{"id":9578,"date":"2020-01-08T23:56:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T23:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=9578"},"modified":"2020-01-09T18:44:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T18:44:26","slug":"faculty-of-science-deans-seminar-series-presents-tv-host-comedian-molecular-biologist-dr-adam-ruben-feb-11-3pm-b101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2020\/01\/08\/faculty-of-science-deans-seminar-series-presents-tv-host-comedian-molecular-biologist-dr-adam-ruben-feb-11-3pm-b101\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty of Science Dean’s Seminar Series presents TV Host, Comedian, Molecular Biologist, Dr. Adam Ruben – FEB 11 @ 3PM, B101"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please join the Faculty of Science in welcoming TV Host, writer, comedian, and molecular biologist, Dr. Adam Ruben<\/strong>, for an entertaining examination of the public’s perception of science.<\/p>\n

In February 1997, Dr. Ian Wilmut announced that he had cloned a sheep, and everyone went nuts. We all form opinions about science, but what happens when we don\u2019t really understand the breakthroughs we\u2019re forming opinions about? In this talk, comedian, molecular biologist, and TV host Dr. Adam Ruben examines the way people perceive (and mis-perceive) science and scientists.<\/p>\n

WHEN<\/strong>: Tuesday, February 11, 2020
\nTIME<\/strong>: 3:00 – 4:15 PM Question and Answer Period to follow
\nWHERE<\/strong>: Room B101, Abbotsford Campus<\/p>\n

Adam will also have some of his books available for purchase and signing. <\/em><\/p>\n

Everyone is welcome to attend!<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Adam is a writer, comedian, and molecular biologist. He has appeared on the Food Network<\/strong>\u2019s Food Detectives<\/em>, the Science Channel<\/strong>\u2019s Head Rush<\/em> and How Do They Do It?<\/em>, the Weather Channel<\/strong>\u2019s Weather Gone Viral<\/em>, the Travel Channel<\/strong>\u2019s Mysteries at the Kremlin<\/em>, Discovery<\/strong>\u2019s Superhuman Science<\/em>, and Netflix<\/strong>\u2019s The Mortified Guide<\/em>; he currently hosts Outrageous Acts of Science<\/em> and What on Earth?<\/em> on the Science Channel<\/strong>. Adam is the author of the books Surviving Your Stupid<\/em>, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School<\/em> and Pinball Wizards: Jackpots, Drains, and the Cult of the Silver Ball<\/em>, and he writes the monthly science humor column \u201cExperimental Error\u201d in the otherwise respectable journal Science<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Adam at adamruben.net<\/a><\/p>\n

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Please join the Faculty of Science in welcoming TV Host, writer, comedian, and molecular biologist, Dr. Adam Ruben, for an entertaining examination of the public’s perception of science. In February 1997, Dr. Ian Wilmut announced that he had cloned a sheep, and everyone went nuts. We all form opinions about science, but what happens when … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":9579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,20,21,5,9,6,1],"tags":[180,301,39],"class_list":["post-9578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-chemistry","category-deans-office","category-engineering","category-events","category-mathstats","category-physical-geography","category-physics","category-uncategorized","tag-biology","tag-deans-seminar-series","tag-guest-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9578"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9589,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578\/revisions\/9589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}