NCFS past events

NCFS past events
Tuesday, Jan 31st, 7 PM - NCFS Science Cafe, Mo Java, 2649 N 48th, (Lincoln Coffee shops) - Lincoln

Thursday, Feb 2, 8 PM - Why Intelligent Design Is Not Science - Robert M. Hazen, Prof of Earth Sciences, George Mason Univ - Iowa State Memorial Union (maps), Sun Room - Ames IA

Feb 3-16 - Darwin's Nightmare at the Ross Theater - note the special event talk at 4:30 PM Sun. Feb 12th - Lincoln

Sunday, Feb 5, 1:30PM - Monkey Trial - film (limited seating) at the Nebraska State Historical Society - Lincoln

Friday, Feb 10th, 5:30PM - Darwin and the Illusion of Intelligent Design - Niall Shanks, Wichita State Univ., Keynote speaker, Biological Sciences Darwin Day - Auditorium, Nebraska State Museum - Lincoln

Sunday, Feb 12th, 2:30 PM - Nebraska Citizens for Science, Darwin Day celebration , with Ted Burk - Rotunda, - Nebraska State Capital - Lincoln

Wednesday, Feb 15th, 7PM - The United States of Europe - T.R. Reid, Rocky Mountain bureau chief, Washington Post - Thompson Forum lecture, Lied Center - Lincoln

Thursday Feb 16th, 7:30PM - Michael Ruse - Change and the Victorians: Charles Darwin and John Henry Newman, Hixson-Lied Science Building Room G04 (campus map), Creighton Univ - - Omaha

Thursday, Mar 9th, 7PM Dan Crawford, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy, UNL. Is Evolution Compatible with Monotheistic Religion? - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, Mar 23rd, 7PM Bryan Schaaf The Kuiper Belt and New Planets Beyond Pluto - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Sunday, Apr 2nd, 10AM, SERMON - The Agnostic in the Abbey - Darwin's Religious Journey - Rev. Charles Stephen, Unitarian Church of Lincoln, 6300 A St - Lincoln

Thursday, Apr 6th, 7PM Martin Gaskell, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UNL. Current Cosmology - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, April 20th, 7PM. Abbie Smith, Nebraska Center for Virology (UNL Beadle Center); "The Evolution of HIV: Evolution in the fast lane" - Bennett-Martin Library 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, May 4th, 7 PM - Ray Hames, Dept of Anthropology & Geography , UNL. Human Evolution So Far: Recent Finds and Perennial Problems - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

May 7-11th - Evolution and spirituality workshops (see calendar) - Omaha

Thursday, May 18th, 7 PM - Clay Farris Naff, Vice President, Nebraska Citizens For Science."Song of Solomon: Music, Sex, and Evolution." - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, June 1st, 7 PM - Edgar Pearlstein, Professor emeritus, physics - Baloney detection - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, July 6th, 7 PM - Les Lane, Professor emeritus, Plant Pathology - Life after peak oil - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, July 20th, 7 PM - Brad Ericson, Assoc. Prof., Biology, UNK - The War on Science - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, August 3rd, 7 PM - John Maher will lead a discussion entitled, A New Kind of Science? - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, August 17th, 7 PM - The Nebraska Sand Hills: What They Tell About Past Droughts and What They May Forecast for the Future. David Loope, Ph.D., Professor of Geosciences, UNL. - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Friday, Saturday, August 25th, 26th, Creationist seminar in Omaha

To add events e-mail: llane1@unl.edu Thursday, September 7th, 7 PM - Pandemic Flu: How Realistic Are the Fears? How Good Are the Preparations? - Presenters Steve Frederick and Tim Timmons, Lincoln-Lancaster Department of Health - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, September 21st, 7 PM - Coprolites and Scientific Controversy in Archaeology: Migrations and Cannibalism Karl J. Reinhard, UNL School of Natural Resources - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Tuesday, October 3rd, 7 PM - Church and State Forum - St. Mark's on the Campus Episcopal Church (1309 R Street). Doors open at 6:30 PM. Event starts at 7:00 PM. The forum will run 60 to 90 minutes depending on the discussion - Lincoln

