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  1. A Dog’s World – Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans – Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff

    What would happen to dogs if humans simply disappeared? Would dogs be able to survive on their own without us? A Dog’s World imagines a posthuman future for dogs, revealing how dogs would survive—and possibly even thrive—and explaining how this new and revolutionary perspective can guide how we interact with dogs now.

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

    7:00PM Thursday 24 August 2023 Twitch
  2. Lost and found in the Science of Emotion – Dr Dean Burnett

    Why can’t we think straight when hungry? What’s the point of nightmares? And why can’t we forget embarrassing memories?
    Emotions can be a pain. After losing his dad to Covid-19, Dean Burnett found himself wondering what life would be like without them. And so, he decided to put his feelings under the microscope – for science.

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

    7:00PM Thursday 22 June 2023 Twitch
  3. A critical perspective on what cognitive science can tell us about first impressions and stereotypes – Dr Lou Safra

    In this talk, Dr Lou Safra will present the key findings on first impressions and stereotypes offered by cognitive science. By presenting the main experimental designs that are used to product these results, she will question the limits and issues of this research and discuss how we can ensure a safe use of these results.

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

    7:00PM Thursday 25 May 2023 Twitch
  4. Women, Wellness, and Woo – Dr Alice Howarth

    The wellness industry has become ever more popular in an age where chronic illnesses can go undiagnosed for years and access to medical support for mental ill-health is either prohibitively expensive or subject to long wait times. Women and other marginalised people are sometimes dismissed or overlooked in healthcare. But does the wellness industry really provide answers? Is there really a solution to “wellness”?

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

    7:00PM Thursday 27 April 2023 Twitch
  5. Food Therapy: How our psychology affects how we eat – Pixie Turner

    How does food make you feel? We need food to survive, but often we don’t stop to think about why we eat the way we do. From birth, we are shaped by our early psychological environment, which ultimately affects what, where, when, and why we eat. Are your parents really to blame for everything? Can you actually eat your way out of depression? Or is it perhaps a bit more complicated than that?

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

    7:00PM Thursday 13 April 2023 Twitch
  6. From fuck to microorganism – why do words sound the way they do? – Dr Shiri Lev-Ari

    One of the characteristics of language is that there is no relationship between the way that words sound and their meaning. In this talk, Dr Shiri Lev-Ari will discuss cases where the sounds of words are not arbitrary, show what characterises the sounds of swear words across the world’s languages, discuss which languages have more words whose sounds express their meaning, and why, and show that our intuition regarding whether the sounds of certain words express their meaning can be very wrong.

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

    7:00PM Thursday 23 March 2023 Twitch
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