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Interesting Café and Science Links


Other Cafés Scientifiques

Duncan Dallas started it in Leeds in 1998:
http://www.cafe-sci.org.uk/

The UK Café Scientifique network, with links to individual cities and much interesting information:
http://www.cafescientifique.org/

Read Spanish? An article " Ciencia y croissants " about the Café Sci in Lyon, France's first:
http://lpmcn.univ-lyon1.fr/~jensen/pagina12.htm/

Read French? An article in "Le Monde" about the Café Sci in Lyon:
http://lpmcn.univ-lyon1.fr/~jensen/lemonde/

The British Council has started a Café Sci in...Finland:
http://www.britishcouncil.fi/events-detail-cafe.htm/

North American Cafés Scientifiques

A new Café Sci has started in Palo Alto; Web site with typically Californian production values:
http://www.cafescipa.org/

The New Scientist magazine has a Café Scientifique in Boston, and is working on establishing a network in the US. Useful tips on staring a Café, too:
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/cafescientifique/us.jsp

There's a Café Sci in Pittsburgh :
http://www.cafescipgh.org/

A Café opened in Bozeman Montana in September 2004 :
http://brin.montana.edu/index.php?id=11

Minneapolis has a new Café at the University's Bell Museum:
https://events.tc.umn.edu/event.pl?oid=380080

There's a Café that started in October 2004 in Vancouver:
http://www.cafesci-van.com/

Another Canadian Café is in London, Ontario, and run by The U. of Western Ontario:
http://www.fmd.uwo.ca/cafescientifique/

Seattle calls theirs "Science on Tap":
http://www.scienceontap.org/

Houston's Science Café has an incredibly snazzy Web site:
http://http://www.sciencecafe.net/

The Café in Victoria, Texas:
For more information, call Richard Gunasekera at 361-570-4202

Cafés Philosophiques

A funny description of the Grandpère of all Cafés Philosophique on the Place de la Bastille; the food was tastier than the philosophy:
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0FQP/n4402_v127/21172950/p1/article.jhtml

Here's a Café Philosophique operating in Derbyshire, UK, at Scarthin, “ A bookshop for the Majority of Minorities” :
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/rbd26/cafephil.htm

There was once a Café-Salon Philosophique in Boulder, Colorado:
http://www.indranet.com/arts/lcds/salon/salon.html

There's a sort of Café Skeptique meeting at The Old King's Head, a grungy pub near London Bridge station in London:
http://www.skeptic.org.uk/pub/

 

Interesting Science Sites

The Naked Scientists on the Beeb: A scary thought, but fortunately, it's radio.
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/

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The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions (and how to think critically about them)
http://skepdic.com/

 

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