{"id":712,"date":"2008-09-14T20:56:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T00:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=712"},"modified":"2008-10-31T15:38:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T19:38:37","slug":"cafe-scientifique-gainesville-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Scientifique Gainesville report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida Citizens for Science secretary Mary Bahr provided the following report on the recent Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Scientifique, Gainesville<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We had about 85 people show up for our tours of the Museum fossil hall and the following discussion that Kevin Folta, Joe Meert, and Johnathan Bloch started with their fascinating presentations.\u00c2\u00a0 Joe is a Geologist and he talked about deep time, Jonathan was part of the team that uncovered many of the steps of whale evolution and Kevin is a plant geneticist who talked about “real time” evolution and DNA as a mechanism for change. So we had several of the lines of evidence that support evolutionary theory.<\/p>\n

If you have never been to a Cafe Scientifique the first half hour is a presentation by the panel followed by an hour of questions and discussion.\u00c2\u00a0 The crowd included out-of-towners like FCS president Joe Wolf and the star of the New York Times article David Campbell and his wife (many people were excited to meet David and Joe).\u00c2\u00a0 It also included a group of University students and a middle school teacher and seven of her students who were getting extra credit for attending. A great time was had by all!\u00c2\u00a0 Even the Cafe staff asked about attending more Cafe Scientifiques.\u00c2\u00a0 We plan to do it again next year – this time probably addressing Biodiversity using the museum collections (the butterfly collection numbers in the millions) as a starting point. Please let us know if any other folks need help getting started on Cafes in other parts of Florida.<\/p>\n

Mary Bahr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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