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Sun 20 May 18 · Why the World Needs A Vagina Museum (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 29 Nov 17 · Africa’s avian cheats: exploring the deceitful ways of cuckoos, honeyguides and parasitic finches (Burgh House, LONDON)
Mon 13 Nov 17 · Islam & Atheism: Irreconcilable Enemies? (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 10 Oct 17 · Cyber security: today's reality and tomorrow's possibilities (Imperial College London, London)
Mon 2 Oct 17 · The Business Plan for Peace: Making Possible a World Without War (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 20 Sep 17 · Birds and People (Burgh House, LONDON)
Wed 7 Jun 17 · No need for nuclear: the renewables are here (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 18 Apr 17 · Reproductive Ageing and Fertility Myths (The Book Club, London)
Thu 8 Dec 16 · Large Hadron Collider update (Imperial College London, London)
Wed 14 Sep 16 · Islam and the West: a personal perspective (Conway Hall, London)
Mon 4 Jul 16 · Twilight science (The Royal Society, London)
Mon 4 Jul 16 · Summer Science Exhibition (The Royal Society, London)
Tue 28 Jun 16 · TalkScience@BL - Doping in sport:fair game? (British Library, London)
Tue 31 May 16 · What Ails Muslims Today? (Conway Hall, London)
Sat 7 May 16 · Bethlem and the Brain: Muzzling William Lawrence's Medical Materialism (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)
Tue 12 Apr 16 · Learning machines - how computers got smart (The Royal Society, London)
Sat 3 Oct 15 · Brain Fag (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)
Tue 19 May 15 · The Improbability Principle (Conway Hall, London)
Sat 2 May 15 · Film: A Better Life (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 23 Apr 15 · Lunchtime Lectures: Patient safety and human factors (Royal College of Nursing, London)
Sun 25 Jan 15 · Can Nanotechnology Save The World? (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 22 Jan 15 · Science and reason in an age of unreason (Conway Hall, London)
Mon 12 Jan 15 · The skeptics guide to drugs in sport (The Monarch Bar, London)
Wed 12 Nov 14 · Catch me if you can: Atoms in Action (Institute of Physics, London)
Wed 5 Nov 14 · Why we love German Postwar Artists (Art Workers Guild, London)
Sun 27 Jul 14 · Internet Dating with Darwin (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 9 Jul 14 · Gravity Analysed (Greenwood Theatre, London)
Fri 30 May 14 · The Royal Society at The Hay Festival: Ocean of life (The Hay Festival, Hay on Wye)
Fri 30 May 14 · The Royal Society at The Hay Festival: Resilience to disaster (The Hay Festival, Hay on Wye)
Mon 19 May 14 · Cafe Scientifique: does learning maths change how we think? (The Royal Society, London)
Tue 18 Mar 14 · This is Improbable too! An Ig Nobel Event (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 16 Mar 14 · Intelligently designed; the creationist assault on science (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 1 Dec 13 · The Last Night: anti-work, atheism, adventure (Conway Hall, London)
Fri 29 Nov 13 · Life is what you make it (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 26 Nov 13 · The Rational Parliament - Should we extract shale gas by fracking? (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 17 Nov 13 · The Skeptical Bobby (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 14 Nov 13 · Bloody will be thy end: The science and archaeology which uncovered Richard III (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 2 Nov 13 · Family Fun Day: Space (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 30 Oct 13 · Toilets and other great inventions (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Fri 25 Oct 13 · Seeing things in a different light: How X-ray crystallography revealed the structure of everything (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 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)
Sun 20 Oct 13 · The Rise of the Machines (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 2 Oct 13 · Mind Games: The science of sexism (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 1 Oct 13 · The world until yesterday: What can we learn from traditional societies? (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Fri 27 Sep 13 · Antimatter; why the anti-world matters (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 26 Sep 13 · Mind Games: Can psychology change the world and why doesn't it? (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 14 Sep 13 · Retrievable Asteroids (The Galilean Society, Glasgow)
Wed 21 Aug 13 · LIGHT SOUND AND SPACE (LSE George IV pub, London)
