Follow the Food
2020-07-18 07:00 - 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Auditorium
Follow the Food is a BBC documentary sponsored by one of the big Three agriculture companies, Corteva Agrisciences. It covers the current food chain, challenges to feeding the world, and new technologies in world agriculture. Come watch Season 1 over 6 weeks from July 11th through August 22nd with a Q&A after each one with a Corteva Agrisciences Scientist.

Science Cafe
2020-07-18 10:00 - 11:00 | The Lighthouse Café
This poll is no longer accepting votes Your three votes of favorite conversation topics for the Science Cafe today1. How do we improve science communication in the social media era? 2. Unexplained aerial phenomenon 3. Climate change is here. What next? 4. Teaching in a room full of creationists 5. Have we entered a post Kuhnian phase of science? 6. Why college are slow to adopt VW and VR 7. What influences the evolution of languages? 8. The future of the higher education 9. Big Data and AI: the two heads Janus of our time 10. What is the best way to deal with those blinded by the Dunning-Kruger effect? 12 votes · 28 answersVote

Sunday Concert 3
2020-07-19 07:00 - 08:00 | The Lighthouse Café
Weekly piano concerts by Earl Kiech at the lighthouse cafe.
Wake up quietly, start your afternoon relaxed or take a seat in a comfortable armchair to end your day with us. No matter what time zone you are in, Earl’s music balances a stressful week at any time of the day.

Follow the Food 2
2020-07-25 07:00 - 08:00 | Auditorium

Science Cafe
2020-07-25 10:00 - 11:00 | The Lighthouse Café
This poll is no longer accepting votes Your three votes of favorite conversation topics for the Science Cafe today1. How do we improve science communication in the social media era? 2. How to think like a scientist, and the value thereof 3. Why do we have such difficulty understanding probabilities? 4. The next or ideal 3D world 5. Climate change is here. What next? 6. Why is teaching Math’s so hard? 7. Teaching in a room full of creationists 8. Population growth: What will slow it? 9. Have we entered a post Kuhnian phase of science? 10. The future of the higher education 12 votes · 32 answersVote

Sunday Concert 4
2020-07-26 07:00 - 08:00 | The Lighthouse Café

Follow the Food 3
2020-08-01 07:00 - 08:00 | Auditorium
Follow the Food is a BBC documentary sponsored by one of the big Three agriculture companies, Corteva Agrisciences. It covers the current food chain, challenges to feeding the world, and new technologies in world agriculture. Come watch Season 1 over 4 weeks from July 11th through August 8th with a Q&A after each one with a Corteva Agrisciences Scientist.

Science Cafe
2020-08-01 10:00 - 11:00 | The Lighthouse Café
This poll is no longer accepting votes Your three votes of favorite conversation topics for the Science Cafe today1. Big Data and AI: the two heads Janus of our time 2. How do we improve science communication in the social media era? 3. What is the best way to deal with those blinded by the Dunning-Kruger effect? 4. How to think like a scientist, and the value thereof 5. Why do we have such difficulty understanding probabilities? 6. The next or ideal 3D world 7. Why is teaching Math’s so hard? 8. Our societies after Corona9. Population growth: What will slow it? 10. Have we entered a post Kuhnian phase of science? 9 votes · 21 answersVote

Sunday Concert
2020-08-02 07:00 - 08:00, 2020-08-09 07:00 - 08:00, 2020-08-16 07:00 - 08:00, 2020-08-23 07:00 - 08:00, 2020-08-30 07:00 - 08:00, 2020-09-06 07:00 - 08:00, 2020-09-13 07:00 - 08:00, 2020-09-20 07:00 - 08:00 and 1 more date | The Lighthouse Café

Follow the Food
2020-08-08 07:00 - 08:00 | Auditorium
Follow the Food is a BBC documentary sponsored by one of the big Three agriculture companies, Corteva Agrisciences. It covers the current food chain, challenges to feeding the world, and new technologies in world agriculture. Come watch Season 1 over 4 weeks from July 11th through August 8 with a Q&A after each one with a Corteva Agrisciences Scientist.

