Sunday Lecture – Adventures with the Enemies of Science
Will Storr was in the tropical north of Australia excavating fossils with a celebrity creationist when he asked himself a simple question. Why don’t facts work? Why that is did the obviously intelligent man beside him sincerely believe in Adam and Eve the Garden of Eden and a six-thousand-year-old Earth in spite of the evidence […]
Ahlam Akram: Why are Women’s Rights Not Universal?
The Central London Humanist Group present; Ahlam Akram: Why are Women’s Rights Not Universal?; On 9th October 2012 15 year old Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head in Pakistan by Taliban gunmen simply for campaigning for education rights for girls. In Britain in 2013 women still can’t be Bishops should they wish to be […]
Sunday Lecture – Epigenetics: The Missing Link in the Nature/Nurture Dichotomy?
We have known for many years that the environment (nurture) communicates with our genetic information (nature) to create the great complexity of life on earth and of human health and disease in the widest senses. In the past few years scientists have begun to unravel the molecule mechanisms underlying this relationship. These are critically dependent […]
The Science of Discworld
Tickets £8 / £6 for Waterstones Cardholders. Available from Waterstones Gower Street on 020 7636 1577 or events@gowerst.waterstones.com; Tickets are also available online at www.facebook.com/waterstones (subject to a booking fee); (Photo credit: Wikipedia – Nightscream)
Sunday Lecture: Money Austerity and the Financial Crisis
Ken MacIntyre discusses why money is one of the most brilliant of social inventions and yet paradoxically for something so familiar and essential for day-to-day existence one of the least understood.; Attention has focused on money and the financial system since the start of the global financial crisis in 2007. Yet governments central banks and […]
GALHA Public Meeting
Homosexuality is not Un-African: A talk by Yesimi Ilesanmi.; Fri 10th Jan 2014. 19.30; Yemisi Ilesanmi will talk about her book ‘Freedom To Love For All: Homosexuality is Not Un-African’.; Yemisi a Nigerian campaigner living in the UK is a human rights activist an author a poet and sometimes moonlights as a plus size model. […]
The Story 2013
The Story is returning to The Conway Hall, London, on Friday, February 22th, 2013 for inspiring talks and interesting stuff. The Story 2013 will again be a celebration of everything that is wonderful, inspiring and awesome about stories, in whatever medium possible. We’ll have stories that are written, spoken, played, described, enacted, whispered, projected, orchestrated, performed, […]
Trauma Therapy: An Adlerian Perspective
Adlerian Society London present:; HERTHA ORGLER MEMORIAL LECTURE; ‘Trauma Therapy: An Adlerian Perspective’ Anthea Millar Trauma is an experience of powerlessness when our physical and/or psychological integrity is threatened. Traumatic events can overwhelm and disrupt our normal systems of connecting seeking control and having meaning in life and may be experienced as the ultimate sense […]
School of Life: Why design matters – Alice Rawsthorn talks with Beatrice Gallilee
The School of Life presents; Why design matters – Alice Rawsthorn talks with Beatrice Gallilee; If voters in Palm Beach County in 2000 hadn’t found the design of its new ballot cards confusing Al Gore might have become the 43rd President of the United States of America rather than George W Bush. Design has the […]