The Creatures’ Guide To Caring

[music] We begin with a brief look at the Front Range Science Calendar.

If you're not familiar with the legendary conservation scientist George Schaller, you likely may know at least that some of his legacy, including how he showed people that gorillas, chimpanzees, tigers, and other megafauna are worth our empathy and conservation efforts.

Also, Schaller mentored Jane Goodall on her chimp study in Tanzania decades ago, and his enduring impact includes sparking the creation of vast national parks and supporting local communities in protecting habitat for wildlife.

You can learn lots about George Schaller and current conservation efforts tonight at 6:30 at the Boulder Bookstore.

Colorado author Miriam Horn will discuss her new book.

It's called Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller.

She'll do that with local journalist and author Hillary Rosner.

Rosner herself wrote a powerful and inspiring book.

It's called Roam: Wild Animals and the Race to Repair Our Fractured World.

For information on tickets, go to boulderbookstore.com's events calendar.

And for events about worlds elsewhere in the universe, coming up this week at Fiske Planetarium in Boulder are a few spacey shows.

First, this Thursday, July 2nd at 3:00 P.M. is the film CapCom Go: The Apollo Story, which is about the first human moon landing on July 20th, 1969, 57 years ago, when 600 million people around the world gathered around televisions to witness an historic moment broadcast live from the moon.

Those Apollo 11 astronauts were just three of nearly 400,000 people who had worked over 10 years toward that goal.

Find out what all those people did to put humans on the moon.

Then, Sunday, July 5th at 1:00 P.M., Fiske will show the full dome film One Sky.

Learn about cultural and indigenous astronomy, its historical and modern applications, and how our one sky connects us all.

You will visit ancient Greece and find patterns in the forge of Artemis, measure time with the Dine or Navajo people to seek the Thunderbird, explore 18th-century India in Jai Singh's dream, journey with the first people of what is now northern Canada in a celestial canoe, and visit Japan to find patterns of the samurai and stars.

Also, venture out into the ocean with Hawaiian navigators.

And then later on July 5th, you can attend a live talk called Stars and Planets, an introduction to the night sky, the stars, and constellations, and you will see which stars and planets are visible in the sky tonight.

Then you will lift off in Spaceship Fiske to take a tour of the solar system and learn about the other planets that orbit our own star, the Sun, and about the thousands of planets that have been discovered around other stars.

So that's a lot of space, and all these events run about an hour, which includes time to ask questions with astronomers in the theater.

Those are at Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado Boulder campus.

For more information, go to colorado.edu/fiske.