The 1918-1920 global influenza pandemic killed between 50 and 130 million people. Most victims were previously healthy adults located everywhere — from the arctic to remote pacific islands. In all, about one-quarter of humankind was infected.
Three weeks from this evening, on Sunday, September 23, Wonderfest explores a fascinating and frightening question: “Is Nature or Man the Most Effective Bioterrorist?” I hope you will come to be intrigued and enlightened.
This trademark Wonderfest dialogue features nature and humanity, but it will star Stanford professors Stanley Falkow and David Relman.
I say “star” because Falkow and Relman are legendary researcher-teachers. When Wonderfest advisor Dr. Bob Siegel — an infectious disease expert himself — learned that they would be presenting, Siegel was delighted: “Both Falkow and Relman are wonderful, … this will be a very memorable event.”
You will find a full description of the dialogue here. Of course the event is FREE. Complimentary cheese and grapes will be served, but the main course will be a fine goulash of intrigue, fascination, and enlightenment. Please join us!
Wondrous regards,
Tucker Hiatt
Founder & Executive Director
P.S. Do you enjoy barbecue as much as goulash? Then come to Lick Observatory’s BBQ with the Stars atop Mt. Hamilton on Saturday, September 15. The “stars” will be literal, of course. But they will also be as figurative — and legendary — as Falkow and Relman (above). Good music and food will surround you as you learn from such luminous Wonderfest supporters as author Timothy Ferris, cosmologist Alex Filippenko, and planet-hunter Geoff Marcy.
At our June event, atop Mt. Tamalpais, I got to tell the hundreds of assembled astronomy buffs about Wonderfest’s July-31st event in San Francisco. I began by making a request: “Please raise your hand if Carl Sagan helped to inspire your love of science.”
Virtually every person in that audience—young and old—had a hand in the air.
We are told that Sagan’s COSMOS television series is the most watched PBS program of all time—viewed by over half a billion people. I still remember blinking back tears of awe inspired by the beautiful revelations made in that show. Since 1997, Wonderfest has been dedicated to the memory of Carl Sagan, and COSMOS is much of the reason for that rather public display of affection.
On Tuesday evening, July 31, a modern heir to the Sagan legacy of scientific enchantment will present COSMOS Reconsidered. Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley professor of astronomy, will show key scenes from the original COSMOS series, and then offer new commentary informed by 32 years of scientific advance.
For example: Do you remember Sagan’s Cosmic Calendar? It compresses the entire history of the universe into twelve months—and all of recorded human history occupies the last ten seconds of December 31st?! Prof. Filippenko will update this glorious time machine.
Do you recall an Italian boy on a motor scooter who taught the COSMOS audience about relativity by zipping around the Tuscan countryside at nearly the speed of light?! The good Berkeley professor will deepen our understanding of relativistic spaceflight, too.
How about when Sagan walked barefoot on the grounds of an ancient Hindu temple describing two possible fates of the universe? As far as I was concerned, the death (of EVERYTHING) by fire or by ice could not have been described more movingly or more thoughtfully.
… Not more thoughtfully, perhaps, until now: Alex Filippenko is not only a Saganesque astronomy teacher (voted “Best Professor” at UC Berkeley a record nine times!), he is also a world authority on cosmic evolution. Alex was a member of the High-Z Supernova Search Team whose leaders shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. Their detection of the accelerating expansion of the universe led to the realization that utterly mysterious “dark energy” rules the cosmos at large.
Indeed: “COSMOS at large“—and in exquisite scientific detail—will be the subject of our July-31st presentation. Please don’t miss it!
P.S. (This shouldn’t be just a postscript, it’s far too important…) Wonderfest survives on donations and involvement. If you enjoy Wonderfest events, and if you want others to learn about the Bay Area Beacon of Science, please donate to our nonprofit cause. BTW, that cause is nothing less than ENLARGING THE CONCEPT OF “SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY.” Please tell your friends about our website; “like” our Facebook page; and follow us on Twitter. Social media make it so easy to share your enthusiasm for science. Please invite your friends to Wonderfest events!
Can ignorance be thrilling? When that ignorance is profound, and embraces more than 80% of the material universe, maybe it can!
“Dark matter” is the appropriately spooky name given to the invisible stuff that we know exists because of its gravitational tug on the visible stuff! The nature of dark matter remains one of the great mysteries in physics and astronomy.
