December 19, 2019
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December 7, 2019
Make a Splash! Secret Science Club presents Marine Biologist & Explorer David Gruber, MONDAY, December 16, 8PM @ the Bell House, FREE!
We’re
getting wet and wild for the holidays!
Take the
plunge at the next Secret Science Club with ocean explorer and marine biologist
David Gruber.
Just
returned from an expedition
exploring the frigid waters underneath the ice in Greenland, David Gruber typically spends about two
months of the year conducting undersea
research—scuba diving or riding in tiny
submersible vehicles that allow him to spend hours below the surface.
Dr.
Gruber tries to see the ocean
through the eyes of sea creatures and lately, he’s particularly interested in
how these animals communicate. He asks: Can we learn how to talk to whales using artificial intelligence? What are fish “saying” with biofluoresence
and bioluminescence? How can we use new technology to understand undersea species?
David Gruber is a marine biologist
and professor at Baruch College at the City University of New York and CUNY
Graduate Center. He is an Explorer for National Geographic and a researcher at
the American Museum of Natural History. His research & writing have appeared in the New Yorker, New
York Times, National Geographic, and The Best American Science
Writing. This year, Dr. Gruber was awarded the 2019 Lagrange
Prize, the greatest international recognition for complex systems science, for his research “focused on the
conservation of biodiversity,
protection of resources and the safeguarding of ecosystems."
Before & After
--Dive
into the holidays with our cocktail
of the night, the Jingle Shell!
--Groove to sea shanties, surf music, and whale song
--Groove to sea shanties, surf music, and whale song
--Plunge into the sea-salty Q&A
This
deep-sea edition of the Secret Science Club meets Monday, December 16,
8 pm @ the Bell House, 149 7th St. in Brooklyn (between 2nd and 3rd
avenues). Subway: F or G to 4th Ave; R to 9th St.
Doors
open at 7:30 pm. Please bring ID: 21+. No cover. Just bring your smart self!
Photo credits: David Gruber by Elias Carlson; Comb
Jelly by David Gruber
November 14, 2019
Secret Science Club (North) presents Astronaut & Author Kathryn Sullivan, Tuesday, December 3, 8PM @ Symphony Space, $25
Grab your
space boots! Secret Science Club is rocketing into Manhattan for a special
edition!
Secret Science Club (North) presents Handprints on Hubble with Astronaut
& Author Kathryn Sullivan, Tuesday, December 3, 8PM @ Symphony Space, (Use code SECRET20 to get $20 tickets.)
A scientist with a PhD in geology and oceanography, Kathryn Sullivan is the
first American woman to walk in space. A veteran of three NASA missions, Dr. Sullivan was on the crew of the Discovery shuttle that launched the Hubble Space Telescope. Celebrating 30 years in orbit, the Hubble today continues to transmit
revelatory images and data to
scientists back here on Earth.
Jumping off from her new book Handprints on Hubble, Kathryn Sullivan is here to tell the epic tale of the Hubble, her own pioneering space missions, and how the world's most iconic telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the Universe.
Kathryn Sullivan is a former NASA astronaut who has spent over 500 hours in space. Until 2017, she served as the Administrator of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), overseeing a network of satellites, ships, and airplanes that monitor Earth’s oceans and atmosphere. Handprints on Hubble is her first book.
Before & After
--Try
our space-shuttle-inspired cocktail of the night, the Atlantis
--Groove to the cosmic ballet
--Stick
around for the far-out Q&A

Get
$20 tickets
for Kathryn Sullivan here with code SECRET20 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
rocket-fueled edition of Secret Science
Club North meets Tuesday, December 3, 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 29, 2019
Secret Science Club & the Dana Foundation present the Dana Foundation Brain Lecture with Neuroscientist Nim Tottenham, TUESDAY, November 12, 8PM @ the Bell House, FREE!
When
we are born, our brains don’t have
much hard-wiring. But newborn neurons
are exquisitely primed to make brain
circuits as a baby learns new things. Compared to the minds of other
species, young human brains are remarkably
plastic and adaptable: Over the course of our prolonged childhoods, over 1
million new neural connections form every second, as we acquire language,
play, and interact with parents and caregivers.
At the next Secret Science Club, neuroscientist Nim Tottenham explores human brain development and its relationship
to emotional behavior, stress, and
well-being. She asks:
--How
are early-life experiences linked to
emotional functioning in adulthood?
