Announcement: This Saturday at The Science Circle - "The Biochemistry of Our Senses"

 

 "The Biochemistry of Our Senses"

Saturday November 21

10 AM to 11 AM

All living things become aware of, and interact with their environment and each other through, their senses. While the mechanism of sensory perception may be complicated, it all comes down to chemistry and physics, with chemistry being mostly electricity and energy levels in atoms. No magic required.

Understanding the chemistry of biology reveals secrets about how life exists, how living things are all related, and provides important clues about how and why living things evolved from each other.

Join me in exploring the fascinating and dynamic world of the very small, the menagerie of molecules that create familiar tastes and smells, that help us to see and feel, that mess with or fool our natural systems, and that make up us and the rest of life and living things.

Dr. Phil Youngblood

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Sha's Thoughts: Second Life and ESP

With Halloween this time of year, talk is more likely to turn to subjects that give some residents the jitters, such as the paranormal. Among these subjects seemingly beyond the reach of science as we know it are ESP and psychic powers. Becky Shamen talks about the subject, and how they might not be limited to real life, but also in the virtual world. Could it be that the "feeling" you get from someone when first meeting them comes from ESP somehow making it's way through Second Life?

Read Becky's Thoughts in Extra.