Philosophy Club, Friday, 12/19, "How Do We Learn To Speak?"

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The Philosophy Club meets Friday afternoons at Lake Miona Recreation Center in The Villages, FL.  Meetings start promptly at 4:00PM and end at 5:30PM. Presenters usually speak for 25 to 45 minutes, followed by a Discussion Period where the Leader and Audience Members ask Questions and express their Opinions, and the Presenter replies.

COMING ATTRACTIONS:

Friday,    12/19        Peter Irwin             "How Do We Learn To Speak?"

Learning to speak is a complex process that happens in stages, involves multiple brain areas, and requires both biological readiness and social interaction.  How did languages evolve, how do we learn speech, and how do misunderstandings occur?

Friday,    12/26         Joe Frost                 "Food"

This talk will be about food , what it is and what it isn't . It will touch on how it is used  by the body and may lead to consideration of changing our thinking about what we are consuming. Sandwiched between two of the major eating days of the year it will be food for thought. 

Friday,    1/2         Jim Laurent       "Should We Clone Neanderthals?"

Now that we have a Neanderthal genome, what do we do with it? An examination of the essence of humanity. An overview of the technologies for cloning and the ethics involved.

Friday,     1/9        John Rainey        "The National Park Service"

How it was formed, how it's structured and examples of its many units.   

Friday,     1/16      Drake Shepard     "Leonardo da Vinci Comes Alive"

Fresh from the year 1500, da Vinci appears in costume and tells about his life, his employment as a military engineer and how he painted the influential Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Plus he will detail his prolific famous futuristic machine design drawings. By combining art and science da Vinci became the ultimate Renaissance man.

WANT TO BE A PRESENTER ?: Send us the short Title of your proposed talk, along with a descriptive paragraph or two describing the Subject of your Talk, your Interests and Qualifications to present it, and why we should be interested. Send your proposal to our Leader, Bob Brooke (bnbrooke @aol.com) [Google Groups discourages me from entering a clickable email address. So, to reach Bob by email remove the space between bnbrooke and @]