Sun 14 Jul 13 · Do Atheists have mystical-type experiences? (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 4 Jul 13 · Computing with quantum cats: From colossus to qubits (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Mon 1 Jul 13 · Twilight science (The Royal Society, London)
Fri 28 Jun 13 · Time, Einstein and the coolest stuff in the Universe (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 27 Jun 13 · Scent of space (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 25 Jun 13 · Small science (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 18 Jun 13 · Big science (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 8 Jun 13 · Genius and invention (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Fri 31 May 13 · Terra Rara: The strange story of some political elements (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 29 May 13 · Falling upwards (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 22 May 13 · Teaching your fingers to see (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 18 May 13 · An evening with Simon Mayo and Itch (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Fri 26 Apr 13 · Our dynamic Sun (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 24 Apr 13 · The quantum Universe (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sun 21 Apr 13 · Sunday Lecture - Irrational beliefs in the NHS (SPES, London)
Tue 16 Apr 13 · Creation: the origins and future of life (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sun 7 Apr 13 · Sunday Lecture - Beware! The Vaccine A brief history of anti-vaccinationism (SPES, London)
Sat 30 Mar 13 · Tricks of the Mind (SPES, London)
Fri 22 Mar 13 · The race to be the ‘cell therapy nation’ (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Mon 18 Mar 13 · The Internet tells us nothing (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Fri 15 Mar 13 · Your Creative Brain: Neuroscience of Imagination (British Library, London)
Wed 13 Mar 13 · Project sunshine: how science can use the Sun to fuel and feed the world (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 6 Mar 13 · Business success: what’s luck got to do with it? (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 2 Mar 13 · Family Fun Day: The Modern Alchemist (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 21 Feb 13 · Anatomies: the human body, its parts and the stories they tell (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 12 Feb 13 · Science and the dark art of persuasion (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 31 Jan 13 · The Universe within (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 29 Jan 13 · Can community owned, green energy cooperatives be part of the solution to the UK’s energy challenge? (HUB Islington, London)
Fri 25 Jan 13 · Quantum life: how physics can revolutionise biology (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 5 Dec 12 · The modern alchemist - 2012 Christmas Lectures preview event (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 21 Nov 12 · How the Internet works (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 20 Nov 12 · You’re going to die! (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 13 Nov 12 · The fear of science (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 6 Nov 12 · The science of fear (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 3 Nov 12 · Family Fun Day: In deep water (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Fri 26 Oct 12 · Imagination: The door to identity (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 20 Oct 12 · The Battle of Ideas 2012 (Barbican Centre, London)
Tue 16 Oct 12 · The spark of life (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 10 Oct 12 · Science News Quiz (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 2 Oct 12 · Bad Pharma: How drug companies distort science (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 26 Sep 12 · Working effectively with troubled and troublesome teenagers (Regents College, London)
Wed 26 Sep 12 · The Geek Manifesto (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 25 Sep 12 · Paradox: The nine greatest enigmas in science (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 11 Sep 12 · Darwin tunes: Survival of the funkiest (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 1 Sep 12 · Leonardo da Vinci: A Second Nature in the World (Dalhousie Building, Dundee)
Thu 19 Jul 12 · It’s not rocket science (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 10 Jul 12 · The most human human (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 26 Jun 12 · How Do Art And Science Visualise Life? (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Thu 21 Jun 12 · The long Earth (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 13 Jun 12 · Working effectively with troubled and troublesome teenagers (Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol, Bristol)
