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Union
Hall’s “Secret Science Club” returns
with more mind-bending lectures, cosmic cocktails, and interstellar
sounds!!
Wednesday, April 2 @ 8 pm
Union Hall’s “Secret Science Club”
presents:
Astrophysicist Ben Oppenheimer and His Quest for New
Worlds
Fuel up your flying saucer . . . the Secret Science
Club is blasting off with Ben Oppenheimer, the principal investigator of the
Lyot Project, an ambitious mission to discover and record images of planets
outside our solar system. He’ll discuss the challenges scientists face in probing
for exoplanetsand reveal some of the Lyot team’s latest results.
An astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural
History, Ben Oppenheimer was the subject of a recent New York Times article
“Star’s Dust May Hold Clue to New Planet,” documenting
the observation that a gap in dust circling a young star in the constellation
Auriga may be a planet in the making.
Dr. Oppenheimer also studies brown dwarfs, white
dwarfs and galactic structure. He served on NASA’s Terrestrial Planet Finder
Science and Technology Definition Team, and has been appointed to several
National Research Council Panels, as well as numerous NASA and NSF
committees.
Before and After
Groove to space-age tunes and video in Union Hall’s
subterranean grotto, stick around for the Q&A, and try our cosmic new
cocktail: the George
Jetson.
The “Secret Science Club” meets April 2 at 8 p.m. in
the basement @ Union Hall, 702 Union St. (at 5th Ave.) in Park Slope,
Brooklyn, p: 718.638.4400 Web: unionhallny.com Subway: R to Union St.;
F to 4th Ave.; Q, 2, 3, 4, 5 to Atlantic Ave.
No cover
charge. Just bring your smart self.
Our venue
fills up fast! Come early to get a seat.
Dr. Funque and his petri dish (16mm B/W)
Directed by Alexis Gambis
Dr. Funque (starring Corey Sullivan) puts on his lab coat and tucks his pipette master in his pocket for his usual evening lab routine. As he sits comfortably at his bench and looks at his Petri Dish, he makes the an incredible discovery - the cells in the petri dish are little people living in a little city in a little world.
Two Parts to the film
Part 1: Dr. Funque in Lab
Part 2: The (human-size) Petri Dish with “cell” people
These are the rushes from mid-March for PART 1. Dr. Funque goes to lab in the evening as usual and makes a discovery. His petri dish has little people living inside it.
without Audio
with Audio samples (from Science of Sleep Soundtrack)
And teeming with cocktails previously unknown to science . . .
Union Hall’s “SecretScienceClub” returns with more mind-blowing lectures, nocturnally-inspired libations, and sci-high sounds!!
Wednesday, March 5 @ 8 pm
The SecretScienceClub presents A Night withNobel Prize-Winner Paul Nurse!!
British biochemist Paul Nurse has it ALL going on.
– Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his service to humanity as a cancer researcher
– Co-host of the science series on PBS’s Charlie Rose Show
– Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 for illuminating the process by which cells copy themselves—and furthering our understanding of growth, development, and cancer.
– And now, to top everything off, Sir Paul is officially a New Yorker! He’s been president of NYC’s prestigious Rockefeller University since 2003.
Break out your test tubes and get ready to bust out of the winter doldrums, as Paul Nurse takes us on a whirlwind tour of life’s most basic unit: the cell. Where will the latest discoveries take us?
Before and After
–Screen a special bio-video by scientist/film-maker Alexis Gambis: A Fruit Fly in New York
–Groove to science-inspired tunes
–Stick around for the Q&A
–Sample the cocktail of the night—the Night Nurse. It will fluff your pillow!
The “SecretScienceClub” meets March 5 at 8 p.m. in the basement @ Union Hall, 702 Union St. (at 5th Ave.) in Park Slope, Brooklyn, p: 718.638.4400Web: unionhallny.com Subway: R to Union St.; F to 4th Ave.; Q, 2, 3, 4, 5 to Atlantic Ave.
No cover charge. Just bring your smart self.
Our venue fills up fast! Come early to get a seat.