[DARK ALERT: Don’t confuse dark matter with “dark energy.” Dark energy is mysterious and important, too, but it is not material in nature. Although dark energy affects the universe at large, it is neither matter nor energy. (For example, Einstein’s famous E = mc2 says nothing about dark energy; it simply doesn’t apply!) Dark matter, on the other hand, is intimately involved in the mechanisms of matter — particularly on galactic scales.]
At 8:30 his Saturday evening, June 23, Wonderfest and the Mt. Tamalpais Astronomy Program are presenting The Milky Way as a Dark Matter Laboratory, with UC Berkeley astrophysicist Michael Kuhlen.
East and South Bay folks may need to travel a bit farther than usual to take part in this presentation, but the trip will surely be worthwhile. Dr. Kuhlen’s talk and slide show take place in the beautiful Mountain Theater atop Mt. Tamalpais in Marin.
Following the lecture, we’ll be treated to a laser-guided tour of the night sky by Urban Astronomer Paul Salazar. And, finally, before heading home, we can peer through the many big telescopes of the San Francisco Amateur Astronomers.
Don’t miss this terrific opportunity to put stars in your eyes. Mt. Tam can be spectacular on a warm June evening. (And “temperature inversions” DO often render it warmer on top of the mountain than down below near the Bay!) Just wear layers, and bring a good flashlight along with your sense of wonder.
Warm regards and clear skies,
– Tucker Hiatt, Director
P.S. We need a few volunteers to help set-up the Mountain Theater. If you can take part, please meet me at 6:30 PM this Saturday at the north end of the Safeway parking lot in Mill Valley’s Strawberry Shopping Center, right along highway 101. We’ll caravan “up the hill” together, find choice parking, and do just a few light-duty chores to help make the evening wonderful for everyone. (Please email tucker@wonderfest.org if you are interested in this dark matter volunteering expedition.)
This is the third taproot episode of Radical Physics. The “bad law of physics” in the title refers to a common misstatement of Newton’s first law of motion (N1). Once inertia is properly understood, then the power, scope, and surprise of the real N1 can be appreciated.
Midway through the fourth Mission:Impossible movie (Ghost Protocol), Tom Cruise jumps out of a car at 55 mph. Later, he “drives” a car into a concrete floor at 100 mph. Of course, Tom survives these two traumas handsomely. Our conception of reality (the laws of physics, in particular) is not so lucky.
Wonderfest announces a new video series dedicated to reality and the laws of physics*. Radical Physics pokes enlightening fun at movie action scenes, including those in Ghost Protocol. (By the way, M:I Ghost Protocol earns an RPMA rating of PGP-13.)
Radical Physics also presents interviews with noted science experts. The first interview series features astronomer Andrew Fraknoi discussing the origins of our atoms, the plight of Pluto, and what it’s like to fall into a black hole.
But the heart of Radical Physics—the “taproot” series of videos—deals with the fundamental ideas of physics: matter & energy, space & time, stability & change. Physics is the most fundamental science. Here is an engaging tutorial that’s good for the casually curious and the seriously studious.
If you’ve ever needed a firmer grasp on the “rules of existence,” then Radical Physics is for you. Please check it out. Perhaps more important, please share this Radical Physics link with every curious person you know!
Wonderous regards,
– Tucker Hiatt
Wonderfest Executive Director
P.S. Reminder: UC Berkeley’s Terrence Deacon reveals his insights into consciousness TONIGHT at 7:00 PM in San Francisco. Here’s the scoop: Incomplete Nature.
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* Are these laws important? Well, Stanford’s Leonard Susskind refers to them as “the rules of existence”!
Are you available for short-notice excitement? David Pogue, heir to Neil deGrasse Tyson’s host position at NOVA ScienceNOW, will present a special screening of NOVA’s Hunting the Elements next Wednesday, April 4, at the Randall Museum Theater.
YOU are invited to this free event hosted by Wonderfest. Exploits will begin at 8:00 PM with an introduction and behind-the-scenes exposé by the witty Pogue. Then, a bit before 9:00, we’ll start “Hunting the Elements” on Randall’s big screen. Here is a preview of the show.
