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.
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