Public lecture

A public lecture is one means employed for educating the public in the arts and sciences. The Royal Institution has a long history of public lectures and demonstrations given by prominent experts in the field. In the 19th century, the popularity of the public lectures given by Sir Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution was so great that the volume of carriage traffic in Albemarle Street caused it to become the first one-way street in London. The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures for young people are nowadays also shown on television. Alexander von Humboldt delivered a series of public lectures at the University of Berlin in the winter of 1827–1828, that formed the basis for his later work Kosmos.

Besides public lectures, public autopsies have been important in promoting knowledge of medicine. The public autopsy of Dr. Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, advocate of phrenology, was conducted after his death, and his brain, skull, and heart were removed, preserved in jars of alcohol, and put on display to the public. Public autoposies have sometimes verged on entertainment: American showman P. T. Barnum held a public autopsy of Joice Heth after her death. Heth was a woman whom Barnum had been featuring as being over 160 years old. Barnum charged 50 cents admission. The autopsy demonstrated that she had in fact been between 76 and 80 years old.

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Fort Smith board conducts study session for 2025 budget, includes fire department upgrades

Times Record - Fort Smith 14 Oct 2024
The facility is designed to house a large lecture classroom, small breakout classrooms, offices for the Fire Training Division, public restrooms, separate toilet-shower-locker rooms for men and women and shared functional and support areas ... “We could host regional or national training courses with a large lecture-style classroom....
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Spanish design awardee discusses sustainability in art

The Manila Times 14 Oct 2024
RENOWNED product designer and Spanish National Design Awardee Álvaro Catalán de Ocón will hold a free public lecture on creating work that emphasizes social and environmental responsibility on Oct ... His lecture is designed to encourage participants to rethink the way products are conceived....
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APSU welcomes animator Erick Oh for CECA Visiting Artist Speaker Series

The Tennessee Tribune 14 Oct 2024
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn ... Oh will deliver a free public lecture for all ages at 6 p.m. on Sept. 24 in Heydel Hall, located in the Art + Design Building Room 120 ... “As an artist and former Pixar animator, his work combines new media craftsmanship and exquisite storytelling.” ... For more on this free public lecture, contact Dickins at dickinsm@apsu.edu ... .......
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A decade of positive performance in ensuring social benefits through development

The Jakarta Post 14 Oct 2024
As stated in the Preamble of the 1945 Constitution, the goals of the nation and state are to protect all citizens and all territories of Indonesia, advance public welfare, ... Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati, as a speaker in a public lecture at Diponegoro University on Oct....
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International Skin Health Foundation Hosts Annual Thematic Event 2024 "Caring for Skin, Health and Beauty"

Vietnam News 14 Oct 2024
The event aimed to enhance public awareness of skin health while providing practical and suitable treatment plan, attracting numerous guests, experts, media representatives ... The increasing public awareness of health issues, including acqire dermatological information and those platforms on dermatological awareness and prventive behaviours....
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International Skin Health Foundation Hosts Annual Thematic Event 2024 “Caring for Skin, Health and Beauty”

The Arabian Post 14 Oct 2024
The event aimed to enhance public awareness of skin health while providing practical and suitable treatment plan, attracting numerous guests, experts, media representatives ... The increasing public awareness of health issues, including acqire dermatological information and those platforms on dermatological awareness and prventive behaviours....
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Today's events for Oct. 15

Aiken Standard 14 Oct 2024
Meetings are free and aim to help people improve public speaking and build leadership skills ... The Aiken Master Gardeners will hold a lunchbox lecture from noon to 1 p.m ... The event is free to the public and open to kids of all ages ... with a public reception and nuclear technology expo followed by dinner, lecture and an awards ceremony at 6.30 p.m....
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Trump electric vehicle attacks hit home for Michigan voters

Yahoo Daily News 14 Oct 2024
But he would never buy one ... With 16 electoral votes, the state is a hefty prize ... “That has just become a front message of Republicans. that these plans or hopes to electrify the vehicles are going to destroy the auto industry and take away jobs,” said Jonathan Hanson, a lecturer at University of Michigan’s Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy ... .......
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Ministers will be required to publish list of freebies to public

AOL 14 Oct 2024
The cost of gifts to ministers will be made public, the Labour chair has said ... “This will bring publication of ministerial transparency data more closely in line with the parliamentary regime for gifts and hospitality.” ... “We will take no lectures from the party opposite on standards in public life....
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American Pravda: Michael Collins Piper, Miles Mathis, and Proving Pi=4, by Ron Unz

The Unz Review 14 Oct 2024
In one of his public lectures, Irving mentioned that when he had finished his landmark Hitler biography, produced at the peak of his public success, his very nervous publisher asked him whether he might be Jewish, hoping for the positive answer that would minimize the feared backlash, but Irving replied that unfortunately he wasn’t....
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With AI warning, Nobel winner joins ranks of laureates who’ve cautioned about the risks of ...

CNN 13 Oct 2024
In his 1980 Nobel lecture, Berg focused specifically on gene therapy, saying the approach “has many pitfalls and unknowns, amongst which ... In her lecture, Doudna detailed “extraordinary and exciting opportunities” for the technology across public health, agriculture and biomedicine....
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DIG Warns against Promoting Activities of Insurgents

This Day 13 Oct 2024
He spoke in Ado Ekiti on Saturday at a public lecture titled “The role of media in promoting national peace and security” that he delivered as part of the activities marking the 2024 annual press week of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ekiti Council....
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Gilbert Kuipers to speak on 'Origins of Christian Nationalism' at museum lecture

The Jamestown Sun 13 Oct 2024
VALLEY CITY, N.D. — The Barnes County Historical Society Lecture Series Season 24 presents ... Thursday, Oct. 17, at the Barnes County Museum in Valley CIty ... ADVERTISEMENT ... to be a Christian nation ... The public is invited to this free event. All lectures are at the Barnes County Historical Society Museum and held in conjunction with VCSU ... N ... Share ... Tags. Tags ... ....

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