And here are the particulars:
WHO: David Pogue, host for PBS-NOVA and columnist for Scientific American & the NY Times WHAT: A special screening of Hunting the Elements plus a behind-the-scenes confessional(!) WHEN: 8:00 – 11:00 PM, Wednesday, April 4, 2012 WHERE: Randall Museum Theater, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 94114
HOW: FREE. Co-presented with the Bay Area Science Festival.
See you at 8:00 next Wednesday, … but I suggest that you arrive early!
– Tucker
P.S. Please don’t forget about Wonderfest’s presentation of Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter on Wednesday, April 18. Prof. Terrence Deacon, UC Berkeley neuroscientist and Anthropology Department chair, will offer exciting new insights into purpose, feeling, and meaning — i.e., into our understanding of consciousness!
P.P.S. SkeptiCal 2012, the Northern California Science and Skepticism Conference, happens in the Berkeley Marina on Saturday, April 21. Featured speakers include UC’s Alison Gopnik on the Philosophical Baby, NASA’s David Morrison on Doomsday 2012, and Miracle Detective’s Indre Viskontas on Why debunking often falls flat. Discount tickets to SkeptiCal are available here, but only until April 1st. No fooling’!
As "the Bay Area Beacon of Science," Wonderfest is charged with illuminating a great deal of geographic and intellectual territory! Let's see if Wonderfest is living up to its ambitious new subtitle.
On March 2, Wonderfest joins the Stanford Chemistry Department in presenting Does Corporate Funding Corrupt Science? When corporate money supports research, is truth the ultimate goal, or is stockholder profit? The tobacco industry seems to offer a potent example of "private" science gone awry. Can we establish general conditions of research funding under which truth always triumphs?
Here is the group of outstanding scholars that Wonderfest has assembled for this panel discussion: (Respective areas of expertise appear in parentheses.)
Lisa Bero, Professor of Health Policy, UCSF (pharmaceuticals)
Hank Greely, Professor of Law, Stanford (biomedicine)
Dave Patterson, Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley (software)
Robert Proctor, Professor of History, Stanford (tobacco)
Richard Zare, Professor of Chemistry, Stanford (chemistry)
Next, on April 18, Wonderfest joins Ask a Scientist in San Francisco to explore one of the most profound questions in science: Whence Consciousness? UC Berkeley neuroscientist and anthropology department chair Terrence Deacon will present Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter.
Then, on May 9, Wonderfest collaborates with the Bay Area Skeptics to present Magnetic Medical Mayhem?, a Berkeley “Skeptalk” on the alleged health effects of electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell phones, power lines, and smart meters.
And on June 23, Wonderfest finally brings back its rained-out contribution to last November’s Bay Area Science Festival. We again join with the Mt. Tamalpais Astronomy Program at Marin’s Mountain Theater to present The Milky Way as a Dark Matter Laboratory.
(Of course, you can keep an eye on all Wonderfest event developments at wonderfest.org. Another fun option is to sign up as a Wondernaut at our new Meetup.com page; in just ten days, wonderfest has “met-up” with some 70 new Bay Area admirers!)
To summarize… Look what’s coming: science funding, consciousness, EMF health effects, and dark matter; collaboration with Stanford, Ask a Scientist, Bay Area Skeptics, and Mt. Tam Astronomy. These intriguing presentations happen—one per month—in four different Bay Area regions: peninsula, SF, east bay, and north bay. Evidently, the Bay Area Beacon of Science is shining brightly and widely!
Wondrous regards,
Tucker Hiatt
Founder & Executive Director
P.S. With its newly confirmed 501(c)(3) designation from the IRS, Wonderfest has become a fully tax-exempt, independent, nonprofit corporation. Already, Wonderfest has received an encouraging donation from the Harold F. and Suzanne D. Falk Foundation. I *wonder* if other friends of Wonderfest (see salutation, above!) are excited about such tax-saving opportunities to support the Bay Area Beacon of Science. 😉
For over a decade, November’s approach has gotten Bay Area science lovers all hot and bothered: Wonderfest was near!
Now that Wonderfest is the Bay Area Beacon (not Festival) of Science, and its events are spread throughout the year, perhaps we are all feeling the effects of November nostalgia and Wonderfest withdrawal.
BASF to the rescue! The Bay Area Science Festival (BASF) includes several Wonderfest-like presentations. In fact, one BASF event is actually co-produced by Wonderfest, and several other events involve long-time Wonderfest friends.