Thu 24 May 12 · Cutting Edge 2012: Behind Sailing (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 17 May 12 · Climate Change and Forests (Royal Geographical Society, London)
Thu 10 May 12 · What you see depends of how your look: Time and space in scientific imagery (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 2 May 12 · The science of reputation (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 21 Apr 12 · Did we really land on the moon? (The Galilean Society, Glasgow)
Thu 19 Apr 12 · Strategies for commercial success of biosimilars in an increasingly crowded market place (The Penridge Suite, London)
Wed 28 Mar 12 · Science Weekly Live (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 21 Mar 12 · Famelab UK Final (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 14 Mar 12 · From Maxwell To Higgs (Public Engagement, King's College London, London)
Tue 13 Mar 12 · Scientists and journalists need different things from science. Discuss (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 15 Feb 12 · Heart to heart (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sun 29 Jan 12 · Sunday Lecture: The Science Delusion (Conway Hall, London)
Fri 27 Jan 12 · Electroweak symmetry breaking and the Large Hadron Collider (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 25 Jan 12 · Cutting Edge 2012: Behind Basketball (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 3 Dec 11 · Ghosts of Christmas Lectures past (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Mon 21 Nov 11 · Hearing connections: the sonification of natural systems (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 15 Oct 11 · Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon, Saturday and Sunday, 15 and 16 October 2011 (Serpentine Galleries, London)
Tue 13 Sep 11 · The science of secrecy (The Great Hall, London)
Sat 30 Jul 11 · Family Fun Day: Waves (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 30 Jun 11 · Defeating aging with regenerative medicine (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Fri 24 Jun 11 · Carbon in nano and outer space (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 23 Jun 11 · The origin of our species (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 8 Jun 11 · Nurturing ideas that matter (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 4 Jun 11 · Family Fun Day: Forensic Science (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 31 May 11 · Molecular chaperones: how cells stop proteins from misbehaving (The Royal Society, London)
Tue 24 May 11 · Will Indian Science Take Over the World? (Asia House, London)
Tue 24 May 11 · Science careers: has the science establishment let down young researchers? (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 24 May 11 · Constructing Colour in the Brain (Anatomy Theatre & Museum, London)
Tue 17 May 11 · Entanglements with colour (Anatomy Theatre & Museum, London)
Sun 24 Apr 11 · Creationism, Intelligent Design and Science Education in Britain (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 19 Apr 11 · Zero degrees of empathy: a new theory of human cruelty (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 5 Apr 11 · The reason why: the miracle of life on Earth (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 2 Apr 11 · Family fun day; Food (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 29 Mar 11 · U3A @ the Ri (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 22 Mar 11 · The limits of science (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Fri 25 Feb 11 · Time bombs or tidal waves: the impact of Iraq/Afghanistan on the health of the UK Armed Forces (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 24 Feb 11 · AI will kill us all: post-digital geopolitics (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 23 Feb 11 · Science experiments (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 16 Feb 11 · Botworld: Designing for the new world of domestic A.I. (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sun 13 Feb 11 · Darwin's Sacred Cause (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 10 Feb 11 · Uncanny & lovable: The future of emotional robots (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 9 Feb 11 · Cost-Effective Low Carbon Transport – Can Technology Deliver? - The 39th Edwards Lecture, with the W (City University London, London)
Wed 19 Jan 11 · You are what you hear (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sun 9 Jan 11 · Alfred Russel Wallace: conservation or sustainable development? (Conway Hall, London)
Fri 26 Nov 10 · Treatment of asthma through the ages (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 25 Nov 10 · Black holes and spin offs (The Royal Society, London)
