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Date: |
Wednesday 11th July |
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Title: |
The Science of the Mind –
Clinical Hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming |
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Speaker: |
A local GP shares
his perspective on the power of Hypnotherapy. Also speaking is a local NLP
practitioner.
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Date: |
Wednesday 8th August |
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Title: |
Satellite stories |
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Speaker: |
Joanna Griffin,
Artist in Residence, Spacelab, California. More info on Joanna
here and
here.
Download a poster
for this cafe here (pdf).
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Date: |
Wednesday 10th October |
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Title: |
A showing of the new SAS film
View from the Green Room and a talk
on Surfing and Climate Change |
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Speaker: |
Rich Hardy, Surfers Against Sewage |
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Date: |
Wednesday November 14th |
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Title: |
Inner Space Odyssey – How
do Artists See the Atom? … a talk illustrated by artists’ impressions of the
atom
Download a poster for this cafe
here (pdf) |
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Speaker: |
Patrick Butterly, outreach officer for the
Institute of Physics |
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Date: |
Wednesday December 12th |
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Title: |
Starry Night - Amateur
Astronomy and Amazing Things! |
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Speaker: |
For a very special Christmas Starry Night, The
Brannel Astronomy Club (St Austell) are coming to talk to us about Amateur
Astronomy and the Amazing Things we can see with a little knowledge, a sharp
pair of eyes, a pair of binoculars or a telescope!
If the weather allows, we’ll be taking a guided tour of the night sky So bring a
telescope or binoculars and something to keep you warm...! |
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Date: |
Wednesday February 13th 2008 |
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Title: |
Marine biotoxins in shellfish |
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Speaker: |
Robert Williams
Bob
Williams is a consultant environmental scientist, a research fellow at the
Plymouth Marine Science Labs and a visiting scientist at the University of
Plymouth.
Marine biotoxins are a natural phenomenon, in which planktonic algae produce
biological toxins that can accumulate temporarily within the shellfish that feed
on them. The toxins do not harm the algae or the shellfish but can cause three
kinds of food poisoning in humans: Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (potentially
fatal), Diarrhoeic Shellfish Poisoning and Amnesiac Shellfish Poisoning.
The
occurrence of these plant toxins in our waters and the procedures and
regulations which are in place to protect humans in the consumption of live
bivalve molluscs will be discussed. |
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Date: |
Wednesday 23rd April |
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Title: |
UNintelligent design: understanding the
complexities of life - is there design in living systems? |
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Speaker: |
Sasha Dall
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Date: |
Wednesday 14th May |
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Title: |
The wave hub: energy from the bay |
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Speaker: |
Nick Harrington
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Date: |
Monday 19th May at Penzance Arts Club, Chapel Street,
Penzance, 7 for 7:30pm |
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Title: |
Does who you hang out with matter? |
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Speaker: |
Heather Bleakley
NSF Research Fellow at the School of Ecology &
Conservation at Exeter University leads a discussion on how and whether social
partners influence behaviour. Lots of food for thought and discussion!
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Date: |
Monday 9th June at Penzance Arts Club, Chapel Street,
Penzance, 7 for 7:30pm. Entrance free; donations welcome - £2 suggested. |
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Title: |
Goonhilly – time for
change? |
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Speaker: |
Des Prouse, former Head of Technology and
Service Development at Goonhilly is coming to talk to us about exciting new
ideas and possible futures for the Satellite Earth Station Site at Goonhilly. |
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Date: |
Monday 14th July at Penzance Arts Club, Chapel Street,
Penzance, 7 for 7:30pm. Entrance free; donations welcome - £2 suggested. |
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Title: |
Arcadia or bust: sustainable energy for
all? |
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Speaker: |
Michael Hunt, Curriculum Area Manager for
Science at Cornwall College Camborne, considers what this future might look like
and how we could get there. Dr Hunt will explore and quantify our actual energy
requirements and consider whether the low carbon options available to us meet
those needs and what we can do if they won't. |
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Date: |
Monday September 8th |
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Title: |
Wings in the Night |
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Speaker: |
Tony James, County Recorder for Moths in
Cornwall is coming to talk to us about national and international moth recording
and how this feeds into butterfly conservation, habitat management and the
protection of endangered species. The
presentation will show some of the interesting and often beautiful moths which
can be seen in Cornwall, and also discuss the methods of observation, data
gathering, and results. |
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Date: |
Monday October 13th |
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Title: |
Research into Art and the
Natural Environment |
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Speaker: |
Susan Boafo. Susan is a photography tutor
and researcher with the RANE (Research into Art and the Natural Environment)
project at Falmouth. She will be talking about her current work which uses
photographic processes to reveal the process by which green algae are drawn
towards sunlight during photosynthesis. Wow! www.axisweb.org |
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Date: |
Monday, November 10th, 7:30pm at: Penzance Arts Club |
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Title: |
Symbolism in Penwith's prehistoric landscape |
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Speaker: |
Paul Bonnington
Paul
is the local National Trust Archaeological Warden, and is
responsible for the management of nearly 1,800 archaeological monuments in the
area. His talk will focus on the development of West Penwith's ceremonial
landscape during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, and address the
underlying cultural symbolism which determined its creation and use.
Download a poster for this cafe
here
(pdf) |
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Date: |
Monday February 9th 2009 |
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Title: |
Astronomy - a pastime for nerds or a
science for all? |
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Speaker: |
Frank Johns
Frank Johns
is a member of the Federation of Astronomical
Societies Council and is the editor of their newsletter. He is also chairman of
Brannel Astronomy, a society which meets twice monthly at Brannel School in St
Stephens.
The talk will outline the rather eclectic nature of astronomy,
covering some interesting facts and describing, photographically, some of the
things to see in the night sky. All images in the talk were taken by Frank,
mainly from his observatory in the middle of light-polluted Newquay. |
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Date: |
Monday March 9th 2009 |
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Title: |
The Computational Brain |
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Speaker: |
Lucy Davies
is a final year PhD student at Plymouth
University. Her overall
field of knowledge is in
computational
neuroscience and she is funded as
part of the COLAMN
project (A Novel Computing
Architecture for
Cognitive Systems based on the
Laminar Microcircuitry
of the Neocortex:
http://colamn.plymouth.ac.uk/colamn-project ).
Lucy will be discussing
how and why the brain can
be thought of as a
computer, how this concept
enables us to understand
brain function and the
application of
neuroscience to computer technology.
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Date: |
Monday April 6th 2009 Penzance Arts Club |
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Title: |
Dolphins: conservation and research |
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Speaker: |
Nick Tregenza works on conservation issues and on the
acoustic detection abilities of dolphins.
Dolphins are the only species
within the fauna of Britain, apart from humans, that show evidence of having a
'theory of mind' but we know little about their mental functioning, or their
social structure, and we have lost the main species from most of the coast of
England. |
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Date: |
Monday 8th March 2010 |
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Title: |
Are seals around our coast
Cornish? |
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Speaker: |
Sue Sayer, from the Cornish Seal Group will be sharing her
findings from 10 years of pioneering photo ID search into grey seals. |
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