YanaBanana
01-17-2008, 11:17 PM
If anyone's interested, it's on Wed the 23rd:
:cool
Yana:banana
Non-technical Astronomy Program Open to the Public
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On Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008, at 7 pm,
Astronomer Joel Primack of the University
of California, Santa Cruz and Philosopher and
Attorney Nancy Abrams will give a multimedia
presentation entitled:
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The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering
Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos
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as part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures
in the Smithwick Theater, Foothill College,
El Monte Road and Freeway 280,
in Los Altos Hills, California.
Free and open to the public.
Parking on campus costs $2.
Call the series hot-line at 650-949-7888 for
more information and driving directions.
No background in science will be required for
this program, which unites science with the
humanities.
----------------------------------------------------------
Remarkable discoveries in the last decade are
transforming "cosmology," the study of the universe
as a whole. Our cosmos appears to be made mostly
of "dark matter" and "dark energy," with the stars and
galaxies we can see making up only a tiny fraction of
it. We are beginning to understand the first few
minutes after the Big Bang and the way in which
the structure of the universe arose.
Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams' program is both a
progress report and philosophical reflection on our
modern view of ourselves and our place in the cosmos.
Using the latest science, cosmic images and visualizations,
plus music, themes from myth, and even cartoons, they
will illustrate how the new ideas about the universe have
widespread cultural implications.
Joel Primack is an award-winning physicist and cosmologist,
who writes for both his colleagues and the public.
Nancy Abrams is a former Fulbright Scholar and student of
mythology. While working for the Congressional Office of
Technology Assessment, she invented a method called "scientific
mediation" that lets government agencies make intelligent decisions
despite scientific uncertainty. Together they teach a course on
"Cosmology and Culture" at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
This led to their popular book, published in 2006, with the same
title as this lecture.
This interdisciplinary program is something of a departure
from our usual series of lectures, but should intrigue and
challenge everyone interested in the meaning of science
for our times.
The program is co-sponsored by:
* NASA Ames Research Center
* The Foothill College Astronomy Program
* The SETI Institute
* The Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
----------------------------------------------------------
Past Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures are now available
in MP3 format at:
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/podcast/index.html
:cool
Yana:banana
Non-technical Astronomy Program Open to the Public
----------------------------------------------------------
On Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008, at 7 pm,
Astronomer Joel Primack of the University
of California, Santa Cruz and Philosopher and
Attorney Nancy Abrams will give a multimedia
presentation entitled:
----------------------------------------------------------
The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering
Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos
----------------------------------------------------------
as part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures
in the Smithwick Theater, Foothill College,
El Monte Road and Freeway 280,
in Los Altos Hills, California.
Free and open to the public.
Parking on campus costs $2.
Call the series hot-line at 650-949-7888 for
more information and driving directions.
No background in science will be required for
this program, which unites science with the
humanities.
----------------------------------------------------------
Remarkable discoveries in the last decade are
transforming "cosmology," the study of the universe
as a whole. Our cosmos appears to be made mostly
of "dark matter" and "dark energy," with the stars and
galaxies we can see making up only a tiny fraction of
it. We are beginning to understand the first few
minutes after the Big Bang and the way in which
the structure of the universe arose.
Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams' program is both a
progress report and philosophical reflection on our
modern view of ourselves and our place in the cosmos.
Using the latest science, cosmic images and visualizations,
plus music, themes from myth, and even cartoons, they
will illustrate how the new ideas about the universe have
widespread cultural implications.
Joel Primack is an award-winning physicist and cosmologist,
who writes for both his colleagues and the public.
Nancy Abrams is a former Fulbright Scholar and student of
mythology. While working for the Congressional Office of
Technology Assessment, she invented a method called "scientific
mediation" that lets government agencies make intelligent decisions
despite scientific uncertainty. Together they teach a course on
"Cosmology and Culture" at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
This led to their popular book, published in 2006, with the same
title as this lecture.
This interdisciplinary program is something of a departure
from our usual series of lectures, but should intrigue and
challenge everyone interested in the meaning of science
for our times.
The program is co-sponsored by:
* NASA Ames Research Center
* The Foothill College Astronomy Program
* The SETI Institute
* The Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
----------------------------------------------------------
Past Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures are now available
in MP3 format at:
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/podcast/index.html