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Locusts, plagues and other disasters: why we’re made to survive adversity - Professor Helen Minnis
Published: 4th November 2024
Society News
Review:“The British Constitution is whatever happens,” declared Lord Sumption, adroitly steering his rapt, full-house audience into the good old-fashioned British muddle of a democracy that somehow functions without a written constitution but very much with a host of politicians prepared to disrupt and destabilise government for their own ends. As he said, “an unwritten constitution leads to complications in constitutional law.”
Lecture Reviews
The British Constitution: the last ten years and the next fifty - Lord Sumption
Published: 9th December 2024
Lecture Reviews
The Hycean Paradigm in the Search for Life Elsewhere - Professor Nikku Madhusudhan
Published: 22nd November 2024
Lecture Reviews
From Black Holes to Quantum Computers - Prof Marika Taylor
Published: 11th November 2024
Society News
Members’ visit to a sister organisation, the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society, May 2025
Published: 4th November 2024
Lecture Reviews
Burning the Books: knowledge under attack from Ancient Assyria to the age of AI - Richard Ovenden
Published: 10th October 2024
Lecture Reviews
The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart - Prof Sian Harding
Published: 20th March 2024
Lecture Reviews
Towards a Public Bio-Ethics - Prof Sarah Cunningham-Burley
Published: 6th March 2024