Have you always wanted a place to talk about interesting new ideas in science? Or find out more about a particular science topic?

Nurture Curiosity – a science café for curious minds.
An informal virtual event with engaging discussion on a variety of timely science topics.
Come bring your thoughts, questions, and ideas.
Learn, converse, and virtually meet others who are inquisitive.

Topic: Bushkill Creek and water quality

Kathy Altmann, Bushkill Stream Conservancy President, will discuss ongoing projects, and John Cosgrove, BSC Member, will talk about water testing.

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Nurture Curiosity Virtual Science Cafe
Fri, May 1, 2020 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM (EDT)

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Have you always wanted a place to talk about interesting new ideas in science? Or find out more about a particular science topic?

Nurture Curiosity – a science café for curious minds.
An informal virtual event with engaging discussion on a variety of timely science topics.
Come bring your thoughts, questions, and ideas.
Learn, converse, and virtually meet others who are inquisitive.

Topic: The Lehigh Canal and Lehigh River
Guest Speaker: Martha Capwell Fox

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Join us for an author’s talk by Lafayette College Professor Benjamin R. Cohen on his recent book, “Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food,” on Wednesday, May 20, 2020.

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Pure Adulteration is about the early years of factory food, con men, hucksters, scientists, G-men, industrialists, housewives, corrupt importers, honest brokers, and the difficulty in asking, what’s the difference between natural and artificial, real and fake, pure and adulterated? It focuses on the late 1800s, when extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new anxieties for the ways people understood, obtained, trusted, and ate their food. How could you tell the food you bought was the food you thought you bought? Could something manufactured still be pure? Is it okay to manipulate nature far enough to produce new foods but not so far that you question its safety and health? How do you know where the line is? And who decides?
The book explains how those in the early age of manufactured foods struggled to draw that line between purity and adulteration, struggles which led to the founding of the FDA and modern food regulation. Today’s world may be different from that of the nineteenth-century in many ways, but so many of their concerns are with us still. This is especially true as the challenge of policing the difference between acceptable and unacceptable practices remain central to daily decisions about the foods we eat, how we produce them, and what choices we make when buying them.
Benjamin R. Cohen is a writer, historian and Associate Professor of Engineering Studies and Environmental Studies at Lafayette College in Easton, PA.