Science Cafe
2020-08-08 10:00 - 11:00 | The Lighthouse Café
This poll is no longer accepting votes Your three votes of favorite conversation topics for the Science Cafe today1. How to think like a scientist, and the value thereof 2. Climate change is here. What next? 3. Big Data and AI: the two heads Janus of our time 4. What is the best way to deal with those blinded by the Dunning-Kruger effect? 5. Why do we have such difficulty understanding probabilities? 6. The next or ideal 3D world 7. Why is teaching Math’s so hard? 8. Unexplained aerial phenomenon 9. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about large, presumably temporary, decreases in carbon emissions worldwide. Can we make those decreases permanent? How would we do that? Can we make other permanent improvements to the Earth's ecosystems thanks to the pandemic? 10. As robots become more human, more intelligent, more capable, and even, perhaps, more emotional, how do we treat them? Do we give them rights? What precautions should we take? 6 votes · 14 answersVote

Science Cafe
2020-08-15 10:00 - 11:00 | The Lighthouse Café
This poll is no longer accepting votes Your three votes of favorite conversation topics for the Science Cafe today1. 60% of animal species have been wiped out by humanity since 1970. What can/should we do to preserve what's left? Should/Can we de-extinct those species, for example? 2. How to think like a scientist, and the value thereof 3. Climate change is here. What next? 4. Big Data and AI: the two heads Janus of our time 5. What is the best way to deal with those blinded by the Dunning-Kruger effect? 6. Why do we have such difficulty understanding probabilities? 7. The next or ideal 3D world 8. Why is teaching Math’s so hard? 9. Unexplained aerial phenomenon 10. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about large, presumably temporary, decreases in carbon emissions worldwide. Can we make those decreases permanent? How would we do that? Can we make other permanent improvements to the Earth's ecosystems thanks to the pandemic? 14 votes · 30 answersVote

Mola Art and Aesthetics among the Guna People
2020-09-05 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
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Mola Art and Aesthetics Among the Guna People
Unique Native American Art from Panama

The Guna, a native American culture from the lowland tropics of eastern Panama, are caretakers of one of the most extensive remaining rain forests in Panama. Guna women have, for many years, sewed molas, multilayer reverse appliqué cloth panels for their blouses. Guna mola textile art is breathtakingly beautiful.

This talk presents the visual power of mola art as one of the most evocative and transcendent indigenous art forms. The Guna women’s ability to transform any visual image that she may come in contact with into iconic art that can be worn as blouse panels represent a personal statement of a highly evolved and sophisticated visual aesthetic. The mola tells endless stories of life … whether they be traditional myths, shimmering geometric designs, natural motifs of plants and animals of the ocean, sky or rain forest or designs derived from commercial advertisements or television.

The Guna have conscientiously adopted certain aspects of western culture while successfully maintaining much of traditional culture and beliefs. The talk briefly discusses how this strategy has conserved mola art that is very much alive and well today in a contemporary world where many authentic indigenous art forms have unfortunately been lost. Even the casual observer cannot help but be impressed with the incredible range of the human imagination represented by the Guna woman’s unique and vibrant aesthetic representation of their world.

By Bill Harp, Cultural Anthropologist, Coclé, Republic of Panama
Bill is a technologist, cultural anthropologist and a geospatial analyst who has worked as a cultural anthropologist in Panama. During his time in Panama he conducted research among the Emberá people in eastern Panama and subsequently earned his MA in Anthropology from the University of Oregon where he specialized in the ecology and cosmology of tropical lowland, indigenous cultures of the new world.
Bill and his wife, Susan, alternate between their country homesteads in Coclé, Panama and North Idaho where they maintain subsistence gardens and orchards.

