Events
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THE OCEANS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Our oceans moderate climate change with 71% of the worlds surface is covered by oceans. These absorb 1/3 excess green house gas emissions from the atmosphere and capture 90% excess[...]
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Exoplanets: other Solar-systems, and the Search for Earth-like Planets
Over 7000 extra-Solar planets have already been located, in ca. 5000 planetary systems, thanks to space science missions designed and launched to detect and characterise them. The ultimate prize would[...]
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Virtual Machines, Containers and related technologies
This month we have a talk about virtual machines, containers and related technologies. We will discuss how different technologies can be used to make better use of server hardware resources. [...]
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America at the Crossroads: The Battle for the White House, and Why it Matters so Much More This Time Around
By popular demand, the Current Affairs Discussion Group is up and running again, so we're looking forward to welcoming back some of our old friends, and hopefully many new ones[...]
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Come and join us on Tuesday 24th September at 12 noon
Whether you are an art enthusiast, a student or simply curious about the fascinating world of art, this is the perfect opportunity to deepen your knowledge and explore new perspectives.[...]
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Agatha Christie (Books & Literature group relaunch)
For our grand relaunch, we examine the works of the third best-selling-author of all time (behind only the Bible and Shakespeare), whose popularity continues unabated even today, almost 50 years[...]
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CLIMATE CHANGE & TRANSPORTATION
Transport is a major contributor to climate change. The burning of fossil fuels in vehicles releases greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere. Transport-related air pollution can have severe[...]
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NASA SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) Mission
Speaker: Dr. Rosemary Morrow SWOT Oceanography Science Lead NASA, CNES (the French National Space Agency), and Canadian and UK space agency partners have cooperated to make the first global survey[...]
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Liver Transplantation
Our speaker this month, Michael Wright, convenor of the High Wycombe u3a Science group, was placed on the liver transplant waiting list in 2022. This talk is based on what[...]
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Art History
Tuesday 22nd October at noon, Zoe from IGO's Talking Art will be telling us about Beryl Cook, a very humorous and loveable artist.
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immich – the Open Source alternative to Google Photos
This month we have a talk about immich - the open source alternative to Google Photos. We will discuss its features, why we would want to use it, architecture, containers,[...]
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Assisted Dying: The End of Unnecessary Suffering, or a Slippery Slope Towards Execution of the Unwanted?
Our subject for this month's meeting could hardly be more topical, coinciding as it does with the introduction, in the House of Commons, of Labour MP Kim Leadbeater's Private Member's[...]