| Science calendar 04/09/2001 Science talks
PHYSICAL REALITIES: "Science, Nonscience and Nonsense: From Aliens to Creationism" will be the topic of a free public lecture Tuesday at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. Physicist Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University will speak beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall 2 of the Sid Richardson Building on the TCU campus. He will also give a lecture at 2 p.m. that day, in the same room, on "Life, the Universe and Nothing: The Future of Life in an Ever-Expanding Universe." For more information, call 817-257-7375 or visit www.phys.tcu.edu/seminars.html.
FOSSIL FACTS: The Dallas Paleontological Society invites the public to its monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. The speaker will be Doug Lawson, discoverer of the world's largest flying reptile, the pterosaur fossil found in 1971 in Big Bend National Park. The meeting will be held at the Dallas Museum of Natural History in Fair Park, 3535 Grand Ave. in Dallas. For more information, call the society's hotline at 972-640-4492.
SOVIET SPACE FLIGHT: Learn about the "Early Soviet Manned Space Program" in a talk at the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Dallas Love Field on April 20. Greg Kennedy, the museum's director, will speak beginning at 7 p.m. in the museum's Love Field Room. The program is free to museum members; tickets for nonmembers are $10 and can be purchased at the door. For more information or for reservations call the museum at 214-350-3600.
A LINE ON THE PAST: Stephen Lekson, an archaeologist at the University of Colorado, will present a free public talk, "Writing Prehistory," on April 27 at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Lekson is author of The Chaco Meridian, which proposes that three major prehistoric settlements in northern New Mexico and Mexico were deliberately placed along the same line of longitude. The talk begins at 4 p.m. in McCord Auditorium on the top floor of Dallas Hall on the SMU campus in Dallas. For more information, call 214-SMU-ANTH.
Science on TV
• Tuesday
FRONTLINE: Organ Farm – 12:30 a.m. on KERA-TV, Channel 13. Cutting-edge footage of the organs being developed and a glimpse into a bio-secure, air-locked-barrier world where science fiction may soon become xenotransplantation fact.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS: Flying Free – 7 p.m. on KERA-TV, Channel 13. A discussion with Paul MacCready, now 75, who designed and built the first successful human-powered airplane in the mid-1970s and who continues to build flying machines inspired by the way nature solves the problem of flight.
FRONTLINE: Medicating Kids – 9 p.m. on KERA-TV, Channel 13. An examination of the rapidly growing use of psychoactive drugs by children, and the challenges of parenting and schooling in a world of high stress and increasing family disintegration. The program discusses the role of doctors, educators, pharmaceutical makers and insurance companies in advancing the trend.
• Wednesday
IN THE WILD: Zoo Babies With Whoopi Goldberg – 7 p.m. on KERA-TV, Channel 13. Whoopi Goldberg visits the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Wildlife Park to explore the challenges that the staff faces as it tries to breed some critically endangered species – by bottle-feeding a baby rhino, presenting flowers to a tree kangaroo and weighing an albino koala.
• Friday
WORLD OF WILD DISCOVERY: Moose of North America – 6 p.m. on The Discovery Channel. The life of the largest member of the deer family – the moose – which can weigh more than 1,300 pounds.
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