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Přednáška se zabývá jazykově a kulturně nejrozmanitější zemí světa, Papuou Novou Guineou. Devět milionů lidí hovořící 850 jazyky zde vytvořilo celou řadu unikátních a zajímavých kultur, každá se svým vlastním přístupem ke zkoumání přírody, včetně snahy rozpoznat, utřídit a prakticky využít místní rostliny a živočichy. O tradičním lékařství pralesních kmenů panuje řada iluzí a mýtů, zde se pokusíme o realistický pohled – obsahují tropické pralesy lékárničku budoucnosti a jsou kmenoví léčitelé užiteční ve světě moderní medicíny?

Vojtěch Novotný (*1964) vystudoval Přírodovědeckou fakultu Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci. Zabývá se ekologií herbivorního hmyzu v tropických ekosystémech. Pracuje v Entomologickém ústavu, součásti Biologického centra AV ČR v Českých Budějovicích, přednáší na Přírodovědecké fakultě Jihočeské univerzity a vede terénní stanici na Papui-Nové Guineji. Je členem Učené společnosti České republiky.

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Wikipedie je známá jako mezinárodní encyklopedie. Je to ale také celosvětová síť s tajnými členy, která se snaží ovlivnit lidstvo? Nebo je to webové fórum, kde může člověk zveřejnit svůj názor? Jak Wikipedie funguje? A jak můžete něco změnit?
Dokonce i mezi skeptiky se na Wikipedii stále pohlíží s nadhledem. Je spolehlivá? Existují mechanismy a procesy, které by Wikipedii učinily validnější a chráněnější?
Na všechny tyto a další otázky odpoví prezentace The Skeptics in the Pub Online.
Annika Harrison je členkou německé organizace skeptiků GWUP. Je také hrdou členkou European Skeptics Podcast (ESP) a píše rozhovory a reportáže pro online sekci Skeptical Inquirer. V roce 2017 se připojila ke Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia a nejraději nahrává zvukové úvody, které dále obohacují stránky týkající se skepticismu.
Profesně působí jako učitelka angličtiny a dějepisu na všeobecné škole poblíž Kolína nad Rýnem v Německu. V soukromí je vdaná a je matkou jednoho dítěte.

https://sitp.online/show/the-woos-and-woes-of-wikipedia-an-opportunity-for-skeptical-activism-or-a-conspiratory-club-annika-harrison

Skeptics In The Pub online

The 1700s was a period when the people of England seemed to be especially gullible. They believed a woman could give birth to rabbits; a man could climb inside a two pint bottle and sing inside it; and where a blond-haired European could write a book claiming that he was born in Taiwan. These hoaxes weren’t just written about extensively in newspapers and journals but also brilliantly and amusingly depicted by satirical artists such as William Hogarth and James Gillray. Based on his recently published book, Ian demonstrates how 18th century hoaxes are memorable not only for their imaginative nature but also because of the differing motives of the tricksters.

Ian Keable obtained a first-class degree from the University of Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, qualified as a chartered accountant and then became a professional magician. A member of The Magic Circle with gold star, he has won several awards for his unique brand of comedy magic. Keable has also performed on television and has written and presented programmes for BBC Radio. An accredited lecturer for The Arts Society, he gives talks on magic history, cartoons and eighteenth-century hoaxes. Keable’s other publications include Stand-Up: A Professional Guide to Comedy Magic and Charles Dickens Magician: Conjuring in Life, Letters and Literature. He lives in London.

What is SkeptiCal?

SkeptiCal is a one-day conference for curious, science-loving people to learn about science, scientific skepticism, and critical thinking in an informal setting, at an affordable cost.

Who Sponsors SkeptiCal?

The sponsoring organizations are the Bay Area Skeptics (BAS) , the Sacramento Area Skeptics (SAS), and the Monterrey Bay Skeptics. These are nonprofit organizations composed of scientists and non-scientists who are interested in science, critical thinking, and the public understanding of science. We are part of a national scientific skepticism movement begun in the 1970s and 1980s by Carl Sagan and other scientists who were concerned about the public embrace of various pseudosciences.

BAS and SAS remain focused on what Sagan called “extraordinary claims” (which require “extraordinary evidence,” as his adage reminds us) but we also seek to improve the general public understanding of science and critical thinking. Scientific skepticism is independent of other movements which sometime also claim the term “skeptic.” Scientific skepticism can be embraced by all, whether religious or non-religious, trained in science or new to the scientific method, or anyone interested in better understanding truth and reality.

