Readings/Lectures/Showings December 2005

NSWA Events Calendar

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Some events may require advance registration or admission fee. Check with the sponsoring organizations listed at the bottom of this calendar for further details. Please send additions or corrections to alan.boyle@msnbc.com—and feel free to submit events for future calendars.

Thursday, December 1, 7 p.m.:
Reading and book signing by Brian Atwater, author of “The Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America.” University Book Store in the University District. http://www.bookstore.washington.edu

Thursday, December 1, 7:30 p.m.:
Reading and book signing by wilderness photographer Art Wolfe featuring two new books “Vanishing Act” and “Seven Summits: High Peaks of the Pacific Northwest.” Elliott Bay Book Company. http://www.elliottbaybook.com

Saturday, December 3, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.:
Boeing engineer Mike Friend displays his Twister homebuilt aircraft, with a 2 p.m. video at the William M. Allen Theater. Museum of Flight, 9404 E. Marginal Way S., Seattle. Event is free with museum admission. http://www.museumofflight.org

Saturday, December 3, after sunset:
Star parties at Seattle’s Green Lake Park and Shoreline’s Paramount Park, sponsored by the Seattle Astronomical Society. http://www.seattleastro.org/events.html

Sunday, December 4, 4 p.m.:
“Alien,” a film screening presented by the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame and hosted by Kathleen Murphy.
Experience Music Project’s JBL Theatre. http://www.sfhomeworld.org

Monday, December 5, 7:30 p.m.:
The Town Hall meeting “Health Care: A Road Map for Change” follows up on the 10-part health care series that appeared in the Seattle P-I earlier this year. The featured speakers are Robert Brook, vice president of RAND and director RAND Health, and Patricia Q. Schoeni, executive director of the National Coalition on Health Care. Panel participants include former Washington Gov. Booth Gardner; Margaret Stanley, executive director, Puget Sound Health Alliance; Steve Hill, administrator, Washington State Health Care Authority; and David Huether, president and director, Taco Del Mar. The moderator is Mark Trahant of the Seattle P-I. Tickets are $5. Seattle Town Hall. http://www.foolproof.org/2005/season/codebluenow.html for tickets.

Monday, December 5, 7:30 p.m.:
Reading and book signing by adventure correspondent Ames Campbell, author of “The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness.” Elliott Bay Book Company. http://www.elliottbaybook.com

Tuesday, December 6, 7 p.m.:
University of Washington physicist Craig Hogan speaks on “Beyond Einstein: Observing the Edges of Space and Time,” at the University of Alaska in Anchorage, Consortium Library, Room 307. A World Year of Physics panel discussion follows at 8 p.m., with UA’s Gail Raymond, Vic Fischer and Fred Pearce joining Hogan as panelists.

Tuesday, December 6, 7:30 p.m.:
“Wilderness and Imagination” is a special event presented by Seattle Arts & Lectures and North Cascades Institute. The featured guests include Subhankar Banerjee, wildlife photographer; Terry Tempest Williams, poet and environmental activist; and David Allen Sibley, ornithologist, bird illustrator and author. Benaroya Hall, S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium
http://www.lectures.org/wilderness.html
Banerjee’s photographic exhibit, “Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land,” is on display at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle through December 31.

Wednesday, December 7, 5:30 p.m.:
Reading and book signing by Michael McClosky, featuring his memoir “In the Thick of It: My Life in the Sierra Club.” Elliott Bay Book Company. http://www.elliottbaybook.com

Wednesday, December 7, 7:30 p.m.:
Reading and book signing by Anna Pavord, The Independent’s gardening correspondent and author of “The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants.” Elliott Bay Book Company. http://www.elliottbaybook.com

Wednesday, December 8, noon-1 p.m.:
Philip Horner, Department of Neurological Surgery, is the New Investigator Lecturer for the Science in Medicine series. He will be speaking about his work on stem cells. This lecture is open to all faculty, staff and students and will be simultaneously televised at Harborview and the VA. T-625, T-Wing, Health Sciences Building. http://www.uwmedicine.org/research

Saturday, December 10, 8 p.m.:
Reading and book signing by science fiction writer David Marusek, author of “Counting Heads.” Elliott Bay Book Company. http://www.elliottbaybook.com

Sunday, December 11, 4 p.m.:
“Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan,” a film screening presented by the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame and hosted by Tom Keogh. Experience Music Project's JBL Theatre. http://www.sfhomeworld.org

Tuesday, December 13, 4 p.m.:
“The Fear of Genetic Discrimination and the Need for a Public Policy Solution” lecture is sponsored by the Forum on Science Ethics and Policy. The speaker is Timothy Leshan, branch chief and senior policy analyst, Office of Policy, Communication and Education, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health. Physics and Astronomy Auditorium, A102, University of Washington. http://www.fosep.org/

Thursday, December 15, 2005 7:00 pm:
Location: Third Place Books - Lake Forest Park
Title of Event: Brian Atwater & Dave Yamaguchi, The Orphan Tsunami of 1700
(UW Press & U.S. Geological Survey)

The outside world scarcely knew of northwestern North America in 1700. Yet, when tectonic plates suddenly shifted here in 1700, a train of ocean waves - a tsunami - sped across the Pacific Ocean, washing ashore in Japan. No "parent earthquake" warned of the tsunami, and only recently scientists linked a Northwest quake to the Japanese flooding. Come experience the graphic detail and narrative of the creation, action, and lasting effects of earthquakes and tsunamis.
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America

December 26-31, 11 a.m.-noon, 2-3 p.m.:
Tip-to-tail tours of the Lockheed M/D-21 Blackbird plane and drone, Great Gallery, Museum of Flight, Seattle. Free with museum admission. http://www.museumofflight.org