[sclug] Reading Skeptics group meeting & Cafe Scientifique

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

Could you create a separate mailing list for sceptics and take this
traffic of the SCLUG list? Unless I am a lone voice in the wilderness
wondering why this stuff is landing up on this list....

Thanks,

Tim

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:25 PM, John Stumbles <sclug at yaph.org.uk> wrote:
> Dear all
>
> The next meeting of the Reading Skeptics' (and fellow-travellers')
> group will be this Tuesday 18th May, 7:00pm-9:30pm at the Global Cafe
> at RISC, 35-39 London Street, Reading RG1 4PS.
>
> More information at http://reading-skeptics.org.uk/
>
> The first two meetings saw a small (but select :-)) turnout. If you are
> interested in having any sort of skeptics meeting in Reading and you can
> make it this Tuesday please do come and be one of the pioneers! The idea
> is for it to be a pleasant social evening for like-minded people and
> possibly a planning meeting if people are interested in organising, say,
> a speaker meeting as they do at other SitP groups.
>
> Whether or not you can come to the meeting you can join the mailing list
> for discussion and announcements. There's a link on the website to do
> this or you can reply to this email and I'll add you to the list.
>
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>
> You may also be interested in the Cafe Scientifique meeting the day
> before that: Monday 17th May, 7:30pm at the D?j? vu Bar and Eatery, 61
> St. Mary's Butts, Reading, RG1 2LG. (Entry free but I think you're
> expected to buy a coffee or a drink.)
>
> "Materials and information at the origin of life"
>
> ? ?* Professor Howard Colquhoun, University of Reading
>
> The information needed for all living things to function is stored in
> sequences of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), and is expressed through the
> workings of a staggeringly complex set of molecular machinery. Even
> today when our understanding of this machinery is really very
> well-developed, it is fair to say that no-one has the faintest idea how
> it actually originated. The transition from Chemistry to Biology, at the
> molecular level, therefore represents a massive, not to say scandalous,
> void in human understanding.
>
> Professor Howard Colquhoun will discuss some of the most recent
> experimental and theoretical research into the origins of Life on Earth,
> especially ways in which the information needed to organise and process
> the key materials of life could have emerged.
>
> http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/newsandevents/about-cafescientifique.aspx
>
>
>
> all the best
>
> --
> John Stumbles ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://yaph.org.uk
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