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6 January 2021 Colours in the Environment: PART 1: Sky, Clouds, Sunsets, Twilights, NLCs; Some Fascinating
Physics in Play; Interaction of Light with Matter
27 November 2020 Artificial Light at Night is a Rapidly Growing Problem with Serious Health
& Ecological Implications; Solutions are Relatively Simple:
A Public Information Feature
24 October 2020 Colour of Objects: Visible Light Spectrum; Primary Colours;
Optical Illusions; How Do Colours Work?
13 October 2020 Net-Zero by 2050 - How does One Eliminate Emissions from
Agriculture, Heavy Transport & Industry?
_A Community Education Feature
31 August 2020 Climate Change - Present Status & Future Prospects:
Talk at WES (Scotland)
17 August 2020 Biodiversity Loss in the Anthropocene; Impact on Human Welfare
4 August 2020 What is Light? All You Need to Know - A Community Education Feature
16 July 2020 Climate Change - Awaz Radio, Glasgow 15th July 2020
27 May 2020 IMO 1988 Problem 6: General Term Using School-Level Maths
27 May 2020 IMO 1988 Problem 6: General Term Using School-Level Maths
10 February 2020 Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Freedom -
Cyber Dystopia and Beyond
24 January 2020 7.75 Billion and 415 ppm; 4C Warmer World is Really Bad News
18 December 2019 Climate Change; Indecision at COP25 in Madrid;
Fiddling as the Planet Burns
18 December 2019 Making Sense of our Climate Change:
6. Carbon Isotope Studies Prove That Human are
Responsible for Global Warming
14 December 2019 Making Sense of our Climate Change:
5. Carbon Cycle and the Keeling Curve
10 December 2019 Making Sense of our Climate Change: 4. Global Warming Indicators
2 December 2019 Isaac Newton_Troubled Genius: 1. Family Tree; Early Years
1 December 2019 Making Sense of our Climate Change: 3. The Science of Global Warming
19 November 2019 Making Sense of Our Changing Climate: 2. Weather and Climate
17 November 2019 Making Sense of Our Changing Climate: 1. Introduction
1 November 2019 Outdoor Air Pollution in Delhi - an Update
3 October 2019 Common Sense and Superstitions - Personal, Cultural,
Spiritual and Scientific Dimensions
11 September 2019 Limits to Sustainable Human Energy Production
13 July 2019 Pillars and Sinks of Healthy Ageing
13 July 2019 Pillars and Sinks of Healthy Ageing
26 June 2019 Longevity and Quality of Life - Lifestyle and Chronic Diseases -
It is Time to Reflect on How We Live
5 May 2019 SLEEP (Part 2): Why Do We Need to Sleep?
5 May 2019 SLEEP (Part 2): Why Do We Need to Sleep?
The Science of Sleep & Circadian Rhythm
Great Scottish Inventors
James Watt
Lord Kelvin
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Graham Bell
James Clerk Maxwell
Nuclear Weapons - The story of the Atomic Bomb
12 March 2019 Air Pollution (Part 2) - Particulate Matter PM10 and PM2.5 -
Brake and Tyre Wear are Higher Emitters than Car Exhausts
21 January 2019 Global Greenhouse-Gas (GHG) Emissions by Humans and Animals
11 January 2019 SLEEP (Part 1): Why Do We Need to Sleep Eight Hours per Day?
Malaise caused by Impaired, Insufficient Sleep
27 December 2018 Routines; Habits and Addiction; An Outreach Feature
16 December 2018 Are the Young More Creative/Innovative? - Not Really (Part 2)
09 December 2018 Are the Young More Creative/Innovative? - Not Really -
Another Example of Perils of Perception (Part 1)
28 November 2018 Ethics of Eating Meat - We Need to Factor-in Sustainability
26 November 2018 A Magic Square based Party Game
25 November 2018 Why Do Humans Have two Front-Facing Eyes?
An Analysis & Some New Ideas
17 November 2018 Air Pollution (Part 1) - The Invisible Killer;
Particulate Matter PM2.5
27 October 2018 In Praise of BMI: Not Perfect But an Exceedingly Useful and
Convenient Parameter for Measuring Obesity
23 October 2018 Over-population is 'Elephant in the Room';
Why Do We Not Address the Real Problem?
