Fri, 21 Nov evening around DC: Science Cafe Friday

This reposting of a message that appeared on the CoLab list a few days ago. Two or three people from Langley Research Center are coming to Washington to host a Science Café event this Friday. The Science Café consists of a scientist delivering an engaging talk to the general public at a bar. LaRC is co-host of a SimulCafe, in which four of these Science Cafes will go on in Washington at the same time.

Find out more at http://www.sciencecafes.org/

The events are happening at various times around DC, so find one that’s at a time that works for you! Some OG members are going to the talk at Gordon Biersch, and the Langley folks will be at that talk as well.

Title: A Matter of Taste: The Relationship Between the Attitude About Beer and the Hop Tea Bitterness Test
Busboys & Poets
1025 5th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
6:30 – 8:30 PM, November 21, 2008

Title: Extremophiles: Can life exist without water?
Featuring: Shiladitya DasSarma, PhD. University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
Regional Food & Drink, Back Room
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
6:30 – 8:30 PM, November 21, 2008

Speaker: TBD (NASA speaker)
Title: TBD
[café facilitated by Jen Collings, NASA-Langley Research Center]
Gordon Biersch
900 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004
5:30 – 7:30 PM, November 21, 2008

Speaker: Dan Terlizzi, University of Maryland Sea Grant Extension Service
Title: Pfisteria/Hysteria and the Chesapeake: The burden of skepticism
[café facilitated by Tina Paul, DC Area chapter of Sigma Xi]
Marriot Renaissance
999 Ninth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
8:30 – 9:30 PM, November 21, 2008