October 14, 2015
Kick it into warp drive! Tuesday, October 27, 8PM, Secret Science Club presents Astrophysicist Jason Kalirai @ Symphony Space
Grab your space boots! Secret Science Club is rocketing to Symphony Space
in Manhattan for a special event...
Tuesday, October 27, 8pm, Secret Science Club (North) presents Astrophysicist
Jason Kalirai @ Symphony Space, $20
(Shh… use code SECRET15 to get $15 tickets.)
It’s 100 years since
Einstein presented his General Theory of Relativity—changing forever how we
think about space and time—and ushering in discoveries beyond even Einstein’s
wildest imagination. Blast off with astrophysicist Jason Kalirai to explore
where Einstein’s theory has led since 1915—from supermassive black holes to the
evolution of the Universe itself.
Astrophysicist at the Space
Telescope Science Institute and Project Scientist for the James Webb Space
Telescope, NASA’s next flagship observatory, Jason Kalirai takes us on a
stunning visual tour of the cosmos.
Don't miss a nanosecond of this out-of-this-world
talk!
Before & After: Countdown to launch with cosmic cocktails from our Space
Station bar and groove to interstellar tunes!
Snag tickets for $15 here
with code SECRET15, by phone at 212.864.5400, or in person at the box
office.
This special edition of Secret Science Club (North) meets Tuesday,
October 27, 8pm @ Symphony
Space, 2537 Broadway @ 95th St
in Manhattan. Subway: 1,
2, or 3 to 96th Street.
Doors open at 7:30pm. This is an all-ages event!
October 1, 2015
Tuesday, October 13, 8PM, Secret Science Club presents Cognitive Philosopher & Author Alva Noë at the Bell House, FREE!
Tech + Art
+ Brains = ?
Secret Science Club presents Cognitive Philosopher Alva Noë on Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
Secret Science Club presents Cognitive Philosopher Alva Noë on Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
Chimps and
a few other animals can use simple tools. When given a brush, elephants and
even pigs have been known to paint on occasion. But only humans use tools as if
they were born with them, and only humans are obsessed with making and
experiencing art—from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to Banksy’s wall rats, from Shakespeare's
Macbeth to HBO's Game of Thrones. In his new book, Strange Tools: Art and
Human Nature, cognitive philosopher Alva Noë asks: What is art? Why do we make
it? Why does it matter to us? What does it tell us about human nature, biology,
the brain, and consciousness?
Alva Noë is
a professor of philosophy at the University
of California, Berkeley,
and member of the Institute
of Cognitive and Brain
Sciences. He writes for NPR’s 13.7
Cosmos & Culture blog, and his previous books include Out of Our Heads:
Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
and Action in Perception.
Before
& After
--Bibo
ergo sum! Sip our tricky cocktail of the night, the Logical Fallacy.
--Snag a
signed copy of Alva Noë’s provocative new book, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
--Stick
around for the singular, scintillating Q&A
This
edition of the Secret Science Club meets Tuesday, October 13,
8PM @ the Bell House, 149
7th St. (between 2nd and 3rd avenues) in
Gowanus, Brooklyn. Subway: F or G
to 4th Ave,
R to 9th St.
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