Events

Events where you can hear and meet popular science writers are listed below... (if you are looking for a speaker at your venue, check out our details of authors giving talks and interactive events in schools and colleges)

4 July 2009 3.00pm	Your Planet Needs You	Dave Reay	Lecture Theatre, The Science Museum, London
Join top scientist and author Dave Reay as he talks about his new book Your Planet Needs You! at The Science Museum, London on Saturday 4th July at 3pm. Find out why cows have really bad breath, why eating soup in Alaska is so dangerous, and how everyone can be a global warming warrior. Dave will also be signing copies of Your Planet Needs You! after the event at Waterstone's, the Science Museum. Entry is free. For more information please visit www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum.
6 July 2009 6.30pm	Whose Landscape is it Anyway	Nicholas Stern, Tahmima Anam, Ramachandra Guha and Debal Deb	BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, London
To celebrate Kew’s and the British Museum’s 250th anniversaries, a panel of experts will discuss the economic, scientific and cultural tensions that arise when humans assert their ability to dominate the landscape, with a particular focus on India. The event will be chaired by Sarah Mukherjee, BBC environment correspondent, with panellists including Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern Review, Tahmima Anam, writer and journalist, Ramachandra Guha, writer and historian and Debal Deb, environmental scientist and author. Cost: £5 a ticket - includes a pass to Kew Gardens. Book tickets online at http://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/ or phone 020 7323 8181
8 July 2009 7.00pm	Building bridges between genes, brains and language	Simon Fisher	Royal Institution, London
Our unparalleled capacity for complex speech and language remains one of the most intriguing but elusive aspects of being human. It has long been suspected that some answers to this enigma will be found buried within the genome. Dr Simon Fisher investigates the role of the FOXP2 gene. Cost: £8. For bookings see www.rigb.org
24 July 2009 6.30pm	Time and J.W. Dunne	Anthony Peake	The National Theatre, London
Author of Is There Life After Death? Anthony Peake and a physicist discuss the time theories of engineer/philosopher J. W. Dunne. Tickets £3.50, available from the National Theatre ticket office.
28 July 2009 7.00pm	Decoding the Heavens	Jo Marchant	Royal Institution, London
In 1900, a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an ancient shipwreck, dating from around 70 BC. It was full of Greek statues and jewellery - the finest collection of ancient treasure that had ever been discovered. But lying unnoticed for months amongst the divers' hard-won haul was what appeared to be a formless lump of corroded rock. Then it cracked open, revealing gearwheels, inscriptions and precisely marked scales - it was and still is the most stunning scientific artefact we have from antiquity. For more than a century this 'Antikythera mechanism' has puzzled academics. It was ancient clockwork, unmatched in complexity for more than 1000 years - but who could have made it, and what was it for? Now, more than 2000 years after the device was lost at sea, scientists have pieced together its intricate workings and revealed its secrets. In this lecture, Jo Marchant, author of Decoding the Heavens tells the story of the 100-year quest to understand this ancient computer, and explains how it used surprisingly sophisticated astronomy to accurately predict the motions of the heavens. Cost: £8. For bookings see www.rigb.org

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