Secret Science Club presents Physicist & Author Sean Carroll, Wednesday, May 15, 7:30PM @ the Bell House, $29

SPECIAL EVENT! Secret Science Club presents Theoretical Physicist & Best-selling Author Sean Carroll with THE BIGGEST IDEAS IN THE UNIVERSE: Quanta & Fields

IN-PERSON @ THE BELL HOUSE on Wednesday, May 15, 7:30PM (Doors open at 7PM), $29 (includes book) (Reserve your tickets.)

Physicist, bestselling author & host of the acclaimed Mindscape podcast, Sean Carroll takes us on a dazzling tour of the biggest, most mysterious ideas in the Universe!

In Quanta and Fields, the second book in an already internationally acclaimed series, Carroll dives into the baffling & beautiful world of quantum mechanics.

From Schrödinger to Feynman, Carroll explores the quantum revolution with the greatest minds of the 20th century, explaining how several decades of research overturned centuries of convention.

At this special edition of the Secret Science Club, we discover why matter is solid, why there is antimatter, where the sizes of atoms come from, and why the predictions of quantum field theory are so spectacularly successful.

Beyond Newton, beyond Einstein... join us as Sean Carroll opens a window into the raw & infinitely fascinating reality of the quantum realm!

Before & After
--Sample our quantum cocktail of the night, the Uncertainty Principle!

--Groove to subatomic tunes

--Bring your questions for the cosmic Q&A

--Hot off the presses! A copy of Sean Carroll’s awesome new book, THE BIGGEST IDEAS IN THE UNIVERSE: Quanta and Fields is included with each ticket. Thank you to our bookseller, Greenlight Bookstore!

GET TICKETS HERE!

SEAN CARROLL is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, and Fractal Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He is host of the MINDSCAPE podcast, and author of The Particle at the End of the Universe, The Big Picture, Something Deeply Hidden, and The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time and Motion. He has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the American Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of London, and many others.

This special edition of the Secret Science Club meets in-person Wednesday, May 15, 7:30PM @ 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 7PM.

Tickets are $29, including Sean Carroll’s new book. Click here to reserve your spot!

Under 18 with a parent and legal guardian

**This event will be mixed seated/standing. Arrive early for best seat selection.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

IN-PERSON @ THE BELL HOUSE, Secret Science Club presents Biochemist Antonio Cerullo on Tuesday, April 23 @ 7:30PM, FREE!

Secret Science Club slips & slides into one of the most fascinating substances on Earth with BIOCHEMIST ANTONIO CERULLO!

IN-PERSON @ THE BELL HOUSE

Tuesday, April 23, 7:30PM (Doors open at 7PM), Free!

We’re not going to sugarcoat it: Mucus is miraculous.

Every day, humans produce at least a quart of this sticky, slimy, slippery stuff. We need it for everything from blinking our eyelids to digesting food to protecting our bodies against pathogens.

Creatures throughout the animal kingdom use mucus in astonishing ways, too. Hagfish pump out thick mucus to gum up the gills of sharks. Parrotfish blow mucous bubbles and use them as sleeping bags. Hippos secrete red mucus that serves as both an antibiotic and sunscreen for their skin.

At the next Secret Science Club, biochemist Antonio Cerullo is here to tell us that mucus is beautiful: “a choreographed chaos” of complex components “coming together to do wondrous things.” 

Dr. Cerullo has been collecting slime specimens—from snails, jellyfish, and even oysters—to study their wide-ranging and seemingly magical properties. Could these strange secretions hold the secrets to new cures and therapies?

Don’t miss a nanosecond of this ooey-gooey evening!

Before & After
-- Try our curious cocktail of the night, the Viscosity! It'll keep you lubricated....

--Groove to smoooth tunes

--Stick around for the scintillating Q&A

ANTONIO CERULLO is a biochemist, slime scientist, and editor at Nature Communications. While working on his PhD at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, he investigated the compositions and properties of mucus from the world's most exotic animals, including hagfish, salamanders, jellyfish, frogs, and snails. He and his research on these secretions have been featured on NPR’s Short Wave, National Geographic, and Scientific American.

This edition of the Secret Science Club meets Tuesday, April 23, 7:30PM @ 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 7PM.

Please bring ID: 21+. No cover. Just bring your smart self!

What's next at Secret Science Club?
We’ll be back at the Bell House on Wednesday, May 15, with Theoretical Physicist Sean Carroll!

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

IN-PERSON @ THE DISCOVERY TANK ON PIER 57, Secret Science Club joins forces with Hudson River Park, Thursday, April 11 @ 6:30 PM, $10

SPECIAL EVENT! Secret Science Club teams up with Hudson River Park's "Ask a Scientist" to present a wild & woody evening in Lower Manhattan

Thursday, April 11 @ 6:30PM, $10. (Reserve your tickets.)

Secret Science Club flows into Hudson River Park's “Discovery Tank” on beautiful Pier 57 to explore NYC’s old-growth forests—both living and historic.

Join us for a fascinating night as ecologists Eric Sanderson and Caroline Leland uncover ancient woodlands in some very unusual places.

Eric Sanderson is a landscape ecologist, vice president of urban conservation at the New York Botanical Garden, Guggenheim Fellow, and author of Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City. He is director of the Welikia Project, which focuses on the historical and contemporary ecology of the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and the waters in-between. His research and writing have been featured in the New York Times, Scientific American, National Geographic, and numerous other outlets.

Caroline Leland is a dendrochronologist, postdoctoral researcher at William Paterson University, and affiliate of the Tree-ring Laboratory at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. She studies the physiology, morphology, and growth histories of long-lived trees and uses tree rings to understand past environmental conditions. She also works to salvage and study timbers used in the construction of noteworthy historical buildings—the goal is to use the tree rings in these rare artifacts to learn about past climate events and how our climate is changing.

Get $10 tickets here (drinks included!)

Before & After the Talks
--Check out the cool interactive exhibits and the new "super scope" at the Discovery Tank

--Groove to spring-inspired tunes in our “Ebb Tide Lounge”

--Imbibe sprightly beers & soft drinks

--Ask a scientist (or two!) about tree rings, woodland creatures, forest “bathing,” what we can do to protect our urban forests, and more!

This program meets Thursday, April 11, 6:30PM at the Discovery Tank on Hudson River Park’s Pier 57. (The entrance to the pier is at the intersection of W. 15th St and 11th Ave in Manhattan.) Subway: A, C, E, L to 14th St/8th Ave; 1, 2, 3 to 14th St

Tickets are $10. Click here to reserve your spot!

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.