Sorry about that garbled posting last time. Here it is again.

Our next two events at Caltech are:

Sunday, December 10, 2:00. Dr. Robert Pennock, on Intelligent Design Creationism, the latest oxymoron in American culture. Pennock is the author of the brilliant Tower of Babel which, along with Ken Miller's equally brilliant Finding Darwin's God, are the two best book-length treatments of the latest arguments of intelligent design creationism.

Sunday, January 14, 2:00pm Bob Friedhoffer, the "madman of magic," on: The Deception of Perception

A look at the methods by which malefactors, practitioners of the occult, and magicians (not necessarily in this order) manipulate the perception of the onlooker. The hows and whys of ways that the "smart ones" are often taken in. A brief discussion on the nature of perception precedes some entertaining and elucidating demonstrations in the "art of the scam" as practiced upon all segments of society. Bring an open mind, a willingness to suspend disbelief and a well secured wallet.