Saskatoon NerdNite #2

Name: Saskatoon NerdNite #2
Start: 2024-10-01T18:00:00-06:00
Location: The Thirsty Scholar

Schedule

Tue Oct 01 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

The Thirsty Scholar | Saskatoon, SK

First Speaker Announced!
Erika Dyck invites you to join us for a journey through Psychedelics, their use and history in Saskatchewan
Did you ever wonder why/how Saskatchewan became the psychedelic hotspot of the 1950s? Our trapezoidal province was anything but square when it became the hub of hallucinogenic research and Indigenous ceremonial rights.
In this talk I will revisit some of this colourful history and consider how Canada might rethink its laws on psychedelics in the future.

Second Presenter (re) Announced!
About time and space - is everything relative? - Alexander Moewes
Have you ever asked yourself which physics properties are absolute, and which are relative? How about time, length, mass or speed of light?
In 1999, Time magazine selected physicist Albert Einstein as the person of the millennium. His powerful theory of special relativity touches on these questions and are based on a very simple yet surprising basic assumption – the speed of light is a constant.
In my talk I will touch on these parameters and explain some of the surprising implications from this theory.