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CFI-Austin
Food For Thought lectures
(starting June 2008)
2008
Boosting Access to Health Care: The
barriers to heath care access and
what we can do about it - Stacey
Pogue, Policy Analyst, Center for
Public Policy Priorities June 11
Mangia Pizza, 8012 Mesa Drive
The Bible: Fact, Fiction, or Myth? - Sid
Hall, Pastor, Trinity United Church
July 3 Old Quarry Branch Library
Parasites: What’s Eating You - Steve
Bratteng, Westwood HS August 7
Old Quarry Branch Library
The Economic Relationship of People
and Animals, - Clare Wuellner, CFI
Austin, September 4 Old Quarry
Branch Library
Evolution of Primate Eyes - Chris Kirk,
UT Dept. of Anthropology October
2, 2008 7pm, Old Quarry Branch
Library
Preconceptions, the pull of the recent
and circular reasoning: A critical
look at North American Ice-Age
Vertebrate Faunal Dynamics.’ - Dr.
Chris Bell, Jackson School of
Geological Sciences November 6
Old Quarry Branch Library
The Perception of Patterns in the Noise
of Everyday Life - Jennifer
Whitson, McCombs School of
Business, UT Austin December 4
Old Quarry Branch Library
2009
What Do Sex, Twins, Spotted Hyenas,
ADHD, and Sexual Orientation
Have in Common? - Dennis
McFadden, Department of
Psychology, University of Texas,
Austin, Wed January 14 Old Quarry
Branch Library
Coevolution: How Plants and Animals
Adapt to Each Other - Steve
Bratteng, Westwood HS, Wed
February 11 Old Quarry Branch
Library
Nietzsche: Superman of Comedy? Kathleen Higgins, Dept. of
Philosophy, U. Texas at Austin Wed
March 11 Old Quarry Branch
Library
Reconstructing past climate change –
examples from Texas Jay Banner Jackson School of Geological
Sciences, UT Austin Wed April 8
Old Quarry Branch Library
Panel discussion on teaching evolution
in Texas Chris Comer, Ryan
Valentine, Dan Bolnick Thu April
30 Old Quarry Branch Library
How Learning Changes Synapses in the
Brain - Kristen Harris, Center For
Learning and Memory, UT Austin,
Wed May 13 Old Quarry Branch
Library
Open Forum: Future Directions for CFI
Austin Wed June 10 Old Quarry
Branch Library
Postmodernism Gets Punked: How Alan
Sokal Soaked Social Text - Koley
Porter Wed July 8 Old Quarry
Branch Library
One Million BC: What the Pleistocene
Fauna Tells us about our Past
Climate - Ernest Lundelius,
Professor Emeritus, Jackson School
of Geosciences, UT Austin Wed
August 12 Old Quarry Branch
Library
The Brave New World of Nanoscience:
Size Matters - Paulo Ferreira, UT
Engineering Wed Sep 9 Old Quarry
Branch Library
Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of
Evolution - David Prindle, UT Govt.