Thursday, October 5th, 7 PM - The Evolution of Nebraska Science Standards - Guest Presenter: Jim Woodland, Director, Science Education, Nebraska Department of Education - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, October 19th, 7 PM - Scientific dating of archaeological and paleontological sites - Guest Presenter: John Weymouth (UNL Physics & Astronomy Dept, emeritus) - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Wednesday, November 1st, 7 PM - Philosopher of science Michael Ruse - The Evolution Creation Struggle - event details - Doane College (Crete) Whitcomb Lee Conservatory - Campus map - pdf map

Thursday, November 2nd, 7 PM - The Psychology of Genocide - Guest presenter: David Moshman, professor of educational psychology, UNL - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, November 9th, 3:30 PM - Jean Michel Claverie - The Evolution of Giant Viruses: From Hard Facts to Wild speculations - School of Biological Sciences Seminar - 110 Hamilton Hall, Campus map - Lincoln

Thursday, November 16th, 7 PM - .Guest presenter: William Prange, - The Pythagorean Theorem - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, December 7th, 7 PM - Lewis and Clark: geological observations of the Great Plains - Guest Presenter: Bob Diffendal - UNL School of Natural Resources - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, January 4th, 7 PM - Free Will: New Thoughts on an Old Problem - Guest Presenter: Dimitrij Krynsky Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, January 18th, 7 PM - Messengers from outer space - Guest Presenter: Greg Snow - UNL Physics & Astronomy - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Sunday, January 21st, 7 PM - The climate detective: Unraveling the evidence for global warming - Prof. Kenneth F. Dewey, High Plains Regional Climate Center, UNL at the Unitarian Church of Lincoln - Lincoln

Sunday, January 28th, 7 PM - Basic warming science and an introduction to the Brokaw film on climate change - Prof. Clinton M. Rowe, Dept of Geosciences, UNL at the Unitarian Church of Lincoln - Lincoln

Thursday, February 1st, 7 PM - Ashfall fossil beds as an evolutionary time capsule - Guest Presenter: Mike Voorhies - UNL Geosciences, Museum - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Sunday, February 11th, 7 PM - The ANDRILL project: Determining 20 million years of climate conditions - Richard H. Levy - UNL Geosciences at the Unitarian Church of Lincoln - Lincoln

Monday, February 12th, 7 PM - Darwin Day talk - The origins and impact of Darwin's great idea - Al Kamil - Director of the UNL School of Biological Sciences - UNL Student Union - check the daily schedule at the union web site for room location - Lincoln

Thursday, February 15th, 7 PM - The Enlightenment - Guest Presenter: David Cahan - UNL History - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Sunday, February 18th, 7 PM - Public policy and the impediments to concern and action - Charles Harper - Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, Creighton University at the Unitarian Church of Lincoln - Lincoln

Sunday, February 25th, 7 PM - Christian environmental worldviews and the implications for climate change policy - Janel M. Curry - Dean of Research and Scholarship, Calvin College, Grand Rapids MI at the Unitarian Church of Lincoln - Lincoln

Thursday, March 1st, Postponed - weather 7 PM - Islam and Modernity - Simon Wood, Ass't Professor, UNL Dept. of Classics and Religious Studies - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Sunday, March 4th, 7 PM - Tackling climate change: The U.S. potential for renewable energy and energy efficiency to 2030 - Charles F. Kutscher - National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden CO at the Unitarian Church of Lincoln - Lincoln

Tuesday, March 20th, 7:30 PM - Taking our Country Back - The Religious Right in Historical and Contemporary Perspective - Randall Balmer, Prof. of American Religious History, Columbia Univ. - Nebraska Union auditorium - Lincoln

