Past events
November 27, 2018
The global water crisis: Science, politics and potential for conflict
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Stephan Borrmann, Godfrey and the Accidentals,
October 30, 2018
The first 1000 days: How pregnancy and infancy shape the rest of our lives
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Shane Norris, Amakat' Amnyama,
September 18, 2018
The land issue in South Africa: Complexity versus policy
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Ben Cousins, Motswedi,
August 28, 2018
Resurrection plants: Food security in a hotter & dryer future
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Jill Farrant, In My Own Skin,
July 31, 2018
South Africa's "little big bang": The two-billion-year-old Vredefort Impact Event
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Roger Gibson, The Angus Hardcastle Collective,
June 19, 2018
Bugs for breakfast? Insects for feed, food and health
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Elsje Pieterse, Flex (Of He & I),
May 29, 2018
The trouble with dating: Establishing a chronology of southern African rock art
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David Pearce, BLK Thought Music,
March 27, 2018
The puzzle of the Universe: The science of CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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Sahal Yacoob, Josh Mokoena,
February 27, 2018
Seals and killers in the roaring forties
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Nico de Bruyn, Phumelele and the Light,
September 26, 2017
Virus hunters: Tracking emerging and zoonotic viruses in South Africa
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Marietjie Venter, Uncuthu The Firm,
August 29, 2017
In search of cosmic dawn : The first stars and how to find them
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Jonathan Sievers, Masechaba and The Soul Peanuts,
July 25, 2017
Genome engineering and stem cells: Modelling disease-in-a-dish
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Janine Scholefield, Sounds of Kamo,
June 27, 2017
South African plants for human health
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Nox Makunga, Phumelele and the Light,
April 25, 2017
Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening? Investigating and understanding lightning
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Ian Jandrell, Masechaba and The Soul Peanuts,
March 28, 2017
Is the world a hologram? Quantum gravity and the holographic principle
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Jan de Boer, Stories of Africa,
February 28, 2017
Big data for Africa
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Bhekisipho Twala, Hlulani Hlangwane Quartet,
January 31, 2017
The chemistry of love
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Joji Mercier, Phumelele Mzimela Ensemble,
November 29, 2016
Size matters! Giant dinosaurs and their African origins
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Jonah Choiniere, Hlumelo Ledwaba,
November 1, 2016
Monster black holes at the edge of the universe
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Zoltán Haiman, Hlumelo Ledwaba,
October 25, 2016
Are cities making us sick? Urbanisation and the changing pattern of disease
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Tolullah Oni, The Siphephelo Ndlovu Project,
September 27, 2016
Fire as a living process: Merging physics and biology to understand global patterns of fire
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Sally Archibald, The Siphephelo Ndlovu Project,
August 30, 2016
Reading the bones: Forensic analysis and interpretation of bone trauma
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Ericka L'Abbé, Steven Symes, The Joey Williams Band,
July 26, 2016
The physics of information: From flipping coins to quantum gravity
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Joan Simón, Joey Willams' JAMISON THE BAND,
June 28, 2016
Gender and sexual diversity
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MIchael Pepper, Darlington Okofu Quartet,
May 31, 2016
Microbes in hot and cold deserts
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Don Cowan, Darlington Okofu Quartet,
April 26, 2016
Observing the cosmos from above the clouds
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Hsin Cynthia Chiang, Iphupho L'ka Biko Afrocentric Band,
March 29, 2016
The atoms of spacetime
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Vishnu Jejjala, Iphupho L'ka Biko Afrocentric Band,
February 23, 2016
January 26, 2016
Whodunnit? Unscrambling the human effect from natural climate variability
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Bob Scholes, Mary Scholes, Donkey,
November 24, 2015
The power of light in the palm of your hand
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Andrew Forbes, Peter Sklair Quintet,
October 27, 2015
Route to roots: understanding human origins
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Himla Soodyall, Peter Sklair Quartet,
September 22, 2015
You can roll it, but I wouldn't smoke it!
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Marcus Byrne, Paul Hanmer Quartet,
August 25, 2015
The ultimate challenge: an AIDS vaccine
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Lynn Morris, Peter Sklair Quintet,
July 28, 2015
Space and time, light and gravity
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Robert de Mello Koch, Peter Sklair Quartet,