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SUMMARY:Darwin Day Speaker and Hub Anniversary Party
DESCRIPTION:Where:\nSecular Hub\n254 Knox Ct\nDenver\, CO\, 80205 \n\n13 Years of The Hub & The Fight for Science! Celebrate two milestones in one night! \n\nThe Talk: Nick Schweitzer explores the fascinating (and often controversial) history of evolution in our legal and education systems.\nThe Milestone: It’s our 13th Birthday! We’re celebrating over a decade of skeptical inquiry and community.\nThe Fun: After the Q&A\, we’re throwing an anniversary bash you won’t want to miss.\n\nCome for the science\, stay for the celebration. Doors Open at 5:30\, talk at 6:00 with Q & A to follow and anniversary celebration after that wraps up \nSpeaker\nNick Schweitzer John Nicholas (“Nick”) Schweitzer is a retired attorney living in Madison\, Wisconsin. His legal field was professional ethics\, serving as an administrative law judge for the state agency that issued and regulated licenses for scores of professions. He also taught legal ethics as an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and conducted attorney discipline hearings for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Utterly unrelated to that professional focus\, he fancies himself an “amateur scientist”\, promoting science and reason in various ways: \n\n1. He has inveigled the Madison Parks Commission into letting him install various scientific exhibits in city parks over the past 20 years. These include – the solar system at an appropriate scale for objects and distances; – a geological and evolutionary timeline using distance as an analog for time; – an anthropological timeline from Australopithecus to modern humans; – the electromagnetic spectrum from sound to gamma rays; – the size of the constituents of the classical model of an atom; and – the layers of the earth.\n2. In response to a creationist booth he encountered at the Dane County Fair\, for 3 years he countered it on the other side of the exhibit hall with a “science and reason” booth using exhibits borrowed from many departments at the local university.\n3. This past year (April – November)\, with the help of the local Humanist and Skeptics groups\, he set up and staffed an atheist/agnostic/humanist/skeptic/freethinker table at the weekly farmers’ market in Madison.\n4. He leads a monthly discussion group at his freethought congregation titled “What I Believe Now”.\n5. He has presented this “Evolution in the Courts” lecture at least half a dozen times to students in the local university’s genetics program.\n\n6. He was at one time the co-chair of the Wisconsin chapter of the Secular Coalition before the national organization disbanded its state chapters. \n\nHosted by: Pete Haines
URL:https://darwinday.org/event/darwin-day-speaker-and-hub-anniversary-party-nick-schweitzer/
LOCATION:Secular Hub\, 3100 Downing St. #C\, Denver\, CO\, 80246\, United States
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SUMMARY:18th Annual Darwin Day Dinner - Celebrating curiosity\, science and scientists
DESCRIPTION:Evolution in Darwin’s Tangled Bank: Tree\, Coral or Web of Life? In the final paragraph of The Origin of Species\, Darwin contemplates a bank of land and all of the differing life forms that dwell on that bank—plants\, birds\, worms\, etc. All of these various life forms were produced by the same set of natural laws. While the life forms are widely different from each other\, they are also “dependent on each other in so complex a manner.” \nOur guest of honor\, University of Connecticut’s Distinguished Professor Dr. J. Peter Gogarten\, will explore the symbiotic relationships and genetic exchange between different organisms in his presentation\, followed by a fireside chat moderated by Kira Dineen (founder and host of DNA Today) and audience Q&A. \nJoin us on February 7th\, 2026 for cocktail hour\, dinner\, science quiz (with prizes!)\, and a presentation by Distinguished Professor J. Peter Gogarten.
URL:https://darwinday.org/event/18th-annual-darwin-day-dinner-celebrating-curiosity-science-and-scientists/
LOCATION:The Water’s Edge at Giovanni’s\, 2748 Boston Post Road\, Darien\, CT\, 06820\, United States
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