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Avebury - megaliths and myths
Freelance and professional writer Roger Vlitos examines the theories and myths about Avebury.

Have Economists gone mad?
Paul Ormerod, the author of three best-selling books on economics talks about what mainstream economists have to say about the turmoil of world economy.

Herschel lecture: The Cosmic Web
Professor Peter Coles from the School of Physics & Astronomy at Cardiff University will talk about the large scale structure of the Universe and the ideas that physicists are weaving together to explain how it came to be the way it is.

Lady Miller of Batheaston
Martin Sturge talks about Lady Anna Miller of Batheaston. Mr Sturge is deeply involved with the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution and sponsored the rebinding of a rare volume of Lady Miller's Poetical Assemblies held in the institution's historic library.

Intimations of immortality
Professor Malcolm Johnson from the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath looks at the changing face of death in an ageing society.

Family life of birds: sex, conflicts and cooperation
Professor Tamas Szekely, from the University of Bath's Department of Biology & Biochemistry, will discuss his research that dispels the harmonious impression of bird families. He will talk about how sex, conflicts and cooperation shape their lives.

Airfields
Author and archaeologist Bob Clarke charts the progress of aviation through airfields and asks why some stations are located where they are.

The Painted Garden
Freelance garden historian Russell Bowes looks at the history of gardening giving a virtual tour of some of the great art galleries of the world.

Assisted dying: rights, choices and palliative care
Lord Joel Joffe believes that there is an 'urgent need' to change the law on assisted dying and will argue in his lecture that assisted dying and palliative care are essential and complementary aspects of care for people suffering from painful incurable diseases.

BIME Lecture:Against the flow
Professor Alan Cottenden, from University College London, describes new technology for managing incontinence.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh - the Glasgow Legacy
Stuart Robertson, the director of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, gives a personal view of the great Scottish architect and designer.

Cure or weapon? Towards a new ethics of biological research
In this Charter Day lecture, Dr Alexander Kelle, from the University of Bath's Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, talks about biological research and its possible applications for good, and ill. Illustrating a track record over a century long of biological developments being put to uses outside their original purpose, he proposes the creation of an International Framework Agreement to ensure that we learn from the mistakes of the past.

CSI unmasked - the facts about forensics
Forensic anthropologist Kathleen Conabree discusses issues surrounding what really goes on at a crime scene and what the term forensic actually means.

How to amaze your friends
Professor Chris Budd from the University of Bath takes mathematics into the dark territory of murder, suicide, love, sex and conquest.

Bio-technology in Africa
Florence Muringi Wambugu talks about the contribution of bio-technology, including GM crops, for improving the sustainable livelihoods of resource poor families in Africa.

At the court of the great moghul
Nicholas Fogg describes life at the Court of the Great Moghul, his campaigns, his foibles and his lasting impact on the history of India.

The psychology of habit
Professor Bas Verplanken from the University of Bath talks about the psychology of habit and how much of what we do is done at the same time in the same location.

Pain science: discovering the limits of experience
Members of the new Bath Centre for Pain Research celebrate its launch. The lecture is introduced by Professor Chris Eccleston, the centre's director, and includes an address by Dr Lindsey Cohen and talks by Dr Lance McCracken, Dr Candy McCabe and Dr Ed Keogh.

Showcase presentation on earthquakes - part 2
Professor Andrew Plummer, Director of the Centre for Power Transmission and Motion Control, discusses recreating earthquakes in a laboratory to test how buildings perform under extreme conditions.

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