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    Shakespeare's Astronomy

    Amongst all his astronomical allusions, Shakespeare demonstrates a deep knowledge of the night sky and its movements, including the new Copernican world-view. What can we learn of Elizabethan astronomy and Shakespeare's knowledge of it from the plays?

    The Challenge of Big Data

    Information plays a huge role in the modern world, with vast amounts of data literally at our finger tips. The Internet is leading to an ever-increasing amount of data, leading to the ‘challenge of Big Data’.

    The Expanding Universe

    A retelling of one of the most staggering scientific discoveries of modern times: that the universe is expanding, and that proof for it can be found in the discovery of the recession of the galaxies.

    Are you the Customer or the Product?

    It has been said that if you are not paying for a service, then you are the product, nor the customer. To what extent is this true for free software, social networking, and other free IT services and products?

    Black Holes

    The story of supermassive black holes lurk in the very centres of galaxies and the gravity wave experiments being planned to search for traces of their formation.

    Proving Einstein Right

    A gentle introduction to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity will discuss the curvature of space that gives rise to 'Gravity' and Gravitational Lenses.

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