<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><b>Today is International Darwin Day</b> </font>- a celebration of science, scientific inquiry and scientific achievement held on or around Charles’s birthday. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>HAC is one of the co-sponsors </b>of the first online CT Darwin Day Celebration, to take place next Friday, February 19. Those of us on the event Planning Committee are amazed at the response we have received so far - <b>19 organizations have joined as co-sponsors and over 300 individuals have already registered! </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We can handle up to 500 participants! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our 2021 Keynote Speaker is Internationally acclaimed artist, naturalist and conservationist James Prosek.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><img src="cid:C04C5722-070A-446D-8DA3-97DAD02F75D6" alt="image1.jpeg" id="C04C5722-070A-446D-8DA3-97DAD02F75D6"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Art and Science – intrinsically connected. When we look at the caves of Lascaux, are we experiencing an aesthetic appreciation of the natural world or something more deeply rooted in cognition? What is communicated in the reproduction of the natural world? T</span><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">hese are some of the ideas and questions James Prosek will address.</b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please Join us, show your support for Science, hear James Prosek, and enjoy our annual Science Quiz.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The event is free and open to all!</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><b><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Register at <a href="http://bit.ly/DarwinDay2021">bit.ly/DarwinDay2021</a> </i></b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">to get the Zoom link.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In addition:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Scientific inquiry and Research must be supported if we are to solve the problems facing humanity, the natural world and our planet. Where would we be today without our research scientists and their tireless efforts to develop vaccines</span><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Toward this end,</b></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> the</span><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> 2021 Darwin Day Celebration Committee asks you to consider making a donation to the</b><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Union of Concerned Scientists</b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">, a national nonprofit of 250 scientists, analysts, policy and communication experts who support the “use of rigorous, independent science to solve our planet's most pressing problems.” </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Go to </span><a href="https://secure.ucsusa.org/a/2021-darwin-day-event" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">https://secure.ucsusa.org/a/2021-darwin-day-event</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">First individual donations of $50, $75 and $120 will be matched by anonymous donors.</span></p></div><div class="gmail-gE gmail-iv gmail-gt" style="padding: 20px 0px 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hope to see you next Friday! 7pm via Zoom</span></p></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div></div><p></p><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Gayle Walter<div>51 Linden Street</div><div>New Haven, CT 06511-2526 </div><div>203-640-3694</div></div></div></div></div></body></html>