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Nerd Nite 2 a smashing success
We had a packed house for amazing talks from Aaron Jensen and Duncan Irshick & Al Crosby. Stay tuned for info about the next Nerd Nite!
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Nerd Nite 2: Monday 11/25
The Nerd Nite launch was fantastic! Now get ready for more great nerdery…
We have two awesome presentations lined up for Nerd Nite NoHo 2 on Monday, November 25th, at 7PM at The World War II Club (The Deuce).
The Wonders of Geckskin
Find out what it’s like to crawl the walls–literally. Geckskin is a gecko-inspired adhesive, developed at UMass, that can hold as much as 700lbs on an index-card size piece, and release with near zero force upon command. Learn about the development of this amazing material, as well as the new questions and insight the discovery has brought into the biology of the gecko–one of which will be in attendance!
Learn why there are actually two sets of primary colors, magenta is “just” in your head, and how rainbows may actually be magical! Get up to speed on everything there is to know about color including how we perceive it, and how it fits into the electromagnetic spectrum. With lasers and black light, this talk promises to be illuminating!
Aaron Jensen is an artist and middle-school teacher who is developing the Looping Spectrum Theory, combining philosophy, art, and science.
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Nerd Nite Launches October 28th!
This is the moment you’ve been waiting for… The official launch of Nerd Nite NoHo!
Mark your calendars for Monday, October 28th, at 7PM. We are very excited to be hosting Nerd Nite at The World War II Club (The Deuce) on the last Monday of the month through at least December.
We have two great talks for the evening:
These crazy times: What the heck is happening in Washington, and what does it have to do with me?
Jo Comerford, executive director of NationalPriorities.org, takes on Congress, the federal budget, a government shutdown, and the debt ceiling, with some slick charts and a robust sense of humor. Jo is a dynamic public speaker and frequent contributor to such publications as The Nation, Salon.com, and Mother Jones.
Inside a crumpled ball: surprising physics of a familiar object.
From the tiniest cell to the largest mountain ranges, crumpling exists all around us, yet the physics remains poorly understood. UMass grad student Dominique Cambou climbs inside the crumple with x-ray tomography and other stunning visuals to explain this universal phenomenon and forever change your view of the waste-basket 3-pointer. Dominique’s research has attracted the attention of Wired Science and Physics Today.
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Nerd Nite comes to Northampton
Howdy folks! As a regular at Nerd Nite Boston, I was always impressed with the incredible talks, the fact that the bar was packed every single time, and that I would always run into someone I knew. When I recently moved out to Northampton, I knew that I had to bring Nerd Nite out here. With the five colleges and all kinds of interesting and smart and fun people here, I figured it would be a no-brainer. Or in this case, a brainer? I’m looking forward to getting things off to a great start so A) tell everyone you know to come to Nerd Nite and B) let ME know if you or someone you know would make a great Nerd Nite speaker. What are you really excited about and really knowledgeable about? What’s fascinating or strange or fun or quirky about something you do that the world needs to know about? Be in touch.