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Revised agenda for Wednesday, January 31: Scrimmage and chocolates
Meetings on Wednesdays at 2:00 p.m.
Except Wednesday, October 11 (PSATs)
Next meeting: Wednesday, September 27 at 2:00 pm W201
Agenda will include: Social Sciences, "The History of Computers"
Our next meeting: Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Agenda:
Our initial foray into Science Fiction Literature: honing in on Hawthorne's "Rappucini's Daughter" and the novelist Ursula Le Guin, a pioneer in Science Fiction!
Wednesday, October 18 Science Fiction Literature
October 25, 2023
Mathematics; the Practice Test
C.L. Moore's "No Woman Born"
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
What is irony of "No Woman Born" and how does it relate to Neuroscience?
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
The power and importance of music in Science Fiction films: can music sometimes function as a dramatis personae?
Charles Babbage's Machine : Analytical Engines, Difference Engine
David Hilbert and the Entscheidungsproblem: Is it possible to create an algorithm that will prove any logical statement true or false...
Economics: Review of fundamental concepts, microeconomics and macroeconomics, the Economics of Technology and Innovation
Wednesday, December 6 at 2:00 pm
Today, Wednesday, December 13 we'll meet and read three important chapters from The Lathe
of Heaven, and watch some excerpts from the film. Please arrange to attend today's meeting,
as we will not meet next Wednesday, December 20.
And to start off the day with an enigma:
" Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by
learning. They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let
understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who
cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven."
-Chuang Tse XXIII
Next Meeting will be on Wednesday, January 3, 2024
ART and TECHNOLOGY -Major Developments and Influences: Brunelleschi's The Linear Perspective, the Point of Vanishing; Advent of Photography, "Camera Obscura", Eadweard Muybridge and Instantaneous Photography, The Zoopraxiscope, A Precursor to Film
Our next meeting: Wednesday, January 31 at 2:00 pm
On the Agenda, The Lathe of Heaven: The influence of Taoism, three important symbols, the limitations of knowledge
Online Essay Thursday, February 15 from 2:00-3:00, W 205
State Competition Sunday, March 3 at Bryant University, Smithfield
Meet at the Bus Loop 7:30 am, Return 8:00 p.m.
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