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  • Dr. Harvey Joanning

    Sunday Programs

    How Politicians Manipulate Our Brains For millennia leaders have used rhetoric to persuade others to follow them. Neuroscience has revealed why this is possible. Politicians now employ neuroscience to assist them in manipulating us to support them. This talk will explain how this is done, and what we can do to avoid being manipulated. Dr...

  • Carl Couret

    Sunday Programs

    "Survival of the Fittest"This phrase was not coined by Darwin.  It was from an English polymath, Herbert Spencer, who used it after reading Origin of the Species.  He was well known in his time and has been credited for the basis of social Darwinism. Carl Couret is a retired fish and wildlife field biologist, ukulele...

  • Miranda Estes & Christina Okarmus

    Sunday Programs

    Healthy Youth Education Miranda and Christina will discuss the state of adolescent education in our region. They will look at measures to empower young people to make good decisions and at the ways in which this is being undercut by legislative action, misleading advertising and reduced funding. BIOS: Miranda Estes (she/her) is the State Policy Action Manager at SIECUS where she has...

  • Skip Jones

    Sunday Programs

    Golden Years: How Americans Invented & Reinvented the Golden Age Skip will review and discuss this book by James Chappel. In it Chappel examines how we Americans have viewed and responded: individually and socially-to the fact of aging. Skip is a native of Mobile and a resident of the Eastern Shore since 1980. He is...