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Biology and Racism
2020-09-12 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
Rarely explored in conversations about race are the actual biological underpinnings of differences in skin color, eye color, hair, etc. This talk will explore the genetics and physiology of what creates these differences in appearance. And when possible, discuss the origins and “why’s” of these genes. Further discussion on concepts of “race” and population genetics will cover the history of human groups and how scientists try to grapple with the understanding of genetic heritage over time and geography. Finally, a commentary on what biology tells us about racism will close the presentation.
Presentation by Dr. Stephen Gasior

Dr. Stephen L. Gasior

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Horse-hunting Crocodiles of Ancient Germany
2020-09-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
About 45 million years ago, Germany was part of a warm subtropical set of islands, teeming with life. In this warm, greenhouse environment reptiles were enormously successful, reaching larger body sizes than mammals and pushing into new ecological roles. Explore the fascinating environment known as Geisletal with Dr. Alex Hastings as he presents some of his research from his fellowship at Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany.

Dr. Alexander Hastings

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Ethics Dimensions in Scientific Research
2020-09-26 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
Every last Saturday of the month, Matthew Burr organizes a scientific panel.
Ethics Dimensions in Scientific Research

Guests

1. Dr. Stephen L. Gasior

2. Dr. Robert A. Hendrix

3. Professor Phil Youngblood

Matthew Burr

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The Scientific Method
2020-10-03 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

by Robert A. Hendrix, MD
The scientific method has roots in natural proclivities of humanoid species: the human drive to explore, observe, and occasionally, experiment. With emergence of verbal language, the experience of the individual could be shared and remembered, and sometimes drawn, thereby becoming part of the collective memory, technology and culture of human society.

Human skull with post-trephination with opening marked. The exhibit is presented as part of the permanent exhibition “Disorders of the prehistoric population in the Polish lands” at the Archaeological Museum in Gdańsk .Pleple2000 9.July 2010; This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unreported license.

Mummified cat, ancient Egypt, 2000-100 BC; Science Museum, London, Welcome Images / CC BY 4.0

In this presentation, we will consider the historic timeline of the scientific method leading to formalization by Sir Francis Bacon as an approach for gaining knowledge about the natural world. Along with a short biography of Bacon, we will look at “best practices” as well as the sometimes ethical and humanitarian failings of scientists. Overall, the culture and methods of science have given rise to exponential progress and growth in human knowledge.

In the latter half of the hour, we will ask members of the audience to offer ideas as to how experiments can yield erroneous results as a lead-in to discussion of errors commonly made in experimental design and method.

Robert A. Hendrix, MD

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Classical Sunday Concerts
2020-10-04 07:00 - 08:00, 2020-10-11 07:00 - 08:00, 2020-10-18 07:00 - 08:00 | The Lighthouse Café
CLASSICAL SUNDAY CONCERTS
Sundays at 7 AM SLT
Weekly piano concerts by Earl Kiech at the lighthouse cafe.

Wake up quietly, start your afternoon relaxed or take a seat in a comfortable armchair to end your day with us.
No matter what time zone you are in, Earl’s music balances a stressful week at any time of the day.
This is the perfect time to catch up with colleagues and like-minded people.

Emerging Technologies - The Future is Here!
2020-10-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
A presentation by Phil Youngblood, PhD.

Every technology, from fire and the wheel long ago, to quantum computers and companion robots today, is at some point an “emerging technology,” that is, an application of science well beyond ‘concept’ or experimental stage, something that is very real but is not mainstream yet. Emerging technologies may only be known by those who follow the field closely or may be known more widely, but most people have not yet experienced them firsthand… but soon will!

What are the emerging technologies of the 2020’s? Join me as we examine eight interrelated technologies that will shape your world in the next decade:
— 5G communications
— artificial intelligence (new applications)
— 3D printing (new applications)
— brain machine interface
— immersive spaces (like SL)
— augmented/virtual reality
— autonomous transport
— robotics

Dr. Phil Youngblood

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The Dragon’s Smile
2020-10-17 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
A presentation by Dr. Mary Anne Clark.

Snooping in the Databases: Amelogenin in the Komodo Monitor

I love browsing the databases when new genome sequences are published. I’ll be talking about looking for the gene for amelogenin in the genome fragments of the Komodo monitor, whose genome was published in 2019. I’ll describe how I found the gene, how you can do your own snooping in the databases, and what I learned about lizards in the process.

Dr. Mary Anne Clark

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