Events
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Passwords
This month we look at passwords. Areas covered includes early days, local login, remote login, single sign in, passkey and finishing with some practical hints and tips. The talk includes[...]
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How Microbes Manipulate Life
Speaker: Professor Robin May University of Birmingham We know microbes can be pretty nasty, but you probably don’t know the half of it. Some microbes have evolved to manipulate the[...]
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COP28 and the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Fata Morgana
ZoomWe started this meeting with a question about Fan Coil Heating installations. This sparked off many comments and suggestions leading to an interesting 15 minutes or so. Next we watched[...]
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My Adventures in DNA Testing… and what I found out!
Ever thought of getting your DNA tested (or maybe your pet's)? How do you go about it? What can you learn? What do you need to consider before going ahead[...]
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Generative AI
This month we look at generative AI, including a bit of history, opening the pandoras box, how they work and how they compare. Will include a demo or two. Plenty[...]
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Back to the Moon
Speaker: Professor Joseph Silk Johns Hopkins University Baltimore The Moon offers opportunities beyond our wildest imaginings, and plans to return are rapidly gaining momentum around the world. NASA's plan for[...]
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Is 1.5C still relevant?
The theme for this meeting was two-fold. First we had a think about the 1.5C target. Is it still feasible or should we forget about it? We watched and discussed[...]
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Leaps of Faith: The bizarre history of self-experimentation
Think about self-experimentation, and it probably conjures up an image like this... Robert Louis Stevenson's classic yarn of the mad doctor and his evil alter ego. But just occasionally, truth[...]
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Email
This month we look at Email, including a breakdown of an email message, sending with SMTP, routing with DNS, receiving with POP3 and IMAP4, spam filtering and good practices. Plenty[...]
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Upgrading Electricity Grids
ZoomThe theme for today's meeting is Upgrading Electricity Grids. The Electricity Grid for the future will have to cope with more electricity throughput and more intermittency as well as[...]
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The Uncertain Promise of New Physics
Speaker: Dr Harry Cliff Cambridge University Dr Harry Cliff is an experimental particle physicist, and acclaimed science presenter, based at the University of Cambridge. At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, he[...]
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Unravelling the Three-Dimensional Structure of Proteins
These large, complex molecules are involved in almost every function of living cells, yet, until very recently, their spatial configurations – the key to their versatility – had been resolved[...]