The Trouble With Facebook – Wednesday 9th March @ 6pm
Online social networking applications are wildly popular. Facebook alone has around 500 million registered users. They have some good effects, such as helping people to maintain existing relationships and create new ones. And they can have some bad effects, such…
Eye Saw It: The Psychology of Eye-Witness Memory – Mon 28 Feb @ 7pm
We use our memories every day, and can usually rely on them. However, psychological research has proven that our memories can be fallible. For example, we forget things, and our memories can be influenced by seemingly mundane things such as…
Small Talk – Application of Nanotechnology – Wed 9th at 6pm
Even though we may not be aware of it, nanotechnology is already embedded in many of the products that we make use of in our everyday lives. Did you know that your computer, phone, & Playstation have nanotechnology at their…
Responding to Flu Pandemics: The Challenge – Monday 31st Jan 7pm
Join us at Chambers Coffee House, 34 South Tay St for our first Cafe Science Dundee event of 2011. So what was all that flu pandemic about ? Was there really a global healthcare threat or was it just media…
Put a Cap on that Gas! – Storing CO2 Underground – Wednesday 12th Jan, 6pm
The Scottish Government has pledged to reduce Scotland’s CO2 emissions by 20% by 2020, which means we have to find some new tools to combat to put in to action. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is one technology that could…
I am the boss of me – the psychology of self in early childhood – Thursday 25th November at 10am
Cafe Science Extra – Coffee Morning Science Every mother is familiar with the “terrible twos”, the age at which children begin to assert their independence (usually loudly, in the supermarket). Psychologists link this stage of development to the onset of…
Climate Change – Soils Will Make it Hot! Monday 25th October, 7pm
Over the last decade, a lot has been said about climate change, and much of the predictions about what will happen to our climate have not been very optimistic. What a lot of people don’t know is that soils, with…
Casualties in the Search for Oil: What the Gulf of Mexico Spill means for the Future – Wednesday 13th Oct, 6pm
In the wake of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill this Cafe Science Extra event explores the oil industry and how renewable energy would prevent environmental disasters. Richard Lyon (University of Dundee) will explain why The Gulf of Mexico…
Making Yourself Invisible – Science and a Little Bit of Magic – Monday 27th September
The idea of invisibility has fascinated people for millennia and has been an inspiration or ingredient of countless myths, novels and films, from the Greek legend of Perseus and Medusa to H.G. Well’s Invisible Man – and, of course, J.K….
Statistics and Sea Monsters – Wed 15th September
On Wednesday the 15th of September 2010 Dr. Charles Paxton from the University of St. Andrews gave the first talk in our new 2010/2011 Cafe Science Series! You can view a video of Charles’ talk here on YouTube. Dundee Science…