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15th July 2026 -  Elizabeth Cozens

The Great Wildebeest Migration

This is a conservation success story. This amazing annual movement of thousands of wildebeest, zebras and antelopes as well as the predators that feed on them is one of the great wildlife spectacles in the world today. The way it has been allowed to continue and grow makes a fascinating story.

Elizabeth Cozens is a retired Science teacher who returned just before the pandemic from several years living and working in Asia.

17th June 2026 - Steve Skinner

Hydraulic Power

The story of the development of hydraulic fluid power is a fascinating one to people interested in industrial history, not just from the point of view of the technology itself but also the myriad of applications for which it has been used.

20th May 2026 - Barry Zussman

Rosalind Franklin - The Triumph and the Tragedy

As we saw in the Feature Film “Life Story” which I screened last month at the April S&T meeting, in 1953, the scientific world was abuzz with the discovery of the structure of DNA by James Watson & Francis Crick, but back then, few were aware that it was only made possible by the painstaking work of another, equally brilliant scientist who, as a woman in what was still largely a man’s world, had long struggled to be taken seriously.

Rosalind Franklin would go on to make ground-breaking discoveries in the study of viruses, until, in 1958, she was tragically cut down in her prime by cancer. She was just 37. Had she lived, who knows what else she might have accomplished, but her moving story – told by Barry Zussman (of Torridge, North Devon U3A) – would become her greatest legacy and an inspiration for women in science everywhere.

Barry will join us ‘down the line’ on Zoom from Devon.

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