What is the Denver Café Scientifique2?
Many people have told us that the Café at the 'Koop is sometimes very crowded (yes, we noticed!) and also, Tuesdays are not always convenient for some people (if inconvenience were randomly distributed, that would be one seventh of our list). So we thought we'd try a second Café, never on the same night as the original. It's an experiment. Eric Meer, long-time Café enthusiast, is the point person, and a small (we hope, soon to grow) committee is helping him.
Place: Brooklyn's at the Pepsi Center. 901 Auraria Parkway, directly across the parkway from the Auraria Campus. Lots of free or cheap parking on non-game nights (drive around the little circle, into the lot, tell the attendant (if any) that you're coming to the Café Sci). This is a sports bar, and huge, but there is an upstairs lounge area that is pretty quiet on evenings when the Nuggets, Avalanche, Mammoth, and Broncos are not playing. That dictates when we will schedule a Café. They are nice people and the waitstaff are reported to all be science buffs; food and drink available throught the evening.
Time: 6:30 PM, running until 8 PM.
Next: Monday 30 January 2012.
Speaker: Alan Vajda, PhD, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Colorado Denver
Topic: Toilet to Tap: How the chemistry of growing populations impacts reproduction, metabolism, and cognition
MORE INFORMATION: Vajda page
Future Café2s
Previous Café2 talks:
7 December 2011: Kevin Fitzgerald, DVM, on Species in Crisis: Polar Bears, Bees, and Amphibians Read about it
21 November 2011: Andrew Freeman on No More Pills! Exercise is Medicine: Using Exercise to Improve Health. Read about it.
24 October 2011: Jeffrey Kieft and James DeGregori on Evolution 101 and how it saves lives. Read about it.
26 September 2011: Frank Krell on Little Gourmands: Why We Can’t Live without Dung Beetles. Read about it.
29 August 2011: American Chemical Society and PBS on Marie Curie: A Lasting Legacy. Read about it.
29 June 2011: Drs. James and Louise Gunderson on consciousness and artificial intelligence. Read about it.
23 May 2011: Russ Schnell on The Air You Breathe- It Ain't What it Used to Be! Read about it.
26 April 2011: David Grinspoon on What is life and how should we look for it elsewhere in the universe? Read about it.
28 March 2011: Richard Stucky on Salamander Showdown at the Ivory Condominium! Read about it.
21 February 2011: Webster Cash on Starshade: The Search for Habitable Planets & Life in the Universe! Read about it.
27 January 2011: Martin Lockley on the origin of consciousness! Read about it.
6 December 2010: Julien Riel-Salvatore on sophisticated Neanderthalst! Read about it.
28 October 2010: Timberley Roane on good bugs in the environment! Read about it.
Everyone is welcome!
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