1st Wednesday 7PM The Salon
Sleights of Mind
Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD and Stephen MacNick, PhD, neuroscientists at Barrow Neurological Institute, who work with famous Las Vegas magicians with their research about vision, magic and the brain, will discuss their book ‘Sleights of Mind’.
http://smc.neuralcorrelate.com/
http://macknik.neuralcorrelate.com/node/16
http://www.sleightsofmind.com/
2nd Thursday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Bee Brains and Our Sense of Self
Brian Smith, PhD, director of the School of Life Sciences, ASU, will discuss how the brain evolved a sense of self, and what bee brains tell us about ourselves.
http://sols.asu.edu/people/faculty/bsmith.php
5th Sunday 11AM The Salon (chair)
Art Glass of BJ Katz
Artist BJ Katz, will discuss her glass art and tour members at her new Meltdown Glass Art and Design studio in Tempe.
http://www.bjkatz.com/
7th Tuesday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Rituals for a Healthy Life
Howard Silverman, MD, assistant dean of Information Resources, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, will discuss how to develop healthy routines of nutrition, sleep, exercise, and life style.
http://bms.med.arizona.edu/faculty/howard-silverman-md
11th Saturday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Music for Piano
Pianist Mark Fuller, who has been awarded in several international piano competitions including the Van Clibern Amatuer, will perform one of Haydn's late sonatas and Musorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuXyIPC9-y4&list=UU3Xh40Vb5tSHlg5ayVbtfuA&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuG-yxS9IxU
13th Monday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Scientific Illiteracy and the Implications
Sander Van der Leeuw, PhD, Dean of the School of Sustainability, ASU, will discuss the implications of the population not having scientific understanding in areas such as evolution, climate change, neuroscience, etc.
http://sustainability.asu.edu/people/persbio.php?pid=3352
15th Wednesday 7PM The Salon (chair)
A Personal Journey into
the Culture of Ethiopia
Author and adventurer Gertraud Wild will discuss her personal journey traveling to experience first hand the people, culture and place of Ethiopia.
18th Saturday 7PM The Salon
Reading Dead Languages for Fun
Richard Nilsen, arts critic at The Arizona Republic, will discuss the fun he finds reading The Epic of Gilgemesh, Xenophon’s writings of Socrates, Shakespeare, and other works from the past.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/
20th Monday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Race and Presidential Politics
Matthew Whitaker, PhD, director of The Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, ASU, will discuss issues of race and US Presidential politics.
https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/91993
23rd Thursday 7:15pm The Salon
Global Health Complexity
Ana Magdulena Hurtado, PhD, a human evolutionary ecologist and professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, ASU, who researches biological, cultural and social dimensions of human health, will discuss global health issues.
http://shesc.asu.edu/hurtado
25th Saturday 7PM The Salon (chair)
The Wedding in Papua, New Guinea
Pauline Davies, PhD, a radio science journalist with extensive career in international journalism, and Paul Davies, PhD, a world renowned author, physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist, who directs The Beyond Center at ASU, will discuss and show images and videos of their personal experience of being involved at the traditional tribal wedding of Pauline’s Australian niece to a tribal member in Papua, New Guinea.
http://cosmos.asu.edu/
http://humancommunication.clas.asu.edu/content/pauline-davies
29th Wednesday 7PM The Salon
Frank Lloyd Wright
Award winning contemporary architect Eddie Jones, will discuss with Victor Sidy, Dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, the life of Frank Lloyd Wright.
http://www.jonesstudioinc.com/
http://www.taliesin.edu/dean.html
http://www.franklloydwright.org/web/Home.html
