<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hey folks,</div><div><br></div><div>Just sent out the latest Reading Odyssey newsletter.</div><div><br></div><div>Let me know if you aren't subscribed (and want to be). I'll be happy to add you!</div><div><br></div><div>Hope you enjoyed your call this week!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Phil <br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Phil Terry" <<a href="mailto:pterry@readingodyssey.com">pterry@readingodyssey.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">November 4, 2009 4:41:33 PM EST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"<a href="mailto:pterry@creativegood.com">pterry@creativegood.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:pterry@creativegood.com">pterry@creativegood.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Reading Odyssey Newsletter November 4, 2009</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:pterry@readingodyssey.com">pterry@readingodyssey.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>=================== Reading Odyssey - 4 Nov 09 =================<br> By Phil Terry<br> Sign up: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ReadingOdysseyNewsletter">http://tinyurl.com/ReadingOdysseyNewsletter</a><br>============================================================<br><br>- Sean Carroll webcast tonight, 11/4/09, 8pm New York time<br> <a href="http://DarwinLecture3.eventbrite.com">http://DarwinLecture3.eventbrite.com</a><br>- Slow Art 2010 all over the world<br> <a href="http://Slow-Art.com">http://Slow-Art.com</a><br>- Slow Art 2009 - a success<br>- Registration: Xenophon and Homer in January 2010<br>- Everything else (podcasts, video, websites, etc.)<br><br>----------------------------<br>Sean Carroll's Webcast Around the World<br>8pm New York time<br>----------------------------<br><br>Sean Carroll, one of the great working scientists, will deliver <br>a Reading Odyssey lecture for our Darwin150 campaign tonight, <br>Wednesday, November 4 at 8pm New York time.<br><br>His lecture - "Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection and the <br>DNA Record of Evolution" - is free and you can register to watch <br>via webcast here:<br><a href="http://DarwinLecture3.eventbrite.com">http://DarwinLecture3.eventbrite.com</a><br><br>This webcast marks a milestone for the Reading Odyssey.<br><br>Why?<br><br>We have set up remote viewing of the lecture all over the world.<br><br>From India to Mexico, from Spain to Canada, from Germany to <br>Argentina, and across these United States, people will <br>be watching Sean Carroll together. <br><br>Want to see a sample of the many places watching tonight?<br>http://tinyurl.com/Lecture3network<br><br>How were we able to do this?<br><br>Talented volunteers and sponsors made it happen.<br><br>These volunteers and sponsors support the mission of the <br>Reading Odyssey to help adults play with and reignite our <br>curiosity about great books, ideas, art and science.<br><br>One of the most important and talented of the volunteers is <br>Professor Sean Carroll himself.<br><br>A finalist for the 2009 National Book Award, Sean Carroll is <br>both a great scientist - a pioneer in evolutionary developmental<br>biology - and a teacher passionate about making the beauty and<br>power of evolution accessible to people worldwide.<br><br>His book, "Endless Forms Most Beautiful", inspired my own<br>exploration of evolutionary biology and was influential in<br>shaping the origins of the Reading Odyssey. His current book,<br>"Remarkable Creatures" is, in a word, remarkable.<br><br>He's a real hero of mine and I'm honored that he has volunteered<br>to give a live lecture straight from the Ebling Symposium Center <br>in the Microbial Sciences Building at the University of <br>Wisconsin.<br><br>Join us tonight at 8pm New York, 7pm Central.<br>http://DarwinLecture3.eventbrite.com<br><br>---------------------------- <br>Slow Art 2010<br>http://www.Slow-Art.com<br>---------------------------- <br><br>We are now in the planning stages for the Reading Odyssey's<br>Slow Art 2010.<br><br>On April 17, 2010 in cities around the world - from Jakarta to <br>Helsinki, from Boston to Los Angeles, from Copenhagen to <br>Milwaukee - people will be slowly looking at art.<br><br>Click here to see the list of Slow Art 2010 cities:<br>http://www.facebook.com/SlowArt?v=app_10442206389<br><br>Consider hosting Slow Art in your city:<br>http://www.facebook.com/SlowArt?v=app_4949752878<br><br>And become a fan of our Slow Art page on Facebook:<br>http://www.facebook.com/SlowArt<br><br>---------------------------- <br>Slow Art 2009 - a success<br>---------------------------- <br><br>Our first Slow Art experiment in October 2009 led to *16* Slow<br>Art events around the world.<br><br>It was successful. Attendees loved the experience of looking<br>at a few pieces of art for 10 minutes or more.<br><br>See the testimonials from Slow Art 2009 here:<br>http://www.facebook.com/SlowArt?v=app_6261817190<br><br>And see the press we got for our first experiment:<br>http://www.facebook.com/SlowArt?v=app_11007063052<br><br>---------------------------- <br>Registration: Xenophon and Homer in January 2010<br>---------------------------- <br><br>- Xenophon reading group begins in January<br>Info and sign-up here:<br>http://Xenophon2010-1.eventbrite.com<br><br>- Another section of Homer's Odyssey starts in January<br>Info and sign-up here:<br>http://Homer2010-1.eventbrite.com<br><br>----------------------------<br>Everything else...