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Klaus Dodds will addresses the current controversies surrounding the present and future management of the Arctic region – at their heart lies a predicament about how to make sense of the Arctic as a highly dynamic, inhabited, resource-rich and increasingly accessible space.
Klaus Dodds is Profesor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of many books on geopolitics, security and the Polar Regions. He is a frequent visitor to the Arctic region and worked in Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, Greenland, Iceland and the Nordic Arctic. Date: Wednesday 27th February 2013 |
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The Dating Games: Sniffing out a Soulmate
This is now SOLD OUT but we still have tickets for the After Party (starts at 9pm) so you still have a chance to find the love of your life the 15th with your friends Science London. You can get your ticket for £5 from EventBrite
It’s back! Bigger, better and ready to tackle Valentines Day!
We are seeking 20 guys and 20 girls who are attracted to the opposite gender and single to come and participate in our new speed dating game. So if you are open-minded, up for a laugh, looking for someone special and curious to learn about the science behind the dating game then what are you waiting for? This is the night for you!
| Introduction When you arrive you’ll be greeted by one of the cheerful Science London crew, they’ll hand you a drink to help calm any nerves (we’re so good to you). Then once everyone has arrived we’ll be breaking the ice with a short burst of humour from the love guru that is Dr Steve Cross (co-creator of Science Showoff and Bright Club). No one can tickle that funny bone quite like he can. Method Now, we were thinking we could line you all up and get you to sniff one another (very amusing for us to watch), but we figured you’d all be doused in perfume and aftershave so therefore, to help your natural scent stand out we will be sending you all t-shirts to sleep in for the two nights before the games. And when you arrive we’ll collect these t-shirts in and place them into sealed bags for our first round… |
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Building robots for fun and profit
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Shadow is an unusual robotics company, founded as a group of amateurs wanting to develop robots that they thought no-one else was developing, and evolving into one of the world’s leading robotics engineering firms. On the way they’ve engaged with, and built robots for, everyone from the space community to the extreme end of the performing arts community.
Rich Walker is the Managing Director, a typical engineer/cat-herding role, having joined in the fun 20 years ago, because he wanted to write AI software. Rich was then told “we have to build the robots before we can write software for them”, and handed the wrong end of a soldering iron. He still wants to write AI software one day, but currently sets up European research projects, plans long-term roadmaps for the robotics community, and finds new and interesting things for the Shadow team to engage in. |
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Rich will talk about what robotics is about, where it could go, and some of the interesting problems in the domain.
Date: Wednesday 27th March 2013
Time: 7pm, for a 7.30pm start
Place: Upstairs at The Lamb, 92 Lambs Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ [gmap]
Cost: Free
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