Food For Thought Lecture Series

Organizer: Steve Bratteng

Held at Old Quarry Branch Library, 7051 Village Dr.
7:00 pm every second Wednesday of the month
(unless otherwise noted: please see calendar )

The Food For Thought Lecture Series seeks to inform, educate and raise awareness of issues related to the CFI mission statement:
"To promote and defend science, reason and freedom of inquiry in all areas of human interest. "

Lectures are free and open to the public, but please consider donating to Capital Area Food Bank of Texas, Caritas or any other food bank in your area (a couple of links for more information below).  FYI, a little bird once told me that although bringing actual food is more gratifying for most donors, cash donations go further: foodbanks can buy goods wholesale.
    http://www.austinfoodbank.org/
    http://www.caritasofaustin.org/

See the CFI Austin Events Calendar for details on upcoming speakers

Previous speakers:

2009

  • January 14, 2009 -- Dennis McFadden, "What Do Sex, Twins, Spotted Hyenas, ADHD, and Sexual Orientation Have in Common?"
  • February 11, 2009 -- Steve Bratteng, "Coevolution: How Plants and Animals Adapt to One Another"
  • March 11, 2009 -- Kathleen Higgins, "Nietzsche: The Superman of Comedy"
  • April 8, 2009 -- Dr. Jay Banner, "What Ancient Climates Were Like"
  • May 13, 2009 -- Kristen Harris, "How Learning Changes Synapses in Your Brain"
  • July 8, 2009 -- Alan Sokal, "Postmodernism Gets Punked: How Alan Sokal Soaked Social Text"
  • August 12, 2009 -- Ernie Lundelius, "Pleistocene Fossils and Climate"
  • September 9, 2009 -- Paulo Ferreira, "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: An Overview"
  • October 14, 2009 -- David Prindle, "Stephen J. Gould and the Politics of Evolution"

2008

  • January 2008 --  Rory Coker,Ph.D.,   UT professor of Physics, "Is Pseudoscience Good for Anything?"
  • February 2008 --  "Belief and Unbelief in George Bush's America", G. Howard Miller, Ph.D., UT professor of History
  • March 2008 -- "Is the Sun Unique?",  Ivan Ramirez, UT Astronomy grad student and UT McDonald Observatory researcher
  • April 2008 -- Outing to UT Hot Science Cool Talks
  • May 2008 -- Outing to UT Hot Science Cool Talks
  • June 2008 -- Stacey Pogue, "Health Access in Texas"
  • July 2008 -- Sid Hall, "The Bible: Fact, Fiction, or Myth?"
  • August 2008 -- Steve Bratteng, “Parasites: What Is Eating You”
  • September 4 2008 -- Clare Wuellner, "Does Eating Meat Make You A Bad Person?"
  • October 2, 2008 -- Chris Kirk, "The Evolution of the Eye"
  • November 6, 2008 -- Chris Bell, "Animals of America Before Humans Arrived"
  • December 4, 2008 -- Jennifer Whitson, "The Perception of Patterns in the Noise of Everyday Life"

2007

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