From: Eric Muller (emuller@isaac.exploratorium.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 13:43:15 PDT
Message-Id: <a05100303b9d22e54586a@[192.174.3.225]> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:43:15 -0700 From: Eric Muller <emuller@isaac.exploratorium.edu> Subject: Fwd: Wonderfest 2002 at Stanford, Nov.2-3
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>CONTENTS:
>1) Wonderfest 2002 dialogues
>2) Inaugural evening dialogue
>3) $5000 Carl Sagan Prize
>4) WonderCup Challenge high school science team competition
>5) "Dialogue Guides"
>6) Voltaire's donation invitation!
>
>Dear Friends of Wonderfest,
>
>1) Wonderfest 2002 is coming. The Bay Area Festival of Science
>happens on the weekend of November 2-3 at Stanford University. This
>year's dialogues promise to be as exciting and enlightening as ever.
>Topics include the evolution of human intelligence, the limits of
>computer power, and sex differences in cognition. Please peruse the
>beautifully refurbished Wonderfest website
><http://www.wonderfest.org> for full details, including directions
>and ticket information. [Thanks to Eric Yao for his graceful
>website design!].
>
>2) For the first time since its creation, Wonderfest will feature
>an EVENING dialogue. Stanford cosmologists Savas Dimopolous and
>Andrei Linde will tackle "Where Did the Universe Come From?" at
>8:00pm on Saturday, November 2.
>
>3) In another first for Wonderfest, that Saturday evening dialogue
>will begin with a presentation of the Carl Sagan Prize for Science
>Popularization. This new $5000 annual award goes to a Bay Area
>researcher who has contributed significantly to public scientific
>enlightenment. The Sagan Prize is underwritten by Annual Reviews
><http://www.annualreviews.org/> as a tribute to their President and
>Editor-in-Chief, Samuel Gubins.
>
>4) Wonderfest 2002 has already begun for many Bay Area high school
>students. Round 1 of the WonderCup Challenge science contest took
>place last week *online* at
><http://www.wonderfest.org/wf2002/html/wondercup2.html>. As a
>consequence, the top 25 age- and gender-balanced teams of Bay Area
>science students will meet at Stanford to compete in Round 2 on
>Saturday morning, November 2. From those teams, just two will
>advance to the WonderCup Challenge Championship later that same day.
>Each member of the victorious team will win a laptop computer, and
>each 2nd place team member will win a $250 cash scholarship. All
>100 participants in Round 2 will receive Wonderfest day-passes --
>along with their now-augmented enthusiasm for science.
>
>5) To prepare for the 2002 dialogues, students and non-students
>alike may want to investigate Wonderfest's "Dialogue Guides"
><http://www.wonderfest.org/html/dialogue_subject_guides.html>. Each
>Guide offers an introduction to a dialogue topic as well as a set of
>thoughtful book and weblink recommendations.
>
>Wonderfest is less than three weeks away. Please don't miss it!
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Tucker Hiatt, Director
>
>6) P.S. Like many non-profit organizations of late, Wonderfest is
>having trouble funding its good deeds. We charge admission to
>Wonderfest dialogues, but that income is simply not sufficient to
>fund our operations. If you feel that you can contribute anything
>more to the cause of public scientific enlightenment, please
>unsheath your credit card and visit
><http://www.wonderfest.org/html/donations.html>. Thank you!
>
>P.P.S. Voltaire wrote, "Men will cease to commit atrocities only
>when they cease to believe absurdities." Unfortunately, men (and
>women) throughout the world continue to believe absurdities. And
>there is no simple antidote for such beliefs. But a capable and
>complex partial antidote is SCIENCE. At rock bottom, science is our
>best hope for supplanting the absurdities and for abating the
>atrocities. This is one big reason that efforts like Wonderfest are
>important.
>--
>***********************************
>Tucker Hiatt, Director
>Wonderfest
>P.O. Box 887
>(39 Fernhill Avenue)
>Ross, CA 94957
>thiatt@usfca.edu
>415-577-1126 (voice)
>415-454-2535 (fax)
>http://www.wonderfest.org
>
>Truth is a great flirt. - Franz Liszt
>***********************************
-- Eric Muller Exploratorium Teacher Institute Science Educator 3601 Lyon St. San Francisco, CA 94123415-561-0386 emuller@exploratorium.edu
www.doscience.com
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