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  • Nevada Humanities: A Valley of Light and Shadows

    Las Vegas Writes is an annual collection of writings by local authors focused on a theme connected to Las Vegas. This year’s theme is stark: In Sin City, what does it mean to be sinful? And how much do we concede in order to see ourselves as “good”? A Valley of Light and Shadow walks the thin […]

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  • Science Distilled: Using technology to overcome the challenges of 2020

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    “Unprecedented” will be remembered as the watchword of 2020. Together, we have faced unforeseen challenges in our education, work, business, social, and home lives brought on by the global pandemic. With life seemingly overturned, creative uses of technology to connect us and overcome these struggles have emerged in unexpected places. This Science Distilled event brings […]

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  • Science on Tap–SHI: Untapped at Home (Netflix Watch Party): “The Founder”

    https://www.sciencehistory.org/event/science-on-tap-netflix-watch-party-the-founder

    For this special Untapped series Science on Tap is hosting monthly Netflix movie screenings featuring a live chat with experts. This month we’re watching The Founder with food educator Megan Haupt. by Kyle Gronostajski   Break up your quaran-routine and invite your housemates for a Science on Tap Philadelphia monthly movie screening with Teleparty (formerly Netflix […]

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    Thought on Tap: Confronting Legacies of Voter Suppression

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    In many ways, the history of U.S. democracy is the history of voting rights.  Since the 18th century, the question of who is able to vote has been one of the nation’s most hotly contested issues, and one of the most vital for the health of U.S. democracy. While we often think of these concerns […]

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  • Science on Tap–Seattle: A Good Time To Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future by Perri Klass

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    Only one hundred years ago, in even the world’s wealthiest nations, children died in great numbers―of diarrhea, diphtheria, and measles, of scarlet fever and tuberculosis. Not even the powerful and the wealthy could escape, and for children of the poor, immigrants, enslaved people and their descendants, the chances of dying were far worse. The steady beating back of infant […]

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  • Profs and Pints: The Search for Alien Life

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    Profs and Pints Online presents: “The Search for Alien Life,” with Jason Wright, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and director of the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center at Pennsylvania State University. What will our first encounter with alien life be like? Will it be dangerous? Come hear such questions tackled by a scientist at the leading edge […]

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  • Nevada Humanities: COVID-19 and its Uneven Impact on American Communities: a Conversation between Journalists Sheri Fink and Eli Saslow

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    Nevada Humanities is pleased to welcome journalists Sheri Fink and Eli Saslow to a virtual conversation around COVID-19 and its uneven impact on American communities. Sheri Fink’s investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital during Hurricane Katrina in 2009 has been followed by in-depth reporting on COVID-19 responses in New York City in […]

  • Science on Tap–NRV: Haha! Science Comedy Night with Kasha Patel

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    Need some good funny?! Come laugh with us next week! We’re thrilled to be joined this month by Kasha Patel, science comedian, journalist, and communicator with the NASA Earth Observatory. Kasha has backgrounds in chemistry and science journalism, and performs stand-up regularly, including at the DC Comedy Club in Washington, D.C. On Thursday, Nov. 19 […]

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  • Nevada Humanities: SPARK! Youth Poetry Writing Competition Awards

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    The Spark! Youth Poetry Writing Competition awards will be announced on Thursday, November 19 at 4 pm PST live on Zoom. Join us to celebrate with these wonderful young poets. Awards will be presented by Clark County Poet Laureate Heather Lang-Cassera. Spark! is a special program of the Las Vegas Book Festival.

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  • Science on Tap–Philly: Sudsy Science: Making Soap with the Franklin Family

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    Learn about the Franklin family soapmaking business at this virtual Science on Tap featuring the APS Museum’s Janine Boldt. Jane Franklin Mecom once had to explain to her famous brother, “There is a good deal of Phylosephy in the working of crown soap.” Why was soap so difficult to master? Join Janine Boldt as she […]