Every first Friday of the month, we hold an open board meeting for the benefit of our members. Here you can contact us with your questions, create ideas and hopefully together with us, give substance to our plans for the future. During every open board meeting we display a screen with our current statistics, updated […]

Photo: Voyager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA   ALIEN EXOSOCIOLOGY: OUR TRANSGALACTIC COMMONALITIES Some astronomers predict that we will have made contact with advanced civilizations on other worlds within 25 years. What might they be like, and -- more importantly – how might they act? Dr. Steven R. Van Hook, a researcher in transcultural relations, will […]

Prometheus Chained, by Peter Paul Rubens, c 1611-1615 Philadelphia Museum of Art (Daily plucking of liver tissue from the right, upper quadrant of the abdomen by the Eagle of Zeus) NASH = NON-ALCOHOLIC STEATOHEPATITIS / NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE (NAFLD) Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is of increasing prevalence and can lead to cirrhosis and total […]

Darwin Day 2019 Lecture Heroes of Evolution: Kettlewell and Majerus: Of Moths and March of Science This lecture will honor the accomplishments of two scientists who helped demonstrate "Evolution in Action." Dr. Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell spent time in the field counting moths in response to increasing amounts of pollution. This phenomenon of industrial melanism […]

Photo: Wikipedia Some chemistry behind the colors we see: Pigments and Colors and Dyes, Oh My! When we make new compounds, one of the first questions we ask is "What color is it?" The color of a substance depends on many factors, including its composition, particle size, and the physics of how light interacts with […]

Monthly panel discussion With this week as subject “Cyber Security”     Moderator: Matthew Burr – Beragon Betts   Anyone who is interested in his security on the internet will soon come across worrying reports about phishing e-mails, cybercrime, industrial espionage, governments stealing each other's data and cyber-terrorism. Closer to home, data mining affects us […]

Photo Wikipedia Color for Photographers Abstract: The colorspace of a camera or display or printer indicates the range of colors that can be recorded or reproduced. A colorspace is a subset of the range of typical human vision. In this tutorial, colorspaces will be defined and the consequences for image recording and reproduction discussed. Robert Lawson […]