On Nov. 5, Wonderfest joins the Mt. Tamalpais Astronomy Program in presenting a lecture on one of the great mysteries of science: dark matter. This weird stuff constitutes more than 80% of the material universe, but we only observe it through its gravitational tug on the other 20%. Otherwise, dark matter is—in every sense of the word—dark to us.
But Wonderfest’s contribution to BASF will enlighten the subject a bit! UC Berkeley astrophysicist Dr. Michael Kuhlen will present a lecture and slide show entitled The Milky Way as a Dark Matter Laboratory. Immediately afterwards, Urban Astronomer Paul Salazar will lead a laser-guided tour of the gorgeous Mt. Tam night sky. And, finally, the San Francisco Amateur Astronomers will provide their big telescopes for a close-up public viewing of the heavens.
This Mt. Tam presentation is just one of many such “star parties” taking place throughout the Bay Area on that first Saturday evening in November. So, if getting to Marin is a challenge, consider one of the other BASF astronomy events closer to home.
The choreographer of the entire BASF Star Party series is the winner of Wonderfest’s first Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization, Andy Fraknoi. Besides working behind the scenes at BASF, Andy will be speaking about dwarf planet Pluto’s ignominious demotion at the single biggest BASF event on Sunday, Nov. 6. This same huge science bash—at AT&T Park, no less—will feature Wonderfest friend Zeke Kossover and his legendary Physics Circus.
One other BASF event that may particularly energize Wonderfest fans is the Science Trivia Contest at Ask a Scientist on Wednesday, Nov. 2. Why not drop by? If you’re worried that the competition may be stiff, take heart: at least one team (the Wonderfest team, including yours truly) will probably provide comic relief, unintentionally.
Wondrous regards,
Tucker Hiatt Founder
P.S. It’s official: in the eyes of the state of California, Wonderfest is an independent nonprofit corporation. Now we are waiting for IRS acknowledgement of Wonderfest’s 501(c)(3) tax exemption.
Ready to put your science smarts to the test? Tonight we will be celebrating the Bay Area Science Festival the best way we know how — with a boisterous science trivia contest hosted by Robin Marks of Discovery Street Tours. (It’s just like a pub trivia night, but without all those other boring categories.) Even if you don’t know your cortex from a coprolite, come enjoy a night of fascinating science trivia and general revelry. You can bring your own team of ringers with you, assemble a team with others on the spot, or just come to cheer, hang out, and learn stuff. The winning team will receive an awesome prize and a really cool feeling of superiority that should last at least several days. Six people max per team. Bring your own writing utensils.
I am especially excited about our next event, just two days away. On Thursday, September 22, we will explore Does Quantum Weirdness Influence the Brain? at the Randall Museum Theater in San Francisco. I am “especially excited” for two reasons: (1) this is the first Wonderfest collaboration with Ask a Scientist, and (2) this title question involves topics that get my wonder gland working overtime.
To get some overtime yourself, please take another look at the “blurb” that described this talk in the last Wonderfest newsletter:
Neuroscientists say that there is a mystery at the core of our understanding of consciousness. Physicists say that there is a mystery at the core of our understanding of quantum mechanics. Do these two mysteries have anything to do with each other? UC Berkeley physicist Stan Klein, a founding member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, will help us to get a good scientific handle on this thorny, important, and controversial topic. Find out what Dr. Klein has to say about the role of “quantum weirdness” as it relates to the awesome capabilities of the brain, personal awareness, free will, and even parapsychology.
Wonderfest fans have asked for clarification regarding the two mysteries mentioned here. I try to provide this in the paragraphs below.
The “mystery of conscious awareness” may be best seen in the phenomenon of subjective experience. Consider a specific example: the subjective experience of warmth. I know what it is to be warm, i.e., to feel warmth. Poca, the wonder dog, seems to feel warmth, too: she reacts to it the way I do, and she has much the same warmth-sensing nervous system circuitry that I have.
Even the 1-mm-long worm called C. elegans seems to experience warmth. That’s a much tougher “call,” however, because worm behavior is harder to interpret than dog behavior. And, more to the point, worm nerve circuitry is VERY much simpler than dog and human nerve circuitry.
