Author: Malcolm

The Human Cosmos

For most of human history, we have led not just an earthly existence but a cosmic one. Celestial cycles drove every aspect of our daily lives. Our innate relationship with the stars shaped who we are – our religious beliefs, power structures, scientific advances and even our biology. But over the last few centuries we have separated ourselves from the universe that surrounds us. And that disconnect comes at a cost.

In her latest book, The Human Cosmos, Dr Jo Marchant takes us on a tour through the history of humanity’s relationship with the heavens. We travel to the Hall of the Bulls in Lascaux and witness the winter solstice at a 5,000-year-old tomb at Newgrange. We visit Medieval monks grappling with the nature of time and Tahitian sailors navigating by the stars. We discover how light reveals the chemical composition of the sun, and we are with Einstein as he works out that space and time are one and the same. A four-billion-year-old meteor inspires a search for extraterrestrial life. And we discover why stargazing can be really, really good for us.

It is time for us to rediscover the full potential of the universe we inhabit, its wonder, its effect on our health, and its potential for inspiration and revelation.

Dr Jo Marchant

Jo Marchant is an award-winning science journalist. She has a PhD in genetics and medical microbiology from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, London, and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College. She has worked as an editor at New Scientist and Nature, and her articles have appeared in the Guardian, Wired, Observer, New York Times and Washington Post. She is the author of Decoding the Heavens which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. She is also the author of Cure which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.

When and where?

Livestreaming on twitch.tv/sitp at 7:00 pm UK time on Thursday 10th December, 2020.

Some exciting events for the lockdown

Weekend Treat from Merseyside Skeptics:-

Weekend of 14-15 November Saturday and Sundy starting at 10:00 am-QED 2018…Again!

And at 7:00 pm UK time on Thursdays:-

19th Nov Pixie Turner – How Social Media Has Shaped The Way We Eat (Including Ockham awards during the break)

26th Nov Jennifer Wadsworth – Planetary Protection: Guardians of the Galaxy or lame science-party poopers? European Researcher’s night special

3rd Dec – Noah Lugeons – A Crisis of Faith: How Religion Ruined America’s Pandemic Response

10th Dec – Jo Marchant – The Human Cosmos

Skeptics in the Pub Online (on twitch.tv/sitp) continues apace with 27 thoughtful and engaging weekly events so far!

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Here are some exciting ones planned:-

Next Thursday, the 15th October is Brooke Magnanti with How the sex trafficking panic leads to Qanon conspiracy theorists

And, the week after, the 22nd, we have Aaron Rabinowitz with Ethical realism in a universe without free will

Look out for lots more planned events!

Skeptics of the Round Table is starting up again but, of course, on-line!

Please join us via Zoom on the second Wednesday of every month from 7pm to 9pm. This link will be the same every month. The first one is next week, Wednesday 10th of June.

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We hope you are also joining us at Twitch.tv/sitp for the weekly skeptics talks. This week we had Professor Karen Masters joining us for a talk on Cosmology, which was excellent. In the light of current recent tragic events, we also chose to make this meeting a fundraiser for the UK Black Lives Matter and were absolutely thrilled to raise over £2,500. What a kind and generous lot you are!!
Hoping as many of you as possible for the new, online Round Table format!!

Skeptics in the Pub Online is working well, and is  now firmly  Online.

We are collaborating with other SitP organizations in the UK and some beyond (it’s now a long list!) and the livestreaming of talks is now well underway.

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We’re very proud of what we’ve been able to achieve. It’s taken a few weeks of selecting the technology, collaboration across the groups, lots of working out what works well and what works less well, much discussion and much testing and re-testing to get to where we are now.

You can catch these online talks every Thursday at 7:00pm on Twitch. And some, depending on copyright and permissions,  will be available afterwards on YouTube.

We’ll keep the schedule up to date – they’re in the sidebar.

But here too, for reference is what is happening next.

4th June: Karen Masters – 30 Second Universe

11th June: Talking Nerdy, with Cara Santa Maria

18th June: Angela Saini – The Return of Race Science  (This last one, will not be available afterwards as a recording on Youtube – so if you are interested, don’t miss it live on the 18th!)

Stay well, keep safe and remain in contact.

