I have noticed a few stories from time to time about churches and other faiths getting into the pub to spread the good word... but now the scientists are up to it, too:
Wouldn’t it be nice to just knock back a beer with an egghead at your local watering hole? Welcome to Tacoma Science Café. The new free monthly program, sponsored by the Pacific Science Center and KCTS 9, kicks off at the Harmon Brewery on Thursday with a discussion about micro plastic particles that are being discovered everywhere from the Thea Foss Waterway to the Pacific Ocean. The format of the monthly discussions begins with a local scientist delivering a 20- to 30-minute talk on a subject of scientific and popular interest and then taking questions.
Egghead! We got into a bit of a mess with glibly tossing the word egghead around a couple of years ago but I suppose that is the power of the MSM. Me, I would love to go to a pub to hear a lecture on this or that. It would make for a great use of a pub on a slow mid-week night and also breath some life into what might be a dusty topic, otherwise.
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Bruce Ticknor - October 31, 2010 6:27 PM
I have a good hunk of family living in Kitchener where the 'Perimeter Institute' and sometimes Steven Hawking is. It would be great to hit a pub there and toss back a few with Steven Hawking. Think of the slow motion conversation about the beginning of the universe over a long drawn out pint or two. Hell, if you factor in relativity and the speed of light we could be finished before we started.
John - October 31, 2010 8:45 PM
The local science museum has been doing this for quite some time. http://ow.ly/32grK
Alan - October 31, 2010 9:45 PM
In Dayton, Ohio!
Mary Sue - November 1, 2010 12:22 PM
Yeah, this has actually been going on in Portland for a while now.
I usually go to the Science Pub with some folks from my church.
Alan - November 1, 2010 2:01 PM
It is only in states starting with the letter "O"?
Tim - November 1, 2010 10:32 PM
Hardly confined to O-states Alan. I've found that the Cambridge Brewing Company's proximity to MIT means that nerdliness need not be scheduled and organized.
Alan - November 2, 2010 2:09 PM
This seems to be like discovering there are secret Masonic Lodges everywhere. Did I say that out loud? Gotta go!