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SUMMARY:Extreme Threats - GL Brown Prize Lecture 2015\, The Physiological 
 Society - Professor Mike Tipton\, Department of Sport &amp\; Exercise Scie
 nce\, University of Portsmouth
DTSTART:20150528T150000Z
DTEND:20150528T160000Z
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CONTACT:41879
DESCRIPTION:This talk is jointly hosted and kindly sponsored by the Physio
 logical Society.\n\n70% of Earth is covered in water. Only 15% of its surf
 ace is not water\, desert\, ice or mountain. Most of our planet is therefo
 re hostile to life.\n\nWhile humans can acclimatise to heat\, cold and alt
 itude\, constrained by these capacities we would inhabit a very small port
 ion of our planet. Instead\, it is our behaviour that has allowed us to re
 create our desired macro and microclimates. \n\nThe technologies we rely o
 n to colonise our planet have also limited our physiological adaptation. I
 n the face of threats – such as in hypoxia\, drowning\, hypothermia\, co
 ld injury\, hyperthermia and barotrauma – we often fall back on primitiv
 e and unevolved physiological defences. These problems arise everywhere\, 
 from mountaintops to outer space. What are their consequences and solution
 s?\n\nhttp://www.physoc.org/gl-brown-university-of-cambridge\n\nhttp://www
 .port.ac.uk/department-of-sport-and-exercise-science/staff/prof-mike-tipto
 n.html\n\n===\n\nThis event is suitable for members of the public\, and we
  especially welcome Physiological Society members residing locally. A site
  map for external guests can be found on http://bit.ly/1EUwvqA . The talk 
 venue is wheelchair-accessible.\n
LOCATION:Physiology Lecture Theatre\, Physiology Building\, Downing Site
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