Wed 24 Nov 10 · Science that changed the world (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Fri 19 Nov 10 · The unfortunate chemist - tribulations of chemical philosophy in an age of revolution (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 17 Nov 10 · Blood, sugar and tears (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 4 Nov 10 · Exploring the invisible: art-science café (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Mon 1 Nov 10 · Where good ideas come from (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Fri 29 Oct 10 · Rhythms of the body (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 28 Oct 10 · Ethics and the Dark Side of Science: Conway Memorial Lecture 2010 (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 26 Oct 10 · Inside Nature with Dr. Henry Gee (Darwin Lecture Theatre, London)
Tue 26 Oct 10 · Science Question Time (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 21 Oct 10 · Neutrino - is the sun still shining? (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 14 Oct 10 · Whose genome is it anyway? (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 2 Oct 10 · Family fun day – The Chemical History of the Candle: Faraday’s popular science 150 years on (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 29 Sep 10 · The complete human body (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Fri 24 Sep 10 · After Hours - Science Uncovered (The Natural History Museum, London)
Fri 24 Sep 10 · Empathy and the human brain (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 23 Sep 10 · Should science journalists take sides? (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 19 Aug 10 · Our place in the Universe (Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Greenwich)
Sat 7 Aug 10 · Family Fun day (Weather) (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Fri 30 Jul 10 · Total Recall: How the e-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 14 Jul 10 · Blooming Snapdragons (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 17 Jun 10 · Astrobiology: the new science of life in the Universe (Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Greenwich)
Wed 2 Jun 10 · Bragg Lecture: Highlights of journeys into the architecture of the invisible (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 12 May 10 · ‘Would you ever have thought such a thing possible?’ Alexander Fleming and the FRS (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Tue 11 May 10 · Food allergies - what is there to worry about? (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 6 May 10 · Flavour - the mystery sense (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 29 Apr 10 · Is There Anybody Out There? (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Wed 28 Apr 10 · Joseph Lister, surgeon and microscopist (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Fri 23 Apr 10 · Family fun day (Kitchen chemistry) (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 20 Apr 10 · Early Events in Monocot Evolution (The Linnean Society of London, London)
Tue 20 Apr 10 · Mammalian biodiversity: past, present, future? (The Royal Society, London)
Tue 20 Apr 10 · Blood under the microscope: William Hewson, an 18th-century anatomist (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Thu 25 Mar 10 · Keeping it in the Family: the Dollonds and microscopy (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Wed 24 Mar 10 · Inflammatory Eye Disease (The Museum of London, London)
Thu 18 Mar 10 · Siphonophores: tangled tentacles or ocean predators? (The Linnean Society of London, London)
Thu 11 Mar 10 · The Institute of Engineering and Technology Kelvin Lecture (The IET, London)
Thu 11 Mar 10 · The commercial exploitation of Thames Chinese mitten crabs (The Linnean Society of London, London)
Wed 10 Mar 10 · Robert Hooke, Micrographia, and experimental physiology in the early Royal Society (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Thu 4 Mar 10 · Nature, Nurture or Neither: The view from the genes (The Linnean Society of London, London)
Thu 25 Feb 10 · The Institute of Engineering and Technology Turing Lecture (The IET, London)
Wed 24 Feb 10 · The Ethics of Reproduction (The Museum of London, London)
Mon 22 Feb 10 · Franklin, his sister Jane and friend Polly (Benjamin Franklin House, London)
Thu 18 Feb 10 · Thomas Blakiston's Line (The Linnean Society of London, London)
Tue 16 Feb 10 · The Legacy of Robert Boyle - then and now (St Mary le Bow Church, London)
Thu 11 Feb 10 · The Institute of Engineering and Technology Clerk Maxwell Lecture (The IET, London)
Fri 29 Jan 10 · Ocean Planet (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Tue 26 Jan 10 · A World of Worms (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Mon 25 Jan 10 · Poor Richard's Almanack and how Franklin Perfected the Genre (Benjamin Franklin House, London)
