Science
Lecture by nobel laureate William Nordhaus: The economics of climate change
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Next Tuesday there is a public lecture by a Nobel laureate at the university of Zurich. Here's the description:
In his keynote at the University of Zurich, Professor Nordhaus will combine the interdisciplinary insights from natural sciences and economics to address a set of critical questions. What is the optimal policy to address climate change? What are the costs of climate change? And how will technology and innovation help?
Universität & ETH Zürich: Scientifica Trail
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WICHTIGES UPDATE: Für gewisse Veranstaltungen sind Tickets notwendig. Die Reservation dafür ging am 18. August live und gewisse Events sind bereits ausgebucht. Jeder ist selbst für die Buchung verantwortlich! (Ich hab ein paar Tickets zu viel geb aber keine Garantie ab, dass es für alle reicht!). Ticketbuchung hier:
http://www.scientifica.ch/events
Salut zusammen
International Scholarship Winners 2017
The Mensa Foundation recently announced the 2017 Scholarship Winners. The international winners and their major subjects were:
Mensa International Scholarship ($2'000)
- Megan Griffiths, Mensa South Africa - Criminology
Mensa International Scholarship ($1'000)
- Sebastian Seidel, Mensa Germany - Political Science and Economics
- Jose Rafael Saade, Mensa Spain (via Central America and Belgium) - Egyptology
- Marlene Tahedl, Mensa Germany - Neuroscience
Ed Vincent Scholarship ($1'000)
- Pablo Pueyo Poves, Mensa Spain
Congratulations to the 5 winners and to their national Mensas!
smARTs
Do you like cultural events, theater, opera and museums ? Wellcome to the smARTs group !!
This group is made to organize cultural events once a month in each region of Switzerland. If you want to be an events organizer please tell me. I'll give you the administrator status of the group. For the moment only Romandie has an organizer. I hope some "Schwiizerdütsch" will be motivated to do it!
Until yet the events where about paintings museums but don't worry others kinds of events will be organized soon.
I am also planning to make a "Blue Angels" system like we have for the camps. Some events can be expensive like operas. This sytem can make it afordable for students. We will vote about this idea.
Spiritualität / Psychologie / Philosophie / Religion
Podiumsdiskussion «Förderung der Hochbegabung»
Am «Tag der Intelligenz» organisiert Mensa Schweiz am Dienstag, 1. Oktober, eine Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema «Förderung der Hochbegabung». Heftig diskutiert wird in letzter Zeit, wie die Bedürfnisse von Hochbegabten im Schulalltag besser berücksichtigt werden können. Aus diesem Grund haben wir drei Experten aus dem Bildungsbereich eingeladen, die in ihre Forschungsbereiche einführen und sich unseren Fragen stellen.
Guided tour of CERN 17.11.
On November 17th, CERN welcomes Mensa Switzerland and Mensa France to a guided tour.
The tours starts at 14:00. It lasts about 3 hours and comprises an introduction followed by a film, a visit to one of the experiments and/or to an accelerator located at the surface. Please note that for safety reasons children under 8 years of age are not admitted. The tour language will be French.
This is a joint event of Mensa Switzerland and Mensa France for 36 members, with 18 slots going to each country.
Podiumsdiskussion «Intelligenz und Kultur»
«Frauen sind intelligenter» berichtet am 15. Juli die «Sunday Times». «Spiegel Online» schreibt am 17. Juli, dass Augenoptiker einen Intelligenzquotienten von 113 haben und Dachdecker auf 94 kommen. Am gleichen Tag fasst «Zeit Online» die These des Buchs «Ist Intelligenz erblich? Eine Klarstellung» von Dieter E.
