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Other Current Topics

Atoms of Mind … biology of mind, critique of free-will research, new theory for dreaming, new theory for the nature of consciousness

Science and Religion (maybe, depending on the venue) … reminding people of faith what science knows and scientists what they don't know

Armadillos, Wonders of Nature

Presentations:
Several every year for 45 years, including:

National Security Agency

U.S. Air Force   

Cruise ship, Royal Carribbean  Mariner of the Seas        

multiple research seminars at universities in
U.S.A., Australia, Canada, Europe

multiple seminars on collaborative learning, computer conferencing

multiple teacher-training workshops

Society for Neuroscience, most years for the last 25 years

FASEB, about 15 annual meetings

American Physiological Soc., about 10 annual meetings

Ramon y Cajal Center, Madrid, Spain

Czechoslovak Academy of Science

Hungarian Academy of Science

Coll. Vet. Med., Toulouse, France

Fed. Agric. Center, Fed. Rep. Germany

Texas Middle School Association, most of last 10 years

Science teacher state and national conferences, multiple talks

Special Speaking Invitations:

"Distinguished Lecturer," Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 2012-2014.

Numerous speaking engagements on improving memory

Numerous invitations to speak on using computer conferencing in education in U.S. Europe, and Australia

Numerous research and development presentations at Headquarters, U.S. Air Force Human Systems Division

Speaker, 1999 annual convention of the Texas Association of Registrars and Admissions Officers, Lubbock, Texas

Invited Banquet speaker, Sigma Xi @ Corpus Christi/Kingsville, 1999

Invited participant, Gordon Conference on Water, Holderness School, New Hampshire, 1998

Invited Co-chair, Symposium on Glycoconjugates in Alcoholism, Stockholm, 1997

Invited speaker and co-founder, Consortium for Affordable and Accessible Distance Education, Knoxville, TN, 1995

Invitation to present computer conferencing talks at Neurope Lab, Archamps, Freance, 1994

Invited speaker, American Association for Adult & Continuing Education, Dallas, Texas, November, 1993

Invited contributor, Gordon Conference on Alcohol, Oxnard,California, January, 1993

Event-Related Potentials", Sarasota, Fla., April, 1992

Invited participant, N.I.H. NIDCD workshop on olfaction

Invited speaker, conference on "Temporal Coding in the Brain", Paris, France, 1989

Invited speaker, conference on "Neuroadaptive Mechanisms of Ethanol, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. 1989

Chairman, session on Behavioral Pharmacology, Federation Meetings, 1983 and 1986.

Invited participant, Gordon Conference on Alcohol, Ventura, 1982

Invited participant, symposium on Hypnosis, Montreal, 1974

Invited participant, symposium on Veterinary Neurology, Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc. convention, 1973

Invited participant, symposium on Animal Hypnosis, Blacksburg, Va., 1972

Invited participant, symposium on EEG in Disorder of Man and Animals, Fort Collins, Colo., 1971

Chairman, Session on Behavior, Federation Meetings, 1970