Skeptics in the Pub Online is now, well, err, Online!

And other SitP organizations in the UK including Merseyside, Glasgow, Portsmouth and Bristol, are contributing. We’ll be hoping to livestream talks until the current situation changes. Every Thursday at 7:00pm is the plan.

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The Twitch site here is where you can find it. You don’t need a Twitch account to watch – unless you want to contribute questions or participate in the on-line discussion.

The first event, on the 9th April, with Jim Al-Khalili, attracted over 600 viewers!

Although we plan to run these talks every week, please be aware that the programme is subject to changes ouside our direct control.

So, here are our next 2 planned events:

Kit Chapman – how to name your elements – Thursday 23rd April

Sian Williams – the age of antibiotic resistance – Thursday 30th April

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With COVID-19 distancing here and in place for the forseeable future, there won’t be any meetings at any venue for a while yet.

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Along with other SitP organizations in the UK we’ll be hoping to livestream talks until the current situation changes.

To watch, you can go to the Twitch site here.
It will be live every Thursday at 7:00 pm, the first being Thursday, 9th April.

You don’t need a Twitch account to simply watch it, unless you wish to contribute to questions at the Q&A.

The next online event will be Jim Al-Khalili: The World According to Physics on Thursday 9th April at – with help from our friends at other SITP groups including Portsmouth, Manchester, Merseyside and Glasgow.

**UPDATE ** cancelled due to resourcing issues ** – The following event, Thursday 16th April, will be Sophie Scott – Getting Brain Sex Wrong

Talks from March Suspended

It is with regret (and sadly, no surprise) that we have postponed the March Winchester Skeptics in the Pub talk, and suspended following talks pending the coronavirus situation.

We hope to reschedule talks for future dates. We are also investigating the possibility of delivering some of them live on line.

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James Williams, Lecturer in Education, University of Sussex will talk about Alfred Wallace who famously sent Charles Darwin an outline of the theory of evolution by natural selection before Darwin had completed his major treatise on the subject. This prompted the publication of Origin of Species.

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Did Darwin really steal the idea from Wallace? Was Wallace even aware of Darwin’s work on species and how does history see the two men? In this talk, James will examine the facts surrounding Wallace’s work on evolution and some of the more interesting episodes in Wallace’s life that saw him oppose Darwin in an infamous case of spiritualist fraud that ended in the Old Bailey.

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was a man of many talents – an explorer, collector, naturalist, geographer, anthropologist and political commentator. Most famously, he had the revolutionary idea of evolution by natural selection entirely independently of Charles Darwin.

Brief Bio

James is a senior lecturer in science education at the University of Sussex. His PhD looked at the development and inclusion of the Nature of Science in the UK National Curriculum for science from 1988 – 2010. He is an elected member (FGS) of The Geological Society of London, a member of the Association for Science Education (ASE), where he chairs the Publications Specialist Group. He is also a member of the Society of Authors and a member of the Editorial Board – School Science Review. He has appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live Investigates

He has written extensively for The Conversation, for Tes (formerly known as the Times Educational Supplement) and for local newspapers. He has research expertise in Creationism and Evolution in Education, History and Philosophy of Science, Initial Teacher Education, Science Education, Teaching ‘the nature of science’ & ‘the scientific method’, as well as Teaching and Learning.

Nuclear power is seen by some as providing a secure source of energy with low greenhouse gas emissions. By others it is seen as dangerous, polluting and expensive. Based on his extensive experience of working on the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident, Jim will discuss his research on wildlife populations in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the controversies surrounding the environmental impacts of ionising radiation.

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Brief Bio

Jim Smith is Professor of Environmental Science at Portsmouth University and an expert in modelling radioactive pollution in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. He has co-ordinated four multi-national projects on the environmental consequences of the Chernobyl accident and regularly works in the Chernobyl 30-km Exclusion Zone. He is lead author of a major book on the accident: Chernobyl: Catastrophe and Consequences and authored a key opinion piece in Nature in the wake of the Fukushima accident. He is a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Expert Group on the Chernobyl Cooling Pond, and has taken part in an IAEA Expert Mission to Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Jim is currently working on the potential re-use of radioactively “contaminated” lands in Ukraine.

You can hear him on More or Less on this edition of the World Service program.