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UPDATE 16/03/2020 0915am: As the RNCM has now closed its doors to all public events, this lecture is now cancelled.

UPDATE 09/03: We regret that due to illness the speaker is unable to attend.  Instead, a lecture entitled 'Bridge Over Windermere' will be given by the Head of the Social Philosophy Committee, Peter Barnes.  This lecture will discuss the history of the Windermere ferry from Roman times until today.

Fusion power offers the prospect of a secure energy supply which is inherently safe, free from greenhouse emissions and potentially capable of supplying baseload electricity production needs for future generations.

Even as recently as 1950, little was understood about the functions of the frontal lobes, which occupy a large proportion of the grey matter of the human brain. Damage to these structures caused by traumatic accident and neurosurgery produced inconsistent effects...

Imagine a world where everything is connected to everything else through the Internet. Your home senses, understands and adapts to your every need; shopping is fully automated with goods being delivered by drones...

Hardly a week goes past without a media focus on the mental ill-health of young people with concerns over a “crisis” or even an “epidemic”. In particular the stories ask: is this a more suicidal generation?

Anthony Ogus will provide an account of George Bernard Shaw's life in the late 1880s and early 1890s, before he concentrated on his career as a dramatist. He was then a prominent and popular music critic, writing weekly and often outrageous articles under the pseudonym Cornetto di Basso.