Science & Technology Group

If you have any questions - contact Ian Phillips by phone at 952 494 172

Every 2nd Wednesday 11:00 - 12:30 Lux Mundi Ref Lib

	Programme for the coming year 2012/13
October 17^th	What is Science? - details below
October 31^st	The Nobel Prizes 2012 - details below
November 14^th	Climate and Weather - details below
November 28^th	Life and Death of a Star (Peter Cadman)
December 12^th	A South American Journey: La Condamine & Isabel Godin des Odonais
January 9^th	Energy & Power Part 1 - Energy & Fossil Fuels
January 23^rd	Energy & Power Part 2 - Nuclear & Renewable Energy
February 6^th	William Harvey & The Circulation of the Blood
February 20^th	Communications from Morse Code to Satellite TV
March 6^th	Drugs in Sport - Ben Johnson, Lance Armstrong and the rest
March 20^th	The Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
April 3^rd	The Solar System - The Inner Planets (Peter Cadman)
April 17^th	The Solar System - The Outer Planets (Peter Cadman)
May 1^st	Richard III - The Science Behind the Exhumation
May 15^th	Review

Climate & Weather

The Met Office - Full of details on UK weather and also about Climate Research

Met Office on YouTube - All the videos used in the talk and many others on climate and recent weather

Spanish Met Office - All details on Spanish weather

Nobel Prizes 2012

The Nobel Prize - Gives details of all the winners as well as extensive additional material

John Gurdon - Lengthy (90min) interview from 2008

Nemesis - Review of 2005 performance of Alfred Nobel's play

Introduction 2012

David Deutsch - 2 talks for TED here and here

What is Science? - A series of Quotes from various scientists

Many of the video clips that I use in these talks are taken from The Periodic Table of Videos and Sixty Symbols - the first for Chemistry, the second for Physics

An excellent series of 30min videos aimed at the non-scientist Physics in Your Life. You can try the other links mentioned on this site as well.

More interesting links: Physics Links, and one on Astronomy from one of our members

Bob Clark Memorial Library

Bob Clark was a long-serving and well-loved member of U3A who was Group Leader for the Science & Technology group for many years. Following his death early in 2011 his widow, Janet, generously donated his collection of Science books to U3A for the use of members.

A list of the books is given here ( pdf file). If you wish to borrow any of these please contact Ian Phillips at