This Meetup is for well informed and serious minded adults interested in the UFO phenomena. For specific reasons, no one under 18 is permitted to attend these meetings.  You should have some knowledge and/or experience on this subject to keep up with our general discussions.  Our members are very knowledgeable and our meetings are always interesting as well as educational and fun! What We're About: Internationally known historian, researcher and well known author, Richard Dolan and his wife Kary …

Computer graphics or CG covers anything related to images or drawings created or manipulated on a computer.  CG can be achieved either by writing code or pushing a mouse.  CG covers fields as diverse as computational photography, augmented reality, mapping, GIS, spatial databases, computer vision, image processing, remote sensing, photogrammetry, digital cinema, 3D stereoscopic creation and display as well as the usual perception that computer graphics is things like 3D animation, video editing, …

Since the beginning I've had a sense that there ought to be some discipline of cognition, some art of thinking, the studying of which would make its students visibly more competent, more formidable: the equivalent of Taking a Level in Awesome. - "A Sense That More Is Possible" Thinking and deciding are central to our daily lives. The Less Wrong community aims to gain expertise in how human brains think and decide, so that we can do it more successfully. We use insights from cognitive science, s …