Category Archives: food

Jan 03 2014
author talk, brains, bunnies, food, mathematics, science art, skeptics

January 2014 Nerdlist

January through April 2014 Brainwave: Mind Over Matter @ Rubin Museum of Art
Sunday, January 5 Metacognitive Brunch @ Rodeo Bar
Sunday, January 5 Entertaining Science: Small, Deadly and Delicious @ Cornelia Street Cafe
Wednesday,  January 8 SciCafe: Bird or Bird Brain? @ AMNH
Wednesday, January 8 Doomsday Cults @ Brooklyn Brainery
Thursday, January 9 Notes From Jupiter: Decoding the Toynbee Tiles @ Pete’s Candy Store
Saturday, January 11 Meet Akta the Wolf @ AMNH
Tuesday, January 14 The Science of Morality @ Over the Eight
Tuesday, January 14 The History of Partying @ The Bedford
Wednesday, January 15 Secret Science Club: The Universe IS Math @ Bell House
Wednesday, January 15 CUriousity3: Dance in Art and Science @ Columbia
Wednesday, January 15 Lucid NYC: Shopping, Health, Surveillance @ Drom
Friday, January 17 The Secret History of Positive Thinking @ The Observatory
Tuesday, January 14 E.L. Doctorow @ 92Y
Tuesday, January 21 Food of the High Seas @ Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club
Saturday, January 25 Bunny Taxidermy Class @ The Observatory
Friday, January 31 Painted Alchemists @ The Observatory
May 03 2013
film, food, nanomedicine, space, storytelling

May 2013 Nerdlist

May 6 How to Build a Sustainable and Sane Science Writing Career @ Green Spaces
May 7 Society for the Advancement of Social Studies @ Public Assembly
May 7 The Philadelphia Chromosome: Cancer treatment at the genetic level @ Observatory

May 11 Identification Day @ AMNH
May 12 Exploring Legends w/Buzz Aldrin @ The Explorers Club
May 12 Entertaining Science: Music of the Spheres @ The Cornelia Street Cafe
May 14 Story Collider: Three Year Anniversary @ The Bell House
May 21 Secret Science Club @ The Bell House
May 22 Lucid NYC @ Drom
Oct 04 2012
anatomy, author talk, bugs, Cornell, food, liars, skeptics, space, storytelling, vaginas

October Nerdlist

Sat Oct 6: 4 Storytellers 3 True Stories. The Liar Show @ Cornelia Street Cafe
Sun Oct 7: Naomi Wolf Talks Vaginas @ 92Y
Mon Oct 8: Skeptics on the Mic Karaoke @ Googie’s Lounge
Wed Oct 10: LucidNYC: Green Fluorescent Protein and other Delights @ Drom  
Wed Oct 10: The Thinking Ape: The Enigma of Human Consciousness @ NYAS 
Thurs Oct 11: The Dean of Cornell NYC Tech Speaks @ Cornell ILR Conference Center
Fri Oct 12: Video Games, Vampire Love, Romance Novels @ Galapagos
Sat Oct 13: Family Astronomy – Creatures in the Sky @ AMNH
Wed Oct 17: Wrath Goes Viral @ NYAS
Thurs Oct 18: Answers for Aristotle Book Launch at Cellar 58
Fri Oct 19: Stephen Colbert in Conversation with Ken Burns @ 92Y
Sat Oct 20: Food, Taste and the Brain @ Guggenheim
Sun Oct 21: Get intimate with Insects at 92Y
October 22: Secret Science Club @ The Bell House
Tue Oct 23: Black Holes and Astrobiology @ NYAS 
Tue Oct 23: Story Collider Presents Chemistry @ Union Hall
Tue Oct 23: Fact vs. Fiction on SKIN @ 92Y
Wed Oct 24: The Rich Are Taxed Enough @ Intelligence Squared
Sat Oct 27: BACH: The Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1 with Andras Schiff @ 92Y 
Sat Oct 27: Night at the Museum Halloween Sleepover @ AMNH
Tue Oct 30: Exploring Exoplanets with Emily Rice @ AMNH
Jul 02 2012
anatomy, author talk, food, memory, robots, storytelling

July Nerdlist

Wed Jul 11 Manhattanhenge @ Natural History Museum (and elsewhere)
Wed Jul 11 Artificial and Natural Flavorings @ Brooklyn Brainery
Wed Jul 11 Author Talk: Daniel Smith—Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety @ Book Court
Fri Jul 13 Fact v. Fiction: Waterworld @ Pupin Hall, Columbia
Fri Jul 13 Journey Into the Curious World of the Medical Museum @ Observatory
Sat Jul 14 Second Annual Robot Film Festival @ 3LD
Mon Jul 16 Human Anatomy & Physiology Made Simple @ Brooklyn Brainery
Tue Jul 17 Author Talk: Alex Stone—Fooling Houdini @ Book Court
Wed Jul 18 The Science of Art: Understanding Materials @ GenSpace
Wed Jul 18 The Neuroscience and Psychology of Nostalgia @ The New School
Wed Jul 18 Secret Science Club w/mathematical sociologist Duncan Watts @ Bell House
Tue Jul 24 Story Collider: Medical Misadventures @ Union Hall
Sat Jul 28 Spiders Alive! opens @ AMNH

Jun 02 2012
bugs, dark energy, fear, food, robots, science art, sewers, space, storytelling

June Nerdlist

Sunday 6/3 Ultimate Science Street Fair @ Washington Square Park
Tuesday 6/5 Transit of Venus @ Harlem & Union Square
Tuesday 6/5 Adult Education: Unmasking Cliche @ Housing Works
Tuesday 6/5 SASS: History of Fun & Games @ Public Assembly
Wednesday 6/6 SciCafe: Forgetting Fear @ AMNH
Wednesday 6/6 Math Encounters: Blown Away @ Baruch
Thursday 6/7 SoNYC: Reaching Out of the Ivory Tower @ Rockefeller University
Friday 6/8 Nerd Nite: Photoshop, Space Age Roadside America, A Cappella @ Galapagos
Saturday 6/9 FIGMENT Art Festival @ Governors Island (continues 6/10)
Saturday 6/9 Bionic Garden opening @ Flux Factory
Sunday 6/10 Entertaining Science: Pay Attention @ Cornelia St Cafe
Tuesday 6/12 LABORATORY Scientist-Artists Social Hour @ Dumbo
Thursday 6/14 Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet @ The Architectural League
Friday 6/15 The Right Stuff: History of the US Space Program (film) @ Columbia
Monday 6/18 Dark Energy & The Runaway Universe lecture @ AMNH
Tuesday 6/19 Finding History in Sewers @ Observatory
Wednes 6/20 Secret Science Club (details TBA) @ The Bell House
Wednes 6/20 Story Collider: I’m Not Science @ Union Hall
Sunday 6/24 Hey, Where’s My Robot Girlfriend? @ Cornelia St Cafe
Tuesday 6/26 The Science of Local Food @ South Street Seaport Museum
Wednes 6/27 History of the Bed Bug @ Brooklyn Brainery