July 2008 Salons

 

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Why I Hate Plato

 

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Dr. Heidi's Anti-Aging Cookbook

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The Universe

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Architecture of [merz] project

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Resilience

 

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Italian Pop Songs

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Climate Change
and Water in the Valley

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Ravishing Renoir

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Sax and Violin!

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Evolutionary Roots of Us vs. Them

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31

Language as Insight to
Thoughts, Emotions, and Motives

 

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July Salons

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1st Tuesday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Why I Hate Plato

Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic arts and culture writer and critic,
will discuss why he blames Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher, for
many things, including the great, basic wrong turn European
civilization took early on (and in part, Richard also blames it on the
Greeks in general, because they had this odd confusion between
language and "reality").

http://www.azcentral.com/

 

9th Wednesday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Dr. Heidi's Anti-Aging Cookbook

Born in Zimbabwe, Heidi Regenass, M.D., a plastic surgeon who has been
dedicated to the holistic practice of medicine to help her patients
achieve their health and beauty goals, will discuss her anti-aging
cookbook and provide a treat from her cookbook to sample.

http://www.drheidi.com/meet_the_doctor.html

 

11th Friday 7PM The Salon (chair)
The Universe

Tod Lauer, PhD, an astronomer at the National Optical Astronomy
Observatory, who was a member of the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field
and Planetary Camera team, will discuss the local structure of the
Universe, galaxies, black holes, dark energy and various cosmological
issues.

http://www.noao.edu/noao/staff/lauer/

 

12th Saturday 10AM The Salon
Architecture of [merz] project

Joe Herzog, the principal architect and director of the [merz] project
design studio, will tour the firm's founding principal Chris Nieto's
Hoover Home, a residential remodel in a downtown historic
neighborhood.

http://www.merzproject.com/

 

16th Wednesday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Resilience

Jeffrey Zeig, PhD, founder and director of the Milton H. Erickson
Foundation and architect of The Evolution of Psychotherapy
Conferences, will discuss resilience.

http://www.jeffzeig.com/

 

18th Friday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Italian Pop Songs

Rich Needham, will perform guitar and sing a selection of melodic
Italian contemporary music (rock, folk, pop) from many different
artists, and translate the words and poetry within the songs.

 

22nd Tuesday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Climate Change
and Water in the Valley

Patricia Gober, PhD, co-Director of the ASU Decision Center for a
Desert City will discuss her current research dealing with climate
change and the Valley's water future, and related topics from her
book on the Valley's future.

http://dcdc.asu.edu/dcdcmain/participants/persshow.jsp?id=157

 

23rd Wednesday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Ravishing Renoir

Lesley Veit, a docent at The Phoenix Art Museum, will discuss the
Impressionist paintings of the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

 

25th Friday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Sax and Violin!

Musician Barry Smith will perform his electric violin and saxophone at
a dramatic Tempe architectural space.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sAqZht8MyM

 

29th Tuesday 10AM The Salon (chair)
Evolutionary Roots of Us vs. Them

On this morning salon at a Scottsdale art gallery, Steven Neuberg,
PhD, a professor of psychology at ASU, will discuss the evolutionary
roots of prejudice and intergroup conflict.

http://www.asu.edu/clas/psych/neuberg/Lab.htm

 

31st Thursday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Language as Insight to
Thoughts, Emotions, and Motives

Matt Newman, PhD, whose background is in both social psychology and
neuroscience, and who is a professor of psychology at ASU, will
discuss his research on linguistic style in the understanding of
state of mind, truthfulness, and gender differences.

http://www.matt-newman.net/

 

 

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