The New Climate We Live With Over the past several decades we have had predictions of global warming and climate change due to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. The underlying physics isn't that difficult to understand. Greenhouse gases make the atmosphere more opaque to infrared radiation, resulting in the Earth radiating energy to space from a […]

Anti-Bullying Week In observation of anti-bullying week we invite you to come and share your experiences on the subject, were you bullied, were you a bully yourself?     Is this the first time you will attend a presentation with us? Follow this link first.

The law recognizes rights in property created from the human mind. This is different from other types of property, such as real property (land) and personal property (things). Property from the mind is called intellectual property. It’s not  necessarily intellectual, though. More often it is a product of human creativity and imagination. Matt Burr (Beragon […]

Celebrating Men We will be observing international men’s day by inviting you to join us and talk about men who inspire you and how they inspire you, whether they be loved ones, strangers, celebrities, or fictional!     Is this the first time you will attend a presentation with us? Follow this link first.

Human Migration – What it can tell us about our past and our future Every migration tells a story. The migrations of people is the story of us, individually and collectively. Whether it was by choice or by force, migration is how we all have come to live where we life. It’s our global history […]

World Television Day "Good evening... and welcome, to television" -Bruce Gyngell, launch of Television on Australia 1956. In 1926 John Logie Baird transmitted a picture from one room to another. In 1927 he successfully sent a moving image along telephone wires from London to Glasgow, and the following year he achieved the first trans-atlantic television […]

A Brief History of Genetic Modification in Agriculture At some point, humans believed they could mold and manipulate their natural food supplies to suit their needs better. This domestication of plants changed the course of human history by helping enable brain development as well as structuring populations into larger cities. Many early civilizations thrived and some […]

Do not try this at home! Join us for a multimedia livestream into Second Life of Chemistry demonstrations and explanations from Mike Shaw's RL laboratory.   Is this the first time you will attend a presentation with us? Follow this link first.

Second Life can be a place of wonder in the hands of imaginative and skilled builders. When those hands belong to people from different parts of the world or different […]

DECEMBER FIELDTRIP ROULETTE Every Saturday in December we will visit a random location picked from a pool of beautiful locations found by Jes and Chantal! Round and round we go, where […]