Why do some early experiences matter so much?
--How
is brain development affected by relationships
with parents and primary caregivers.
--Can
childhood stress rewire our brains?
--How
does brain plasticity in childhood relate to psychological resilience and vulnerability?
Nim Tottenham is a neuroscientist, professor
of psychology, and director of the Developmental Affective Neuroscience Lab at
Columbia University. Her research examines brain development underlying
emotional behavior in humans. She uses brain imaging, behavioral, and
physiological methods to examine the development of brain circuitry in
children, teens, and their parents, and she is the author of more than 80
scientific papers. A recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health
Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS) award and
the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for
Early Career Contribution to Psychology, Dr. Tottenham has been a featured
scientist on CNN and NBC news and in the Wall
Street Journal and Washington Post.
BEFORE & AFTER
--Sample our cocktail of the night, the Smartini
--Shimmy to mind-blowing grooves
--Stick around for the scintillating Q&A
--Sample our cocktail of the night, the Smartini
--Shimmy to mind-blowing grooves
--Stick around for the scintillating Q&A
This edition of Secret Science Club—the Dana Foundation Brain Lecture featuring Nim
Tottenham, is sponsored by the Dana Foundation. The Dana Foundation is dedicated to
advancing understanding about the brain in health and disease through research
grants and public outreach.
This Secret
Science Club meets Tuesday, November 12,
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 St.
Doors open at 7:30 pm.
Please bring ID: 21+. No cover. Just bring your smart self.
October 17, 2019
Secret Science Club presents Atmospheric Scientist Sonali McDermid, SUNDAY, October 20, 8PM @ the Bell House, FREE!
Something in the Air! Secret Science Club
presents Climate Scientist Sonali McDermid, SUNDAY, October 20, 8PM @ the
Bell House, FREE!
When
Sonali McDermid first began studying the atmosphere, she was drawn in by the sheer
power and dynamism of Earth’s oceans of air. Compared to our planet’s massive size, our atmosphere is thin and insubstantial. Yet, the amount of energy being
transported through the system and the resulting storms, wind currents, temperature
shifts, and climate zones are phenomenal and fascinating. Changes in the atmosphere can make or break us.
At the next Secret Science
Club, Dr. McDermid explores Earth's phenomenal atmosphere, its relationship to Earth's ecosystems and agriculture systems, and the perils of climate
change. She asks:
--Does the way we grow food impact local
and global climate? How?
--How do wild ecosystems influence
weather and climate—and vice versa?
--What impact will climate change have
on the world’s ability to feed itself?
--Can soil help solve the
climate crisis?
Sonali McDermid is an atmospheric
scientist, climatologist, and professor of environmental studies at NYU. Her research
focuses on understanding interactions between climate change and variability,
land-use, and agriculture, with an eye towards identifying and quantifying
important feedbacks and uncertainties. She employs a variety of tools and
datasets, primarily global climate models, but also observed and remote-sensing
datasets, and process-based crop models. She has been a featured scientist on Vice
News, NPR’s Morning Edition, and ScienceLine.
BEFORE & AFTER
--Imbibe
our jazz-infused seasonal cocktail
of the night: Autumn in New York (It’ll
warm you up as the city cools down.)
--Groove to tunes that blow hot and cold
--Stick
around for the scintillating Q&A
This
inclement edition of the Secret Science
Club meets Sunday, October 20, 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 St.
Doors open at 7:30 pm.
Please bring ID: 21+. No cover. Just bring your smart self.
October 2, 2019
UPCOMING SECRET SCIENCE CLUB EVENTS!
Happy fall, everyone! Check out our upcoming events at the Bell House in Brooklyn—and beyond!
--Sun Oct 20, 8pm @ the Bell House, Atmospheric Scientist
& Climatologist Sonali McDermid, FREE
--Tues Nov 12, 8pm @ the Bell House, The Dana Foundation
Lecture featuring Neuroscientist Nim Tottenham, FREE
--Mon Dec 16, 8pm @ the Bell House, Marine Biologist &
Explorer David Gruber, FREE
Psssssst! We will be at Symphony
Space in Manhattan on Tuesday, December 3 for a special event: “Handprints on
Hubble” with Astronaut & Author Kathryn Sullivan. (Get tickets here and use code SECRET20 to get $20 tickets.)
