Readings/Lectures/Showings
August 2006

NSWA Events Calendar

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Some events may require advance registration or admission fee. Check with the Sponsoring organizations for further details. Please send additions or corrections to deafrost atsign gmail dot com – and feel free to submit events for future calendars. Please put “NSWA-to be posted” in the subject line.

Dates to Save in September and October

September 8-10:
The “Star Trek” 40th Anniversary Gala Celebration and Conference will take place at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame ... and we’re working on ways for NSWA to become involved in that event. Stay tuned for updates on a panel that we hope will focus on the real science behind “Trek” fiction. Contact: NSWA president Alan Boyle, alan.boyle@msnbc.com.

September 14:
This is the official kickoff of NSWA’s 2006-2007 event schedule. You're invited to a special preview presentation associated with “Discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls,” the Pacific Science Center’s blockbuster exhibit. Featured speaker will be the science center’s president and chief executive officer, Bryce Seidl, who is intimately familiar with the science behind the scrolls. We’ll convene at 6:30 p.m. in the center’s Laser Dome. More details will be available in coming weeks. Contact: NSWA program chairman Michael Bradbury, mikeb@seanet.com.

Oct. 27-31:
Registration is open for the annual meeting of the National Association of Science Writers in Baltimore, held in conjunction with the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing’s New Horizons in Science briefing Oct. 27-31. This meeting will be held in Spokane and the Tri-Cities next year, with NSWA involved in the planning. So to get a foretaste of what awaits in 2007 ... and to find out what’s new in your profession and on the frontiers of science, make a date for Halloween in Baltimore.
http://www.nasw.org/meeting/next.htm

August Events

Wednesday, August 2, 7 p.m.:
Author Michael Laine reads from and signs LiftPort: Opening Space to Everyone. This collection combines science fiction and nonfiction essays on the space elevator. Once seen merely as a thought experiment, the elevator to space is now recognized as an achievable piece of technology.
University Book Store http://www.bookstore.washington.edu/

Thursday., August 3, 1-4:30 p.m.:
The Biodiversity Lab features the “The Inside of Rocks” on FREE First Thursday. Burke Museum, University of Washington campus.
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/events/index.php

Saturday, August 5, 1-4 p.m.:
“Meet the Mammals” is a new Burke Discovery Day family event. Meet Burke Museum experts, including the museum’s curator of mammals, Professor Jim Kenagy, for an encounter with the full diversity of Earth’s 29 orders and 5,416 species of mammals. The day will be filled with hands-on exploration of 11 mammal display stations, illustrated presentations, some Native American art portraying natural history of mammals, and gallery walks in the ongoing exhibit of natural history photography in Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Burke Museum http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/events/index.php

Saturday, August 5, 2 - 3:30 p.m.:
Photographer, author, pilot and showman Brian Shul, who traveled the airshow circuit with the Blue Angels for his book Blue Angels: A Portrait of Gold, shares tales from his own flight history as a “sled driver” - an SR-71 Blackbird pilot. Shul’s book Sled Driver, featuring his photography and prose, was the first book to put the reader into the cockpit of the world’s fastest, highest-flying piloted jet, and his ever-popular slide show and talk presents dazzling images and fascinating stories from the book and beyond. Hear riveting accounts of Mach 3 runs over hostile territory and star gazing at 80,000 feet. Brian Shul is appearing at the Museum of Flight during Blue Angels week.
Presentation is free with Museum of Flight admission. http://www.museumofflight.org

August 6 - 10
The 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings will be held at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center located at 800 Convention Place, Seattle.
Program and registration information can be found at: http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2006/

Tuesday, August 8, 6 p.m.:
Author Thomas S. Litwin discusses his book The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced. Litwin looks at the dramatic last century of life in Alaska, including the legendary Harriman expedition of 1899 and the more recent returns of Alaskan Native American objects. Litwin will be available for book signing afterwards.
Burke Museum http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/events/index.php