Find out more about BAS at http://www.baskeptics.org/ and about SAS at https://www.meetup.com/sacskeptics/

Why Should I Go To SkeptiCal?

SkeptiCal is a great opportunity to hear accomplished and entertaining scientists and other critical thinkers speak about fascinating topics in an informal setting. Our conferences have considered a range of topics including GMOs, science denialism, climate change, science literacy, evolution, medical pseudoscience, extraterrestrials, astronomy, and others topics. At previous SkeptiCal meetings we have hosted local scientists from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, several California State Universities, Stanford, NASA, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, and many other notable local institutions. For our 2021 conference, we are going virtual, so we are not restricted to local talent. We have chosen speakers from far and wide!

Claus Larsen and Steen Svanholm, internationally renowned experts on 9/11 facts and myths, describe how the terror attack was planned and carried out by the terror organization al Qaeda, and what the catastrophe meant for the time following. Claus lived in New York City at the time, and shares his personal experience.

Claus and Steen will also talk about the most common conspiracy theories that are still propagated about the terror attack on September 11th 2001.

This will be an online event with opportunity for participants to send in written questions during the presentation, which will be answered in the Q&A afterwards. Instructions for how to do this will be given when the events starts.

NECSS – The Northeast Conference on Science & Skepticism produced by New York City Skeptics, the New England Skeptical Society, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, and The Society for Science-Based Medicine is a science and critical thinking conference held annually in New York City. NECSS welcomes leading scientists, educators, activists, and artists who educate and engage conference attendees through individual presentations, panel discussions, workshops, and performance pieces. NECSS is as much a meeting of minds as it is a conference, and social events and mixers are organized throughout the weekend to allow attendees the opportunity to mix and mingle in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere.

STACEY FINLEY, PHD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California

GEORGE M. CHURCH, PHD
Professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School

IMARI WALKER
Environmental Engineering PhD Candidate at Duke University

DR. LEENA TRIPATHI
Plant Biotechnologist

SARAH NOBLE, PHD
Program Scientist in the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters

DR. ROBERT M. LEVY, MD, PHD
President of the International Neuromodulation Society (INS)

DR. JACOB BLEACHER
Chief Exploration Scientist in NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) Division

PAUL A. OFFIT, MD
Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

KEVIN M. FOLTA
Professor Horticultural Sciences Department & Graduate Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology

PETER ETCHELLS
Psychologist and Science Communicator

Back in the 1980s, alarm spread throughout the world with respect to claims that Satanic abuse was not only real, it was widespread. Fuelled largely by pressure groups and the media, many people came to believe that there was an international network of powerful individuals who regularly engaged in rituals involving Satan worship, human and animal sacrifice, group sex, paedophilia, forced abortions, cannibalism, and so on.

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If you have cancer and you live in a low or middle-income country, you’re unlikely to have access to the radiotherapy treatments that patients in higher-income countries take for granted. A global collaboration including engineers and physicists from the Large Hadron Collider with International Cancer Expert Corps (ICEC), the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Daresbury Laboratory, Lancaster and Oxford University and users in Africa and other Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) is aiming to change the current status quo.

Professor Manjit Dosanjh is the Project Leader for STELLA (Smart Technologies to Extend Lives with Linear Accelerators), honorary CERN Staff, the particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland and Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.

She holds a PhD in Biochemical Engineering from the UK and her professional efforts in the fields of biology and the medical applications of physics span more than 30 years, during which she has held positions in various academic and research institutions in Europe and the U.S., including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) at the University of California, the European Commission Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC) in Italy. Dosanjh joined CERN in 1999 where she has worked to apply technologies originally developed for particle physics to the domain of life sciences, aiming to translate and transfer knowledge about physics to society at large. She played a key role in launching the European Network for Light Ion Hadron Therapy (ENLIGHT), a multidisciplinary platform that takes a collaborative approach to particle and radiation therapy research in Europe, and she is the coordinator of the network since 2006. https://enlight.web.cern.ch/

She is also actively involved in helping non-profit gender-related organisations in science and technology for development in Geneva and is a board of director for ICEC (International Cancer Expert Corps). https://www.iceccancer.org/