Hello Science Fans,
I don’t want to direct bad wishes to other countries or part of ours but, I’m glad it wasn’t us that woke up to orange skies this time. My sympathy goes to Canada and our eastern states. It would appear that we might be in a temporary “normal weather pattern” since we are often seeing Karl in the neighborhoods.
I want to put some light on two of my favorite places with some excellent news.
1St … CuriOdyssey is open! Not only have they been closed for months due to the storms in March, the aviaries has been closed since July last year, but the Aviaries are Open! (Please read that page carefully if you are going to go and work with poultry.)
2nd… The Great Animal Orchestra is now open for your listening pleasure, amazement, inspiration, and wonder. I can’t recommend it enough. I have been fortunate to sit in some, by our experience here, exotic places around the world. (Note: People there think where we are is pretty exotic!) It really made me reflect on some of those. Allow some time for this, maybe go early or later in the day when the crowds aren’t so ‘invasive’? Forget What You Think You Know About Emotions It’s a different kind of exhibit. It doesn’t have one of the stimuli you would expect as a part of it. Be prepared to sit with your eyes closed as well as open.
I am amazed by all that is known and how still there are deniers of what we really do know is true. Consider what some people believe. Last week featured a talk by Harvard University Speaker: Marc Abrahams, in it we heard about the final recalibration of an Ig Nobel Prize winner.
With all of the chat about chat… I thinkTechno-skepticism might be a worthy area of discussion.
As is often the case, three are more things to attend and learn at than I have time for this week. Here are a few that I think might be worth your attention…
1- Drift – Livestream Wed @ 11:00
2- After Dark: The Sounds of Life Thu @ 6:00 (This includes the Great Animal Orchestra!)
3- Hangin’ Out Live with Leonard Tramiel at the Computer History Museum! Sat @ 11:00
4- Sunset Photography Hike at La Honda Creek Sat @ 4:00 to 7:00
If I could have one dream granted I think it might be to have a beer with Galileo, Keppler, and Newton while watching watching this.
Here are a few more articles on science denial. (I’m particularly sensitive to this lately!) To Understand How Science Denial Works, Look to History, How to Talk to a Science Denier, Science denial: Why it happens and 5 things you can do about it, and Galileo: And the Science Deniers.
Here’s my site of the week… Illuminating the Invisible
Have a great week learning cool stuff,
herb masters
“Nothing could be more obvious than that the earth is stable and unmoving, and that we are in the center of the universe. Modern Western science takes its beginning from the denial of this common sense axiom.”
— Daniel J. Boorstin In The Discoverers (2011)
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