Mon 25 Jan 10 · Eaten Alive (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Sun 24 Jan 10 · Atheism: Misperceptions and Misconstructions (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 21 Jan 10 · Restoring British Biodiversity (The Linnean Society of London, London)
Wed 20 Jan 10 · The History of Cataract Surgery (The Museum of London, London)
Fri 15 Jan 10 · Life in the Field: New Plant Species (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Thu 14 Jan 10 · What is Biodiveristy? (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Tue 12 Jan 10 · Codebreaking in Everyday Life (The Museum of London, London)
Tue 12 Jan 10 · Variety of Life; Rainforests (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Mon 7 Dec 09 · The Skeptic's Guide to Christmas (The Penderels Oak, London)
Wed 2 Dec 09 · Getting To Know Gorillas: The Gentle Giants (Royal Geographical Society, London)
Tue 24 Nov 09 · The science and perception of beauty (The Royal Institution, London)
Mon 16 Nov 09 · "A Caution to the Unwary:" Quacks in 18th Century London (Benjamin Franklin House, London)
Thu 12 Nov 09 · CP Snow’s ‘Two cultures’: 50 years of debate (The Royal Institution, London)
Tue 10 Nov 09 · The life cycle of the stars: are we star dust or nuclear waste? (Royal Astronomical Society, London)
Thu 5 Nov 09 · Heart attack - Behind the scenes (The Royal Institution, London)
Thu 5 Nov 09 · Mathematical curiosities and treasures from Professor Stewart’s cabinet (The Royal Society, 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)
Thu 8 Oct 09 · What on Earth Evolved? 100 species that changed the world (The Royal Institution, London)
Mon 21 Sep 09 · Café Scientifique: Quantum mechanics (The Royal Institution, London)
Thu 3 Sep 09 · Pestival Symposium - How Insect Are We? (The Scientific Meeting Rooms, London)
Wed 19 Aug 09 · The secret life of trees (British Museum, London)
Thu 11 Jun 09 · Environmental Parliament (Environmental Parliament, London)
Tue 9 Jun 09 · Whatever is the matter? (The Royal Institution, London)
Thu 4 Jun 09 · An evening with Martin Rees (The Royal Institution, London)
Thu 28 May 09 · Physics of the impossible (The Royal Institution, London)
Tue 26 May 09 · Quiz night (The Royal Institution, London)
Tue 19 May 09 · Ravelling, unravelling (The Royal Institution, London)
Thu 14 May 09 · Why the One You Fancy Never Fancies You (Science Oxford Live, Oxford)
Mon 27 Apr 09 · Climate Change and Extinction (The Royal Society, London)
Sun 19 Apr 09 · The School of Life Sunday Sermons: Robert Winston on Curiosity (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 7 Apr 09 · New Approaches to Digital Distribution and Broadcasting (The IET, London)
Thu 2 Apr 09 · The Making of Mr. Gray’s Anatomy (Science Oxford Live, Oxford)
Wed 1 Apr 09 · Questions of truth (The Royal Institution, London)
Thu 26 Mar 09 · Mathematics in the real world: From brain tumours to saving marriages (The Royal Society, London)
Sat 21 Mar 09 · GOD IN THE LAB (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 12 Mar 09 · Talent and Autism - Panel Discussion (The Royal Society, London)
Mon 9 Mar 09 · Discussion Meeting on Colloids, Grains and Dense Suspensions: under Flow and under Arrest organised (The Royal Society, London)
Mon 9 Mar 09 · Models and Mechanisms: Aspects of Biomedicine at UCL in the 20th Century (Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre, London)
Mon 2 Mar 09 · Fiction lab (The Royal Institution, London)
Thu 29 Jan 09 · Ice, mud and blood (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 21 Jan 09 · An evening with Carol Vordermann (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Mon 19 Jan 09 · The age of wonder (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Mon 19 Jan 09 · The Evolution of Society (The Royal Society, London)
Mon 19 Jan 09 · The Institute of Engineering and Technology Appleton Lecture (The IET, London)
Sat 17 Jan 09 · Weird Science (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 4 Dec 08 · Mirror images, antimatter and time reversal (University of Birmingham Astronomical Society, Birmingham)
Tue 2 Dec 08 · A molecular window into speech and language (The Royal Society, London)
Mon 24 Nov 08 · Lost in History - Adriano Shaplin in conversation with Simon Schaffer (The Royal Society, London)
Wed 19 Nov 08 · The science of scent: a feast for the nose (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 13 Nov 08 · The Relationship Between Meditation Attainment and Psychic Awarenness with Tibetan Buddhists (Kensington Central Library Lecture Theatre, Kensington)
