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SUMMARY:Fireside Chat Gravity
DESCRIPTION:Fireside Chat Gravity: The Reckoning\nFrom black holes to landing a rover on Mars\, gravity is the essential consideration. Gravity is not a classical force like magnetism. Newton described the behavior of objects subject to gravity\, but did not describe its nature. Einstein showed mathematically that gravity is mass/energy distorting spacetime. Accordingly\, gravity is now understood to be that mass-induced spacetime distortion/curvature. Please join us for an informal chat to explore the ramifications of the modern understanding of gravity and to have your questions addressed by our panelists. \n\nwith Matthew Burr\, Dr. Phil Youngblood & Dr. William Wall. \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n \n \n\n\n\nNon-members only need to register once to attend the free events. \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first.
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SUMMARY:Henupoto Wara: Supernatural Anti-Hero of the Mythical Past
DESCRIPTION:Graphic: The Emberá Comarca of Eastern Panama within the red circle \n  \nHenupoto Wara: Supernatural Anti-Hero of the Mythical Past \n  \nThe Emberá\, a tropical lowland tribe of the Darién rain forest of Eastern Panama and the Pacific coastal lowlands of Colombia\, have a strong tradition of telling detailed stories about animals\, spirits\, and demons and of adventures in the mythical past.  Henupoto Wara\, or Leg-Born Child\, is one of the most famous stories and chronicles the adventures of this cultural anti-hero as he engages the many supernatural ecologies and denizens of Emberá cosmology.  This discussion presents the story and discusses an interpretation of some of the ecological images\, assumed knowledge and cosmological implications embedded is this oft-told narrative. \n  \nHenupoto tries to tear off the face of the moon because the elders said the moon killed his mother.\nThe story of Henupoto is one of the most well-known stories of the pantheon of Emberá stories\, myths\, legends and narratives. It is the story of a man who is born of the union between a spirit and a woman.  His mother dies in childbirth and he grows up a troubled but powerful orphan constantly trying to locate the being that killed his mother.  As part supernatural being\, he executes a series of herculean tasks that require his special skills.  Like many characters in stories among the Emberá\, Henupoto is not precisely a hero but rather a supernaturally strong anti-hero that makes embarrassing demands upon society that results in the elders always trying to figure out a way to get rid of him. However\, no matter how difficult the task they assign or how unlikely he is to succeed at the tasks\, he comes out victorious.  That is\, until the dramatic end.  His efforts\, it can be interpreted\, profoundly protect society from the potential ravages of the supernatural world.  Henupoto is constantly upsetting and resetting the balance between the human\, the natural and the supernatural worlds.  Although Henupoto is universally admired among the Emberá\, for his strength\, cunning\, skill and determination\, he is also an outcast and a cosmic misfit.  He is also comically naïve as he attempts to track down the being that killed his mother when it was he\, himself\, when he was born\, who caused his mother to die in childbirth. \n  \n  \nEmberá in ceremonial dress from Emberá Drua\, a village on the upper Chagres River\, Panama\nThe Emberá have a sophisticated cosmology or\, if you will\, religion in which the many actors\, spirits\, demons\, people\, animals and natural forces interact in a complex and dynamic spiritual equilibrium.  It is often the role of the shaman or in this case a human spirit being to maintain this equilibrium by creating harmony among all these competing forces and to ensure that the spirits from time-to-time can be bound to human intention through carefully executed rituals that seduce the often ambivalent spirits into cooperation.   The Emberá have a strong narrative tradition that communicates ecological principles. The stories contain strong evocative images and symbols and form a type of encapsulated language\, coding metaphorically the actions of the human and spirit world. This language\, with its ecological imagery\, shows what happens when the cultural rules are broken and they delineate the fine line between the cultural and spiritual domain. \n  \nEmberá Drua village in the upper Chagres River\, Panama\n  \nThe story of Henupoto dramatically illustrates the supernatural struggle of cosmological forces and demonstrates the power of narratives to encode culturally rich information.  Myths\, such as Henupoto\, provide a unique view into the complex cultural perspective of traditional cultures that practice a pre-literary narrative tradition for countless generations.  \n  \n  \nPresentation by William Harp\nInformation Systems Technologist\, Cultural Anthropologist and Geospatial Analyst \n  \n \n  \n\n\n\nWilliam Harp\n\n\nPrevious lectures on film\n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nNon-members only need to register once to attend the free events. \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first.
