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The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825. The lectures present scientific ...

Olly Robertson, Doctoral Researcher in Psychology, Keele University. It is, for many of us, the most wonderful time of the year. "Christmas cheer" is that thing which is often referred to by those who ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Friends of Fort Flagler will host a talk at 6 p.m. Thursday on the Christmas Bird Count on Marrowstone Island. Gary Eduardo Perless, an Audubon volunteer naturalist, will tell how a ...

THE Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution are to be given this year, starting on December 27, by Prof. Rankine. Prof. Rankine, who is president of the Physical Society, has carried out ...