Wed 29 Oct 08 · Use and abuse: science under the Nazi regime (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 29 Oct 08 · Psychology, Art & Empathy - a scientist/artst collaboration (Vincent Building, Cranfield University, Cranfield)
Tue 7 Oct 08 · What on earth happened? (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Mon 8 Sep 08 · The fiction lab (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 15 May 08 · ID: the quest for identity in the 21st century (Royal Institution, London)
Wed 30 Apr 08 · Upgrade! Scotland: Hacklab (DCA, Dundee)
Mon 14 Apr 08 · Victorian Surgery (Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret, London)
Fri 28 Mar 08 · Mystics & Scientists 31: Rhythms and Cycles in Biological and Spiritual Life (University of Winchester, Winchester)
Thu 20 Mar 08 · The Red Hand Gang: Surgeons in Georgian England (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Thu 13 Mar 08 · The Meat of theTongue - Disfigurement (Wellcome Trust, London)
Thu 13 Mar 08 · Animal Farm on the Big Screen (Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL, London)
Wed 12 Mar 08 · Feeding People is Easy (Colet House, London)
Thu 28 Feb 08 · An End to Feeling Shattered (Wellcome Trust, London)
Wed 27 Feb 08 · In Or Out (Wellcome Trust, London)
Fri 22 Feb 08 · Sleep Talk (Wellcome Trust, London)
Thu 7 Feb 08 · Catherine Yass - Artist in Conversation (Wellcome Trust, London)
Tue 11 Dec 07 · Skeptics in the Pub (The Penderels Oak, London)
Thu 25 Oct 07 · Facial Attraction (Nature Live, London)
Sun 7 Oct 07 · The Virtual Tour (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Tue 25 Sep 07 · How Much Oil Is There Left? (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Tue 18 Sep 07 · Holiday Snaps From the Challenger Expedition (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Wed 12 Sep 07 · A Bite From the Past (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Tue 11 Sep 07 · Listening to the Leaves: Fossil Plants and Climate Change (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Thu 6 Sep 07 · Artwork in Context: Ma Yongfeng:Dr Derek Siviter: Geology and Natural History Museum Practice (ArtSway, nr Lymington)
Thu 30 Aug 07 · The Natural History of Beer (Nature Live, London)
Wed 29 Aug 07 · Life Under the Antarctic Ice (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Thu 16 Aug 07 · Conserved Corpses: From Egypt to Evita (Brompton Cemetery Chapel, London)
Wed 15 Aug 07 · Corpses to Collections (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Sun 22 Jul 07 · The XML Summer School 2007 (Wadham College, Oxford)
Thu 19 Jul 07 · Need to Know: UFOs, the Military and Intelligence (The Old Kings Head, London)
Tue 26 Jun 07 · Life Under the Antarctic Ice (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Sun 24 Jun 07 · Love of Lice (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Sat 23 Jun 07 · Drawing Nature: A Special Nature Live Workshop (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Tue 19 Jun 07 · Life in the Field: Belize (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Sun 17 Jun 07 · The Insect Roadshow (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Sat 9 Jun 07 · Unsung Heroes of the Collections (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Fri 8 Jun 07 · Whale Sharks: The Gentle Giants (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Thu 24 May 07 · Work and Play 2025 (Dana Centre, London)
Thu 29 Mar 07 · Looking Behind the Labels (Nature Live, London)
Tue 27 Mar 07 · Rwanda - Building a Memorial (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Wed 21 Mar 07 · Science Book Club (Science Oxford Live, Oxford)
Mon 12 Mar 07 · Illustrations of a Curious Nature (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Sat 10 Mar 07 · Wonders of the Collection: The Giant Squid (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Tue 6 Mar 07 · Altered States: The Natural History of Drug Plants (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Thu 22 Feb 07 · Understanding Our Metal Footprint (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Mon 4 Dec 06 · The Ghost Map: Steven Johnson and Brian Eno (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)
Mon 20 Nov 06 · Therapeutic Applications of Human Stem Cells - Prospects and Challenges (Institute of Human Genetics and Health, UCL, London)
Mon 20 Nov 06 · Art and the Senses: Gallery Tour (Science Oxford Live, Oxford)
Mon 20 Nov 06 · Francis Crick's place in history (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge)
Tue 14 Nov 06 · What can Art tell us about Vision? (Science Oxford Live, Oxford)
Mon 6 Nov 06 · Sleepfaring: a journey through the science of sleep (Pharmacology Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge)
Tue 31 Oct 06 · The Art and Science of the Senses (Science Oxford Live, Oxford)
