DinoBlender
| July 23, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Dinosaurs have a magical grip on the imaginations of young and old so we begin this blender with the perspective of a paleontologist in the making, six-year-old Ulysses Yarbrough. Uly, as he is known, admits to confusing the Jurassic and Triassic eras upon occasion but he is not confused about his passion for the ancient creatures known to us today only by the fossil remnants they left behind. Read more
Numbers and Metaphor
| June 18, 2008 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Morphology, Metaphor and Category
Ralph Chapman, Tiha von Ghyczy, Thomas P. Caudell,
Steve Smith
Wednesday, June 18, 6-8 PM
Blenders are a Wednesday night feature at Santa Fe Complex, located at 632 Agua Fria St. Entrance is on Romero St. Admission is free. Light refreshments will be served; donations to defray their costs are welcome.
Numbers are metaphor: they describe the world in an abstract manner that implies their object. They can tell us how much something weighs, how tall its is or how fast it is going. Or, they can delve deeper into their objects and help us understand them in an almost intuitive way. Read more