URL:https://sciencecircle.org/event/henupoto/
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SUMMARY:Classical Sunday Concerts
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URL:https://sciencecircle.org/event/csc-23/
LOCATION:The Lighthouse Café
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SUMMARY:A few of my favorite hemes
DESCRIPTION:A few of my favorite hemes.  \nThe “heme cofactor” is familiar to us as the part of hemoglobin where oxygen attaches for transport through blood. It lends blood its characteristic color. However\, the heme unit is a versatile part of many biological functions. It participates in the metabolism of perceived toxins by the liver\, in the production and sensing of the neurotransmitter NO\, and as support for other enzyme systems by managing  electron availability. In this talk\, we will explore some of the basic structural features of heme and their consequences in biological systems. \n  \n  \nMyoglobin\, Hemoglobin\, and their Ligands \nHeme Proteins \nNitric Oxide Synthase \nMyoglobin \nCytochrome c \nHeme metabolism \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n\n\n\nDr. Mike Shaw\n\n\nReference work in the library\n\n\nPrevious lectures on film\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nNon-members only need to register once to attend the free events. \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first. \n 
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SUMMARY:Classical Sunday Concerts
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SUMMARY:Understanding Science: Particle Physics
DESCRIPTION:Niels Henrik David Bohr 1885 – 1962. Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory\, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.\n  \n  \nUnderstanding Science\nParticle Physics: The Search for the Smallest of Things\n  \nOnly a century ago\, while the concept of an irreducible object known as an atom was long known and there was growing evidence for its existence\, most people had little idea that atom were composed of even smaller particles\, many of them with exotic characteristics.  \n  \n  \nRichard Phillips Feynman 1918 – 1988 was an American theoretical physicist\nIn the next few decades\, electrons\, protons\, and neutrons\, the relatively stable particles that make up the atoms that constitute all matter were discovered\, followed by particles only found in natural events involving high energy. As more powerful particle accelerators were developed\, still more exotic particles were theorized and discovered and a Standard Model of how particles interacted and were related was formed in the 1960’s-1970’s. \n  \n  \nWhat does the Standard Model reveal about the particles that make up everything? How can Feynman diagrams show particle interactions? What is missing from the Standard Model? Join me as we explore the search for the smallest of things – subatomic particles – and what we have learned about them.          \n  \nPresentation by Dr. Phil Youngblood \n  \n  \n \n  \n\n\n\nDr. Phil Youngblood\n\n\nReference work in the library\n\n\nPrevious lectures on film\n\n\nPodcast\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nNon-members can register for the free events through SC members. \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Classical Sunday Concerts
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SUMMARY:Panel: Ministry for the Future
DESCRIPTION:The recent state-wide cold snap that left many Texans without electricity and water seems like a good time to consider Kim Stanley Robinson’s book The Ministry for the Future.  \n \n  \n  \nThis book is disaster novel wrapped loosely around a series of essays\, stories\, metaphors\, reports and commentaries about economics\, politics and social inequality. The story line follows two characters: Frank\, the sole survivor of a lethal heat wave\, and Mary\, the director of the Ministry for the Future\, an agency established by the U.N. Their relationship is complicated by an incident that results in Frank’s arrest. The book is not an easy read\, dealing as it does with a serious effort to alter human behavior enough to ward off the dire consequences of ignoring our own contributions to climate change. Robinson recognizes both the difficulty of making such changes and the necessity to do so and argues convincingly for some possible solutions. \n  \n  \nA not-too-long interview with the author Kim Stanley Robinson that touches on the main ideas of the book\, to help you prepare for the discussion. \n  \nGuests \n\n\n\nMary Anne Clark\n\n\nLinda Morris Kelley\n\n\nNatalie Foster\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n  \n  \n\n\n\nMatthew Burr\n\n\nPrevious panels on film\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nNon-members only need to register once. \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first.
URL:https://sciencecircle.org/event/panel-ministry-for-the-future/
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SUMMARY:Classical Sunday Concerts
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