Listing of events tagged with Speaker

  1. Say Why to Drugs — Dr Suzi Gage

    Dr Suzi Gage is a senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool, researching links between recreational drug use and mental health. In 2020 she published Say Why To Drugs, giving a really deep dive in to the drugs we take, and why we get high.

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

    7:00PM Thursday 3 September 2020 Twitch
  2. InKredulous Live

    Imagine approaching strangers in public and attempting to engage them in a calm, respectful exploration of their beliefs, using a conversational technique known as Street Epistemology. Anthony Magnabosco has been doing just that for nearly a decade now. In this interview we'll be turning the tables on him somewhat to find out what on earth made him decide to do this.

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

    7:00PM Thursday 20 August 2020 Twitch
  3. Rebel Cell: A New View of Cancer — Dr. Kat Arney

    Many of us think of cancer as a contemporary killer, but it has has always been with us, because cancer is a bug in the system of life. We get cancer because we can't not get it. Geneticist and science writer Dr Kat Arney takes us to the dawn of life on planet earth right up to the present day to see how by better understanding its evolutionary journey we might one day overcome it.

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

    7:00PM Thursday 13 August 2020 Twitch
  4. Food and Sustainability: The Truth About Hunger — Anthony Warner

    Over the next thirty years, we desperately need to make huge changes to the way we produce and consume food, otherwise, the effect on the natural world will be devastating. This talk will explain how misinformation is one of the most powerful forces preventing this from happening and explore cognitive biases that push us towards misinformation on these issues, resulting in confusion, apathy, and inaction.

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

    7:00PM Thursday 6 August 2020 Twitch
  5. How to Argue with a Racist — Dr Adam Rutherford

    In his characteristically robust style, Adam will discuss how the appeal to science to strengthen racist ideologies is on the rise — but if understood correctly, science and history can be powerful allies against racism, granting the clearest view of how people are, rather than how we judge them to be.

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

    7:00PM Thursday 16 July 2020 Twitch
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