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The Material World and the Open University are co-producing a series of audience debates to support the OU's Science in Context course. If you would like to take part in any of these these debates, please complete the form at the bottom of this page.
Near-Earth Objects
Tuesday 22nd November (15.00 - 16.00) Berrill Lecture Theatre, The Open University, Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA.
How great is the risk of the Earth being hit by a comet or asteroid? What can scientists learn from previous impacts that might help us deal with what could be a potentially catastrophic hazard? With Professors Simon Kelley and John Zarnecki from the OU's Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute; Benny Peiser, social anthropologist at Liverpool John Moores University.
Please be there 15 minutes before recording starts
Food security
Tuesday 29th November, 12.00-1.00pm
Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1EA.
BSE shook our faith in the safety and quality of our meat, but if we demand cheap food we run the risk of further food scares. How can we strike a proper balance between the cost, the safety and the nutritional value of the food we eat? With Dr Christine Edwards, nutritionist at Glasgow University; Professor Howard Davies, Scottish Crop Research Institute; Professor Willie Donachie, Moredun Research Institute & scientific advisor to the Food Standards Agency.
Please be there 15 minutes before recording starts
The Politics of Water
Tuesday 6th December 12.00 – 13.00
OU Regional Centre, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden,
London NW1 8NP
Water technologies should benefit humankind, but decisions about when and how to use them can provoke profound social and political tension. How ethical is it for one state to take unilateral decisions about the exploitation of a shared resource? Can scientific knowledge ensure that everyone has access to clean water? Guests to be decided.
Please be there 15 minutes before recording starts
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