July 27 - Sunday - 3:30 PM - July Theodore Talk - Free Speech Opportunist: Elon Musk's Degradation of the Town Square. Professor Stephen Wolgast, professor of journalism at the University of Kansas, will demonstrate how the man who calls himself a free-speech absolutist places a higher value on the dollar than others' ideas, and […]
August 9 - Saturday - 12:00 noon - Sarasota Jungle Gardens - 3701 Bay Shore Rd, Sarasota, FL 34234. Admission $25. Lunch (if interested) is great fast food ($). Sarasota Jungle Gardens has been delighting visitors since 1939. We are an old Florida zoological garden where you can walk among or hand-feed our flock of […]
August 24 - Sunday - 3:30 PM - August Theodore Talk - Spotting the Signs & Preventing Child Sex Trafficking. Attendees will identify the dangers of technology, including strategies used by child predators, discover how to identify a child in trouble and learn some best practices on how to be a child's trusted adult or […]
September 28 - Sunday - 3:30 PM - September Theodore Talk - Antisemitism: Evolution and Escalation - Antisemitism has a long history, well beyond the 20th century. Dr. Shelly Cline, Historian […]
November 17 - Monday - 2:00 PM - Zoom - Lecture & Discussion: Changes in the Concept of Autism. Our understanding of autism has changed over the last forty years. Historically, autism was diagnosed based on narrow criteria. 'Autisms' are now more often discussed as neurodivergence rather than a single 'disorder' to be treated. This […]
November 19 - Wednesday - 2:00 PM - Zoom - My Life Tracking the Great White Shark. Are shark attacks becoming more frequent along the coast of New England, such […]