The Brainwave Festival is returning this month starting February 17th @ the gorgeous Rubin Museum of art!

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To me, 2010 looks so attractive in type. All those curves and lines. Start the year off right, and go take a look at these very interesting presentations today. And if you want to get rid of holiday cookies and candy and even fruitcake, bring them by and share it with the crew:

What: dorkbot-nyc meeting
When: 06 January, 2010, 7-9pm
Where: Location One, Greene St. between Canal and Grand
$$: $FREE$
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Hope everyone found an activity to burn off the extra calories consumed the past three days. It’s a gastric battle over here. Just read the lineup for Dorkbot this wednesday at, as always, Location 1 and take note science fans, it is an impressive lineup: (continue reading…)

The American Museum of Natural History is bringing a winter solstice holiday themed Sci Cafe on December 2nd. Should be an interesting talk on that very tiresome meme: Human nature (a total myth if you didn’t know):

NAUGHTY VS. NICE: THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF GREED AND ALTRUISM

FEATURING BIOLOGIST LEE DUGATKIN AND AMNH CURATOR ROB DESALLE

WHAT: SciCafe presents Naughty vs. Nice: The Biological Basis of Greed and Altruism, featuring biologist Lee Dugatkin, University of Louisville, and AMNH Curator of Invertebrate Zoology Rob DeSalle.

Join fellow New Yorkers to discuss what makes us naughty or nice by uncovering the evolutionary and cultural roots of greed and altruism, and compare these seemingly human behaviors to those of other species. (continue reading…)

Thanks to Susan Buchanan over @NYAS for all of the listings this week. I got these choice events from New York Science Academy’s Science and the City email.

Science Performance
Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica

Listen to the sounds of glaciers melting at this multimedia performance by Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) that’s co-presented with the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival this month. (continue reading…)

I hope this opera finds itself on PBS-HD. That’s my favorite way to experience it:

Physics in Opera
The Theory of Everything

Physicists have long sought a theory that would unify or explain the theories of all fundamental interactions of nature. Call it the Holy Grail of physics, if you will. Now even non-scientists can observe this search at Encompass New Opera Theatre’s “The Theory of Everything,” a new opera with music by John David Earnest and libretto by Nancy Rhodes. (continue reading…)