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Tue 2 Jun 15 · Mendel's legacy (The Royal Society, London)
Thu 9 Apr 15 · Science on myself (The Royal Society, London)
Thu 25 Sep 14 · Longitude: back and forth across the years (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Mon 14 Apr 14 · Voltaire Lecture - Lessons from the past: science and rationalism in medieval Islam (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 22 Oct 13 · Lunchtime Lecture: Surgeons at Sea: The Naval surgeon and health of the seaman in the age of Nelson (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Wed 29 May 13 · Falling upwards (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 11 Apr 13 · Snow’s Legacy: Epidemiology Today and Tomorrow (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London)
Fri 19 Oct 12 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture: human error and biodiversity (Chadwick Building Room B05, London)
Wed 14 Mar 12 · From Maxwell To Higgs (Public Engagement, King's College London, London)
Fri 4 Nov 11 · Leonardo and Mona Lisa. Why? (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Fri 6 May 11 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture (UCL Darwin Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, London)
Sun 13 Feb 11 · Darwin's Sacred Cause (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 9 Jan 11 · Alfred Russel Wallace: conservation or sustainable development? (Conway Hall, London)
Fri 19 Nov 10 · The unfortunate chemist - tribulations of chemical philosophy in an age of revolution (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 19 Oct 10 · An Unsung Hero? Joseph Naples, Resurrectionist (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Wed 14 Jul 10 · Blooming Snapdragons (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sun 27 Jun 10 · Darwinian Myths: Science and Religion 150 years On (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 13 Jun 10 · Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Nobel Prizes: The Discovery Of C60, the Third Form of Carbon (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 11 May 10 · Wren, Hooke and Willis: Divine Geometry and Natural Design (The Museum of London, London)
Fri 30 Apr 10 · Vis lucis, vis luminis: how optics shaped physics (The Royal Institution, London)
Fri 26 Mar 10 · The Great ideas of biology (The Royal Institution, London)
Thu 4 Mar 10 · Keith Joseph: Ideologist of Thatcherism (Leo Baeck Institute London, London)
Tue 2 Mar 10 · Believing in the Da Vinci Code: Social-Cognitive Predictors and Correlates (Psychology Seminar Series, Goldsmiths' College, London)
Tue 16 Feb 10 · The Legacy of Robert Boyle - then and now (St Mary le Bow Church, London)
Thu 12 Nov 09 · CP Snow’s ‘Two cultures’: 50 years of debate (The Royal Institution, London)
Thu 29 Oct 09 · Darwin, FitzRoy and the voyage of the Beagle: the untold story (The Royal Institution, London)
Mon 19 Oct 09 · Cafe Scientifique: The selfish genius (The Royal Institution, London)
Thu 15 Oct 09 · From ancient Greeks to gravitational waves – a cornucopia of science (The Royal Institution, London)
Mon 21 Sep 09 · Café Scientifique: Quantum mechanics (The Royal Institution, London)
Tue 28 Jul 09 · Decoding the heavens (The Royal Institution, London)
Wed 13 May 09 · Grimoires and the occult arts (The Royal Institution, London)
Mon 20 Apr 09 · The social function of history: policy, history and twentieth-century science (The Royal Society, London)
Tue 14 Apr 09 · 9/11: Time for a Second Look by Prof. David Ray Griffin (City University, London)
Mon 12 Jan 09 · Glorious rival to Greenwich (Royal Astronomical Society, London)
Mon 24 Nov 08 · Lost in History - Adriano Shaplin in conversation with Simon Schaffer (The Royal Society, London)
Tue 7 Oct 08 · What on earth happened? (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 10 Jun 08 · Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble: a brief history of the most famous telescope in history (Royal Astronomical Society, London)
Thu 29 Nov 07 · Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (The Dana Centre, London)
Thu 29 Nov 07 · Francis Bacon's Magical Reformation and The New Atlantis (Treadwell's Books, London)
Fri 21 Sep 07 · The Worst Journey in the World (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Tue 18 Sep 07 · Holiday Snaps From the Challenger Expedition (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Sat 2 Jun 07 · Audubon’s Birds of America: Accuracy vs. Aesthetics? (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Mon 26 Feb 07 · The Egyptian Book of the Dead (New Acropolis, London)
Sat 2 Dec 06 · Tough Enough to Stuff? (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Fri 1 Dec 06 · Freaks of Nature (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Wed 15 Nov 06 · William Shockley: Creator of the Electronic Age (Science Oxford Live, Oxford)
Thu 9 Nov 06 · Spices of the World (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Tue 24 Oct 06 · Francis Crick's Place in History (Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne)
Thu 15 Jun 06 · From bad to worse: the worst ideas on the mind (Franklin-Wilkins Building, KCL, London)
Thu 27 Apr 06 · Who's the greatest? Minds that changed our minds (Franklin-Wilkins Building, KCL, London)
Wed 22 Feb 06 · Distilled lives: anatomy museums in Georgian London (Royal College of Surgeons of England, London)
Wed 30 Nov 05 · The Surgeon and the Warrior: how Archibald McIndoe transformed the Royal Air Force and the Air Minis (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Wed 9 Nov 05 · Sir Harold Gillies, Faces of the Great War and Project Facade:historical and artistic perspectives (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Wed 26 Oct 05 · Medicine and Surgery in the Crimea (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Thu 6 Oct 05 · Surgery in Nelson's Navy: the death of an Admiral (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Wed 28 Sep 05 · Breasts Laid Bare (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Thu 27 Jan 05 · Einstein’s legacy as a scientist and icon (The Royal Society, London)
Thu 27 Jan 05 · Lies, Damn Lies, and Science? (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Wed 8 Dec 04 · Plague (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Thu 14 Oct 04 · The Big Bang (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 11 Sep 04 · Moa: A Short History of the World’s Tallest Birds (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Sat 11 Sep 04 · Moa: A Short History of the World’s Tallest Birds (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Thu 9 Sep 04 · Richard Owen: Aggressive Adversary? (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Wed 8 Sep 04 · Richard Owen's Contribution to Evolutionary Theory (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Tue 15 Jun 04 · Medawar Prize Lecture: The Truth About Science (The Royal Society, London)
Fri 11 Jun 04 · Venus Unveiled (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Wed 9 Jun 04 · Venus Unveiled (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Tue 8 Jun 04 · The Transit of Venus (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Mon 7 Jun 04 · The Transit of Venus (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
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