Tuesday, August 8, 7:30 p.m.:
Journalist Julie Phillips spent a decade researching and writing the first full-length biography of this complex, fascinating science fiction legend in her new book, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. The reclusive science fiction writer James Tiptree, Jr., a Swahili-speaking, ex-CIA agent, a military veteran, and an author of “tough-minded traditional science fiction” in the 1970s, was later discovered to be all of those things, and a woman. Her name was Alice Sheldon.
http://www.elliottbaybook.com/events

Thursday, August. 10, 12:30 - 2 p.m.:
Dr. Virginia Slaughter, Early Cognitive Development Unit, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia, presents her research on “Early Development of Knowledge About the Human Body,” including recently-published findings on infants’ recognition of the whole human form, as well as some new data on how variations in structure and movement affect infants’ human body recognition.
I-LABS Conference Room, Old Fisheries Building 374 http://web.psych.washington.edu/calendar/event.php?event_id=183

Thursday, August 10, 7 p.m.:
Science fiction writers William C. Dietz, Syne Mitchell, & Eric Nylund will read from their new contributions to Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy. All publisher and author profits go toward the Save the Children Tsunami Relief Fund.
University District Store http://www.bookstore.washington.edu/

Saturday, August 12, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Washington State Department of Ecology, the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition and King County are co-sponsoring the Duwamish River Festival. This FREE educational event will include updates on the Duwamish River Superfund cleanup. In addition, this outdoor event will include live music, food, kids’ activities, kayak tours, and health information.
Duwamish River Park, 7900 10th Ave S., Seattle http://apps.ecy.wa.gov/pubcalendar/calendar.asp

Tuesday, August 15, 6 p.m.:
Local doctor Linda M. Petter reads from and signs Common Medical Sense.
Seattle Public Library, Central Branch, 1000 Fourth Avenue http://www.bookstore.washington.edu/

Monday, August 21, 2 - 3:30 p.m.:
The Museum of Flight will be hosting a Lunar Orbiter 40th Anniversary Panel Discussion. The Lunar Orbiter’s mission was to photograph potential landing sites for Apollo. It ultimately mapped the entire front side of the Moon and more than 95 percent of the Moon’s far side. A photograph of earth from space taken by the Lunar Orbiter forty years ago on August 23, 1966, has been hailed as the most significant photograph taken in the 20th century. Meet panelists Capt. Lee Scherer, USN (Ret.), the Lunar Orbiter program manager in the Office of Lunar and Planetary Programs at NASA headquarters; Matt Grogan, a member of the Lunar Orbiter flight path analysis and control who also worked at NASA’s Manned Space Flight Center for Apollo 8 through 15; and Apollo 8 astronaut and fighter pilot Bill Anders, USAF Reserve (Ret.), who will share the importance of the orbiter to astronaut training. Panel moderator Dale Shellhorn was also a member of the FPAC team.
Presentation is free with Museum of Flight admission http://www.museumofflight.org

Monday, August 21, 7 p.m.:
Author Bob Seidensticker reads from and signs Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change.
University Bookstore http://www.bookstore.washington.edu/

Monday, August 28, 7 p.m.:
Michael J. Laine, president of the Liftport Group, speaks on “Nanotubes, Robotics and How to Climb to Space” at Science on Tap’s monthly gathering.
The Pub at Ravenna Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave. NE, Seattle. http://www.scienceontap.org

August 28-30, 2006
The University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials (UWEB) presents an interesting array of speakers at the First International Conference on Wound Healing and Technology (WHAT I). University of Washington. This symposium emphasizes advanced approaches to wound healing using biomaterials, controlled release, tissue engineering, and other engineering methodologies. WHAT I will focus on the collaboration between materials scientists, engineers, biologists, and physicians involved in laboratory and clinical research to advance wound healing technology.
Program and registration informationt: http://www.uweb.engr.washington.edu/about/whatI.html

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