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Decatur Book Festival – Grilled: Turning Adversaries to Allies to Change the Chicken Industry
Leah Garcés has committed her career to fighting for the rights of factory-farmed animals. As president of the nonprofit group Mercy for Animals and former U.S. executive director of Compassion in World Farming, she has led the fight against the sprawling chicken industry that raises tens of thousands of birds inside tiny cages in cruel […]
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Decatur Book Festival: She Has Her Mother’s Laugh
Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it. The birth of genetics in the early 1900s seemed to do […]
Find out more »Decatur Book Festival: Molecular Feminisms
“Should feminists clone?” “What do neurons think about?” “How can we learn from bacterial writing?” These and other provocative questions have long preoccupied neuroscientist, molecular biologist, and intrepid feminist theorist Deboleena Roy, who takes seriously the capabilities of lab “objects”—bacteria and other human, nonhuman, organic, and inorganic actants—in order to understand processes of becoming. In Molecular […]
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Ready, Set, Code
Computer programming/coding classes. Limited to 20 participants. Laptop suggested. Ages 9 and up. To Register: E-mail [email protected] or call 404-613-4255
Find out more »Scratch Coding for Kids
Tweens will learn coding using the Scratch software by creating a game, telling a story, making music, and designing art. This program is for kids in grades 4 - 6. Advance registration is required. Please meet at the Cumming Library, then library staff will escort participants next door to the Training Lab in FCPL's administrative […]
Find out more »Basic Python Programming for High School Students and Adults
Come join us for four classes of basic programming in Python, a powerful programming language used in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. We will cover the basics of Python through exercises and projects conducted by David Binnion, a senior developer at Integra Connect and a PhD Computer Science Candidate, of Teach-Technology Organization, Inc. Previous coding […]
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Decatur Book Festival: Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic
Physician, researcher, and ethics professor Matt McCarthy is on the front lines of a groundbreaking clinical trial testing a new antibiotic to fight lethal superbugs, bacteria that have built up resistance to the life-saving drugs in our rapidly dwindling arsenal. This trial serves as the backdrop for the compulsively readable Superbugs, and the results will impact […]
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Decatur Book Festival: Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our bodies their shapes and the ability to move. It grows and changes with us, an undeniable document of who we are and how we lived. Arguably, no other part of the human anatomy has […]
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Decatur Book Festival: Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves
Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which investigated animal intelligence, Mama’s Last Hug delivers a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals. Mama’s Last Hug begins with the death of Mama, […]
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