First Post!

This is the first post of the official blog for Science Cafe Norman. I plan to use this space to announce speakers and introduce topics, but also to post general science topics that I think are interesting to the general public. Hopefully, this will inspire more involvement from the community, and more speakers to volunteer.

Here is some general information about Science Cafe. We meet on the first Thursday of the month at 7pm, typically at the Norman Public Library. All are welcome, and there is no cost to attend. The atmosphere is casual, with speakers being open to general questions throughout their presentations. In the past we have had talks on climate change, the Large Hadron Collider, glaciers at the equator at sea level hundreds of millions of years ago, wind energy, biofuels, tornados, severe winter weather, extraction of natural gas from shale, environmental health risks and ozone, using gamma rays to detect leaks in underground gas tanks, and many others.

Please feel free to suggest a topic, speaker, or anything else, either in the comments, or by email to me at sean.m.crowell@gmail.com. Sign up on the right sidebar to receive emails when I post something new, or join our Google Group to get emails about meetings and such. Finally, we have a Facebook group (search ‘Science Cafe Norman’) that has our gatherings posted as events!