Cafe Sci Orlando announcements for 2011-04: "
Chad MILLER
* Topic, "synthesis talk: Physics, Climate and You"
Topic, "synthesis talk: Physics, Climate and You"
Hi. This month we will have a fascinating discussion at our Cafe Sci at
7PM on Wednesday 6 April, at Taste, in College Park.
This talk is one of a new style of talks we will have at Cafe
Scientifique, that we're calling "synthesis". Instead of a sharp, deep
focus in some scientific field on the bleeding-edge of research, we'll
show a broader topic and link it to several scientific and social
areas, in a way a researcher in a specific field might find hard to do.
This month, our own Pete Dunkelberg gives us a wider perspective on the
specific concentrated disciplines of math and physics and climatology
to help give context and explain some of the principles and data of
climate change. He'll touch on the importance of understanding it and
the prospects for humanity in the near term, and what we could do about
it.
Pete Dunkelberg is an advocate of good science education, and as a
member of Florida Citizens for Science, helped defend Florida's new
educational standards from being polluted with nonscientific ideas.
He's active in the Florida Native Plant Society, 1Sky, and has written
articles like "Irreducible Complexity Demystified" and "Mystery in the
Air".
Directions
Taste
717 W. Smith Street
Orlando, United States
32804
Taste is near the corner of Princeton Street (really Smith Street after
the fork) and Edgewater Drive, so about 2 minutes from I-4 to parking.
One can park on the street or in the parking lot behind Taste.
* From Downtown and south, drive north ("east") on I-4 through
downtown. At the exit for Princeton Street, exit and turn
left/west.
* From Altamonte Springs and north, drive south ("west") on I-4
toward downtown Orlando. At the exit for Princeton Street, exit and
turn right/west.
From I-4, drive a few blocks to Edgewater Drive. At the intersection,
you should see a orange building ahead of you, labeled "Taste". Park on
the street or behind Taste.