One more thing! If you missed seeing Sean
Carroll's talk about quantum physics and “Something Deeply Hidden” last month
at our Secret Science Club North event, you can now watch the entire talk (with an
intro by physicist Brian Greene) on C-SPAN’s Book TV.August 12, 2019
SPECIAL EVENT! Secret Science Club (North) presents Physicist & Bestselling Author Sean Carroll, Tuesday, September 10, 8PM @ Symphony Space, $25
Adjust your
trajectory! Secret Science Club is blasting off to Symphony Space for a
special edition!
Secret Science Club (North) presents SOMETHING DEEPLY HIDDEN with Physicist & Bestselling Author Sean Carroll, Tuesday, September 10, 8PM @ Symphony Space (Use code SECRET20 to get $20 tickets.)
The
quantum world is strange. Now theoretical
physicist Sean Carroll is here to
tell you it’s not just strange, but gob-smackingly wondrous.
Jumping
off from his brilliant new book Something Deeply Hidden, Sean
Carroll explores the current theories that describe the quantum realm. Taking
these theories to their limits leads to mind-bending
questions that could utterly transform
how we think about space, time, and
the Universe:
--Are we living in a multiverse?
--As you read these
words, are multiple copies of you
being created?
--Can Einstein’s theory of relativity be
reconciled with quantum mechanics?
--Are there multiple pasts and multiple futures?
--Do we need to reboot
our view of reality?
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech, specializing
in cosmology, gravitation, field
theory, and quantum mechanics. The recipient of prizes and fellowships from the
National Science Foundation, NASA,
Guggenheim Foundation, American Institute of Physics, and Royal Society, Dr.
Carroll has been a featured scientist on PBS’s NOVA, StarTalk, and Through
the Wormhole, and hosts the Mindscape
podcast. He has served as a science advisor on films such as Avengers:
Endgame and Thor. A bestselling author, he has written four
popular science books, The Particle at
the End of the Universe, From Eternity to Here, The Big Picture, and most recently, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum
Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime.
Before & After
--Contemplate the Universe
with quantum cocktails at our Space Station bar
--Groove
to the cosmic ballet & interstellar tunes
--Stick
around for the far-out
Q&A
--Smoking-hot off the presses! Snag a
signed copy of Sean Carroll’s new book, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and
the Emergence of Spacetime.
Get $20 tickets for Sean Carroll here with code SECRET20 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
special edition of Secret Science Club
(North) meets Tuesday, September 10, 8PM @ Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway @ 95th St in Manhattan. Subway:
1, 2, or 3 to 96th Street. Doors
open at 7:30pm.
August 11, 2019
Secret Science Club & IFC Films present a sneak preview of THE SOUND OF SILENCE, Tuesday September 3, 8PM @ the Bell House, FREE!
We've got a special event at the Bell House right after Labor Day!
It's a free sneak peek of The
Sound of Silence before it comes out in theaters. The film received
accolades at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and has a cool
science-y theme.
This event is free, but please RSVP!
Secret Science Club & IFC Films present a sneak preview of THE
SOUND OF SILENCE, Tuesday, September 3, 8pm @ the Bell House, FREE with RSVP!
THE SOUND OF SILENCE follows a
self-taught scientist, Peter (Peter Sarsgaard), working in New York City as a
"house tuner"—a unique, highly specialized profession he's invented.
His clients approach him with troubles like depression, anxiety, or fatigue.
After extensive analysis of their homes' acoustic characteristics, he
identifies some sonic combination that's altering their mood—a radiator mixed
with a kitchen appliance, for instance—and is able to calibrate it. But
following a routine house call where he meets Ellen (Rashida Jones), who is
experiencing exhaustion, Peter obsessively searches for the fault in his
practice after his initial conclusion proves incorrect.
THE SOUND OF SILENCE is a serene contemplation of people living in
their modern environment—and their desire to understand and even control
it.
Join us for a sneak
preview followed by a post-screening
Q&A with co-writer Ben Nabors and neuroscientist Bianca
Jones Marlin, moderated by SSC host Dorian Devins.
BEFORE & AFTER:
--Groove
to ambient beats and dulcet tunes
--Sample our special cocktail
of the night, the Ultrasonic
Reserve your free ticket here.
