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Hike the Watershed Reserve in Pennington with one of the Naturalists, in search of natural bird homes. Then build your own Eastern bluebird house with us and take it home. Registration is required, space is limited. $25 per birdhouse. Participants should bring a hammer.

Students who kicked off weekend celebrations last night at Princeton University thought twice about the quantity of alcohol they consumed after rumors that the health center was quickly overcrowding with norovirus patients spread rapidly throughout campus.
 
Emails circulated by students warned that the University’s McCosh Health Center would not be accepting intoxicated students due to the number of virus-infected patients pushing the infirmary to full-capacity.
 

In 2001, a young orca named Luna lost contact with his family in Puget Sound, later turning up in Nootka Sound, off the coast of Vancouver Island. Without other whales to bond with, Luna began living along the shoreline, reaching out to boaters for companionship. Smart, friendly and determined, Luna demanded human contact, and the residents of the Sound were happy to adopt him as their own.

The film follows efforts to prevent the extinction of wild oyster reefs, which keep our oceans healthy by filtering water and engineering ecosystems. Today, because of overfishing and pollution, wild oyster reefs have been declared 'the most severely impacted marine habitat on Earth' and no longer play a role in their ecosystems. Now scientists, government officials, artists and environmentalists are fighting to bring oysters back to the former oyster capital of the world - New York Harbor.

A Q&A with filmmaker Emily Driscoll will follow the screening.

In 1923, Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian scientist, philosopher & social innovator, predicted that in 80 to 100 years honeybees would collapse. Now, beekeepers around the United States and around the world are reporting an incredible loss of honeybees, a phenomenon deemed “Colony Collapse Disorder.” This “pandemic” is indicated by bees disappearing in mass numbers from their hives with no clear single explanation. The queen is there, honey is there, but the bees are gone.

Jon Hauge, owner of the Savory Spice Shop, recently tasted the world’s hottest pepper, the bhut jolokia, also known as the ghost pepper, which is for sale in his shop.  “The best word to describe it is HOT,” says Hauge. “Sweat was definitely beading up on my forehead. I tried it with one of my employees, and we took pictures.”

Learn to spin your own yarn using a basic drop spindle and sheep fleece. The Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Naturalist will also demonstrate the use of a spinning wheel and other tools of the trade. Participants will go home with their own drop spindle and fleece. Adults and children 11yo+ are welcome, registration required. $20 per person, which includes materials and refreshments.

Mr. Fish & Chris Hedges in Conversation
Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People
Tuesday, December 20th @6:00PM
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Cartoonist Mr. Fish regularly illustrates pieces by journalist Chris Hedges. On the occasion of the debut volume of political cartoons from Mr. Fish, we invite you to come out for a conversation about word and image in the service of uncomfortable truths.

Princeton's Whole Earth Center played host to a group of marchers campaigning for mandatory labelling of genetically-modified foods.

Dubbed the "GMO Right2Know March", this trek began in Brooklyn on Saturday, and aims to reach a World Food Day rally in Washington D.C. on Oct. 16.  Along the way, marchers plan to stage rallies and meetups to raise awareness of their cause.

Join one of the SBMWA naturalists on a hike to the Stony Brook, where we will search for these crustaceans. Wear shoes that can get wet in shallow water. Families welcome (children 5yo+). Registration required. $5 per person.

Princeton Senior Resource Center will host a Brown Bag discussion, on “Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease” on Friday August 12, 2011 at 12:00 noon, in the Suzanne Patterson Building, 45 Stockton Street.

Join one of the Naturalists of Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Assn. for a guided tour of the Kate Gorrie Butterfly house every Monday morning in summer. Our tour begins in the nature center with the caterpillar zoo - observe different native caterpillars feeding, learn more about host plants and the mystery of metamorphosis! Then tour the butterfly house, which houses many different native New Jersey butterflies along with native host and nectar-producing plants. Finally, you are invited to join us in the field to try your hand at catching some butterflies using nets.

You are invited to have tea with the butterflies of the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Reserve! Come learn how and why the butterflies are drinking sweet 'tea' from flowers. We will begin our tea by learning more about butterflies and then using nets we will try to catch them for a close up look at their beautiful but fragile bodies. Venture into our backyard for lemonade and sugar cookies afterwards. Appropriate for families with children 3 and older. Pre-registration is required - call the Buttinger Nature Center to register.

Princeton University's Class of 2011 emerged through the FitzRandolph Gate today, the culmination of days of reunions, class day events, and memorable speakers.

Stephen Hiltner, Jerry D’Anna, Ron Connor

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Layrinth is bringing back summertime jazz with a performance by the Sustainable Jazz Ensemble: free and free-range, sustainable jazz. Coffee and tea will be provided; otherwise b.y.o. and join us for an informal evening of outstanding music.

As more people eliminate foods with gluten from their diets, home cooks and restaurant chefs face a growing challenge to create appetizing recipes that are gluten-free. A demonstration and product tasting at Princeton Public Library on Tuesday, May 10 will address the demand and provide information about gluten in the diet.

The Albert Einstein Memorial Lecture, "RNAi: From Mystery to Mechanism, or how a worm won three Nobels"   is this Thursday, April 28th, at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, Princeton University from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.  

With the arrival of spring and clement weather, comes the irresistible urge to garden, especially this week with the first of the year’s spring plant sales. 

The D&R Greenway Land Trust in conjunction with the Friends of the Marsh invites local gardeners to “Go Wild” with a tour of its native plant nursery on Wednesday, April 27, followed by a sale of native species on Friday, April 29 and Saturday, April 30.

Part of the weekend long event of Morven in May, Morven’s annual Heirloom Plant Sale features more than 100 types of crowd plea

PRINCETON, NJ: In an African village, rhythms of the drums infuse all of life – rituals, celebrations, communication, and even healing. In Princeton, drums will help to heal in a different way. They will beat at the Second Annual African Soiree, a benefit for the United Front Against Riverblindness on Saturday, March 12, at the Princeton Theological Seminary’s Mackay Campus Center. Doors open for a silent auction at 5 p.m. and the program – including authentic African food, live music, and dancing to an African DJ – starts at 6 p.m.

Fireplace Second Floor
Thursday, Mar 24, 7 p.m.

This informative panel presentation will feature Patti Kerr, author of "I Love You, Who Are You?: Loving and Caring for a Parent with Alzheimer's"  as well as representatives from The Greater new Jersey Chapter of Alzheimer's Association and Greenwood House.

Sponsored by the library, Greenwood House, and the Alzheimer’s Association.

Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood. More than 38,000 blood donations are necessary every day. If you are at least 17 years old, weigh more than 110 pounds and are in good general health, you can do your part by donating blood in this six-hour conducted by the American Red Cross.
Appointments are preferred. Contact Susan Conlon at (609) 924-9529 ext. 247 or sign up at www.pleasegiveblood.org/donate.