There’ll Be Murder Afoot in National Mechanics: Science on Tap (7/12, 6PM)

[ July 12, 2010; 6:00 pm; ] How could you possibly resist a lecture at a bar that has “Sixteen Good Reasons Not to Drink Whiskey with Strangers” as a subtitle?

The wheel of hosts falls to the Mutter Museum for this month’s Science on Tap, and they’ve picked Stockton College history prof Lisa Rosner as their speaker, appropriately enough. Her new book [...]

Test the limits of human survival with Mary Roach at the Free Library (August 3)

[ August 3, 2010; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] “Spook” author,Mary Roach, will be at the Free Library of Philadelphia in August to discuss her forthcoming book “Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void.”

The book hasn’t been released yet, but I feel certain it will cover what happens to bodies exposed to the vacuum of space. You [...]

Science on Tap: “No Family History: Investigating What’s Behind the Breast Cancer Epidemic” National Mechanics 10/12 6PM

It is the Chemical Heritage Foundation‘s turn again at picking a speaker for Science on Tap.
Appropriately enough for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, they chose Sabrina McCormick, a fellow at the American Academy for the Advancement of the Sciences, to talk about environmental causes of breast cancer.

“No Family History: Investigating What’s Behind the Breast [...]

November 12: Paul Halpern discusses his latest book, Collider: The Search for the World’s Smallest Particles

[ October 9, 2009; 7:00 pm; ] Join us November 12 at the Pen and Pencil Club, the nation’s oldest press club, for an evening with Paul Halpern, a physicist at the University of the Sciences and author of Collider: The Search for the World’s Smallest Particles.

He will be discussing how physicists have sought the most fundamental building blocks [...]

Explorer Richard Wiese comes to the Academy (9/24, 6–8:30 pm)

[ September 24, 2009; 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Naturalist, explorer, tv host and handsome, handsome man, Richard Wiese will be at the Academy of Natural Sciences on Sept. 24 to discuss how dreamy men keep their hair bouncy despite jungle humidity living an active, nature-filled life in our modern world.

Living an active, nature-filled life in today’s stress-filled society can be challenging but totally [...]

Aldrin Buzzes into Town 67/21, 7:30 at The Free Library of Philadelphia

[ July 21, 2009; 7:30 pm; ] He’s the second man on the Moon, but the first guy you don’t want to accuse of faking the moon landings. He’s Buzz Aldrin, and he’ll be at the Free Library’s Central branch to hawk his new book Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon

The deets:

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 [...]

The naturalists that made England into a gardener’s paradise (Academy of Natural Sciences, 4/29)

[ April 29, 2009; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Three generalities about Englishmen (and Englishwomen, although the first two apply with slightly less strength):
They love their football (and they mock our football…baseball too, of course)
They love their beer (and they mock our beer)
They know the Latin names of every plant in the garden

Its uncanny. Enter any bar or pub, almost anywhere [...]