Still Confused? Six Facts You Should Know About Climate Change
January 11, 2012
7-9 pm
Climate science is complex enough as it is, and the multitude of voices clamoring for your attention on the matter makes things downright confusing. To help you get to the root of things, Mike Alexy will share six facts that should serve as an objective baseline for your understanding of climate change. One hour presentation in the planetarium followed by open discussion.
Climate Change Mindmap image credit Live the Solution
Eat, Prey, Love: Tales about our Six-Legged Neighbors.
February 8
7-9 pm
Imagine a visitor from outer space looking down on a typical city. From a distance, humans would look like ants, mindlessly scurrying about along established trails, stopping at red lights, moving forward at green lights and accelerating really fast for a short distance at yellow lights. "What a lot of mindless, soulless life-forms these creatures are!" the visitor would reason. Without a space microscope, the outer space visitor would completely miss the subtleties of communication and other intelligent interactions among humans that occur everywhere all the time. Likewise, without a microscope, we humans have missed the subtleties of communication and other intelligent interactions among our near neighbors, the fire ant. Please join me for an evening of "ant movies" and discussion about the other pinnacle of social evolution, the ants.
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Manatees & Mermaids
March 14
7-9 pm
Explore what daily life is like for manatees with Dr. James “Buddy” Powell, one of the world’s foremost authorities on manatees. A Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, he started his career as a teenager working with Jacques Cousteau on the first documentary on manatees. Dr. Powell’s research has taken him around the world including living in the “bush” of West Africa and recently to Cuba to help start a manatee conservation program. He will be sharing his insights into the cultural relationships between manatees and mermaids and what can be done to help conserve the species here in Florida.
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Learn more about Buddy's work at the Sea to Shore Alliance