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Sunday, January 13, 2013

News Nearby: Rocket Scientist Will Talk Earth's Preservation at Next Walden Forum

Allan Klummp will speak on Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m.

The below was submitted by organizers of the Walden Forum. Join us for a discussion with Allan Klumpp about how we follow the example of our forefathers and take responsibility for posterity – how humanity can protect water supplies, reduce CO2, end global warming and continental glaciation, and prevent extinction-causing impacts with celestial bodies. Klumpp will speak at the Walden Forum on Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 7:30 p.m.   After a 44-year career exploring the moon and planets, Klumpp resigned from Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2003 to devote his efforts full time to the more-important task of developing concepts for sustaining civilization indefinitely. The Walden Forum is held at the First Parish Meeting House, at the …

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Next Walden Forum Addresses 'Truth in Journalism: Whose Facts, Whose Reality?'

The next Walden Forum will take place Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m. at First Parish in Wayland.

The information below was submitted as a press release. Join us for a discussion with Dan Kennedy, an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University. Kennedy will speak at the Walden Forum on Thursday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m. He teaches multimedia reporting, First Amendment law and other journalism courses. The Walden Forum is held at the First Parish Meeting House, at the intersection of Routes 20 and 27 in Wayland, Mass. The 2012 presidential campaign was marked – or marred – by an utter failure to find common ground. From climate change to polling analysis, from the rise of fact-checking to the decline of facts, the civic discourse was polluted by ideology and partisanship at the expense of rational analysis. The media …

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