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SUMMARY:The Minecraft VRevolution: Collaborative Learning
DESCRIPTION:Picture: Wikipedia  \nThe session features an panel of educators actively utilizing Minecraft in educational settings. Participants will explore how Minecraft can be utilized as a tool to motivate and engage young 21st century learners. Diverse examples of integration will be presented for participant consideration. The panel will discuss creative and innovative ways to integrate Minecraft and tips on how to provide opportunities for students to collaborate\, create\, and problem solve in meaningful ways. \nPresenters:\nKatherine Hewett/TwelfthNight (Avatar)\nEducators and Trainers\nMary O’Brien/Serena Offcourse\nEducators and Trainers\nBeth S. O’Connell/Beth Ghostraven\nEducators and Trainers\nKim Harrison/Thunder Insippo\nEducators and Trainers \nMore information & location
URL:https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/the-minecraft-vrevolution-collaborative-learning/
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SUMMARY:Opening Ceremony Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education
DESCRIPTION:11th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education\nOpening Ceremony of VWBPE 2018\nJoin us at the Gateway for Kick Off Event of VWBPE 2018.  This is a time to socialize and network with friends\, old and new\, while enjoying the lovely piano music of Arisia Vita. The Conference Executive and Organization Committees will share a few of the upcoming highlights. Executive Director Phelan Corrimal will officially start the conference with the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony. You will also have time to explore and enjoy the exhibits.  Be sure to check for the Exhibit Scavenger Hunt Notecard in your Swag Bag. There will be a prize for completion! \n  \nMore information & location
URL:https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/virtual-worlds-best-practices-in-education/
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SUMMARY:Punctuated Equilibrium\, Neoteny\, and Evolution
DESCRIPTION:Punctuated Equilibrium\, Neoteny\, and Evolution: A tribute to the late Dr. Stephen Jay Gould\nStephen Jay Gould was undoubtedly one of the most influential scientists of the 20th Century who along with Niles Eldredge published the theory of Punctuated Equilibrium. He was a prolific author of many articles on Neoteny\, and other ideas that revolutionized biologists ideas of evolution. I had the fortune to attend several of his lectures as well as interview him at Harvard University before his untimely death in 2002. I will be sharing my personal reflections on this great scientist as well as sharing unpublished correspondence with Dr. Gould. \n  \nby Dr. William F. Schmachtenberg (Dae Miami SL)  \nPrevious work in the Film Collection \n  \n  \n  \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first.
URL:https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/punctuated-equilibrium-neoteny-and-evolution/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180303T100000
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SUMMARY:Copernicus' Epicycles
DESCRIPTION:Copernicus’ Epicycles\nNicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) is sometimes called the father of modern astronomy. He’s famous for introducing to Western Europe a thorough and worked-out model of the Solar System with the Sun at the center. At the time\, nearly everybody accepted Ptolemy‘s Earth-centered model\, with planets riding on celestial spheres\, and riding on epicycles inside those spheres. Many of us carry the idea that Copernicus simplified it all by moving the Sun to the center. It turns out\, however\, that Copernicus’ system is not appreciably simpler than Ptolemy’s — he\, too\, had epicycles in his model! Nor was Copernicus the first one to think about Sun-centered models of the Solar System\, as that idea goes back at least to ancient Greece.\n In this talk\, I will outline the history of our understanding of the Sun-centered model of the Solar System\, and give some detail about how Copernicus’ model worked\, and why it took the work of others later for us to really accept that his basic idea was right. \n  \n— Rob Knop  \nPrevious work in the Library \nPrevious work in the Film Collection \nHome Page \nBlog \n  \n  \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first.
URL:https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/astrophysics-2/
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SUMMARY:"CRISPR"
DESCRIPTION:“CRISPR”\n“New Advances in Genetic Engineering: The Nuts\, The Bolts\, Frankenstein Monsters?\, and Ethics” \n  \nIn the last 150 years we’ve had an amazing advancement in our understanding of the genetic code that programs life. While some technologies for manipulating genes have developed in the last few decades\, new programmable systems have been discovered in the past few years. Developed from bacteria\, the CRISPR/Cas systems allow a new level of ease for genetic changes in cells. This presentation will describe the origins of the CRISPR/Cas9 system\, how it works\, applications for its use\, and implications for the future. \n  \n \nDr. Stephen L. Gasior \nPrevious work in the Library \nPrevious work in the Film Collection \n  \n  \n  \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first.
