The What to do this Weekend

It is going to be so nice out this weekend, you really shouldn’t be indoors.
So here are a couple of quick pointers…
…go to the Schulykill Nature Center. I don’t have any events in mind, but you should go. Stop watching the Olympics and go out and enjoy nature.
…on that note, visit the model [...]

Countdown to the Chemical Heritage Foundation Museum…

If you didn’t know already, the CHF is opening a new museum and conference center in October. To bide the time, they’ve started a blog. Check it out.

Faye Flam’s settling The Score at Wistar 9/16

[ September 16, 2008; 7:00 pm; ] The lovely and talented Faye Flam will be discussing her new book The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man at the Wistar Institute on September 16th.

The Wistar Institute is on 3601 Spruce Street, deepinahearta Penn’s campus and across the street from HUP. It is free, but kindly register at www.wistar.org/AuthorRSVP [...]

Buying the right telescope, The Franklin, 9/11

[ September 11, 2008; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Can’t tell Venus from a distant Southwest A320?
Looking through a cardboard tube cramping your style?

Then maybe you’ll want one of them new-fangled “telescope” thingies in your Christmas stocking.

In September, The Franklin’s Joel N. Bloom Observatory will host a special telescope buyer’s guide version of their monthly “Night Skies in the Observatory” event. The event [...]

Bug Fest at the Academy of Natural Sciences this Weekend

[ August 16, 2008 to August 17, 2008. ] The Academy of Natural Sciences is going bugnuts this weekend with a two-day festival of insect fun, check out the schedule here.

Here’s the lineup:
Flea Circus
Join George Esparza, Flea Meister, and his “Phydeaux’s Flying Flea Circus,” a charming throw-back to the Victorian era.
Insects in Amber
See the worst [...]

ACS Science Café 8/18 at Tir na Nog, a look at the global water crisis

[ August 18, 2008; 6:30 pm to 7:45 pm. ]
Watch out Penn Science Café, step aside Café Scientifique, The American Chemical Society is coming to town next week and they’re bringing their own science café with ‘em..or..ém.

Experts will provide a close look at the global water crisis, as well as issues for the Philadelphia area water supply, at a Science Café Monday, Aug. [...]