The Great Courses company has a free lecture on the Hubble Space Telescope. Go here to see the lecture.
I have mixed feeling about “The Great Courses”. I like the lectures they have to offer but I am really tired of their constant emails and catalogs they send out. Get on their mailing list at your mailboxes peril.
The next Philosophy in the Community is Feb. 8 at 7:00pm
The RefinerySt. James Church Basement
609 Dufferin Avenue
(at 12th Street, just off Broadway)
Professor Leslie Howe
Søren Kierkegaard was the first existentialist philosopher and a trenchant critic of the superficialities and excesses of modernism. His critique of modernity has made him a favourite of postmodernists but he would have given them equally short shrift. This talk will present an overview of Kierkegaard’s critique of triviality, bombast, and pusillanimity in philosophy, religion, and society, a critique that remains as pertinent to us as it was to 1840s Europe.
CFI Calgary is hosting a Lecture by physicist Lawrence Krauss.
Theoretical physicist, and author of A Universe from Nothing, Lawrence Krauss is coming to Calgary!
Prof. Lawrence M. Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist and author with wide research interests, including the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, where his studies include the early universe, the nature of dark matter, general relativity and neutrino astrophysics. He has investigated questions ranging from the nature of exploding stars to issues of the origin of all mass in the universe.
Join the Centre For Inquiry in Calgary where Prof. Lawrence Krauss will be discussing his new book “A Universe From Nothing”. Lawrence Krauss offers provocative, revelatory answers to the most basic philosophical questions: Where did our universe come from? Why is there something rather than nothing? And how is it all going to end?
Tickets are $20 for the general public, $10 for “Friends of the Center”, and $15 for students, and can be purchased at the event or throughEvent Brite.
TED talk about animating cellular biology.
Come out for an afternoon celebrating science! Join us at any time.
Location
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
6:00 PM |
Unitarian Centre
College Ave. & Angus St. Regina, SK S4T 6N2 |
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Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking.
By Steven Pinker
