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Science & the City Events at NYAS
Upcoming Science & the City Events
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.
Thursday, September 30, 2010 | 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speakers: Norman Brouwer (Maritime Historian), Nichole Doub (Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum), and Michael Pappalardo (Senior Archaeologist, AKRF)
Presentations by three of the experts involved in the exciting excavation of the 18th century ship found 20 feet underground in Lower Manhattan this summer.
Special Limited Time Offer for Nonmembers
Buy tickets to all 5 events in the series and get a free Academy membership –a value of more than $100.
Academy membership includes member discounts on all Science & the City events, free admission to 100+ scientific events each year, unlimited access to our eBriefings, the entire catalogue of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (our scientific journal dating back to 1823), and you'll be making an important contribution to support science in New York and beyond. (This offer is not available to students or current members.)
Take advantage of this offer now!
From Stone Age to Internet Age Series
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: David Christian (Macquarie University)
David Christian's riveting account of the known world, from the inception of space-time to the prospects of global warming, will leave you with a vastly expanded understanding of where on Earth you came from.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Speakers: Nicholas Carr, Nicholas Toth (The Stone Age Institute)
Humans have long modified our world through tools and technology. But how do the tools modify us? Join Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. With an introduction by Stone Age anthropologist, Nicholas Toth.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Carl Schoonover
In Carl Schoonover's new book, for the first time, the elegant methods applied to study the mind are revealed in a visual history of brain research.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Steven Shapin (Harvard University)
Harvard's Steven Shapin brings a science historian's perspective to bear on present-day thinking about our food, our relationship to scientific expertise, and our place in nature.
Thursday, February 17, 2011 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Sam Kean
From the Big Bang through the end of time, join Science & the City for an evening of tales from the Periodic Table with author and science journalist Sam Kean.
Podcasts from Past Science & the City Events
With our economy a shambles and our environment threatened, is there any reason to be optimistic about the future? Matt Ridley says there's scientific proof to say we should be.
Forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni, the Queen of the Forest Canopy, explains what 30 years of exploration have taught her about the intimate connection between humans and trees.
Award-winning filmmaker Shekhar Kapur and astrophysicist Piet Hut discuss what chaos is and what it means when it comes to the universe.
Eugenie Clark (aka the Shark Lady), recounts her more than 60 years as an ichthyologist. This week, she delves into some of the most extreme sea 'monsters' she's ever seen, like a giant 6-foot crab, and great white sharks.
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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