The Week-in-Preview: Chick Magnets

Posted on | March 14, 2007 | Comments Off

If you missed the flower show like I did, check out the flickr set by Nicole Gaddis, highlighted on our sidebar. No, that’s not hyacinth you smell, that’s the sweet scent of science event(s) coming right through your monitor

From this Wednesday to the next, here are some things you might want to consider attending.

After the break…

The Penn Science Cafe Presents: “Mate Copying”
March 20, The MarBar, 40th and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia — 6:00 pm

Penn Evolutionary Psychologist Rob Kurzban talks about mate copying — why men in a committed relationship often appear more attractive to women — an experience wholly foreign to me.

Go have a drink and relax with some fine science discussion. I no longer organize these events, so consider this recommendation totally unbiased.

The Town Forum at the Academy of Natural Science:
Urban Sustainability Forum – Philadelphia Revised: Finally, a River City
March 15 — yikes, tomorrow night — 6:30-8:30pm

Urban design is both an art and a science. What that makes Philadelphia, I don’t know…Ugly Betty, Chiropractor? The city knows it is beautiful, if only it would dress up and take off those silly glasses. The science seems to be there, only it isn’t practiced very consistently.

This month at the Academy’s Town Forum, Janice Woodcock of the Phila. Planning Commission and others discuss how Philly can realize its potential, for once.

Hey, stop laughing, it is too possible.

PhACT Presents: Paul Offit
Vaccine Safety: Science Politics and the Media
March 17, Community College of Philadelphia, West Building, 17th & Spring Garden, Room W2-48 2:00 p.m..

The Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking hosts a free monthly lecture at the Community College of Philadelphia. They’re the local science skeptics group (think James Randi, not Pyrrho of Elis) and are the go-to bunch for fun discussions about pseudoscience in society.

Here, they’re bringing out CHOP’s Paul Offit, an internationally renowned expert in vaccination, to discuss some of the persistent myths about childhood vaccines.

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