dr Dave Reay, climate scientist and author of Climate Change Begins at Home, puts the arguments against climate change to the test.
9 April, 4pm (1 hour)
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
Caring All day Seminar
This event has been cancelled. Please phone the box office on 0131 5249830 if you have any queries.
With most social service departments broke, but with significant changes in family relationships, upon which informal care has traditionally relied, who will care for us in our old age?
3 April, 10am - 4:30pm
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
Cigarettes and Nicotine: Addiction’s perfect storm
Professor Martin Jarvis, Chair of the UK government's Technical Advisory Group on Tobacco and Health and member of the World Health Organisation (University College London)
It’s legal, it’s available, it’s affordable, and it’s addictive. Find out why cigarettes are so hard to give up for good.
7 April, 8pm (1 hour)
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
Conflict and cooperation: Sexual Conflict
Dr David Shuker, Evolutionary Biologist (University of Edinburgh)
Join us for a lively investigation into the true story of sexual conflict. Can understanding why the sexes disagree in other species tell us anything about our own fraught sexual relations?
11 April, 8pm (1 hour)
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
Dr Bunhead's Exploding Brain Show
Does your head really explode if you go into space without a space-suit? Can you really run away from an exploding fireball - like in the movies? Find out the grisly answers to these and more gruesome questions!
5, 6, 7 & 9 April, Starts at 11.30am (Last 1 hour)
Age 7+
Age 7+.
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
F1 Technology - What makes a race car fast?
Willem Toet, Head of Aerodynamics (BMW Sauber F1 team)
Willem Toet, head of Aerodynamics at the BMW Sauber F1 team answers your questions in this fantastic talk about what it is really like to work in F1.
14 April, 8pm (1 hour)
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
From Aircraft Past ... To Something Fast!
Captain Tony Yule aided by his son, David Yule.
What was it like to fly from London to New York in just over three hours? Captain Tony Yule, a former Concorde Pilot with British Airways, takes a sideways look at a personal aviation story spanning over 46 years of military and civil flying.
7 April, 2pm (1 hour)
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
Future Places: Augmenting the real with virtual worlds
Dr David Benyon, Professor of Human-Computer Systems (Napier University)
In an era of mixed realities where virtual realities are becoming more and more real, we are promised new experiences. But as these technologies develop, how will we know how to distinguish the real from the unreal?
5 April, 6pm (1 hour)
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
Genesis Machines: Engineering Life
Dr Martyn Amos, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, and author of Genesis Machines: The New Science of Biocomputing.
Molecular Computers have been dreamt of since the 1950s , and a reality since 1994. Right now, living cells are being integrated with silicon nanontubes to create hybrid machines with entirely new capabilities.
15 April, 6pm (1 hour)
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
Health Counts: Medicine Meets the Media
We regret to inform you that this event has been cancelled.
2 April, 8pm (1 hour)
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
Heart Attacks: Killers in Disguise!
Dr W. Frank Peacock MD, Emergency Physician
Join Dr W. Frank Peacock MD for a discussion on the importance of recognising the symptoms of a heart attack, how technology can help in early diagnosis and how timing is critical to prevent irreversible heart damage and death.
10 April, 6pm (1 hour)
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
Immunotherapy - Cancer's new enemy?
Dr Mark Matfield (AICR); Professor Tim Elliott (Southhampton University); Professor Margaret Stanley (University of Cambridge)
Learn how immunotherapy will help treat even the most dangerous cancers by encouraging the body's natural defence system - the immune system - to attack cancer cells.
14 April, 2pm (1 hour)
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
In and Out of This World
Discover what's bubbling up from beneath the Earth's crust under our oceans. Find out why geologists carry out experiments in space? Come and meet a Russian cosmonaut and geologists and explore from the bottom of our oceans to the outer edges of space.
8 April, Starts at 11.30am & 4pm (Lasts for 1 hour)
Age 7+
Age 7+. Free but ticket required.
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
In the Beat of a Heart: Life Energy and the Unity of Nature
John Whitfield, Science Writer
Energy joins all life on Earth, and armed with a new theory of how life uses energy, some scientists think they can explain how the natural world is constructed, from the tiniest bacterium to the greatest rain forest.
9 April, 6pm (1 hour)
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
Molecular Gastronomy
Dr Herve This, Chemist, Head of the INRA Molecular Gastronomy Group (Collège de France, Paris)
What will we be eating in the future? Come explore the possibilities with world acclaimed Parisian Herve This’s exceptional experiments.
4 April, 3pm (1 hour)
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
Nanotechnology - Soft Machines
Professor Richard Jones, Physicist and author
The way things behave at nanoscale is very different to the way they behave on large scales. Join us for a lively exploration of how nanotechnology can learn from nature.
3 April, 7pm (1 hour)
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
Robot thought
A house cleaning robot? A robot babysitter? This entertaining show for families looks at the robots of today… and tomorrow!
5, 6, 8 & 9 April, Starts at 2.30pm (Lasts 30 mins)
Age 7+
Age 7+. Free but ticket required.
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
Senster: A cabaret of acoustic oddity and artificial life
Musicians and engineers from Spacedog UK
Join us for this gripping performance where spellbinding digital art and live music is used to tell a dark European folktale in a show that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
6 April, 7pm (1 hour)
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre
Social Interaction within Virtual Environments
Professor Mel Slater (ICREA-Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)
7 April, 4pm (1 hour)
National Museum of Scotland - Lecture Theatre