The universe literally encompasses everything we were, are and will be, everything we knew, know and can know. When we decide to understand the universe as a whole, new truths come to light, and unexpected perspectives illuminate our take on life. 30-Second Universe sheds light on the biggest ideas, concepts and discoveries in life, in the universe, and everything.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

When folks believe pervasive misconceptions about human sexuality, it can feel like there’s something wrong with them or their relationship. This talk will focus on the neuroscience behind sexual arousal and libido. We will do some myth busting and discuss how to effectively approach “spicing up” your sex life - even if you’re single or stuck in quarantine.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

The skeptical movement rightly suggests that people should place more faith in peer-reviewed scientific articles than in YouTube videos, Nick Brown will give some examples of how peer-reviewed scientific work that may attract a lot of public attention can contain remarkably elementary errors that can be detected by readers with relatively little mathematical expertise.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

The UK has declared a 'climate emergency' and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. So how do we get there? Drawing on actions, policies and technologies already emerging around the world, Chris Goodall sets out the ways to achieve this.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

Alternative medicine proponents have become really good at building a body of research that looks more and more like good science to the casual observer. Jonathan Jarry will go through three cases that illustrate how convincing the evidence for pseudoscience looks and what’s actually happening under the bonnet.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

Join journalist and science historian Kit Chapman on an adventure across chemistry as he shares the bizarre stories behind the names of the building blocks of science.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

Join journalist and science historian Kit Chapman on an adventure across chemistry as he shares the bizarre stories behind the names of the building blocks of science.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

Alternative medicine proponents have become really good at building a body of research that looks more and more like good science to the casual observer. In the face of positive randomized clinical trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, the skeptic’s approach has to become more sophisticated to crack this façade of believability. We will go through three cases that illustrate how convincing the evidence for pseudoscience looks and what’s actually happening under the bonnet.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

Where does theoretical physics stand at the end of the second decade of the 21st century? While what we do know is dazzlingly impressive, there is much we have yet to grasp, from the nature of space and time to the meaning quantum mechanics. This whistle-stop tour of modern physics is an appraisal of what we know and what we have yet to figure out.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.