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Science & the City Events at NYAS
Girls Night Out at the New York Academy of Sciences Series Events
Monday, March 29, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Eugenie Clark (The Mote Marine Laboratory)
The world-renowned ichthyologist, Eugenie Clark, known as "the Shark Lady," describes her fantastic and distinguished 60-year career studying deep sea sharks and tropical fish.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Nalini Nadkarni (The Evergreen State College)
A treetop ecologist, Nalini Nadkarni, known as the Queen of the Forest Canopy shares what she has learned from 30 years of forest exploration about the intimate connection between humans and trees.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Nancy Etcoff (Harvard Medical School)
Nancy Etcoff, PhD, author of Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty, shares her latest research and thoughts on human beauty and its connection to happiness.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Matt Ridley
Join Science & the City as we host the noted science journalist and zoologist Matt Ridley for a talk about optimism, human progress, and prosperity based on his new book, The Rational Optimist.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Christiane Northrup (Christiane Northrup, Inc.)
A leading proponent of medicine and healing that acknowledges the unity of the mind and body discusses the vital connection between pleasure and health.
Podcasts from Past Science & the City Events
Podcast
February 26, 2010
NYU's food guru Marion Nestle gives you a lesson in decoding food labels, holding big food corporations accountable, and choosing food wisely. She spoke as part of S&C's Girls Night Out series.
Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist and chief scientific adviser for Chemistry.com, delves into the science of why we lust for some people and not for others. Fisher kicked off S&C's 2010 Girl's Night Out series. Watch the Thirteen WNET video of this event here.
Podcast
December 18, 2009
We sit down with science photographer Felice Frankel and nanotechnology pioneer and Harvard chemist George Whitesides to hear about their new book on nanoscience, No Small Matter.
Podcast
December 11, 2009
Nobel Laureate and neurobiologist Gerald Edelman, psychologist Paul Ekman, and anthropologist Terrence Deacon tell us how Charles Darwin has influenced science and their personal careers.
View the Thirteen WNET video of this event here.
Richard Dawkins launches his newest book in the third S&C Provocative Thinkers in Science event. He argues evolution is an indisputable fact, despite nearly half of Americans believing the opposite.
Hear how Aubrey de Grey, a British biomedical gerontologist, thinks science can help extend our lives by decades. De Grey spoke as part of S&C's Fall Provocative Thinkers series.
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September 18, 2009
Hear how your executive brain makes decisions from Elkhonon Goldberg, the first speaker in S&C’s Provocative Thinkers in Science series.
Perception expert Daniel Levitin joins Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash at our Science of Hearing event to explore our sense of hearing -- with a little musical accompaniment, of course.
NYU computer scientist Yann LeCun looks to biological models to create vision systems, and artificial intelligence in machines. From the S&C Spring event series.
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February 20, 2009
Two taste gurus deconstruct our sense of taste in S&C's Science of the 5 Senses series -- from the molecules that give us flavor to the mystery of the fifth taste.
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