Science Event
Event: Enviromedia Mobile on Governors Island
by Lauren on Sep.27, 2009, under Science Event
| September 27, 2009 | ||
| 11:00 am | to | 5:00 pm |
Take your kids and learn more about the urban estuary with this cool traveling media exhibit put on by urban divers, on Sunday September 27th!
Event: An Ode to Our National Parks
by Lauren on Sep.23, 2009, under Science Event
| September 23, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Check out clips form Ken Burns’s latest and greatest documentary, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea in Central Park. There will be live music and Mayor Bloomberg and Ken Salazar are expected to speak.
Event: Rare Spider Silk Textile Exhibit
by Lauren on Sep.23, 2009, under Science Event
| September 23, 2009 12:00 pm | to | September 24, 2009 5:44 am |
Um, this looks awesome. I would definitely go check this out!
Where: Museum of Natural History
When: September 23, 2009 10am-5:45pm
event: the western illusion of “human nature”
by Greg on Sep.21, 2009, under Science Event
| September 21, 2009 | ||
| 6:15 pm |
There have been many debates with Science Life NY contributors over the idea of “human nature”. After much struggle, I have changed my position to lean toward it being another cultural crutch, and not real. This lecturer has devoted the past decade to debunking this myth: (continue reading…)
event: Counting the Rings
by Greg on Sep.20, 2009, under Science Event
| September 21, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
It has been four years since I have read Elizabeth Kolbert’s sprawling long essay on climate change? FOUR YEARS? I have to reread it and see if it anything has changed in that time period. If you feel like reading journalism at its best, someone reposted it: The Climate of Man 1,2,&3. This event is related to the central idea of that essay: that the demise of civilizations throughout human history have been the result of some catastrophic climate event like drought:
Environmental Lecture
Did you know that tree rings can indicate more than the number of years a tree’s been alive? The width of each ring refers to how much the tree grew that year, so scientists are able to measure the ring widths to determine when historical droughts took place. (continue reading…)
event: DIYbio NYC: explore the dna around you
by Greg on Sep.18, 2009, under Science Event
| September 20, 2009 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
NOTE: I put the wrong date of this event earlier this morning. It is on Sunday, the 20th. Not tomorrow. DIYbio NYC is having this great event Sunday in Thompson Square park near the overflowing popular farmers’ market. I am pretty excited this sort of thing is happening, because lateral science is a good thing. top down science, bad thing:
Explore the blueprints that underlie life in NYC’s urban public spaces. Join DIYBio at the greenmarket in Tompkins Square Park to extract DNA from locally grown produce! (continue reading…)
Event: Tree Rings and Megadrought
by Lauren on Sep.17, 2009, under Science Event, Science Life
| September 21, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
The explorers club presents a lecture by Dr. Brendon Buckley about big droughts in Southeast Asia during the 1300 and 1400s.
Event Exhibition Opening: Toward the Sentient City
by Lauren on Sep.16, 2009, under Science Event, Science Life
| September 17, 2009 6:00 pm | to | November 7, 2009 9:00 pm |
An exhibit about science, technology, urban architecture, and the future organized by the Architectural League of New York.
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Nasa's Image of the Day
Little Galaxy With a Tail
This infrared portrait of the Small Magellanic Cloud, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, reveals stars and dust in this galaxy as never seen before. T The image shows the main body of the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is comprised of the "bar" and "wing" on the left and the "tail" extending to the right. The bar contains both old stars (in blue) and young stars lighting up their natal dust (green/red). The wing mainly contains young stars. The tail contains only gas, dust and newly formed stars. Spitzer data has confirmed that the tail region was recently torn off the main body of the galaxy. Two of the tail clusters, which are still embedded in their birth clouds, can be seen as red dots. The data in this image are being used by astronomers to study the lifecycle of dust in the entire galaxy: from the formation in stellar atmospheres, to the reservoir containing the present day interstellar medium, and the dust consumed in forming new stars. The dust being formed in old, evolved stars (blue stars with a red tinge) is measured using mid-infrared wavelengths. The present day interstellar dust is weighed by measuring the intensity and color of emission at longer infrared wavelengths. The rate at which the raw material is being consumed is determined by studying ionized gas regions and the younger stars (yellow/red extended regions). The Small Magellanic Cloud, and its companion galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, are the two galaxies where this type of study is possible. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI
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