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Science Events In London This Week: 14-30 October

The London Science Festival continues until Wednesday this week, concluding with the closing party at Wednesday night’s Science Museum Lates. Regular events also don’t stop: read on for a selection of highlights:

Monday

In All Things Bright and Small, artist and materials science Zoe Laughlin takes us on a guided tour of the micro and nano worlds, with a drinks reception afterwards to have a chance to see some of her most beautiful images displayed. Kings College’s Guys Campus, SE1, 7-9pm, free but book now.

Tuesday

Two of the top looking events for the London Science Festival today, Science Question Time and Your Days Are Numbered are currently sold out, but watch the website or Twitter feed for returns.

Elsewhere, the Royal Society of Chemistry enquires whether eating sustainably is a dream or reality? Appropriately timed over lunch at 12:45, tickets are £10, with lunch.

Wednesday

Hungry? Tuck into this grasshopper burger… Jellyfish and chips, algae bolognaise and more could be the future of food, suggests the Wellcome Collection’s guest speaker Stefan Gates in tonight’s Supper Salon on Future Food. £25 buys you a two course meal with wine while Stefan talks about what it’s going to take to feed the world with the ever increasing population. 7:30 – 10pm; book now.

The last night of London Science Festival 2011: the official closing party will be held at Science Museum Lates, with a climate change theme. Free: first come, first served, but get there early because the queue was all the way down Exhibition Road last time I went.

Thursday

The Institute of Economic Affairs hosts a lecture tonight entitled Delivering Effective Competition in Healthcare. One of a series of 8 lectures on regulated industries, Nick Bosanquet, Professor of Health Policy at Imperial College will speak for about an hour, followed by a response from David Bennett, Chair of Monitor. 6:30pm at the Insitute of Director. Book now, but be warned, it’s pricey at £130 a ticket.

Friday

Well known science historian Professor Jim Secord comes to the Royal Society this lunchtime to shed light on mathematician and author Mary Somerville (1780-1872), and particularly her career in relation to debates about the role of women in the making of knowledge and her vision of science in furthering the progress of civilisation and empire. 1:00 – 2:00pm; free but book.

In the evening, the Royal Institution hosts its regular Friday Evening Discourse, open to members and guests. Tonight’s topic is Making and Repairing Muscles; tickets are free for members, £15 for guests and the lecture starts at 8pm.

You can follow the Nature Network London Google calendar of events in London at https://blogs.nature.com/london/2011/05/17/scientific-events-calendar. Updated daily.

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