SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - Meeting topics
- 2004 to 2021
2005 and earlier
Water - an unusual liquid;
Atomic particles;
Digital Photography; Motor
Vehicles; Telephone Technology; Canal Boat Lifts;
Food
Additives; Building
Technology; The First Transatlantic Cable;
The moon and tides; Structural
Fire Protection; Bridges;
Aircraft Fuel Systems;
Nuclear Power; Perspective in
Art; The Uses of
Satellites; Catastrophe
Theory; The Electricity Distribution
Network;
Pi; Social
Insects;
Tsunamis;
A Walk along the Seashore;
Viruses;
2006
Ripening of Tomatoes; Energy for the
Future; New Horizons in the Solar
System; Let's Build a Computer;
Parts of the body;
Anti-oxidants; The sounds
of music;
Fire-fighting
hovercraft; Power
station efficiency; The
Human eye; Home
automation; Male and female
brains;
2007
All fingers and
thumbs;
Escaping
from submarines; "The Blind
Watchmaker";
Saving
electricity in the
home;
Bionic
man; Prime
numbers;
Radar;
Local
weather
records;
Hydraulic
ram pumps; London
underground;
Air
navigation;
The
human
eye;
The
Severn Barrage;
2008
100 years of
electronics;
Nano-technology
; Nutrition;
Ford Model T - to the Prius; Human
Brain; Antarctica ecology;
Thomas Telford;
Neuroscience; Imaginary numbers;
Clocks & Calendars; Mazes &
Puzzles; Biometrics;
2009
Why we don't live for ever; British Coal
Mining Industry; Science of Air
Combat; Charles Darwin;
Better Broadband; Sir Goldsworthy
Gurney; Science Festival; Practical
Creativity; Early Metallurgy;
The Elements; What our Fingers Tell
us;
2010
Red Blood Cells;
GPS; Wine
Science; Climate Change;
Everyday Things; Science Festival;
Galapagos; I don't know - do
you?; Science, Technology and
Learning; You're never out of
touch; History of
Aspirin; Paper
Sizes; Flash Memory;
Book Reviews
2011
Dowsing; Electronic
Displays; Evolution of
Software; History of Sound Recording;
Madagascar; European Orchids; Why do we act that
way? Rare Earth Elements; Fokker Trimotor;
Battery Technology; Wine Faults; Silicon;
End of the Heat Engine Age; Fleming & Penicillin
2012
Anatomy of the Earth; Engineers
from the North-East; Cardiff
Naturalists;
Illumination;
History of Chemistry;
Stardust - Elements from the
Stars; Taxonomy of Flowering
Plants; Solar Panels (BCL
Energy); A Sketch of Atomic Structure
; Raspberry
Pi; Pythagorean
Tipples (!); Diabetes and
Obesity
2013
Richer Sounds talk; Cosmology; How fast is too fast; Numbers & Infinity; Alan Turing; Gene Sequencing; Augmented Reality; Volcanos; Jam; Who or what makes your Decisions ; Strepy-Thieu Boat Lift ; Future of Nuclear Energy; Mazes; Biscuits; Our Robot
2014
100 years of Inventions; Arsenic; Large Scale
Storage of Electricity; Bread;
British Aeronauts; Cryptography; Static
Electricity; Science and Truth;
Flying Egg-Beaters; The Future of Work; 16
Exciting things to do with your Phone before Breakfast
2015
Running a Small Technical Business; The Plight of
the Honey Bee; The Art of Technology; The Other
Wright Brothers; {Morris) Minor Themes; Pascal's
Triangle; Genetic Inheritance; How to Beat the
Bookies; Saws; Maths of Piano Tuning;
Audiology; Perpetual Motion; Mt. Isa Lead Mine
; BOGOF - for beginners!
2016
Microbiology - friend or foe; James Nasmyth; Flying
High, Diving Deep;
History of Industrial Revolution in 8 Objects; Amazing
Brain; Food Diet and Health; Submarine
Accidents; Natural History; Water; Saving
Petrol;
LED Street Lighting; Driverless Vehicles
2017
6 Revolutions in Biology; Avro Vulcan/Blue Steel;
Let's Build a Computer;
Bookbinding; About Time; Gene Editing;
Energy from Food Waste;
Industrial Archaeology; Hay Tor Tramway;
Handley-Page; Our Future;
Your Christmas Tipple
2018
Names of Elements Brunelleschi's Duomo; A.I. in
Combat; Isaac Peral;
Computer Pioneers; Weather; Flying the
Phantom; Your Digital Footprint;
Maths in Early Space Travel;
2019
Extraordinary Materials; Funky Fungi; Going with a Bang; Post-War Military Equipment; G.M.Foods; 737 Max - Why?; Nuclear Reactor Technology; Flighty Ladies; Butterflies; Mobile Phones - where are we now?; Science of Santa
2020
Mind the Gap; Popcorn materials; Porcelain; NHS
Technology; Cutting carbon; Directional Drilling; Coronavirus;
Sleep; Mitochondria; He Lit the Lamp (A.M.Low); Internet of
Things; Flying Egg-Beaters; Photo-Synthesis; Neutrino Physics
2021
Home Automation; Stellar Evolution; Energy Storage; Limestone
Geomorphology; The M.G.; Radio Communication; The
Yang/Lee Nobel Prize; Technology of Intelligence
Gathering; What's the Point of Hinkley; Babbage's
Idea and Ever Onward