Snake River valley, southwest of Boise, Idaho, June 2003

Snake River Valley southwest of Boise, Idaho
(June 2003)

Annual Interface Lecture Series in Science, Technology, and Society

Social and International Studies Department

Southern Polytechnic State University


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2006 Topic:

Trying to See the Future: Prediction, Expectation,

and Unintended Consequences in Science and Technology

Wednesday, October 11, noon to 1:00pm
H-200:

"Food Pills and Flying Cars:
Why The Future We Imagine Is Seldom The One We Get"


Dr. A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Social and International Studies Department
Southern Polytechnic State University

Links recommended by the speaker:

Yesterday's Tomorrows. The companion website to a now-retired Smithsonian traveling exhibit on predictions of the technological future. The book of the same title, by Joseph J. Corn and Brian Horrigan, is also well worth a look. http://www.yesterdaystomorrows.org/about.html

Retro Future.  A series of excellent illustrated articles on flying cars, mile-high skyscrapers, vacations in space, and other staples of technological predictions. http://www.retrofuture.com/

Welcome To Tomorrow. A history of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, which showed millions of visitors what the late 20th century was expected to look like.  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/DISPLAY/39wf/frame.htm

20th Century Technology. The editors of Time magazine pick the 20 most influential technologies of the twentieth century, many of which "nobody" saw coming.  http://www.time.com/time/time100/builder/tech_supp/tech_supp.html

Wednesday, October 18, 7:30-8:30 pm
Student Center Ballroom:

"Statistics as Crystal Ball: Forecasts for Urban Planning"

Bart B. Lewis
Chief, Research Division
Atlanta Regional Commission

Light refreshments following the lecture.

Links recommended by the speaker:

Atlanta Regional Commission, http://www.atlantaregional.com

Wednesday, November 15, noon-1:00 pm
Student Center Ballroom:

"Wild Coal Fires:
A Natural Laboratory Built for Destruction"

Dr. Glenn Stracher
Division of Science and Mathematics
East Georgia College

A zip file of the PowerPoint for this lecture is available at: http://www.ega.edu/facweb/stracher/GlennStracherCoalfiresSPSU.zip

Links recommended by the speaker:

American Mineralogist:
http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/TOC/2005/ND05.html
Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, Schroeder, Paul, McCormack, John, Zhang, Xiangmin, Van Dijk, Paul, and Blake, Donald, 2005, New Mineral Occurrences and Mineralization Processes: Wuda Coal-Fire Gas Vents of Inner Mongolia: The American Mineralogist, v. 90, p. 1729-1739.

Geological Society of America:
http://www.gsajournals.org/gsaonline/?request=get-fieldguide-toc&isbn=0-8137-0005-1
Stracher, Glenn B., Renner, Steven, Colaizzi, Gary, and Taylor, Tammy P., 2004, The South Cañon
Number 1 Coal Mine Fire: Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in Nelson, E.P., and Erslev, E.A., eds., Field Trips in the southern Rocky Mountains, USA: Geological Society of America Field Guide 5, p. 143-150.

Center for Applied Energy Research:
http://www.caer.uky.edu/energeia/volumes14.shtml
Stracher, Glenn B., 2003, Coal mine fire--gas and condensation products: collection techniques for laboratory analysis: Energeia, Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky-Lexington, v. 14, no. 5, p. 2, 4-5.

Geotimes:
http://www.agiweb.org/geotimes/oct02/geophen.html
Stracher, Glenn B., 2002, Coal Fires: A burning global recipe for catastrophe, Geotimes, v. 47, no. 10.

InfoMine (Mining Intelligence and Technology): http://technology.infomine.com/enviromine/case_hist/coal%20fires/Stracher_et_al.html
Stracher, Glenn B., Taylor, Tammy P., and Prakash, Anupma, 2002, Coal Fires: A Synopsis of Their Origin, Remote Sensing Detection, and Thermodynamics of Sublimation, in Shannon, S., editor, Case Histories of Mine Reclamation and Regulation, InfoMine: Environmental Technology for Mining, Robertson GeoConsultants Inc., Reno, Nevada; Vancouver, British Columbia, p. 1-8.

 

Contact Information

E-mail: jnewell@spsu.edu
Voice: 678-915-7481
Fax: 678-915-4949

Office: J-305B
Office Hours Summer 2008
You can generally expect me to be on campus

Monday thru Thursday 7:30 am to 6:00 pm
(the University is closed on Friday to conserve energy)

 

 

 

 

 

 

The annual INTERFACE Lecture Series is arranged by Dr. Julie Newell, the Southern Polytechnic State University STS Program Coordinator.

It is part of the SPSU STS (Science, Technology, and Society) Program and is sponsored by the Social and International Studies Program with support for the Southern Polytechnic State University Foundation.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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