But let’s compare the circuitry of C. elegans to the circuitry of a home thermostat. A thermostat “senses” warmth, but few people claim that a thermostat has a subjective experience of warmth.
C. elegans has about 300 circuit elements (“neurons”). A complicated thermostat may also have a few hundred circuit elements (including many transistors). Neurons are not transistors, of course, but these two types of “switches” appear to perform similar functions. This is why the term circuitry is used by both neuroscientists and electrical engineers.
Here, in a nutshell, is the mystery (or at least one mystery) of conscious awareness: Why do we say that C. elegans might be aware of warmth, while we do not say that the thermostat might be aware of it?
Let me rephrase the question in terminology first made famous by philosopher Thomas Nagel. Why do these two questions have such different answers: “What is like to be a warm C. elegans?” “What is it like to be a warm thermostat?”
To be a warm C. elegans might be at least a tiny bit like being a warm dog or a warm human. But to be a warm thermostat is not “like” anything. Thermostats are not aware. Thermostats do not have subjective “conscious” experiences. (We believe!)
Where does quantum “weirdness” come into this? The kind of quantum weirdness that seems most relevant to what goes on in the brain is called superposition. Superposition refers to one quantum having two irreconcilable attributes at the same time. For example, an electron might be both here and there simultaneously; or a photon might be both “spin up” and “spin down” simultaneously.</>
Bear in mind that superposition is evident in the quantum realm: the realm of the very small and, sometimes, the very cold. The brain’s smallest relevant components seem huge by quantum standards. And those components function in a warm environment: a room temperature body.
Here, in a nutshell, is the mystery (or at least one mystery) of quantum physics: How does the weird indefiniteness (superposition) of the micro-world become the ordinary definiteness of the macro-world. An electron may be both here and there, but a Buick is either here or there, not both. What about a neuron? Can a neuron both fire and not fire at the same time? And even if so, could this influence consciousness?
Does quantum weirdness influence the brain? I can’t wait to entertain such a question with Prof. Klein … and with you. See you on Thursday!
Were you a little disappointed(!) by last spring’s Rapture no-show? Well, maybe Wonderfest can help!
On Sunday, August 28, you are cordially invited to San Francisco’s Roxie Theater to learn about Real Doomsdays: How Life Could End on Earth. This trademark Wonderfest dialogue will feature two outstanding speakers: UCSC’s Greg Laughlin and NASA’s Chris McKay.
Here’s a compact, eminently forwardable summary of all the specifics, in case you don’t want to send this entire message to your friends. (But please do spread the word!)
WHAT: A public science dialogue on Real Doomsdays: How Life Could End on Earth
WHO: UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist Greg Laughlin and NASA planetologist Chris McKay
WHERE: Roxie Theater, 3117 – 16th Street, San Francisco <http://roxie.com/info/directions.cfm>
WHEN: 1:00-2:30 PM, Sunday, August 28, 2011
HOW: It’s FREE, from your science-lovin’ friends at Wonderfest <http://wonderfest.org>.
WHY: Because we’re curious creatures.
Recall that Wonderfest, now the Bay Area Beacon (not Festival) of Science, will not be producing a weekend festival as it has since 1998. Instead, events like this Doomsday dialogue will pepper the calendar year-round. Our venues will change, as well. This event at the Roxie promises plush seating and good munchies. Add some Earth-shattering science insights, and perhaps a rapturous experience will ensue after all!
Wondrous regards, Tucker Hiatt, Wonderfest director
P.S. For a beautiful overview of past Wonderfest dialogues, please revisit the Wonderfest website. Technical director (and Picturoo CEO) Eric Yao has assembled finely edited videos of dialogues from the past three years. They — and even a master list of ALL Wonderfest dialogues since 1998 — appear under the Archives menu. Thank you, Eric!
The previous issue of this newsletter described how Wonderfest is “merging” with the Bay Area Science Festival (BASF). The unfortunate title of that message, “Wonderfest becomes BASF,” disappointed a few thoughtful folks who are fond of Wonderfest, and they made their disappointment clear.
We all want BASF to be a glorious success. And we can be proud that key elements of Wonderfest promise to be a big part of that success. However, Wonderfest is not “becoming” BASF. In fact, Wonderfest is beginning a year-long, multi-faceted period of profound growth and experimentation:
(1) After fourteen years as “The Bay Area Festival of Science,” Wonderfest’s subtitle is becoming “The Bay Area Beacon of Science” — reflecting that growth and experimentation.
