Monday, January 29, 8PM, Secret Science Club North presents We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe with Physicist Daniel Whiteson and Cartoonist Jorge Cham @ Symphony Space (Use code SECRET15 to get $15 tickets.)
January 10, 2018
Secret Science Club North presents Physicist Daniel Whiteson and Cartoonist Jorge Cham, Monday, January 29, 8PM @ Symphony Space
Adjust your trajectory … Secret
Science Club is blasting off to Symphony Space for a special edition!
Monday, January 29, 8PM, Secret Science Club North presents We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe with Physicist Daniel Whiteson and Cartoonist Jorge Cham @ Symphony Space (Use code SECRET15 to get $15 tickets.)
Scientists know only about 5 percent of what makes up
the cosmos. The rest? It’s still a mystery. Experimental Physicist Daniel Whiteson and Cartoonist Jorge Cham take us on a whirlwind tour (with live
drawing) through everything we don’t know about the Universe—from dark matter
and dark energy to what happened before the Big Bang. Why does time only move forward? How come there's so much
space in outer space? Is there life beyond
our own planet? Explore these mind-bending
questions and more at the next Secret Science Club North!
Jorge Cham is the creator of Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comics) and
a recovering roboticist. Daniel Whiteson
is an experimental particle physicist at the University of California at
Irvine, who conducts research at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Jorge and Daniel have created wildly popular and viral videos on gravitational waves and the discovery
of the Higgs Boson. We Have No
Idea is their first book together.
--Contemplate
the Universe with cosmic cocktails
at our Space Station bar
--Groove
to music of the spheres
--Stick
around for the far-out Q&A
--Snag
a signed copy of Jorge and Daniel’s brilliant
new book, We Have No Idea: A Guide to
the Unknown Universe.
Get $15
tickets for “We Have Know Idea: A Guide to the Unknown
Universe” here
with code SECRET15 and enter the code at checkout. You can also use the
code at the Symphony Space box office (call 212.864.5400 or visit in person).
This starry-eyed
edition of Secret Science Club North
meets Monday, January 29, 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.
January 5, 2018
TUESDAY, January 9, 8PM @ the Bell House, FREE! Secret Science Club presents Biologist, Snake-ologist, and Explorer Frank T. Burbrink
Frank T. Burbrink has traveled the world, researching
snakes and discovering new species. On the island of Madagascar, he and his
colleagues have studied an astonishing array of snakes, occupying every ecological
niche, from freshwater to treetops. And these snakes have a variety of beautiful forms:
A few have noses shaped like leaves. Others have skin the color of bumblebees.
Still others are dusty red and cat-eyed.
Around the globe, snakes exhibit mind-boggling
variation, from garter snakes to reticulated pythons. Some live off little termites.
Others can kill and devour an antelope. Dr. Burbrink asks: How does an animal
with a seemingly simple head-and-tube body have so many different forms? What
exactly are “species” and how do they diversify? And what threats—even existential
ones—are facing snakes in the wild?
Frank T. Burbrink is associate curator in the Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the
American Museum of Natural History, principal investigator at the Sackler Institute
for Comparative Genomics, and associate professor at the Richard Gilder
Graduate School. The author of over 100 research papers, he has conducted fieldwork
in Madagascar, Brazil, Panama, Japan, and the United States. He studies the
evolutionary history of reptiles and amphibians, their ecology, and genetics.
His research has been featured in the New
York Times, Gizmodo, BBC News, and on The
Limit Does Not Exist podcast.
Before & After
--Try our exploratory
cocktail of the night, the Sidewinder
--Twist &
slink to serpentine tunes
--Stick
around for the sssssscintillating Q&A
The next
biodiverse edition of the Secret Science Club meets Tuesday, January 9, 8 pm @ the Bell House, 149 7th St. (between 2nd
and 3rd avenues) in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Subway:
F or G to 4th Ave;
R to 9th Street.
Doors
open at 7:30 pm. Please bring ID: 21+. No cover. Just bring your smart self!
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