Thu 26 Oct 06 · The Sense of Touch in the Visual Art (Science Oxford Live, Oxford)
Tue 24 Oct 06 · Francis Crick's Place in History (Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne)
Mon 23 Oct 06 · Malaria: from science to action (Pharmacology Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge)
Wed 18 Oct 06 · The Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Medical Device Revolution (Westminster University NLT2, London)
Tue 10 Oct 06 · Why Intelligent Design is Stupid (UCL, London)
Mon 9 Oct 06 · Why intelligent design is for stupid people. (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge)
Thu 3 Aug 06 · Mars Rovers: More than a toy (Thinktank, the Birmingham science museum, Birmingham)
Wed 26 Jul 06 · Full Life, Long Life? (Soho Theatre, London)
Thu 6 Jul 06 · From a great night out to impossible decisions (Thinktank, the Birmingham science museum, Birmingham)
Wed 5 Jul 06 · Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World-View (Imperial College, London)
Thu 15 Jun 06 · Happy Dragons (Thinktank, the Birmingham science museum, Birmingham)
Thu 25 May 06 · Aliens on Earth (Thinktank, the Birmingham science museum, Birmingham)
Thu 4 May 06 · Are you getting enough sleep? (Thinktank, the Birmingham science museum, Birmingham)
Thu 27 Apr 06 · Conserving Birds in Human-Dominated Landscapes (April 27 & 28, 2006) (American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY)
Fri 31 Mar 06 · Mystics and Scientists: The Spirit of Mountains: Inner and Outer Explorations (University of Winchester, Winchester)
Thu 16 Mar 06 · Searching of Extra Terrestrial Intelligence: A new way of looking (Thinktank, the Birmingham science museum, Birmingham)
Fri 24 Feb 06 · Can technology save the planet? (UCL, London)
Thu 2 Feb 06 · Intelligent Design (Thinktank, the Birmingham science museum, Birmingham)
Wed 1 Feb 06 · How to grow trees (Gresham College, London)
Fri 27 Jan 06 · The musical harmony of the universe (Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation, London)
Wed 18 Jan 06 · Wallpaper patterns and buckyballs (Gresham College, London)
Tue 6 Dec 05 · The formation of Christian doctrine (Gresham College, London)
Wed 30 Nov 05 · Physics and the Emergence of Complexity (EnlightenNext, Islington)
Wed 23 Nov 05 · Live or die: the secret is in our genes (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 23 Nov 05 · Depression: reality and myth (Gresham College, London)
Tue 22 Nov 05 · Diamond life (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Mon 21 Nov 05 · Molecular sculpture: making crystals work for us (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 5 Nov 05 · Bang, bang! (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 3 Nov 05 · History from below: mathematics, instruments and archaeology (Gresham College, London)
Wed 2 Nov 05 · Your brain: the final frontier? (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 25 Oct 05 · A Physicist looks at Sport (The Museum of London, London)
Mon 24 Oct 05 · The Geckos Foot and Bioinspiration (Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne)
Tue 18 Oct 05 · Einstein and the universe (The Museum of London, London)
Tue 18 Oct 05 · Chance encounter with a black hole (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 12 Oct 05 · Inside out (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 12 Oct 05 · Biometric challenges and standards: what's at stake? (The Royal Society of Medicine, London)
Tue 11 Oct 05 · Anatomy for the terrified!!! (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 6 Oct 05 · How vital is motivation in our lives? (Gresham College, London)
Wed 5 Oct 05 · Who invented Algebra? (Gresham College, London)
Mon 3 Oct 05 · In Faraday's Footsteps (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 29 Sep 05 · Controversial discussion with Lord Winston (Lecture title TBC) (Thinktank, the Birmingham science museum, Birmingham)
Fri 26 Aug 05 · Beyond the Brain VI: Memory Beyond the Brain (University of Lincoln, Lincoln)
Wed 29 Jun 05 · The right climate for business (The Royal Society, London)
Mon 20 Jun 05 · Should we trust the scientists? (The Great Hall, London)
Tue 14 Jun 05 · Einstein's First Lecture in Britain (Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester)
Thu 2 Jun 05 · Does Consciousness Exist Beyond the Brain? (Voices from the Edge, London)
Mon 23 May 05 · Do Animals Need Rights? (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)
Tue 8 Mar 05 · Tsunami Public Lecture (Greenwich University, London)
Fri 25 Feb 05 · Further Reaches Of Human Consciousness (Voices from the Edge, London)
Tue 1 Feb 05 · Discovering People, Martin Bell (Royal Geographical Society, London)
Mon 6 Dec 04 · A Clone of Your Own?: The Science and Ethics of Cloning (Kro at Cafe Muse, Manchester)
