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Past Events
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Helen Fisher (Rutgers University)
A biological anthropologist who has conducted fMRI studies on the brains of people in love, Helen Fisher maintains that humans have evolved three core brain systems for mating and reproduction.
Monday, December 7, 2009 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Felice Frankel and George Whitesides (Harvard University)
Science & the City hosts renowned science photographer Felice Frankel and nanotechnology pioneer George Whitesides both of Harvard University, for an evening of astounding art and world-changing science at the launch of their coffee-table book No Small Matter, a book that reveals the virtually invisible realities of nanoscience.
Monday, October 19, 2009 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Science & the City presents an intimate evening with Richard Dawkins. In his new book he justifies his reputation as “Darwin’s Rottweiler” by laying out the evidence that evolution is an incontrovertible fact. The Greatest Show on Earth is a thrilling tour into our distant past and the interstices of life on earth.
Monday, September 14, 2009 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Elkhonon Goldberg (NYU School of Medicine)
How does the brain engage in complex decision-making, deal with novelty and ambiguity, and address moral choices? Find out when Science & the City presents world-renowned neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg, who will share fresh, iconoclastic ideas about the relationship between the brain and the mind.
Monday, May 4, 2009 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Join the NYU School of Continuing & Professional Studies, and the Office of the Dean of Sciences at NYU, as a panel of experts on the brain and cinema draw an interdisciplinary connection between film and neuroscience.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Daniel Levitin (McGill University) and Rosanne Cash
A world-renowned scientist and a Grammy-winning musician explain how the brain processes aural information and how our perception of sounds can inspire emotion.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
A screening of the new one-hour documentary Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist, by NYAS members Richard and Carole Rifkind, about the struggle to become a scientist and the satisfaction of discovery, followed by a panel discussion about America's pipeline of future scientists.
Thursday, February 12, 2009 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Linda Bartoshuk (University of Florida Center for Smell and Taste) and Harold McGee (food science writer)
A well known food writer and the nation's leading scientist on taste look at our understanding of the science of taste and the chemical underpinnings of flavors and foods, with taste tests of miracle fruit, artichokes, fruit strips, and more!
Monday, January 12, 2009 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Christof Koch and Apollo Robbins
A top cognitive neuroscientist and visual perception expert (the research partner of the late Francis Crick) reveals the shortcomings of human sight, and a famous "honest thief" demonstrates how readily the eye and mind are tricked.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Leslie Vosshall (Rockefeller University) and Avery Gilbert
The head of Rockefeller University's Neurogenetics and Behavior Laboratory and an author and smell expert explain the science of the sense of smell.
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