URL:https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/crispr/
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SUMMARY:"Discrepancies in the Measured Expansion Rate of the Universe"
DESCRIPTION:“Discrepancies in the Measured Expansion Rate of the Universe”\nAbstract:\nThe most basic parameter in our description of the expanding Universe is the current expansion rate\, given by the Hubble Constant.\nA mere two decades ago\, the value of that constant was uncertain to a factor of two. Since then\, the face of cosmology has changed\, and we are now in an era of precision cosmology. We are able to measure the value of the Hubble Constant to within a few percent. The problem is\, we now have two measurements– one from nearby objects such as variable stars and low-redshift supernovae\, and the other from statistics of fluctuations in the early Universe. The two measurements are different at about the six-percent level\, which is greater than the uncertainties on the individual measurements. While astronomers of two decades ago would dream to be in this situation\, we find ourselves questioning whether there is something going on in the expanding universe that we haven’t figured out\, or whether it is a matter of systematic uncertainties that we haven’t yet identified.\nIn this talk\, I will discuss the history of both the Universe and of our dominant model of the Universe. I will describe how the Hubble Constant went from being extremely uncertain to relatively well known… well enough that we can see a discrepancy in two different measurements. I will describe the two ways we measure the Hubble Constant\, and talk about possibilities for resolving the discrepancy in their results. \n  \n— Rob Knop  \nPrevious work in the Library \nPrevious work in the Film Collection \n  \n  \n  \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first. \n 
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SUMMARY:Science Circle 10th anniversary
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URL:https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/science-circle-10th-anniversary/
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SUMMARY:“Quantification of Fossil Data”
DESCRIPTION:“Quantification of Fossil Data” and an update on the fossil identification app\nABSTRACT: \nIt has been over 75 years\, since Charles Butts published his famous and classic monograph on the fossils of the Appalachian mountains in 1941. Recently\, I have been in the process of updating the taxonomy of his work and I am in the process of developing an app to help paleontologists identify fossils. This talk will present the results of my work which has revealed interesting evolutionary patterns in fossil organisms. At the request of Virginia Tech University and James Madison University\, I have added traditional morphological filters to the database of the app\, which has allowed me to increase the number of fossils the app can identify and the accuracy of the identifications. The app is currently being used by curators at the Virginia Museum of Natural History to identify their unknown fossil specimens. \nby Dr. William F. Schmachtenberg (Dae Miami SL)  \nVirginia USA \nPrevious work in the Film Collection \n  \n  \n  \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first. \n 
URL:https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/quantification-of-fossil-data/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180204T100000
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SUMMARY:The Cold Case of SN 1054 by Giuseppe Longo
DESCRIPTION:The Cold Case of SN 1054 \nOne of the most thrilling events on the sky would be Supernova (SN) event. Here\, we investigate possible causes for missing historical records of SN1054 in Europe. We reconstruct the European sky at the time of the event and found that the new “star” (SN1054) and planet Venus are on opposite sides of the sky.\nNamely\, we find that Venus was in the east and SN1054 was in the west\, with the Sun sitting directly between the two equally bright objects\, as documented in East-Asian records. In spite of the relevance of the phenomenon no record of it is found anywhere in the European chronicles.\nWe present a likely explanation of such silence. An explanation which is connected with the schism between the Catholic and the orthodox churches and with the excommunication of Astrology and astrologers. \nEvent location \n \n  \n  \nGiuseppe Longo\nProfessor of Astrophysics\nAccademico Pontaniano\nAssociate – California Institute of Technology\nAssociate . INFN and INAF \nPrevious work in the Film Collection \n  \n  \n  \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first. \n 
URL:https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/the-cold-case-of-sn1054-by-giuseppe-longo/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180126T070000
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SUMMARY:“Virtual Worlds as an Educational Tool” By Gregory Perrier
DESCRIPTION:How do instructors in higher education use virtual worlds to promote learning and make their class more exciting and fun? Many educators initially think of lecturing in a virtual world\, but there are many other ways to engage students in learning. This presentation will cover 15 different ways that instructors incorporate virtual worlds into their courses and discuss how instructors have used each method. \n  \n \nGregory Perrier \nPrevious work in the Library \nPrevious work in the Film Collection \n  \n  \n  \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first. \nLocation
URL:https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/virtual-worlds-as-an-educational-tool-by-gregory-perrier/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180113T100000
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SUMMARY:"The Common and Misplaced Racism of David Duke\, Hitler\, and Darwin: The Value of Diversity in Human Interactions” by Stephen L. Gasior
DESCRIPTION:“The Common and Misplaced Racism of David Duke\, Hitler\, and Darwin: The Value of Diversity in Human Interactions” by Stephen L. Gasior \n  \nRacism is the worst idea ever in its impact on the evolution of the human species and its longterm survival. Yet\, it is a persistent and strong perspective that has early roots in our evolution that has continued through the Enlightenment\, the Scientific Revolution\, and modern day. This talk covers the biological basics of human genetic diversity as it pertains to race and some historical perspectives of notable individuals and how that has impacted culture. A more in-depth presentation on population genetics and interesting genetic traits will finish the discussion with a thought on how a rational anti-racism is beneficial in the continued evolution of Homo sapience. \n  \n \nDr. Stephen L. Gasior \nPrevious work in the Library \nPrevious work in the Film Collection \n  \n  \n  \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first. \nLocation
URL:https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/the-common-and-misplaced-racism-of-david-duke-hitler-and-darwin-the-value-of-diversity-in-human-interactions-by-stephen-l-gasior/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180106T100000
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SUMMARY:"Black hole Demographics" by Dr. Rob Knop
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe term “black hole” conjures up many fanciful images\, some of which are false\, and\, surprisingly\, many of which are true. To astronomers\,”black hole” actually means two different things: first\, the theoretical construct predicted by General Relativity (GR)\, and second\, the objects in space that we have observationally confirmed; there is a subtle\, at least semantic\, difference. For a long time\, we’ve known of black holes that are several to about ten times the mass of the Sun\, observed as X-Ray sources in our Galaxy. We’ve also known about black holes that are millions to billions times the mass of the Sun\, lurking at the cores of galaxies. In the last few years\, thanks to gravitational wave observations\, we’ve confirmed black holes that are thirty times the mass of the Sun. Are there any in between? Do black holes hundreds or thousands the mass of our Sun exist? If so\, where are they hiding? In this talk\, I’ll outline our current knowledge of where black holes exist in the Universe\, and mention some of the remaining questions we have about these exotic objects. \n  \n— Rob Knop  \nPrevious work in the Library \nPrevious work in the Film Collection \n  \n  \n  \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first. \nLocation
URL:https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/rob-knop/
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