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<p style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;margin:0px"><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px;font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Please join us on Friday at 11am AEST for the second talk of our SIfA Seminar Series. This week, we’ll be hearing from </span></p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;margin:0px"><span lang="en-GB" style="margin:0px;font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Prof. Sandy Faber about a fascinating new initiative called the “Earth Futures Institute”, thinking about the future of life </span></p>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">Sandy is a true American star of astrophysics, having received the National Medal of Science from President Obama.</span></p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">Here's a brief profile: </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Zli-CoV1kpfrgRwj0t1uxzW?domain=en.wikipedia.org" id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Faber</a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt; font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: underline; margin: 0px;">"The Earth Futures Institute at UCSC and UCR: Attempting to </span><i style="color: inherit; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><u><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black;">Wake
the Sleeping Giant"</span></u></i></p>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;margin:0px"><i><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">"Spaceship Earth" is now a reality -- human beings and their crops and<br>
animals now dominate Earth's biosphere and are growing exponentially.<br>
Numerous indicators flash danger warnings, yet most of academia,<br>
including UC, remains largely unengaged. Conceived of by two<br>
astronomers at UCSC and UCR, the Earth Futures Institute is the first<br>
institute of its kind to consider the prospects for intelligent life<br>
on Earth truly holistically on both near-term and cosmic timescales.<br>
This is a mission on which every corner of every university can and<br>
should be engaged. This talk will review the history of the EFI<br>
concept and describe our ongoing activities at UC. Can this concept</span></i><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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