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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.
SECRET SCIENCE CLUB VIDEO MONTAGE - Space is the Place
Just a reminder . . .
Union Hall’s “Secret Science Club” rings in 2008 with more high-flying lectures, over-the-moon cocktails, and stargazing sounds!!
Wednesday, January 9 @ 8 pm
Union Hall’s “Secret Science Club” presents: Space Is the Place
Astrophysicist David Spergel Lectures on the Latest News from the Cosmos
Strap on your rocket pack! The Secret Science Club is heading for the edge of time and space.
Observations of the “cosmic microwave background”—the heat created by the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago—have allowed astrophysicists like David Spergel to answer some of cosmology’s biggest questions: What is the size and shape of the universe? How much of the universe is made of ordinary matter—and how much is dark matter?
And these interstellar observations have posed a new set of questions as well, including: What is “dark energy”? And what exactly happened during the Big Bang?
A recipient of the MacArthur genius grant and chair of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton, Dr. Spergel is a member of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) working group and an advisor to NASA.
Don’t miss David Spergel’s mind-bending tour of the universe!
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 Interplanetary Punch. (It will send you into orbit…)
The “Secret Science Club” meets January 9 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.
The Union Hall Secret Science Club is curated by Dorian Devins, Margaret Mittelbach, and Michael Crewdson. Dorian Devins is a NYC-based radio producer and host of WFMU, 91.1 FM’s “The Speakeasy,” a weekly arts and cultural interview program. Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson write about nature in the strangest of places; they are the co-authors of “Carnivorous Nights” and “Wild New York.” Union Hall’s owners, Jim Carden and Andy Templar, keep the cosmic cocktails flowing and the biological/taxidermy specimens dust-free.
I have finished the latest video montage that will be screened before the Secret Science Club lecture by Dr. Michael Novacek tomorrow Wednesday night at 730PM. Please come in crowds to union hall. Enjoy a beer and a dinosaur story.
AMNH Paleontologist Michael Novacek lectures on Evolution, Biodiversity, and Mass Extinction @ 8 pm Earth to humans, Earth to humans . . . is anybody there? Michael Novacek of the American Museum of Natural History discusses how biodiversity and ecosystems evolved from the Age of the Dinosaurs onward to create an ideal environment for a novel new species–Homo sapiens. And now, Dr. Novacek warns, Homo sapiens is transforming that environment so rapidly that Earth may not be habitable in future.
In fact, Earth is experiencing what scientists call the Sixth Extinction as thousands of plant and animal species are pushed into oblivion by habitat destruction, overfishing and overhunting, the introduction of invasive species, pollution and climate change.
The provost of science at the American Museum of Natural History, a world-renowned dinosaur hunter, and the author of Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem—and the Threats That Now Put It at Risk, Dr. Novacek takes the long view and asks: Why are ecosystems essential to human survival? How did Homo sapiens co-evolve with other species? Can we change our ways and save the planet?
Don’t miss this (r)evolutionary tour of Earth’s history! And tumultuous future . . .
Plus!
–Groove to naturally selected tunes, and check out the apocalyptic video by scientist/filmmaker Alexis Gambis.
–Imbibe the “Hungry Hyena” a ferocious cocktail that will determine the survival of the fittest.
–Buy and have Dr. Novacek’s sign his awesome new book, Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem—and the Threats That Now Put It at Risk
The “Secret Science Club” meets December 5th at 8 p.m. in the basement @ Union Hall, 702 Union St. (at 5th Ave.) in Park Slope, Brooklyn, p: 718.638.4400 Subway: R to Union St.; F to 4th Ave.; Q, 2, 3, 4, 5 to Atlantic
This is just a possible template for the Secret Science Club at Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The secret science club is tomorrow Wednesday. Doors open at 7:30PM.
TIME: 8pm (This event happens EVERY FIRST WEDNESDAY)
PLACE: Union Hall, 702 Union St. at Fifth Ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn
COST: FREE
SUMMARY:”Underground …Shrouded in mist and mystery …And teeming with cocktails previously unknown to science. Union Hall’s “Secret Science Club” is back with more radioactive lectures, volatile experiments, chemical libations, and star-gazing sounds!!”
Dorian Devins is in charge of the Secret Science Club at Union Hall, Park Slope. I am meeting with her on Friday July, 6th to invite her to come speak at the “Science and Media” series at Rockefeller. Also, we will talk possible collaborations between the Rockefeller Film Series and the Secret Science Club.
NOBEL-prize winning neuroscientist Eric Kandall will be speaking on Wednesday, July 11th at 8PM.