This
cinematic edition of Secret Science Club meets Tuesday, September 3, 8PM @
the Bell House, 149 7th St, Brooklyn (between 2nd and 3rd aves). Subway: F
or G to 4th Ave, R to 9th St
Doors open at 7:30PM. Ages 21 and up.
Beautiful Beasties! Secret Science Club presents Entomologist Jessica Ware, TUESDAY August 20, 8PM @ the Bell House, FREE!
Secret Science Club BUGS OUT with Entomologist & Evolutionary Biologist JESSICA WARE on Tuesday, August 20,
8PM @ the Bell House, FREE!
Strange, beautiful, overlooked, and essential—insects are the foundation of Earth’s
ecosystems, representing 80 percent of all animal species. At the next Secret
Science Club, we explore the “creepy, crawly residents of nature’s demi-monde.”
Entomologist
Jessica Ware studies the amazing modern-day behaviors of insects, as well as
their deep evolutionary origins. Ancestors of the wee beasties that Dr. Ware
specializes in—dragonflies—were the first creatures on Earth to take to the air
over 400 million years ago. Flash forward: Today there are more than 80
species of dragonflies in NYC alone. They can fly up, down, forwards,
backwards—and migrate thousands of miles.
What
can’t insects do? According to Dr.
Ware not much: “Whatever people do, insects did it first. They waged war,
they took slaves, they learned to work cooperatively, they flew, they farmed.”
Jessica Ware is an evolutionary
biologist and entomologist at Rutgers University. She has conducted fieldwork
around the globe in Guyana, Peru, Ecuador,
Namibia, Canada, and good ol’ New
Jersey. Earlier this year, she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The
PECASE is the highest honor bestowed
by the U.S. government to outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their
independent research careers and showing exceptional promise for leadership in
science and technology. Her research has been featured in the Atlantic, Guardian, and New York
Magazine.
Before & After
--Raise
your glass (and your antennae) to incredible insects with our cocktail of the night, the Love Bug!
--Groove to six-legged tunes
--Stick
around for the buzzin’ Q&A
This
buggy edition of the Secret
Science Club meets Tuesday, August 20, 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 St.
Doors
open at 7:30 pm. Please bring ID: 21+. No cover. Just bring your smart self!
July 9, 2019
Secret Science Club presents Ocean Researcher Vicki Ferrini, TUESDAY July 16, 8PM @ the Bell House, FREE!
Dive! Dive! Secret Science Club takes the plunge with Ocean
Researcher Vicki Ferrini, TUESDAY July 16, 8PM @ the Bell House, FREE!
Mountain ranges longer than the Andes. Trenches alive with extreme animals. Tectonic plates that grind and pull, creating earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis. The seafloor never fails to surprise and amaze. Yet 80 percent of our ocean floor is still terra incognita. Indeed, there are better maps available of Mars. Vicki Ferrini wants to change that.
Dr. Ferrini studies and explores the ocean - from its darkest depths to the emergence of new volcanic islands. Her goal? Creating a map of the entire ocean floor and understanding the geological processes that create its mind-blowing features. Through ocean expeditions, underwater robotics, data analysis, and visualization, Vicki Ferrini is uncovering a never-before-seen blue world.
Before & After
--Dive into the Deep Blue Sea, a beguiling cocktail from Davy Jones' Locker
--Groove to sea shanties, surf music, and whale song
--Plunge into the sea-salty Q&A
Vicki Ferrini is an ocean researcher at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
and an affiliate professor at the Center for Coastal and Ocean
Mapping. Her research focuses on using mapping techniques to understand
the volcanic and tectonic processes that shape the seafloor. She has
been on more than 20 ocean expeditions mapping everything from coastal
waters to deep-sea environments. Her research has been featured in the BBC News, Popular Science, Newsweek, and Atlas Obscura.
This undersea edition of Secret Science Club meets Tuesday, July 16, 8PM @ the Bell House, 149 7th St, Brooklyn (between 2nd and 3rd avenues). Subway: F or G to 4th Ave, R to 9th St.
Doors open at 7:30PM. Please bring ID: 21+. No cover. Just bring your smart self!
