Edinburgh lectures & talks

“Maker, ye maun sing them… Tomorrow, songs Will flow free again, and new voices Be borne on the carrying…
Speaker: Professor Abraham Verghese, Stanford University Medical School
The 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival launched the “most international programme in its history”…
The 1800s saw a series of scandals concerning individuals being locked away in lunatic asylums – the victims…
When looking for signs of global warming, the melting of the world’s glaciers and ice sheets is often cited…
Theoretical physicist and broadcaster Prof Jim Al-Khalili is in conversation about his debut novel, Sunfall,…
In the sphere of climate change, 19th century Irish physicist John Tyndall (1820-1893) is a giant.
Glaciers lock up 10% of the world's freshwater. These great bodies of ice play an important part in the Earth…
We all rely on the seas for their abundant food, mineral and energy resources and yet more than 90% of the…
One of the events around climate change at the Edinburgh Science Festival (6-21 April) takes as its starting…
Malthus was right. There is not enough planet to sustain the growing human population, particularly given our…
The oceans offer the potential for huge amounts of clean energy and Scotland and the UK are poised to be a…