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SCIENCE & IDEAS GROUP

When:

Wednesday, July 12, 2017, 3:00 PM until 5:00 PM

Where:

Ashby Village Office
1821 Catalina Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94707

510-204-9200

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SCIENCE & IDEAS INTEREST GROUP

RSVP: to Gerry Abrams scabrams@att.net

WHEN: Wednesday, July 12, 3:00-5:00 PM

WHERE: Ashby Village Office
1821 Catalina Ave., Berkeley

Here is the list of topics and references we shall discuss at our next meeting:

Aging, Death & Dying
First, the memoir suggested by Bill Loughman: Grumbach, Doris: "Coming Into the End Zone, A Memoir". W.W.Norton, NY 1991 ISBN 0-393-30944-4
And, a most interesting TED video: https://www.ted.com/talks/bj_miller_what_really_matters_at_the_end_of_life In fact, the whole TED sector on Death may be worth mining intensively.

Climate Change
With a big thank you to Ella Hirst, I went to the Albany Library talk presented by Andrew Gunther. [ http://andrewgunther.com/ ] He is an expert on Climate Change; more importantly for our purposes, he is skilled at presenting to lay audiences scientific facts (not opinions) in a clear, informative and non-combative manner. Please check out his website - his background and style may make him ideal as a guest speaker to the Village at large. Perhaps we can start the planning toward such a Talk for some time this Fall. Among the wealth of information he presented, Andy pointed towards a website dedicated to dealing with the arguments of climate change deniers: [ https://www.skepticalscience.com/ ]

Ashby Village
1821 Catalina Ave
Berkeley, CA 94707
(510) 204-9200
info@ashbyvillage.org