Mon 15 Nov 04 · 95% Chimp - The genes that make us human (The Natural History Museum, London)
Mon 8 Nov 04 · Silicon Chips & Silicon Fibres....An Integrated World? (Kro at Cafe Muse, Manchester)
Wed 13 Oct 04 · Headline debate (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 13 Oct 04 · The History of the Big Bang (Gresham College, London)
Tue 12 Oct 04 · Under the Knife (Dana Centre, London)
Tue 12 Oct 04 · Science meets politics (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Mon 11 Oct 04 · The Big Bang: what is it and do we believe it? (Filmhouse Bar, Edinburgh)
Mon 11 Oct 04 · Counter-Intuitive Science (Kro at Cafe Muse, Manchester)
Wed 6 Oct 04 · Fuel for thought: engines without moving parts (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 5 Oct 04 · Wild reckonings (The Royal Society, London)
Tue 5 Oct 04 · Rearranging Faces – Future Face book launch (Dana Centre, London)
Tue 5 Oct 04 · Magic stones (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 29 Sep 04 · Exploring nanotechnology (The Royal Society, London)
Tue 28 Sep 04 · While you were sleeping: science, sleep and dreams (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 28 Sep 04 · BBC British Isles: The Roots of Britain (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Mon 27 Sep 04 · BBC Stardate (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Sat 25 Sep 04 · BBC British Isles: Elm Map (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Sat 25 Sep 04 · BBC British Isles: Elm Map (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Tue 21 Sep 04 · The Mammoth (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Sun 19 Sep 04 · What the Ancient Sloth Left Behind (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Sat 18 Sep 04 · Living in Dung (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Sat 18 Sep 04 · Living in Dung (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Thu 16 Sep 04 · In the Headlines (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Mon 13 Sep 04 · Wound Healing (Kro at Cafe Muse, Manchester)
Sun 12 Sep 04 · From Puffballs to Poison Pies (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Sun 12 Sep 04 · From Puffballs to Poison Pies (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)
Sat 11 Sep 04 · Moa: A Short History of the World’s Tallest Birds (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Fri 10 Sep 04 · In the Headlines (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)
Mon 6 Sep 04 · The Threat of Terrorism: The Place of Science (The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh)
Mon 5 Jul 04 · How small can you get? (Kro at Cafe Muse, Manchester)
Thu 17 Jun 04 · Reinventing the Radio (Hackney Museum, London)
Sun 13 Jun 04 · Cheltenham Festival of Science (Day 5 of 5) (Cheltenham Festival of Science, Cheltenham)
Sat 12 Jun 04 · Cheltenham Festival of Science (Day 4 of 5) (Cheltenham Festival of Science, Cheltenham)
Fri 11 Jun 04 · Cheltenham Festival of Science (Day 3 of 5) (Cheltenham Festival of Science, Cheltenham)
Thu 10 Jun 04 · Cheltenham Festival of Science (Day 2 of 5) (Cheltenham Festival of Science, Cheltenham)
Wed 9 Jun 04 · Cheltenham Festival of Science (Day 1 of 5) (Cheltenham Festival of Science, Cheltenham)
Mon 7 Jun 04 · Virtual Reality (Kro at Cafe Muse, Manchester)
Mon 31 May 04 · Under Pressure: the Warped World of Deep-Sea Fish (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Mon 31 May 04 · Social Dreaming (third of three daily sessions) (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Mon 31 May 04 · Under Pressure: the Warped World of Deep-Sea Fish (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Sun 30 May 04 · Social Dreaming (second of three daily sessions) (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Sun 30 May 04 · Sharks - Teeth and Diet (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Sat 29 May 04 · Visions of Vesta (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Sat 29 May 04 · Heliocentricity (Openhand Openspace, Reading)
Sat 29 May 04 · Visions of Vesta (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Thu 27 May 04 · Captain Cook and the Cosmic Yardstick (Glasgow Science Centre, Glasgow)
Thu 27 May 04 · In the Headlines (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Thu 20 May 04 · Britain's Mature Elm Trees (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Thu 6 May 04 · In the Headlines (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Fri 26 Mar 04 · Psychoanalysis Masterclass: Francois Levy and Bernard Burgoyne (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)
Wed 24 Mar 04 · Four-year Bronze Age conservation project completion celebrations (The Megalithic Portal, n/a)
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