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Special Limited Time Offer for Nonmembers
Special Offer Extended! For a limited time nonmembers who purchase tickets to the remaining 4 events in the Girls Night Out at the New York Academy of Sciences Series will also receive a free Academy membership – a value of more than $100.
We're working to finalize the topic and date for the fifth event in this series. If you purchase the series, once this event has been created, it will be placed into your purchases at the cost of $0.
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.)
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Girls Night Out at the New York Academy of Sciences Series Events
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Marion Nestle (New York University)
There is a science to eating well, and an art to shopping for food. Nutrition expert and What to Eat author Marion Nestle explains, from a scientific perspective, how to decode diet advice, read grocery labels, and choose food wisely.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Nalini Nadkarni (The Evergreen State College)
A treetop ecologist 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.
Podcasts from Past Science & the City Events
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.
Podcast
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.
Podcast
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.
There's a lot more to vision than first meets the eye. An ex-magician and cognitive neuroscientist team and tackle the science of sight in S&C's Science of the 5 Senses series.
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