All the upcoming events and programs in the next month at Henry Ford Community College for the whole community to experience.
PHILOSOPHY TALKS, from two Stanford U. professors, today discusses the nature and proper use of Wisdom, while on PHILOSOPHY BITES, a British podcast of one interview per episode with a noted philosopher on one topic (ergo "bite-sized'), today features Dan Sperber on the strangeness--and necessity--of what is called Reason.
John Ventre is the Pennsylvania State Director for the Mutual UFO Network or MUFON. John will be speaking at the Pennsylvania State UFO conferences in October, which he is sponsoring. He will be presenting on his book “The Day After 2012”. The book delves into various End Time Prophecies from Hopi, and Biblical, to Edgar Cayce and Jeanne Dixon. John says, “If you think these are the bad times; wait until 2013”. John shares some of these predictions as well as some of the well documented UFO cases on our nation's east coast.
In this hour of Freakonomics Radio, we’ll dream of the day when bad predictors pay – when the accuracy rate of pundits appear next to their faces on TV, when the weatherman who botches the 5-day forecast by 20 degrees has to make his next appearance soaking wet. We’ll also look at the deep roots of divining what tomorrow brings, from the invention of religion to new understandings of how we make decisions about the future.
"dearborn.patch.com" is an exciting new source for "hyperlocal" news and information, updated daily, that's now one of the key sources for our show. Editor Jessica Carreras and Patch.com regional editor Teresa Mask are interviewed today about all the aspects of their endeavor: history, resources, journalistic standards, and the future of journalism itself.
EarthSky22--"Richard Feynman is still awesome"; EarthSky8--"Joseph DeSimone on being an inventor"; and Planetary Radio--"Ending the World with a Song at Dragon Con." All science, always provocative!
Interview with Tom Wither, founder and CEO of Michigan-based Adopt-a-Watt, which has raised funds for the installation of energy-saving and energy-sharing equipment in one parking tower in west Dearborn, to be dedicated 9-22-11. The program's funds will also allow Dearborn to buy all-electric vehicles for the city, by paying the difference between the gasoline-engine version and the electric version, i.e. the new gas-powered Ford Focus and the soon to be available all-electric version, up to $5,000 per car.
"Skepticality" is a frequent podcast produced by The Skeptics Society, founded by professor and author Michael Schermer. Fear is a complex and a mysterious force that can, at times, sabotage our ability to think clearly, drive us to blind panic, or give us seemingly superhuman speed, strength, and powers of perception.
Bill Weber is a Field Investigator for The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Weber supports MUFON through participation in their Pennsylvania State UFO conferences and will be speaking there this October on the subject of UFOs and Technology. Weber has been the State Section Director for the 13 counties representing South-Eastern Pennsylvania since January of 2010. His background is in Electrical Engineering where, as a designer, he holds 3 U.S. Patents. Have some of our technologies been back engineered from crashed UFOs?
There are more than twice as many suicides as murders in the U.S., but suicide attracts far less scrutiny. This current episode of Freakonomics Radio, hosted by bestselling author Stephen J. Dubner, writing "Freakonomics" with Steven D. Levitt, digs through the numbers and finds all kinds of surprises, supported by psychology professor David Lester, considered to be "the dean of suicide studies."
Host Ned Apigian, Dearborn Heights City Councilman, interviews Diane Webb, Wayne County Commissioner for District 9--Garden City, Dearborn Heights, and Redford.
"Philosophy Talk: Health Care--Right or Privilege?" What is it? Do we have a right to healthcare, and to good high quality healthcare, in any precise and defensible sense? Or is the "right to healthcare" just a nice way to say it would be very nice if everyone had healthcare? Ken and John take a philosophical lens to the alleged right to healthcare and health insurance with Laurence Baker from the Center for Health Policy at Stanford University.
Interview with Henry Ford Community College President Dr. Gail Mee on the challenges and changes for our college this year and in the future.