SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - Meeting topics - 2004 to 2020
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