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- Reimagining Policing 2.0. (Hybrid)
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Following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 massive protests against police brutality emerged throughout the United States and even overseas. A movement called Defund the Police was initially popularized and led to political struggles in many urban communities. Over the past three years a strong counter reaction to Defund the Police has focused on law and order, concerned about higher rates of violent crime. The police in our country continue to kill approximately 1,100 citizens per year in our country. The most recent example of Tyree Nichols in Memphis is a continuation of this problem. Neither Defund the Police nor Law and Order are answers to this significant societal issue. We must reimagine how we police in this country to truly tackle this in a comprehensive manner.
For those attending in-person bring your lunch at noon and enjoy the lecture at 12:30.
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This talk is also being live-streamed at 12:30 on Zoom. Click here to pre-register on Zoom.
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- Impacts and Extinctions (Zoom)
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Speaker: Bruce Balick
Dates: W, 10/11/2023
Times: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom Online
From a cosmic perspective, mass extinctions refresh life on Earth (although the dinosaurs might not quite see it that way). The fossil record shows that there have been five mass extinction events in the past half-billion years, each followed by new and better adapted life forms on Earth. In this talk I explore the astronomical causes, biological consequences, and geological evidence for of these events, with emphasis on the more recent one 66 million years ago. We will find that future extinction events are on the way (and unavoidable). The next extinction event, Climate Change, may well be inevitable and self inflicted.
Members, look for the Zoom pre-registration link in an upcoming Weekly Email.
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- Anna King and Ghost Herd (Zoom)
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Speaker: Anna King
Dates: W, 10/18/2023
Times: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom Online
Join us as we hear from Anna King, investigative reporter for the Northwest News Network. We’ll hear about her recent podcast, Ghost Herd (ghostherd.org). Anna will tell stories and answer questions about reporting across the Northwest. Ghost Herd starts as an American success story, then it all comes crashing down. It tells the story of Cody Easterday, the man at the center of one of the largest cattle swindles in U.S. history. Easterday invented a “ghost herd” of 265,000 cattle that only existed on paper … and swindled companies including a meat-packing giant to the tune of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars. Ghost Herd is a story of family and fraud, but also a story about the value of dirt and the shifting powers in the American West.
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- The Electoral College: What Were They Thinking? (In-Person)
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In two of the last six presidential contests the candidate with the most popular votes has lost the election because they failed to win a majority of the votes for the Electoral College. This has raised the question of the legitimacy of the Electoral College as a method for choosing the President of the United States. How did this system for electing the President come about? How to choose a President was in fact one of the most difficult problems for the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. They would vote on the method more than 60 times before reaching a compromise on the Electoral College. This talk will explore the issues and the debates of the Framers of the Constitution and the reasons they settled on this method for electing the President.
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- An Update on RSV (Community Zoom Lecture)
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Speaker: Tia Babu
Dates: W, 11/1/2023
Times: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom Online
Dr Babu will review the epidemiology and pathogenesis of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and present the current studies which have led to the FDA approval of RSV vaccines, focusing on the recommendations for persons 60 years and older.
**This community lecture is open to all. Click here to pre-register on Zoom.
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- Iconography: Reading Symbols in Art (Hybrid)
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Iconography refers to the identification and interpretation of symbols, themes, and subject matter in the visual arts. In this lecture, we will discuss how art historians use iconography to explore how symbols in works of art can communicate meaning.
For those attending in-person bring your lunch at noon and enjoy the lecture at 12:30.
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This talk is also being live-streamed at 12:30 on Zoom. Click here to pre-register on Zoom.
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- The Fab British Rock 'N' Roll Invasion of 1964 (In-Person)
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Come and hear about the people and events who brought forth one of the most exciting times in rock & roll history: the British Rock invasion of America in the early 1960s. You'll hear how it all began and soon dominated the nation's radio and television airwaves for the greater part of that decade. You'll hear examples of the recordings of many who paved the way including stories and anecdotes of groups and individuals including the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Herman's Hermits. You'll also hear some rare studio outtakes of some of these artists as they created what later would become their well-known and loved masterpieces.
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- Empathy for Wildlife: Sharing Animal Stories for the Benefit of Communities and Nature (Zoom)
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Speaker: Marta Burnet
Dates: F, 11/17/2023
Times: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom Online
Let’s face it, the last few years have been isolating and people seem more divided than they have for a long time. Fostering empathy can be part of the solution. It is a powerful emotion that can drive connection with others and motivate behavior change. And zoos can be a wonderful place to build this skill by focusing on encouraging empathy for animals, which can provide a safe entry point for social connection and inspire people to take conservation action (as demonstrated by research). Come learn about how we promote empathy, hear stories about Woodland Park Zoo animals and find out how the zoo is helping to lead this movement nationwide.
Members, look for the Zoom pre-registration link in an upcoming Weekly Email.
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- Vaccines to Treat and Prevent Cancer (Zoom)
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Speaker: Kiran Dhillon
Dates: F, 12/1/2023
Times: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom Online
Vaccines can train the immune system to detect and destroy cancer cells. Dr. Dhillon will share cutting edge research on the development of vaccines to treat and prevent several types of solid cancers, including breast, colon, ovarian, prostate, and bladder. She will discuss vaccine and related research that is in development in the laboratory and in clinical trials at the University of Washington.
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- Puget Sound: A Maritime Highway (Hybrid)
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From canoes to the mosquito fleet to our modern day ferry system, boats have been a principal means of travel around Puget Sound. In a landscape dominated by forest and sea, water was often the best way to get from point A to point B. In this talk, which is based on research for his book, Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound, I explore the 13,000-year history transportation in this extraordinary waterway to illustrate how landscape has a central influence on the residents of a place and how they live their lives.
For those attending in-person bring your lunch at noon and enjoy the lecture at 12:30.
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This talk is also being live-streamed at 12:30 on Zoom. Click here to pre-register on Zoom.
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- The Northwest's Cataclysmic Ice Age Floods (Zoom)
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Speaker: Dale Lehman
Dates: F, 12/15/2023
Times: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom Online
Early settlers in the Northwest were perplexed by the intriguing landscape of dry waterfalls, dry river channels, and the scarred landscape they called scabland. This seminar will introduce you to the fascinating story of how scientists and explorers pieced together an explanation for the flood-carved features of the Pacific Northwest.
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