After Bob regailed us with his ‘cheesy’ offering its down to something a little harder.
Our final topic for 2025 will be entitled ‘any old iron‘ on Wednesday 26th Nov.
We will be looking at iron from element, through industry and into biology.
All are welcome at 2.30pm. Kensington House in Station Road. Cost is £1.50
We take December off but will restart on Jan 14th with a random mix of science bits.
Hi guys. The Liverpool Science Festival is on from 10-14 September with a varied collection of interesting topics. All are free !
See the link below for more information.
We hope you have had a great Summer break and are eager and ready to start a new season of presentations in September with the following schedule planned:
Sep 10 Vera Rubin and the LSST
Sep 24 Red to Gold – Prussian Blue
Oct 08 Stereograms – 3D science
Oct 22 Compost – science in your bin
If you have an interest in technology and science then give us a try. The venue is Kensington House from 2:30. All u3a members are welcome.
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Our Technology and Science group looked at the history and science of ‘plague’ at the end of June. We covered several pandemics around the world but, because the presenter is squeamish, the gory details were only scraped over.
But Channel 5 has given us the chance to relive the 1665 English events.
Click on the image to watch the program. You will need to register with C5!
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Wednesday’s talk was given by John Joyce (BA) who talked about all aspects of the Grenfell Towers incident. A very comprehensive presentation covered the incident itself, previous issues with similar buildings, building materials, council issues and the inquiry.
He also gave detailed information on the outcomes of findings within all the industries and services involved including significant changes to legislation, likely to affect all construction in the future.
The presentation was broken down into 5 key areas:
Our thanks to John and to Steve for inviting him to the group.
Further reading can be found in these links:
The Grenfell tower inquiry
The Hackitt Report
Grenfell – BBC podcast
Show me the bodies
Next month we will be looking at Luca Turin (11th) and plague (25th)
The May 28th meeting will now be looking at Grenfell Tower with a guest speaker.
Next month schedule should be:
June 11 – Luca Turin and the ‘Secret of Scent’
June 25 – The history and science of Plague
We then take our Summer Break and will resume on
Wednesday Sep 10th with subjects to be announced
On Wednesday 9th April we will be looking at the 1831 cooling, a global event that brought the planet dangerously close to disaster.
Join us at Kensington House from 2.30.
New members welcome.
Our next meeting is Wednesday 26th March at Kensington House
at 14:30 where we will be looking at the science and history of ‘graphene’.
Future topics and dates:
09 April ‘The 1831 cooling’
23 April Bar codes
May 14 Mustard
May 28 Luca Turin
If you have a topic to share or offer for us to present then please contact Colin or Phil
Our next meeting is Wednesday 26th Feb at Kensington House
from 2.30 where we will be looking at HAARP.
Interested in ‘science or technology’ ?
Come and give us a try