Tag Archives: science

Dave Bull – The Universe

Posted on 23 October, 2011 by Dan

Are you hard or soft? Someone asks you that during a phone conversation you’d usually hang up. Or be willing to put up with a pretty steep phone bill. Find out what Dave Bull‘s answer is in this pacey talk … Continue reading →

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Lia Han – Stop Asking for a Lightsaber

Posted on 17 October, 2011 by Dan

Luke ran around the swamp on Dagobah encumbered by nothing more than an oddball green midget with a peculiar turn of phrase. We doubt that he would have been quite so nimble if he’d been dragging a four-ton power source … Continue reading →

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Joe Cainey – How (not) to win at roulette

Posted on 10 October, 2011 by Dan

To start our sixth event we chose a talk that touched on a real core Ignite value – a “How To“. And boy, does Joe Cainey know about his subject – a third year PhD student at the University of … Continue reading →

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Michael Harratt – Art in Science. Fluorescence Microscopy

Posted on 23 June, 2011 by Dan

If pondering modern art is not for you, how about marvelling at the art of the everyday process? Michael Harratt presents a series of remarkable images that reveal the internal goings-on of cells, from those that glue us together, fibroblasts, … Continue reading →

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Declan Fleming – Clouds Suck

Posted on 15 June, 2011 by Dan

Who wouldn’t want their very own pet cloud to carry around with them? No-one, that’s who. Declan Fleming‘s remarkable, ambitious talk featured so many props we doubted it could work. We were wrong. Learn about the weight of the atmosphere, … Continue reading →

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Anthony Wood – Are Humans evolving to have Twins?

Posted on 14 June, 2011 by Dan

Teenage mothers tend to get a hard time, but Anthony Wood likes them because they seem to provide strong evidence that perhaps, just perhaps, humans are evolving to be a bit more more like, well, armadillos! Anthony’s talk is a … Continue reading →

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