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City of Science 2019: Brooklyn
Park Slope Armory 361 15th St, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesJoin the World Science Festival and Con Edison for this larger-than-life, touring event where the wondrous properties of science, technology, engineering, and math collide! Filled with interactive demonstrations, hands-on activities, and enormous exhibitions, this FREE program unleashes everyone’s inner scientist.
Secret Science Club Presents Marine Biologist & Explorer David Gruber
The Bell House 149 7th St, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesJust returned from an expedition exploring the frigid waters underneath the ice in Greenland, David Gruber typically spends about two months of the year conducting undersea research—scuba diving or riding in tiny submersible vehicles that allow him to spend hours below the surface. Dr. Gruber tries to see the ocean through the eyes of sea creatures and lately, he’s particularly interested in how these […]
Perception Meets Memory: A New View on Memory Disorders
Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall) 3227 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesFeaturing Morgan Barense, PhD, Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto, Director, Toronto Neuroimaging Facility How does perceiving an object relate to subsequent memory for that object? A central assumption in most modern theories of memory is that memory and perception are functionally and anatomically segregated. For example, amnesia resulting from medial temporal lobe […]
Emanuele Coccia: Metamorphic Beings: The Nonhuman Life in the Human Body and Spirit
Cooper Union's Frederick P. Rose Auditorium 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY, United StatesEmanuele Coccia delivers a free, public lecture at Cooper Union as part of the Fall 2019 Intra-Disciplinary Seminar series and in partnership with Open Society Foundations. Emanuele Coccia is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has worked extensively on aesthetics and on biology, and […]
Science in the Headlines: 2019’s Discoveries, Disappointments, and Downright Weirdness
Caveat 21A Clinton St, Manhattan, NY, United States2020 is almost here—but before we bid this year adieu, let’s celebrate all the wonderful, worrisome, and weird science news from 2019! Remember when we saw the first image of a black hole? What about the increase in youth-led climate change protests? Or the rise of new illnesses linked to vaping? Ira will take the stage with three […]