June 20, 2019
SPECIAL EVENT! Secret Science Club presents a rare & riveting screening of "The Cleaners," PLUS Internet Law Professor Kate Klonick, SUNDAY, June 30, 2PM @ the Bell House, $10
“A neon-lit documentary shot like a noir
thriller”
Secret
Science Club presents a special screening of THE CLEANERS, with Social Media Researcher Kate Klonick (live!),
SUNDAY, June 30, 2PM @ the Bell House, $10
THE CLEANERS enters the shadowy world of human content moderators, hired by tech giants like Facebook and Google to do “digital cleaning.” They sift through and remove what they deem as inappropriate content on the internet, thereby influencing what people see and think all over the world. But who are they? Who makes the rules the digital cleaners enforce, and what are the consequences? The Cleaners charts social media’s evolution from a shared vision of a global village (and LOLcats) to today’s dangerous stew of fake news, online extremism, and outrage. “A movie of the moment.”—The Verge
KATE KLONICK starts
us off with a mini-lecture on the perils of policing social media.. Dr. Klonick is an assistant professor
at St. John’s University School of Law, and an affiliated fellow at Data &
Society, New America, and the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
Her research focuses on law and technology, as seen through the lens of cognitive and social
psychology. Most recently she has been studying and writing
about private internet platforms and how they govern online speech. Dr.
Klonick’s work has appeared in the Harvard
Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, New York Times, Atlantic, Vox, Slate, and
The Guardian.
BEFORE
& AFTER: Sunday afternoon cocktails (try Klonick's Tonic!), delicious bites,
and door prizes!
Tickets:
Advance tickets are available for purchase here.
This cinematic edition of the Secret Science Club meets Sunday, June 30 at 2 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 St.
Doors
open at 1:30 pm, 18 and over, $10.
May 30, 2019
SPECIAL EVENT! Secret Science Club presents a mind-blowing screening of “The Creeping Garden” PLUS Swarm Scientist Simon Garnier, SUNDAY, June 16, 2PM @ the Bell House, ALL AGES, $10
Secret
Science Club presents a special
screening of The Creeping Garden, one of the coolest & trippiest indie documentaries
out there. PLUS Swarm Scientist Simon Garnier gets this cinema party started with a mini-lecture on some surprisingly smart
life-forms.
BEFORE
& AFTER: Sunday afternoon cocktails & mocktails, delicious bites,
and door prizes!
THE
CREEPING GARDEN is a real-life sci-fi movie, exploring the
extraordinary world of plasmodial slime molds as revealed through the eyes of scientists
and startling time-lapse macro-cinematography. A movie about slime mold? You
betcha! These curious organisms are the
new stars of biologically inspired art
& design, emergence theory, computing, and robot engineering. THE CREEPING GARDEN is a “cinematic
cabinet of curiosities that will leave you giddy and delirious with wonder.”
SIMON
GARNIER is director of the Swarm
Lab and professor of biology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He
researches robot swarms, army ants, and socially
networked slime molds to learn how intelligent
collective behaviors (and not so intelligent ones) emerge in groups. Dr.
Garnier has been a featured scientist on Science
Friday, the Guardian technology
video series, National Geographic,
Scientific American, Mashable,
and The Verge.
Tickets:
Advance tickets are available for purchase here.
This cinematic edition of the Secret Science Club meets Sunday, June 16 at 2 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 St.
Doors
open at 1:30 pm. ALL AGES! $10.
May 22, 2019
Secret Science Club presents Social Psychologist Daniel Yudkin on the “Moral Mind,” TUESDAY, May 28, 8PM @ the Bell House, FREE!
Right
or Wrong? From playgrounds to politics, what is “moral” can be different for
different people. Social psychologist Daniel
Yudkin dives deep into the moral
mind, in-groups and out-groups, the high costs of enforcing the rules, and
how it all relates to human cooperation.
Dr. Yudkin asks:
--How do humans determine
what is morally right and morally wrong?
--Are we born with a moral
compass? How early in life do we develop a sense of justice?
--How do group
memberships influence moral judgments?
--Does social psychology
offer any hints for navigating our current political climate?
Daniel Yudkin researches social &
moral psychology at Yale University’s Crockett Lab, where he investigates how
people assess & influence their surroundings and how transformative
experiences change people’s values & behaviors. He is associate director of
research at More in Common, a nonprofit devoted to using social science to
understand the roots of political divisions. Dr. Yudkin’s work has been
featured in the New Yorker, Atlantic,
Washington Post, New York Times, and on CNN. His essays have appeared in Scientific American and the New York Times.
