(You normally shouldn't see this. Dang.) Cafe Scientifique Orlando is a gathering of scientifically-inclined people in Central Florida, who meet at a cafe, coffee house, pub, or nonacademic location to discuss events and ideas in the world of science. We enjoy beer and wine, and we use plain language to talk about extraordinary ideas.

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Evolution in School

Presenter: 
Savage, Kathy
When: 
Wednesday, 4 February 2009 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Venue: 
Stardust
Where: 
Stardust Video and Coffee
Street:
1842 E Winter Park Rd.
City:
Orlando
,
Postal Code:
32803
Country:
United States

We continue with COPUS Year-of-Science-2009 themes, making this month’s theme “Evolution”. Evolution is the unifying theory of biological sciences, and without it very little of biology makes sense. It remains one of the most respected theories in science, and yet in the general population in the United States, about the same percentage “believe in evolution” as “believe in ghosts”. In a poll spanning 34 countries, only Turkey ranked lower than the US in acceptance of evolution.

Our presenter, Kathy Savage, is a high-school science teacher in Oveido and board member of Florida Citizens for Science. She will tell us of her struggles, both in teaching students who are already inculcated to distrust science and particularly evolution, and in helping to protect Florida’s new science education standards from being poisoned with nonscientific ideas.

Future Café Scientifique Events

Our next event is…

(TBA)

Presenter: 
Kuebler, Stephen M.
When: 
Wednesday, 6 October 2010 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Venue: 
Taste
Where: 
Taste
Street:
717 W. Smith Street
City:
Orlando
,
Province:
Florida
Postal Code:
32804
Country:
United States

(Topic TBA)

Stephen M. Kuebler joined the faculty at the University of Central Florida in August of 2003 as an Assistant Professor through a joint appointment with the Department of Chemistry and CREOL. Kuebler earned a BS degree in chemistry and a BA degree in German from Tulane University. He was awarded a Marshall Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Fellowship to pursue graduate research in chemistry at the University of Oxford. There he earned the DPhil degree for his studies of the third-order nonlinear optical properties of molecular materials with Professors Robert G. Denning and Malcolm L. H. Green. Before joining UCF, Kuebler worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and later at the University of Arizona investigating the photophysics, photochemistry, and applications of two-photon absorbers. In 2008 he was awarded an NSF CAREER Award and promoted to Associate Professor. His broader interests include the physical and chemical properties of optical and electronic materials and their development for new technologies.

Dr Keubler presented earlier at Cafe Sci.

Past Café Scientifique Events
Building Planets on Suborbital Rockets 1 September, 2010 - 19:00
International Opportunities: Collaborations, Partnerships, Exchanges and More 4 August, 2010 - 19:00
Inorganic Biochemical Lessons from Nature 7 July, 2010 - 19:00
Sewage Contamination of Florida’s Coral Reefs 2 June, 2010 - 19:00
Using Light to Make Materials 5 May, 2010 - 19:00
Search for Extraterrestrial Life 7 April, 2010 - 19:00
Fast Food and Nutritional Perceptions 3 March, 2010 - 19:00
Rehabilitating Raptors 3 February, 2010 - 19:00
The National Children's-Health Study 6 January, 2010 - 19:00
High-Fructose Corn Syrup 2 December, 2009 - 19:00
Energy Issues 4 November, 2009 - 19:00
Building the Amazon 7 October, 2009 - 19:00
Evolution, Biodiversity and Conservation 2 September, 2009 - 19:00
Climate Change 5 August, 2009 - 19:00
Surface Water Improvement 3 June, 2009 - 19:00
Measuring Exoplanets from Space 6 May, 2009 - 19:00
Ethical Quandaries in Genetics 1 April, 2009 - 19:00
Physics of Saturn's Ring System 4 March, 2009 - 19:00
Evolution in School 4 February, 2009 - 19:00
The Nature of Science 7 January, 2009 - 19:00
The Neandertal Enigma 3 December, 2008 - 19:00
Tidal Modeling in the 21st Century 5 November, 2008 - 19:00
The War on Weeds 1 October, 2008 - 19:00
On Water Pollution 3 September, 2008 - 19:00
Evolutionary Antecedents of Obesity 6 August, 2008 - 19:00
Phoenix on the Red Planet 2 July, 2008 - 19:00

Topics We'd Love to See

What are some topics you’d like to have? Tell us in your comments below. See our full schedule to know what we’ve had and plan to have, before adding something new.

Additionally, if you are a scientific expert interested in presenting a topic, please email us.

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