Today should be a beautiful day–sunny and high of 70. Tomorrow, in contrast, is expected to have a high in the mid-40s with possible precipitation.
The Library will have Spanish for Kids this morning from 11:30-12 and Preschool Time from 12:30-1. Today’s DIY Lab will teach kids to make flashlights out of Altoid tins.
The Investment Task Force meets tonight at 6PM in City Council Chambers. Have you taken the survey yet, indicating how you want the city to spend future tax money? If not–please do! Tune in during the meeting for the big reveal to see how the various issues are fairing in the polls.
The task force originally planned to have three public meetings to solicit input into the long-term spending plans, but they’ve decided to cancel the second two. The new plan is to visit various stakeholder groups in town and possibly visit gathering places such as the library to ask people take the survey.
The School of Mines will have a special guest this week. Robert M. Hazen, the author of The Story of Earth: How Life and Minerals Co-Evolved will be delivering a lecture on Wednesday April 25th at 7PM in Rm 241 of Berthoud Hall.
Here’s an abstract of his book: A fundamental challenge in geology is to understand the evolving diversity and distribution of rocks and minerals through more than 4 billion years of Earth history–changes that reveal much about our planet’s co-evolving geosphere and biosphere. Mineral evolution and mineral ecology, which explore mineral occurrences through time and space, exploit large and growing data resources to detect previously hidden patterns in nature. We find dramatic changes in Earth’s mineralogy as a consequence of physical, chemical, and most surprisingly biological processes. Powerful analytical and visualization methods are now allowing us to predict Earth’s “missing” minerals–a prelude to the discovery of new ore deposits and other natural resources.
On Thursday (4/26), the new Town and Gown book club will kick off at noon with a visit from the esteemed author, Dr. Robert Hazen and a discussion of his book. The new group will meet at the Arthur Lake Library, 1400 Illinois Street.
