Some of you may know Alder from ProtoTista. For those who don't I'm
tossing in a few keywords: non-linear systems, complexity, chaos theory,
fractals,...
or just check for yourself:
http://www.prototista.org/
- Horst
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:10:46 -0700
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:28:32 -0700
From: Alder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Three public presentations by Alder Fuller
Hi all,
I'm offering three public lectures in Eugene during the last week of
September.
1. Monday, September 25, 6:00 - 8:00 PM at New Day Bakery/World Cafe at 449
Blair St., 345-1695.
Topic: New Views of Life & Earth: A Few Key Ideas from the Sciences of
Complexity.
2. Wednesday, September 27, 7:00 - 9:00 PM at Maitreya Ecovillage, 1641 W.
Broadway Ave. 344-7196.
Global Warming & Climate Change: What Al Gore is NOT Telling You.
3. Friday, September 29 at Tsunami Books, 5:30 - 7:00 PM at 2585 Willamette
St., 345-8986.
Topic: Global Warming and Climate Change: What Al Gore is NOT Telling You.
The text from the fliers for both topics are below.
(Please note: topics for Wednesday, Sept 27 and Friday, Sept 29 are the
same, but only one flier is included here.)
Fliers with relevant imagery are available on the ProtoTista web site:
http://www.prototista.org/publects.htm
These presentations are being offered during the week before free
presentations begin at Euglena during the first week of fall term. Fall
term schedule - along with schedules for winter and spring, '07 - will
be distributed and posted to the ProtoTista home page within days....
Please forward this notice to others. (We've notified local media about
both presentations.)
Thanks,
Alder
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*New Views of Life & Earth*
*A Few Key Ideas from the Sciences of Complexity*
Lecture & Slide Presentation by Alder Fuller, Ph.D., Euglena Edu
Monday, September 25, 2006, 6:00 -- 8:00 PM
New Day Bakery/World Cafe, *449 Blair St., 345-1695*
Collectively called "complexity", yet elegantly simple, complexity is a
set of new, interdisciplinary sciences studying /networks /of many
interacting parts like cells, genetic systems, brains, hearts, immune
systems, species, ecosystems, climates, societies, organizations &
economies. It is being developed by leading scientists, including
numerous Nobel laureates, yet is praised for being easily and
intuitively understandable by virtually anyone regardless of educational
background. Complexity is relevant because it: 1) provides /radical/ new
views of life - from cells to organisms to ecosystems to planetary-scale
living systems -- and biological evolution and cognition; 2) offers new
models of physical & psychological health; and 3) is necessary for
understanding global ecological changes, including global warming &
climate change.
This one-hour, 15 minute lecture and slide presentation - followed by
Q&A - will introduce several key ideas from complexity including
networks, emergence, self-organization, geophysiology (AKA Gaia theory),
symbiogenesis (a major advance in our understanding of biological
evolution equivalent in importance to Darwin's natural selection),
chaos, phase transitions, fractal geometry, cellular automata & other
topics.
___________
*Global Warming & Climate Change*
*What Al Gore is NOT telling you*
Lecture and Slide Presentation by Alder Fuller, Ph.D.
Friday, September 29, 2006 5:30 -- 7:00 PM
Tsunami Books, *2585 Willamette St., 345-8986*
Global warming & climate change -- the greatest challenges that humans
have faced in the history of civilization - are receiving exponentially
greater attention in news media & public perception. This is largely due
to Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" & record setting climate
events like Hurricane Katrina & the US heat wave of summer, 2006.
However, neither mainstream media nor Mr. Gore are telling the whole
story about global warming. Mr. Gore asserts that we can still stop it
with modest efforts. Indeed, we should try. But there is credible
evidence that we may be too late to stop global warming; indeed,
increasing numbers of climatologists are encouraging us to begin
planning -- personally & at community-level -- what to do if we cannot
stop it.
This one-hour lecture & slide presentation, followed by Q&A, will
explore these issues, including evidence of current & past changes; the
astonishingly rapid rates of climate change driven by positive feedback
processes; realistic measures required to slow it; what a climate change
will look like; & the urgency with which we must prepare for it to
minimize suffering if we cannot stop it. The lecture will also include
several key ideas from the sciences of complexity necessary to
understand these issues, including some simple principles of systems
theory, chaos theory, geophysiology (AKA Gaia theory, the science of
Earth as a self-regulating living system).
__________
Alder Fuller, Ph.D. (UNM, ecology/evolution, 1990), founder and primary
instructor of Euglena Education, LLC, Eugene, has studied and taught
biology and mathematics for over three decades, and complexity for a
decade. Alder is also working to build a non-profit organization,
ProtoTista, that will expand the goals of Euglena Edu.
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