PAST DIDSBURY SCIBAR EVENTS
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Some of the talks are available to watch on YouTube – link is provided within the event detail where applicable.
With the climate crisis, urban air pollution and energy security constituting some of the most significant challenges facing society, a wholesale transformation to “e-mobility” is considered a solution of global relevance. In exploring the carbon footprint of different modes of travel, and the opportunities and challenges associated with electrified…
Inflammation is a response of our immune system that occurs following infection or tissue damage to help us fight infection and promote tissue repair. However, too much inflammation or inflammation that occurs under inappropriate circumstances (e.g. in the absence of infection) can be damaging to our body, especially the…
Invasive plants have a bad reputation. Is this notoriety well-deserved, or have they been misunderstood? In this talk, Dr Arthur Broadbent from University of Manchester will lay out the charges against invasive plants, followed by a rebuttal that may be surprising to some, and thereby give these ecological villains…
The Beginning Of Everything – A brief description of the origin and the very early history of the Universe. After the Big Bang it took about three minutes to make all the constituents of the Universe and give it a kickstart. If this happened 13.8 billion years ago, how can we…
In this talk Dr Anne Katrin Schlag will speak about medical cannabis in the UK and its long road from principle to practice. November 1st 2021 will mark the third ‘anniversary’ of the rescheduling of cannabis as a medicine – yet in practice, patient access to medical cannabis remains…
Life is full of stressful waits, from the delay between taking exams and getting your results, to organisational restructures at work, to the long, grinding experience of living through a seemingly unending COVID lockdown. In this talk, I’ll cover research on what makes waiting so stressful and why different people react in…
