[Chaos-l] Darwin Day, STS-133 launch viewing at NC Museum of Natural Science

[Tony Rice]

I mentioned this as the meeting last night, a couple of events coming
up at the NC Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh


Darwin Day, noon-5pm this Saturday
http://naturalsciences.org/programs-events/?select=1589

12:30 pm	
Genius or Lucky Fellow? Darwin's Discovery of Natural Selection
Dr. William Kimler, Associate Professor at North Carolina State University

2 pm	
Darwin 101: From Earth to Space
Dr. Lynn Rothschild, Senior Research Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center

4 pm	
Why Darwin's Chest was Hairless, and other Modern Consequences of
Having Evolved in the Wild
Dr. Robert R. Dunn, Department of  Biology at North Carolina State University


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Space Shuttle Discovery Launch, 3pm-5pm, Feb 24.
http://naturalsciences.org/programs-events/?select=1672

3pm
NCSU's high powered rocketry club
NC's lunar rock on display.  Recently rescued from a desk draw at the
dept of commerce then from a professor at NC State who showed it
occasionally to school groups.

4pm
Live HD viewing of the launch of STS-133 with a talk on the space
shuttle program leading up to the launch at 4:50.  This event will go
on rain or shine.  In the event of a scrub, we'll be watching videos
of previous launches.