21 October 2018 Recreational Maths with Smartphone Calculator -
10 Games to Wow Your Friends
16 October 2018 Additive and Multiplicative 3X3 Magic Squares -
Construction and Some Not So Well Known Properties
6 October 2018 Obesity in Children - Weight at Ages 3 to 6 is Critical in
Determining Obesity in Later Life
21 September 2018 Perimeter and Area of Regular Polygons -
From Triangles to Circles - The Iso-Perimetric Theorem
9 September 2018 The Rise of Tech Companies - Threat to Privacy and Freedom -
Cyber Dystopia
11 August 2018 A Simple Estimate of Global Mean Sea Level Rise due to
Increase in Global Temperatures
3 August 2018 Myths and Hypes about the Ubiquity of the Amazing Golden Ratio;
Its Relation to Fibonacci Numbers; Logarithmic Spiral, Phyllotaxis
and the Pentagram
6 July 2018 Derivation of nth Term of a Lucas Sequence -
Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio
Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio
7 June 2018 Enhanced Reactivity of Powders, Number of Surface Atoms;
Inter-Atomic and -Molecular Forces
31 May 2018 Sum of Powers of Digits in a Number -
Iterations lead to a Fixed Point or a Limit Cycle
25 May 2018 Optimal Car Separation at Traffic Lights -
Current Driving Habits Require a Rethink
21 May 2018 Surface to Volume Ratio for a Spheroid,
Cylinder, Cone and Rectangular Box - A Quantitative Analysis
13 May 2018 Climbing a Conical Mountain -- Almost Impossible
Shortest Path, and a Realistic Path You Can Use
29 April 2018 A Couple of Challenging Geometry puzzles - Created by
Martin Gardner - Recreational Mathematics
22 April 2018 What is the Number(s) of the Torn Page/Pages? -
Iterations lead to a Fixed Point or a Limit Cycle
25 May 2018 Optimal Car Separation at Traffic Lights -
Current Driving Habits Require a Rethink
21 May 2018 Surface to Volume Ratio for a Spheroid,
Cylinder, Cone and Rectangular Box - A Quantitative Analysis
13 May 2018 Climbing a Conical Mountain -- Almost Impossible
Shortest Path, and a Realistic Path You Can Use
29 April 2018 A Couple of Challenging Geometry puzzles - Created by
Martin Gardner - Recreational Mathematics
22 April 2018 What is the Number(s) of the Torn Page/Pages? -
Two Seemingly Impossible Puzzles
18 April 2018 Division of a Huge Cake: An Interesting Mathematical Puzzle
21 February 2018 Undefined/Indeterminate Mathematical Operations
18 April 2018 Division of a Huge Cake: An Interesting Mathematical Puzzle
21 February 2018 Undefined/Indeterminate Mathematical Operations
Involving Zero and Infinity lead to fallacies and paradoxes
18 February 2018 Physics of Humidity, Relative
Humidity, Health Implications of Low or High Humidity
18 February 2018 Physics of Humidity, Relative
Humidity, Health Implications of Low or High Humidity
12 February 2018 Letter Frequency in Spellings of Words and
Numbers in the English Language
8 February 2018 Math Puzzles - How logical approach makes
8 February 2018 Math Puzzles - How logical approach makes
them much more delicious
30 January 2018 The Awesome Number 2 : Puzzles, Games,
30 January 2018 The Awesome Number 2 : Puzzles, Games,
The Power of Doubling
28 January 2018 Number Puzzles for Mental Arithmetic Enthusiasts
28 January 2018 Number Puzzles for Mental Arithmetic Enthusiasts
26 January 2018 The Science of Hypothermia, Windchill, Frostbite - When
Body's Thermal Regulation Mechanism is Unable to Cope...
23 January 2018 The Science of Heatstrokes (Hyperthermia) -
When Body's Thermal Regulation Mechanism
is Unable to Cope...
16 January 2018 Heat given off by a human body is about 100 Watt
15 January 2018 Galileo Galilei - Family Tree, Friends and Foes
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Courses - Each course is 8 to 12 hours duration. Courses are suitable for 'inquisitive' laymen with no serious science background. The courses are designed for outreach activity, non-mathematical and have been given in East Kilbride (Scotland) and other venues.
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Albert Einstein and his Theories of Relativity
Great Scottish Inventors
James Watt
Lord Kelvin
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Graham Bell
James Clerk Maxwell
Nuclear Weapons - The story of the Atomic Bomb
(Radio-isotope Dating)
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