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Ideas for Lunch
The first season's topics ranged from weird weather to fiction writing, from genetically modified foods to human space flight. One host, artist Micaela Amateau Amato, sparked a spirited discussion on the omnipresence of ambi-guity, in art and life. "I really want to discover how to help my students plug into their imaginations," Amato said. "I want them to be stimulated to connect and reconnect dozens and dozens of seeming non sequiturs, to arrive at brilliant, or at least thrilling, realizations." Sounds like a good conversation. For more information and a schedule, check www.rps.psu.edu/unplugged. |
t's not just another lecture series. Based on Café Scientifique, a university-town phenomenon that began a few years ago in the U.K., Research Unplugged kicked off last fall as an open forum for exploring ideas - intended to foster public dia-logue about issues that matter. Penn State faculty are the hosts, leading informal discussions with other faculty, students, and members of the community. It happens Wednesdays at noon at the Penn State Downtown Theatre Center.
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