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New Scientist Live

New Scientist Live - Saturday 8th October timetable

5 Stages, 56 main stage talks, 80 exhibitors, one day for schools, one weekend for everyone, one amazing festival of ideas and discovery!

By New Scientist

5 October 2022

Download the map and timetable as a .pdf

FUTURE STAGE

10.45 – 11.35 An ocean of salt, Helen Czerski
11.55 – 12.45 The pattern seekers, Simon Baron-Cohen
13.25 – 14.15 Making sense of screen time, Pete Etchells
14.35 – 15.25 How to spend a trillion dollars, Rowan Hooper
15.45 – 16.35 The biggest number in the world, Agnijo Banerjee

MIND AND BODY STAGE

10.45 – 11.35 The dark history and troubling present of eugenics, Adam Rutherford
11.55 – 12.45 A brief history of your brain, Emma Byrne
13.25 – 14.15 The secret body, Daniel Davis
14.35 – 15.25 Believing the unbelievable: the science of paranoia and conspiracy
thinking, Nichola Raihani
15.45 – 16.35 Rebel Cell: A new view of an old disease, Kat Arney

OUR PLANET STAGE

10.45 – 11.35 Hand to mouth: The language puzzle, Gillian Forrester
11.55 – 12.45 Nomad Century: the great climate upheaval, Gaia Vince
13.25 – 14.15 Wonderdog! How we came to know that dogs are so smart, Jules Howard
14.35 – 15.25 Why wasps matter, Seirian Sumner
15.45 – 16.35 The secret lives of animals, Lizzie Daly

UNIVERSE STAGE

10.45 – 11.35 The hidden science of weather, climate change and the air that surrounds
us, Simon Clark
11.55 – 12.45 The joy of abstraction, Eugenia Cheng
13.25 – 14.15 The hidden universe, Emma Osborne
14.35 – 15.25 Elusive: The story of Peter Higgs and his boson, Frank Close
15.45 – 16.35 Black holes, Jeff Forshaw

ENGAGE STAGE

10.45 – 11.30 How I hacked my way into space, J Spooner
11.40 – 12.00 Neglected tropical diseases and where to find them, Poppy Lamberton
12.00 – 12.40 Exploring deep oceans, Ghislain Bardout
12.40 – 13.00 Outsmarting heart disease, British Heart Foundation
13.25 – 14.10 Live from the Space Shed, J Spooner
14.20 – 14.40 Why are humans the only talking apes?, Gillian Forrester
14.40 – 15.00 The wonder of dogs, Jules Howard
15.00 – 15.20 How to become a YouTube scientist, Dr Simon Clark
16.00 – 17.00 New Scientist journalists: Ask us anything!

 

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