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Featured Speaker: Bruce Stinchcomb, Ph.D., paleontologist, retired Professor of Geology, St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley, and author of, World’s Oldest Fossils, Paleozoic Fossils and More Paleozoic Fossils

Lecture and book signing

Within the Missouri Ozarks are extensive fossil-containing exposures of rock strata formed during the Cambrian Period of geologic time and deposited in shallow seas from 500 – 535 million years ago. This geologic era was a time of a great radiation of life with some life forms being obvious ancestors to those living today, while others appear to be totally extinct. Paleontologist and author Bruce Stinchcomb talks about these disappearing life forms represented by peculiar and even mysterious fossils found in the Cambrian of the Missouri Ozarks.

To be held at:
Center of Clayton OASIS
50 Gay Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63105

Registration required.  FREE to the first 10 registrants, $10 per person thereafter. OPEN to ALL. Space is limited. Middle and high school students welcome.

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Featured Speaker: Crystal Weaver, CRC, MT-BC, Music Therapist, Saint Louis University Cancer Center

Music therapy is a growing field in healthcare. Saint Louis University Cancer Center music therapist, Crystal Weaver provides insightful information on the practices of music therapy in hospitals and clinics throughout St. Louis and shares simple, easy to implement music therapy interventions for stress management.

Photo credit: Saint Louis University

To be held at:
OASIS in Forest Park, Dennis and Judith Jones Visitor’s Center
5595 Grand Drive in Forest Park
St. Louis, MO 63112

Registration required. FREE to the first 10 registrants, $10 per person thereafter. OPEN to ALL.  Space is limited. Middle and high school students welcome.

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Featured Speaker: Kurt H. Studt, DDS, MS, FAGD, Clinical Professor of Applied Dental Medicine, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville; Adjunct Faculty, St. Louis Community College, Department of Dental Hygiene, Forest Park; part-time private practice

George Washington was perhaps the most famous wearer of dentures in American history. Want the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth on the dental health and infamous "wooden" teeth of our Country's quintessential Founding Father? Then don't miss this fascinating talk on Dentistry through the Ages with Dr. Kurt Studt. It's a cringe-worthy look back at the history of dentistry with a peek at today's kinder, gentler dental technology.

To be held at:
Center of Clayton OASIS
50 Gay Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63105

Registration required.  FREE to the first 10 registrants, $10 per person thereafter. OPEN to ALL. Space is limited. Middle and high school students welcome.

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Featured Speaker: Berit Brogaard, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri – St. Louis; Principal Investigator, Brogaard Lab devoted to synesthesia and multisensory perception; American editor, international philosophy journal, Erkenntnis

Photo credit: University of Missouri - St. Louis

Painter and photographer David Hockney perceives music in terms of colour and shape, and Richard Feynman and Vladimir Nabokov linked letters and numbers to colours. All three are synaesthetes. Synaesthesia-- a fusion of the senses, is a neurological condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway in unusual ways-- letters or numbers have colours, someone hears sounds in response to visual motion. Learn more about this fascinating condition and what it says about the idea that genius and special abilities are hidden aspects of us all.

To be held at:
OASIS in Forest Park, Dennis and Judith Jones Visitor’s Center
5595 Grand Drive in Forest Park
St. Louis, MO 63112

Registration required. FREE to the first 10 registrants, $10 per person thereafter. OPEN to ALL.  Space is limited. Middle and high school students welcome.

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Featured Speaker: Robert Criss, Ph.D., Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis

While he survived his fall down the “rabbit hole” in mid-March, a relaxing day on the fairway turned into a terrifying ordeal when the ground opened beneath the feet a golfer on a Waterloo, Illinois golf course. The Ozark ecoregion, which includes Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, and a corner of Kansas, is an area prone to soil collapses. Featuring local examples, hydrologist and Washington University professor, Robert Criss, talks about the uses and importance of caves and springs and the problems that commonly arise when karst lands are developed; and he shares information on nearby places where Missouri’s remarkable karst features can be experienced safely.

Photo credit: Washington University

To be held at:
OASIS in Forest Park, Dennis and Judith Jones Visitor’s Center
5595 Grand Drive in Forest Park
St. Louis, MO 63112

Registration required. FREE to the first 10 registrants, $10 per person thereafter. OPEN to ALL.  Space is limited. Middle and high school students welcome.

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