(2) Wonderfest is joining forces with San Francisco’s original “science cafe,” Ask a Scientist, to produce regular science evenings at accessible venues throughout the Bay Area. Science dialogues and lectures will flourish year-round, not just during one weekend in November. Ask a Scientist creator Juliana Gallin is convinced—as am I—that together we can engage more people with science than either of our two independent institutions did in years past. Our first joint-venture event is scheduled for August. Stay tuned for news of its subject and speaker(s).
(3) Wonderfest is producing an extended series of online science videos. These “Wonderings” will complement more formal online fare like that of Khan Academy. Wonderings videos will be lively and witty, diverse and fun. Most of all, they will be compelling and accurate and wonder-inspired. A hint of the hundreds(!) of Wonderings to come can be seen in this prototype entitled She Has a Need for Speed. YouTube phenom Jack Conte is helping Wonderfest to produce the Wonderings AND to post them on YouTube in ways that will earn large viewerships and, consequently, engage a lot of people with science.
Do YOU have a question that can inspire an exciting episode of Wonderings? If so, please send it here. Perhaps even send it in simple YouTube video format (by attaching the URL). This is what the celebrity(!) questioner did in She Has a Need for Speed. Good questions—in video format or not—will be featured in upcoming episodes.
I hope you are (nearly!) as excited by the evolving Wonderfest as I am.
Wondrous regards,
Tucker Hiatt, Wonderfest Director
P.S. Early evidence of the collaboration between Wonderfest and Ask a Scientist can be seen in person on Wednesday, June 8, at 7:00pm. A certain Wonderfest director will be addressing “How to Blend Physics Into Your Worldview” at San Francisco’s Bazaar Cafe as a part of Ask a Scientist’s How-To Night. If you have time, please stop by!
According to Einstein, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.”
Perhaps part of the reason you are reading this newsletter — and are interested in Wonderfest — is because you share Einstein’s all-or-nothing view of miracles … or, rather, his all-and-nothing view. Wonderfest helps us to appreciate the miraculous, i.e., to appreciate everything, through understanding.
Wonderfest 2010 comes to Stanford and UC Berkeley next weekend, Nov. 6-7. The schedule of events lists six major “dialogues” and several other formal events in the big auditoria. Admission is FREE! REGISTER NOW!
Consider, for example, the live podcast of This Week in Science with Dr. Kirsten “Kiki” Sanford and Justin Jackson at Cal on Sunday, Nov. 7. Neuroscientist Dr. Kiki will be interviewing Wonderfest audience members, so be on your toes!
Non-dialogue events — Science art, science books, and science comedy (just to mention the a-b-c’s) — will beckon Wonderfest visitors at Stanford’s Amateur Science Forum on Saturday, and at Cal’s Bay Area Science Expo on Sunday.
By popular demand, a non-dialogue main event that happened at Wonderfest 2009 is being reprised in 2010, but with new insights. Neuroscientist and magician Luigi Anzivino will describe how magicians use their understanding of physiology and psychology to fool us so easily. “Neuromagic” takes place at Stanford on Saturday, Nov. 6.
Actually, a bit of “neuromagic” takes place every day in each of us. We humans see regularities in the world, and we do our best to make a science of them. It is a beautiful, challenging, wonderful process. But we must not forget that these regularities — even the deepest laws of physics — are tentative and provisional and, according to big Al Einstein, even miraculous.
Wondrous regards,
Tucker Hiatt, Wonderfest director
P.S. What about food at Wonderfest? Finding a good meal near Cal’s Stanley Hall is easy: there are many restaurants near the intersection of Hearst and Euclid, less than a 10-minute walk away. Dining near Stanford’s Hewlett Teaching Center was a bit dicier … until now: California Cafe , a 10-minute walk from Hewlett — is offering Wonderfest attendees a 10% discount on that Saturday evening. Please just make your reservation by this Thursday, Nov. 4, so that California Cafe can adjust its staffing needs accordingly.
P.P.S. Share the gift of wonder. We are successful if more people come to enjoy Wonderfest. So, we ask that you help us by inviting all your friends to come, to promote us on blogs and facebook, or wherever.