BEFORE & AFTER
--Imbibe
our morally ambiguous cocktail of
the night, the Right Amount of Wrong
--Groove to harmonious beats
--Stick
around for the scintillating Q&A
This
edition of the Secret Science Club
meets Tuesday, May 28, 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 St.
Doors open at 7:30 pm.
Please bring ID: 21+. No cover. Just bring your smart self.
April 2, 2019
Secret Science Club & the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation present the 2019 Lasker Public Lecture with Cell Biologist Elaine Fuchs, MONDAY, April 15, 8PM @ the Bell House, FREE!
The skin is the largest organ in the human body, and it’s a pretty amazing organ, too. When you move, your skin stretches and springs back. When you get a scrape, it heals. Old skin cells are constantly shed and new cells replace them. In fact, every 2 to 4 weeks the outer layer of your skin is completely regenerated—thanks to a reservoir of stem cells in your epidermis.
The skin’s ability to self-renew has long fascinated cell biologist Elaine Fuchs. She has spent her career researching the skin’s stem cells and how their basic biology can be used to create new therapies and cures.
At the next Secret Science Club, Dr. Fuchs asks: What are stem cells? How do they make and repair tissue? What is the role of stem cells in cancer? How can stem cells be used in regenerative medicine?
Elaine Fuchs is the Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her groundbreaking contributions to skin and stem cell biology have been recognized with multiple awards and honors, including the National Medal of Science, the March of Dimes Prize, the L’Oreal-UNESCO Award, and the E.B. Wilson Prize from the American Society of Cell Biology.
BEFORE & AFTER
--Sample our cocktail of the
night, the Skin Deep
--Shimmy to pluripotent grooves
--Stick around for the scintillating Q&A
This edition of the Secret Science Club, the 2019 Lasker
Public Lecture in honor of Al Sommer, is sponsored by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. The Foundation works to foster
the prevention and treatment of disease and disabilities by honoring excellence
in basic and clinical science, educating the public, and advocating for support
of medical research.
The Secret Science Club featuring Elaine Fuchs meets Monday, April 15, 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 St.
Doors open at 7:30 pm. Please bring ID: 21+. No cover.
Just bring your smart self.
February 27, 2019
Secret Science Club presents Primatologist & Best-selling Author Frans de Waal, MONDAY March 18, 8PM @ the Bell House, FREE!
Secret
Science Club presents Primatologist and Best-selling Author Frans de Waal on
the Fascinating World of Animal & Human Emotions
With rigorous
science and riveting storytelling, Frans de Waal jumps off from his new book, Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About
Ourselves.
Drawing on decades of research, Frans de Waal delves into the inner lives of animals, showing that
humans are not the only species with the capacity for love, revenge, guilt, hope, pride, and empathy.
Frans de Waal discusses facial
expressions, the emotions behind human
politics, the role of feelings in survival, as well as “depressed fish, empathetic rats, envious monkeys,” and the chimpanzee
Mama, whose dying farewell to her longtime caretaker provided the inspiration
for de Waal’s latest book.
The takeaway is one of continuity between humans and other animals and the many ways in which species are connected via evolution, physiology, and brain chemistry.
The takeaway is one of continuity between humans and other animals and the many ways in which species are connected via evolution, physiology, and brain chemistry.
Frans
de Waal is director of the Living Links Center at Yerkes National
Primate Research Center and professor of primate behavior in the department of psychology at Emory
University, He is the author of numerous best-selling books, including Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart
Animals Are?, Our Inner Ape, The Age of
Empathy, Bonobos, and Chimpanzee Politics, as well as over
150 scientific papers, and essays in the New York Times, Science, Nature,
and Scientific American.
BEFORE & AFTER
- Hot off the presses! Snag a signed copy of Frans de Waal's new book, Mama’s Last Hug
-
Groove to wild tunes & try our cocktail of the night
- Stick around for the scintillating Q&A
This edition of the Secret Science Club meets
Monday, March 18, 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.
Doors to the performance space open at
7:30PM. Please bring ID: 21+. No cover. (We're expecting a big crowd,
so consider arriving early. First come, first served!)
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