Enfascination 2010
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You are invited to the Seventh Annual Enfascination Lectures on Friday evening, May 7th | You are invited to the Seventh Annual Enfascination Lectures on Friday evening, May 7th | ||
Revision as of 03:23, 26 April 2010
You are invited to the Seventh Annual Enfascination Lectures on Friday evening, May 7th
Everything is fascinating, but I haven't realized it yet. The Enfascination Lectures are designed to help that epiphany along. You, in your private enthusiasm for some arcane backwater of All Human Knowledge, are the one person who is best suited for communicating its greatness and wonder. I would be grateful for your help. Since 2003, Enfascination has supported the transmission of hundreds of trivial zingers to as many minds, all around the USoA.
Here are notes and video from last year: Enfascination_09
format details
Each guest is invited to give a five-minute talk on any subject. After a few hours, that is lots of knowledge.
–– Your talk must be on something that you find really exciting –– It must not exceed five minutes –– To encourage effortless conformance to the five-minute limit, your audience is entitled to become pesky after this time(but not before!) –– Tangible bonus points for excessive erudition and for actually doing research in advance –– Among the amenities will be food and support for visual aids, and we might support teleconferencing again –– You don't have to give a talk, baskers welcome –– If you don't live in the middle west, you are welcome to follow the tradition of submitting notes or a recording –– Tell me your topic in advance if you think of it in
practical details
The event will be from 7PM and on into the evening. Drink Provided. Probably snacks too.
- Friday, May 7th
- 7:00PM, and on for a few hours
- The beautiful Woodburn Hall, Room 003, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
Special thanks to the student group SFSFSF for hosting the event.
Here is the Facebook event
more, fascinating details, constituting the bulk of past gatherings
For Your Procrastinative Pleasure, A Selection of Previous Lecture Topics, Providing a Sense of Scope and A Nagging Curiosity:
Counting the Permutations of Digit Strings Conceptions of Time in History Chili Peppers How to cross a glacier The Singularity Indiana Jones Rural desert water distribution systems Hexaflexagons Small precious things Wilderness Camps as Commodity DIY Cooking Roman Emperor Deaths Joy of Science Salt Three Great Banquets in Italian History How to Sharpen a Chisel Some Properties of Numbers in Base Ten The Physiological Limits to Human Perception of Time Geophagy Pond Ecology Superstition: For Fun and Profit Counterintuitive Results in Hydrodynamics The Wolof Conception of Time Arctic String Figures The Seven Axioms of Mathematics Dr Seuss and his Impact on Contemporary Children's Literature Motorcycle Life and Culture Cultural Differences Between Japan and the US Brief history of the Jim Henson Company Insider Trading: For Fun and Profit Film of Peter Greenaway A Typographical Incident with Implications for the Structure of Thought Cooperative Birth Control Tones in Mandarin Unschooling and Deschooling Q&A: Fine Beer DIY Backpacking Chinese Nationalism in Tibet Biofuels The Yeti The Health Benefits of Squatting The Big Bang How to Pick Stocks Like a Pro Food Preservation Technique, or Managing Rot Demonstrations in Number Theory Rangolis, Kolum The Hollow Earth Edible Mushrooms: For Fun and Profit Human Asexuality A History of the California Central Valley Watershed An Account of the Maidu Creation
best,
seth.