Wed Oct 14 Old Quarry Branch
Library
CYC-ology, Douglas Lenat - Thu Nov
12 Old Quarry Branch Library
How Things Break: the Physics of
Failure Michael Marder - UT
Physics , Wed Dec 9 Old Quarry
Branch Library
2010
What the SBOE is Doing to the Social
Studies Curriculum - Dan Quinn
from Texas Freedom Network ,
Wed Jan 20 American Legion Post
76
Atheist Volunteers Joe Zemecki March
17 American Legion Post 76
Fire and Ice: Gas Hydrates 101 and the
Gulf Oil Spill - Paul Murray, Wed
May 19 American Legion Post 76
Combined Discussion/Food For
Thought: The New Tree of Life
Wed Jun 9 Old Quarry Branch
Library
Combined Discussion/Food For
Thought: Dr. Darwin Makes a
House Call Wed Jul 14 Old Quarry
Branch Library
Combined Discussion/Food For
Thought: Why Learn About
Astronomy? Wed Aug 11 Old
Quarry Branch Library
Austin Planetarium - Torvald Hessel
Wed Sep 15 American Legion Post
76
Getting Into the Swim: the Evolution of
Whales - Pamela Owen, TMM at
UT Austin Wed Oct 20 American
Legion Post 76
How to Build a Cerebellum - Michael
Mauk, CLM at UT Austin Wed Nov
17 American Legion Post 76
It’s About Slime!: Biofilms - Vernita
Gordon, UT Dept. of Physics, Wed
Dec 15 American Legion Post 76
2011
Biochemical Origins of Life on Earth Andy Ellington, UT Biology Wed
Jan 19 American Legion Post 76
Emergence of spatial patterns in
chemical, physical, and biological
systems - Harry Swinney UT
Physics Wed Feb 16 American
Legion Post 76
Tis better to have loved and lost,... or is
it better to believe in an afterlife? Clare Wuellner, CFI Austin Wed
Mar 16 American Legion Post 76
The Science of Kissing - Sheril
Kirshenbaum, Mon April 18 Trinity
UMC
Evolutionary Insights into Mate Choice
and Pair Bonding - Molly
Cummings, UT Section of
Integrative Biology Mon May 16
TUMC
Just Say No … To Medical Woo Andrew Alpar, M.D. Mon Jun 20
TUMC
Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on
Religious Child Maltreatment Janet Heimlich, Mon Jul 18 TUMC
The Evidence For Evolution: No Faith
Required - Mon Aug 15 TUMC
The Physics of Forensics - Manfred
Fink, UT Physics, Mon Sep 19
TUMC
What’s New in Cognitive Science Patrick Carroll, UT Psychology,
Mon Oct 17 TUMC
Dust - Jeffrey Siegel, UT Civil
Engineering, Nov 21 TUMC
Evolution of Cooperation - Rebecca
Lewis, UT Anthropology Dec 19
TUMC
2012
Arachnophilia for Intellectuals - Joe
Lapp, Jan 16 TUMC
Coevolution: How Plants and Animals
Evolve Together - Steve Bratteng,
Feb 20 TUMC
The First Americans - Deborah Bolnick,
UT Anthropology Mar 19 TUMC
Modern Physics in a Nutshell -Austin
Gleeson, UT Physics, Apr 16
TUMC UT Psychology,
Can Brain Imaging Read Your Mind? Russell Poldrack, May 21 TUMC
Climate Reality Project, The Evidence
for Global Climate Change - Aaron
Tuley, Jun18 TUMC
Creation Myths of the World - CFI
Austin members Jul 16 TUMC
Urban Legends Explored, CFI
Austin members Aug 27 TUMC
Coexistence of Natural and Supernatural
Explanations - Cristine Legare, UT
Psych. Sep 17 TUMC
X-Rated Stories About Jesus - Jim Dee,
CFI Austin, Oct 15 TUMC
How Flight First Evolved - John Abbott,
UT Austin – Integ. Biol. Nov 19
TUMC
Evolution of the Social Brain - Hans
Hofmann, UT Austin – Integ. Biol.