<br>----------------------------<br><br>- Stanley Lombardo performs sections of Homer's Odyssey for us <br>Live via teleconference December 14, 2009<br>http://Lombardo2009.Eventbrite.com<br><br>- Websites, podcasts and videos<br><br> - http://www.Darwin150.com<br> Home of our Darwin150 campaign<br><br> - Darwin video channel<br> Darwin150 Lectures via video - Vimeo Darwin channel<br> http://vimeo.com/channels/66600<br><br> - Homer 2009 reading group podcasts<br> http://showsupport.typepad.com/odyssey/1_homers_odyssey<br><br> - Darwin 2009 reading group podcasts<br> http://showsupport.typepad.com/odyssey/8-darwin<br><br> - Aristotle 2009 reading group podcasts<br> http://showsupport.typepad.com/odyssey/7_aristotle/<br><br> - Xenophon conference<br> podcast coming soon<br><br> - Poet and author, Laurie Sheck - podcast of our talk with her<br> http://tinyurl.com/LaurieSheckmp3<br><br> - Dr. George Amato, American Museum of Natural History podcast<br> http://tinyurl.com/DrAmatorecording<br><br> - Robert Strassler, Editor, "Landmark Thucydides" podcast<br> http://tinyurl.com/BobStrasslerJune2009<br><br>See all archives here:<br>http://www.readingodyssey.com<br><br>----------------------------<br>Special thanks to sponsors<br>----------------------------<br><br>First, we must thank Citrix Online and HiDefConferencing.com. <br>They make all our reading group phone calls, podcasts and phone <br>lectures possible.<br><br>They have donated *three* years of phone and web services to us.<br><br>Please visit them online: www.citrixonline.com<br><br>And then, secondly, we must give thanks to the sponsors for <br>Darwin150:<br><br>- National Geographic<br>- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology<br>- Citrix Online and their HiDefConferencing division<br>- Harvard Professor, John Dowling<br>- Campaign Monitor<br>- National Center for Science Education<br>- The New York Academy of Sciences<br>- Squarespace<br>- Creation: The Movie<br><br>----------------------------<br>...and to volunteers and moderators<br>----------------------------<br><br>Moderators of our 2009 reading groups:<br><br>- Andre Stipanovic for Thucydides and now Homer<br>- Pat Wictor for Homer<br>- Stephanie Aktipis for Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"<br><br>Volunteers of our various projects:<br><br>Darwin150<br>- Kendall Crolius, producer of the Darwin150 campaign<br>- So Young Park, chief marketing officer for Darwin150<br>- Chris Farnet, Quinn O'Neill, John Halloran, Gerardo Camilo,<br>James Falvo for managing the Facebook page (and we need more<br>volunteers to give them a hand)<br><br>Slow Art<br>- Tai Odunsi helping me to manage the online Slow Art community<br>- All our Slow Art hosts from around the world<br>- Special thanks to Gillian Rose for helping with the New York<br>event and with designing the template that all the hosts used<br><br>---------------------------<br>Until next time: many thanks, and warm regards,<br><br>Phil Terry, pterry at readingodyssey dot com<br><br>http://www.Darwin150.com<br>http://www.Slow-Art.com<br>http://www.ReadingOdyssey.com<br><br>My bio:<br>http://creativegood.com/team/phil.html<br><br>Tell your friends to subscribe. Point them here:<br>http://tinyurl.com/ReadingOdysseyNewsletter<br><br>If you read down this far, then e-mail me and tell me about a<br>favorite book of yours.<br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>contact info<br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Phil Terry<br>Founder, Reading Odyssey, Darwin150 and Slow Art<br>e-mail: pterry at readingodyssey dot com<br>Twitter: PhilTerry<br>Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/pterry<br><br>Bio:<br>http://creativegood.com/team/phil.html<br><br>ABOUT READING ODYSSEY<br>Reading Odyssey is a nonprofit (in the process of applying<br>for 501c(3) status) dedicated to helping adults play with culture.<br><br>We aim to help adults engage their intellectual curiosity -<br>and create conversations that provoke us to think and to see<br>in new ways.<br><br>Reading Odyssey hosts small tutorials and large lecture series.<br><br>We run Slow Art and the Darwin150 campaign - the latter with <br>over 250,000 members on Facebook. We are currently in the early <br>planning stages for both Slow Art 2010 and also a major<br>two-year celebration of the 2,500 year anniversary of the Battle<br>of Marathon (the anniversary is September 2011).<br><br>VOLUNTEER?<br>Would you like to help volunteer behind the scenes?<br><br>We need LOTS of help - technical assistance (we want to build<br>a new website and are looking for an individual or a firm to<br>donate their services), promotional assistance, and help building<br>our grassroots network of individuals, colleges, universities,<br>high schools and so on.<br><br>Get in touch with me at pterry at readingodyssey dot com<br><br>SPONSOR?<br>If your company would like to sponsor The Reading Odyssey,<br>then contact Phil Terry at pterry at readingodyssey dot com<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------<br>(c)2009 Reading Odyssey. 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