Darwin College's 2017 lecture series continues in the coming weeks. This year's theme is 'Extremes' - fairly topical at the moment. However, the lectures are not only on politics; there is 'Extreme Rowing', 'Extremes of the Universe' and 'Reporting from Extreme Environments' as well as 'Extreme Politics' all still to come. The talks are really interesting and accessible, and free!
Hope Jahren is a geochemist, geobiologist, and recent author, with an extensive list of
You've almost definitely heard of dark matter, but have you heard of the woman who proved it's existence? The first evidence of dark matter was found by the astronomer Vera Rubin in the 1970s, who observed that stars at the edge of galaxies move much faster than expected. Calculations using visible mass predicted that the stars should be moving considerably slower speeds, so something else had to be causing this increase in velocity; dark matter. The phenomenon had been predicted in the 1930s by Fritz Zwicky but it wasn't until Rubin 40 years later that it was proven.
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