Talk:Café Scientifique

The comprehensive list?

If someone would like to determine the exact number of active cafés, I recommend the following google searches: [1] for british council organised ones, and [2] for US, Canada, possibly Australia, and elsewhere. I also have a suspicion that the New Scientist has listings of these in its print edition.

I've taken out from the article the following list that I verified on the web:

such as Australia, Canada and the United States (e.g. Palo Alto, Colorado, San Diego, Boston, Pittsburgh, Muskegon (MI); Tokyo, Singapore, Buenos Aires; Slovenia).

IIRC Singapore, Buenos Aires and Slovenia were British Council ones. - Samsara 23:46, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Royal Society (of Edinburgh or otherwise...)

Since Royal Society events are not organised by lay people, they are not really within the scope of this article. Thanks for keeping them out.

Any venture that is at organised by lay people in at least some localities, and includes open discussion as well as a friendly atmosphere, especially when held in a cafe or bar, qualifies. Please note that a number of organisations have adopted the term, Cafe Scientifique, or Science Cafe, and these therefore need to be included in this article even though they do not fulfill the criteria (and no, I don't believe these are written down anywhere). 82.71.48.158 10:44, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

others

I guess this emerges frm the salons culture in France and also the coffee houses of lOndon - hence lloyds shipping register. So it is really surprsing that the Green Drinks was not linked (I added it) and even more so no ref to the salons de thé OR EVEN the successor OpenCoffee - http://opencoffee.ning.com/ Apparently the usual morons who delete everything that is not happening in the USA or in ENglish have deleted it. Perhaps someone who can be bothered can add these anbd update articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.231.178.239 (talk) 08:23, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Delete article?

I suggest this article is deleted. It seems to be self-promoting an organisation/idea which has vanished - the Cafe Scientifique web site lists no cafes anywhere in the world that I can see, and can't see signs of activity since 2010. If this was ever notable, it isn't now. 84.12.193.153 (talk) 12:35, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

The website lists lots of cafes in the UK, and Cambridge, for one, held a meeting yesterday.-Lindosland (talk) 23:54, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

You are correct that the tone of the article seems somewhat self-promotional. The "philosophy" section, in particular, seems to borrow heavily from Cafe Scientifique's own literature and should be re-writtent in a neutral POV. --129.105.37.34 (talk) 15:32, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Problematic areas?

Quite why is Cockermouth listed here? cheers Geopersona (talk) 06:50, 1 March 2018 (UTC)