Wikipedia states "a salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine taste and increase their knowledge of the participants through conversation. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate" ("aut delectare aut prodesse est"). Salons, commonly associated with French literary and philosophical movements of the 17th century and 18th centuries, were car …

Informed by Nature organizes group trips to cool science events in the LA area. Whether its a star party at the Griffith Park Observatory, a talk at JPL, or a first Friday social event at the Natural History Museum, we meet up and go together, as a collection of people who love science, and often go out for a drink or coffee afterward. Ultimately, we hope to create a social community that emphasizes raising consciousness to the magnificence of the natural world and supporting the science that dr …

Are you interested in any of the following: Meditation, philosophy (East or West), mysticism, Kabbalah, T'ai chi, Yoga, parapsychology, Lucid Dreaming (to name just a few)? Are you Jewish as well? Do you have a degree or are working in any of the sciences (from physics to psychology, from Astronomy to botany)? **If you're not specifically a degreed scientist, but have at least a BA and read science journals for leisure... you're qualified. Can you mix laughter with some 'heavy' topics? Come …