These are two links to Cafe Scientifique where more information can be found. They are:
website: http://sites.google.com/site/liverpoolcafescientifique/home
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&ref=mf&gid=343272672003
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Liverpool Cafe Scientifiqué is a forum for promoting public engagement with science, and it’s free. It takes place every second Tuesday of the month (7.30pm start) at the Hope Street Hotel, who sponsor the event.
Our first meeting of 2010 took place on Tuesday 9th February and got off to a great start with a talk by Marco Bertamini from the Department of Psychology at Liverpool University. It was entitled: Naïve physics: understanding how things work from everyday visual experience. One of the phenomena Marco Bertamini talked about was the ‘Venus Effect’ – how we incorrectly perceive what’s going on when we look at people looking into mirrors.
Our second meeting took place on Tuesday 9th March and was given by Gareth Stratton, Professor of Paediatric Exercise Science, Liverpool John Moores University, entitled: The road to an active and healthy childhood, from fitness to fatness and back again. It was another excellent talk. Gareth Stratton’s department is doing cutting edge research into the obesity problem among young children. He presented us with some frightening data as well as saying what is required to prevent obesity amongst the young.
Our next meeting takes place on Tuesday 13th April. We have another speaker from Liverpool University’s Department of Psychol0gy, Sonia Tucci. Her talk is entitled: Appetite regulation and obesity. This should give us another view of the obesity problem that is prevalent in our society.
We then have three further speakers that take us up to July. Topics include athletic preparation for the London Olympics in 2012, exploding stars and issues about ageing.
[‘http://sites.google.com/site/liverpoolcafescientifique/home’, ‘http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&ref=mf&gid=343272672003’]