Sunday April 1st 3:30 PM - The Lessons of the Scopes Case: Strategies for Responding to the Religious Right Today - Sam Walker, Emeritus Prof. Criminal Justice, UNO at the Unitarian Church of Lincoln - Lincoln

Thursday, April 5th 7 PM - Radiation is your friend - Clifford Bettis, Research Assoc. Professor, UNL, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, April 19th 7 PM - The one constant of climate is change - Kenneth F. Dewey, High Plains Regional Climate Center, UNL - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, May 3rd, 7 PM - Islam and Modernity - Simon Wood, Ass't Professor, UNL Dept. of Classics and Religious Studies - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, May 17th, 7 PM - The cosmological argument from design - Dr. Steve Lahey, UNL Dept of Classics and Religious Studies, UNL - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, June 7th, 7 PM - Topic - Prisoner's dilemma with Ken Gobber - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, July 5th, 7 PM - Video - Caulerpa taxifolia, Deep sea invasion - Nova program - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, July 19th, 7 PM - Video - Coelacanth, Ancient creature of the deep - Nova program - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, Aug 2nd, 7 PM - To be announced - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, Aug 16th, 7 PM - Video "To engineer is human" BBC Horizon series with Henry Petrosky (insights into what engineers may learn from the collapse of the I35W bridge) - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, Sept 6th, 7 PM - "What I Read This Summer: Great Books on Science and Religion", share your summer reading experience - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, Sept 20th, 7 PM - The Gnostic Gospels - Don Gibson - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, Oct 4th, 7 PM - Fighting Viruses With RNAi - Dr. Heriberto Cerutti, Biological Sciences, UNL - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, Oct 18th, 7 PM - Kidnapped by UFOs? - Nova program (video)- Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, Nov 1st, 7 PM - Did a Giant Asteroid Kill the Dinosaurs? - Dr. Greg Snow, Dept of Physics, UNL - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Friday, Nov 2nd, 7:30 PM - The Moon Hoax - Phil Plait (the Bad Astronomer) - Nebraska Union auditorium - Sponsored by the UNL Center for Science, Mathematics, and Computer Education and the Department of Physics and Astronomy - Lincoln

Thursday, Nov 15th, 7 PM - Extra Solar Planets: Worlds Beyond Our Cosmic Neighborhood with Bryan Schaaf - dimensions of our solar system, what is a planet (is Pluto a planet)?, how planets beyond the solar system were discovered - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, Dec 6th, 7 PM - Long-term perspectives on drought and climate - Sheri Fritz - Geosciences, UNL - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, Dec 20th, 7 PM - We'll watch excerpts from a film called What the Bleep Do We Know, and discuss which parts of it are credible and which are not - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, Mar 6th, 7 PM - Unravelling Antarctica's climatic history - Richard Levy - ANDRILL project - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, Mar 20th, 7 PM - Nova program (video - Ape Genius - Bennett-Martin Library, 4th fl., 14th and N Streets - Lincoln

Thursday, April 3rd, 7 - 8:30 PM Brad Erickson, Biology Dept, UNK - The Biggest Question Remaining in Biology: How Did Geochemistry Give Rise to Biochemistry? - Note change of venue! Eiseley Library, 1530 Superior St. - Lincoln

Thursday, April 17th, 7 - 8:30 PM, Video - Interview of Robert Chapman, creator of "Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination" about how high schools prepare students for the 21st century - Note change of venue! - St Paul United Methodist Church - 1144 M Street (corner of 12th and M streets) - Lincoln

Thursday, May 1st, 7 - 8:30 PM, Clay Naff will present A Fabulous Evolutionary Defense of Dualism - Note new venue! - St Paul United Methodist Church - 1144 M Street (corner of 12th and M streets) - Lincoln

Thursday, May 15th, 7 - 8:30 PM, The Cyberspace Age: Impact and Opportunity - Dr. Richard Sincovec - Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, UNL - Note new venue! - St Paul United Methodist Church - 1144 M Street (corner of 12th and M streets) - Lincoln