Alternative Transportation and the Claremont Senior Bike Group – Speaker: Tom Shelley, CSBG safety officer and senior cyclist Several of our club members are regular bicycle riders. We’ve invited Tom Shelley, safety officer of the Claremont Senior Bike Group (CSBG), to share his insights on the pro
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The Paris Climate Accord: A Progress Assessment– Speaker: Dr. Tanja Srebotnjak, Director of Hixon Center and Associate Professor, Harvey Mudd College Two years after the Paris Climate Agreement was signed, the world has seen several major political developments. This talk will look at the original commitments made
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Campaign Contributions and Wedding Cakes: Understanding the Dramatic Consequences of the Supreme Court’s Free Speech Decisions – Speaker: Dr. Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Assistant Professor of Politics, Pomona College From our earliest years as a country, politics and media in America have been conditioned by Supreme Court decisions. Our
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Adolescent Sleep and Community Impact – Speaker: Dr. Andrew Vosko, Director of Transdisciplinary Studies, Claremont Graduate University As research has uncovered more about specific sleep needs across people’s lifespans, there has been a movement to address healthy sleep practices in school-aged youth. Much evidence has surfaced that
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Devoured by Darkness – Speaker: Dr. Edwin C. Krupp, Director of the Griffith Observatory Last August’s All-American Transcontinental Total Solar Eclipse crossed the entire country and confirmed the obvious. Total solar eclipses are now monumental mass entertainment and merchandising opportunities that command world attention. In the past,
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Pan-Hellenic Games of Ancient Greece – Speaker: Dr. Evaggelos Vallianatos The Olympic games were the oldest pan-Hellenic athletic and religious celebration among the Greeks. Similar festivals took place in Delphi (Pythian games), the Isthmus of Corinth (Isthmian games), Nemea in Argolis, Peloponnesos (Nemean games), Athens (Panathenaian games)
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Full STE-A-M Ahead: Advancing the Arts and Humanities at the U.S. Naval Academy – Speaker: Dr. William C. Corley, Assoc. Professor of English, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Corley’s presentation is about his experience teaching literature at the Naval Academy from 2013 to 2016. His focus
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From the Ooze – Speaker: Dr. Robert R. Gaines, Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor of Geology, Pomona College In what has been hailed as the world’s most important fossil discovery in decades, Robert Gaines was a member of the team that discovered a stunning new Burgess
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Are Space and Time Only Illusions – Speaker: Vatche Sahakian, Professor of Physics, Harvey Mudd College In recent years, a group of overworked and underpaid theoretical physicists has posited the possibility that our perception of space and time is just that, only a perception. The suggestion is
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Coming Soon: The Gold Line in Claremont – Speaker: Lisa Levy Buch, Chief Communications Officer, Gold Line Construction Authority Come learn about the latest plans for the third segment of the Metro Gold Line as it extends from Glendora to Claremont and beyond, and what to expect
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