Dec 17 TUMC
2013
Mormon Heaven(s) - Brian Spears, Jan
21 TUMC
With Age Comes Wisdom, Todd
Maddox - UT Austin – Psych Feb
18. TUMC
The ABCs of Biotechnology - Steve
Bratteng, CFI Austin Mar 18 TUMC
Deaf Plants and Bleeding Yeast Edward Marcotte, UT Biochemistry
Apr 15 TUMC
Who’s Who in the Middle East - Samer
Ali, UT Dept. Middle Eastern
Studies May 20 TUMC
Where Have All the Kingdoms Gone Steve Bratteng Jun 17 TUMC
Echoes in the Night, Bats -Eve
McCulloch, Jul 15 TUMC
The Civic Health Crisis in Texas Regina Lawrence, UT Journalism,
Aug 19 TUMC
Donna Howard, State Representative,
District 48, Sep 9 TUMC
What’s Happening to the Bees? - Jack
Neff Oct 21 TUMC
How Kids Learn to Tell Fantasy from
Reality - Jacqui Woolley, UT
Psychology, Nov 18 TUMC
Geologic Wonders of Central Texas Leon Long, UT Geology, Dec 16
TUMC
2014
The Tree/Shrub of Life, Jan 20 TUMC
Myths about Einstein, Relativity, and
Religion - Al Martinez, UT
Philosophy, Feb 17 TUMC
Lindsay Eaves: underground astronaut
Mar 17 TUMC
Evolution of Neural Systems - Steve
Phelps, UT Biology Apr 21 TUMC
How Your Brain Decides Michael Mack
- UT Psychology May 19 TUMC
Wonders of the Living World Jun 16
TUMC
Sex Ed in Texas: the Facts Clifton
Stuckey, Secular Texas, July 21
TUMC
Tropical Encounters and the Idea of
Biodiversity - Megan Raby, UT
History, Aug 18TUMC
Ion Channels: Molecules That Make Your
Brain Electric - Richard Aldrich, TUT
Center for Learning and Memory, Sep 15
TUMC
The Science of Global Warming - Kerry Cook,
UT Jackson Sch. of Geosci. Oct 20
TUMC
Why there are no gods (and no God), - Jim
Dee, CFI-Austin Nov 17 TUMC
Monitoring the Greenland Ice Sheet - Lauren
Andrews, UT Jackson Sch. Of Geosci.
TUMC
2015
Meet the Neanderthals - Lydia Pyne Jan 19
TUMC
Strange Attractions: the nature and
neuroscience of beauty - Mike Ryan,
Integrative Biol. UT Austin Feb 16
TUMC
Molecules of Memory, Kimberly RaabGraham, Center for Learning and
Memory - UT Austin Mar 16 TUMC
Trans: Becoming and Being Myself in Austin Cavan O Raghallaigh Apr 20 TUMC
Water Issues in Texas - Neena Satija, Texas
Tribune May 18 TUMC
Past, Present, and Future Climate Change in
Texas - Jay Banner, UT Austin Jackson
Sch. Geosci. Jun 15 TUMC
You and Your Microbiome - Steve Bratteng
Jul 20 TUMC
Psychological Design: Tools for a Rational
Society - Robin Krieglstein Aug 17
TUMC
Ants, Ants, Ants, - Alex Wild, UT Austin
Section of Integ. Bio. Sep 21 TUMC
The Life of the Mind: Cognitive
Phenomenology - Michelle Montague,
UT Austin Dept. of Philosophy Oct 19
TUMC
Giordano Bruno vs. the Roman Inquisition, Al Martinez, UT Austin Dept. of History,
Nov 16, TUMC
Winter Solstice Celebrations Around the
World, Dec 21, TUMC
2016
Darwin and Religion – Bruce Hunt, UT Austin
Dept. of History, Jan 18, TUMC
A Primer on How Cells Work (and
sometimes don't work) Steve Bratteng
CFI-Austin Feb 15, TUMC
The Future of Humanity Craig Wheeler UT
Physics Mar 21 TUMC
Brain Rhythms: Symphony of the Brain by
Laura Colgin UT CLM Apr 18 TUMC
Talking Across Difference: Why Gender
Matters, Pamela Neuman UT Sociology
May 16 TUMC
The Good, The Bad, and The Genetically
Modified Steve Bratteng CFI-Austin Jun
TUMC
How Your Brain Was Made by Chris Robison
UT Dept. Psychology Jul 18 TUMC
What Darwin Never Knew Aug 15 TUMC
Religion in Political Campaigns by Eric
McDaniel, UT Govt. Sep 19
Weaponizing Religious Freedom by Ryan
Valentine, TFN Oct 17 TUMC
SOFIA: Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared
Astronomy by Mary Kay Hemenway,
UT Astronomy Nov 21 TUMC
GM Foods: History, Sociology, and Politics by
Xaq Frohlich, UT History (visiting
scholar) Dec 19 TUMC