Freaky Fridays Public Outreach Lecture Series

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Science Public Outreach Lecture Series

RecordingDate	RecordingName	Instructor	Description	Webcast
13/01/2012 17:00	Future of Quantum Mechanics	Bill Coish	Professor Bill Coish of the Physics Department discusses quantum information science and whether we can realistically use large scale quantum mechanical effects to our advantage.	View Webcast
20/01/2012 17:00	Misunderstanding of Dinosaurs	Emily Bamforth	Emily Bamforth, Ph.D. Candidate in Biology, discusses whether a Pterodactyl is really a dinosaur, could 'Jurassic Park' actually happen and other common misunderstandings about society's favorite prehistorical creatures.	View Webcast
10/02/2012 17:00	Oxytocin me baby	Jennifer A. Bartz	Assistant Professor in Psychology, Jennifer A. Bartz, discusses Oxytocin, widely known as the "love hormone".	View Webcast
17/02/2012 17:00	Nature or Nurture	Roberta Palmour	Geneticist Roberta Palmour discusses how specific personality traits predispose themselves to particular types of mental illness.	View Webcast
16/03/2012 17:00	What is Brain Assembly?	Alanna Watt	Assistant Professors in Biology, Alanna J. Watt, explores the fascinating field of brain development (assembly) and what happens when it goes wrong, particularly in the spinocerebellar ataxia SCA6.	View Webcast
23/03/2012 17:00	Climate Science and Geology	Paul F. Hoffman	Dr. Paul F. Hoffman from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University speaks about the 'Snowball Earth' theory. The Snowball Earth hypothesis says that the Earth's surface became entirely or nearly entirely frozen at least once, some time earlier than 650 million years ago.	View Webcast
26/10/2012 17:00	Are Human Supersoldiers Possible?	Ehab Abouheif	Associate Professor in Biology Ehab Abouheif discusses making genetically engineered “supersoldier” ants from ordinary worker ants and why this is important for evolutionary biology.	View Webcast
01/02/2013 17:00	Conversations with Rats	Dr. Paul Clarke	Laboratory rats appear largely silent to us, but they are in fact surprisingly vocal - in a high frequency range which we cannot hear. Rats make many different kinds of ultrasonic calls, and although we are far from "cracking the code", we think that eavesdropping on rat conversations will provide insights into the emotional life of these creatures. Dr. Paul Clarke is Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at McGill University.	View Webcast
22/02/2013 17:00	Spring is not what it used to be	Jonathan Davies	Jonathan Davies, Professor of Biology, speaks about climate change. Evidence suggests that human activities are altering the world climate. With shifting climate, species are faced with three stark options: migrate, adapt or perish. In plants, where dispersal is limited, species have been flowering earlier, fruiting later and, unfortunately, going extinct.	View Webcast
08/03/2013 16:49	Bugs, Drugs and the Amazing Race	Erin Lafferty & Richard Silverman	Wonder why you keep hearing about so many new infectious diseases? How do we manage them? Explore the perpetual arms race between humans and microbes. This lecture is given by Richard Silverman and Erin Lafferty of the Department of Medicine at McGill University.	View Webcast

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