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SUMMARY:Science on Tap–Philly: Sudsy Science: Making Soap with the Franklin Family
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the Franklin family soapmaking business at this virtual Science on Tap featuring the APS Museum’s Janine Boldt. \nJane 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 discusses 18th-century soapmaking and why we should take trade sciences as seriously as the Franklins. See the Franklin family soap recipe and get to know some of the women in the Franklin family who made\, sold\, and experimented with the trademark soap.\n \nAbout the Speaker\n  \n\n\nJanine Yorimoto Boldt\n \n\nJanine Yorimoto Boldt. \n\n\n\n\n  \nJanine Yorimoto Boldt is the 2018–2020 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the American Philosophical Society Library and Museum. She is the lead curator of the 2020 exhibition Dr. Franklin\, Citizen Scientist and was cocurator of Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American Republic. She received her PhD in American studies from the College of William and Mary in 2018 and specializes in the study of colonial portraiture. \nAbout the Series\nOur Science on Tap monthly speaker series is now online! This monthly gathering features brief\, informal presentations by Philadelphia-based scientists and other experts followed by lively conversation and a Q&A. The goal is to promote enthusiasm for science in a fun\, spirited\, and accessible way\, while also meeting new people. Come join the conversation!
URL:https://thoughtontap.org/event/science-on-tap-philly-sudsy-science-making-soap-with-the-franklin-family/
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SUMMARY:Nevada Humanities: SPARK! Youth Poetry Writing Competition Awards
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://thoughtontap.org/event/nevada-humanities-spark-youth-poetry-writing-competition-awards/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OFfVDK5YTUu_HTmb1CaiBQ
CATEGORIES:Nevada Humanities
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SUMMARY:Science on Tap–NRV: Haha! Science Comedy Night with Kasha Patel
DESCRIPTION: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 at 5:30 p.m.\, she will join us for a special performance followed by a conversation about the role of comedy in communicating science. \nLearn more in her TEDx Talk called “Sneaking Science into Stand-Up”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu7yQIlJLUw. \nShe also has several comedy clips online\, so check her out! Personal favorite\, World’s First Penguin Comedy Show in Antarctica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y291w7fazaU. \nWe look forward to seeing everyone next week! \nThis is an online event and registration is required. Register here: http://www.bit.ly/3eHt5fG
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SUMMARY:Nevada Humanities: COVID-19 and its Uneven Impact on American Communities: a Conversation between Journalists Sheri Fink and Eli Saslow
DESCRIPTION: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. \nSheri 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 2020. Throughout his career\, Eli Saslow has expertly woven stories together between racial unrest\, poverty\, and access to health care – stresses in every community across the United States that are linked inextricably. At this online event\, Fink and Saslow will interview one another about the devastating relationship between healthcare access\, poverty\, and poor health outcomes\, as well as the uneven impact that COVID-19 has had on communities throughout the nation. The conversation will be followed by an audience Q+A moderated by Christina Barr\, Executive Director of Nevada Humanities. \n  \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\nPhoto by Jen Dessinger. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSheri Fink\, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for journalism and a National Magazine Award\, reports on the intersections between medicine\, natural disasters\, and human-made conflicts. She is the author of Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital\, a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital during Hurricane Katrina—and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After the floodwaters rose and the heat climbed\, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2013 by The New York Times\, Five Days at Memorial also won the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Ridenhour Book Prize\, and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones\, Fink received her MD and PhD from Stanford University. Her first book\, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival\, is about medical professionals under siege during the genocide in Srebrenica\, Bosnia-Herzegovina. More recently\, Fink served as an executive producer on the Netflix documentary series Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak and has reported for The New York Times on the coronavirus pandemic; hurricanes in Texas\, Florida and Puerto Rico; and emergency response to mass shootings. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\nPhoto by Joanna Ceciliani. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn his Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage for The Washington Post\, Eli Saslow covers the impact of some of the most pressing national issues and policy decisions on individual lives\, from racism and poverty to addiction and school shootings. His ongoing oral history project for The Washington Post\, Voices from the Pandemic\, collects the accounts of ordinary people touched by COVID-19. Saslow’s latest book\, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist\, charts the rise of white nationalism through the experiences of one person who abandoned everything he was taught to believe. Saslow won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for a yearlong series about food stamps in the United States\, later collected into the book American Hunger. \nLearn more about the Nevada Humanities Salon Series.
URL:https://thoughtontap.org/event/nevada-humanities-covid-19-and-its-uneven-impact-on-american-communities-a-conversation-between-journalists-sheri-fink-and-eli-saslow/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tIyPZFtfRVa0MKAhZkCSoA
CATEGORIES:Nevada Humanities
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SUMMARY:Profs and Pints: The Search for Alien Life
DESCRIPTION: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. \n[This talk will remain available in recorded form at the link used here for tickets and access.] \nWhat will our first encounter with alien life be like? Will it be dangerous? \nCome hear such questions tackled by a scientist at the leading edge of the search for extraterrestrial life\, especially intelligent life that can produce technology like—or perhaps very unlike—our own. \nProfessor Jason Wright\, who is also the acting director of Penn State’s Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds\, has spent the last six years developing and improving searches for alien life. In an interactive\, online talk he’ll review some of the early and recent attempts to get the attention of others out there\, and he’ll discuss the development of SETI—the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence—to scan the skies for signs of communication. \nWe’ll get an insider’s perspective on how our fellow humans on earth respond to such research\, looking at why some people think the whole effort is a waste of time at best and an existential threat to the Earth at worst. Along the way we’ll learn exactly what we do and don’t know about “alien megastructures\,” learn about the history of sending messages into space and the question of whether doing so is dangerous\, examine how sci-fi influences how we think of extraterrestrial life\, and tackle the question of how we can even possibly look for life if it exists in some form we know nothing about. \nAmong other topics he’ll touch upon\, Professor Wright will review some famous false alarms of alien life\, and discuss his own behind-the-scenes experience with a big one\, over the enigmatic celestial object known as “Tabby’s Star.” \nWe’ll have lofty scientific research about the great unknowns of the universe brought down to earth for the rest of us. You’ll end up feeling like you’ve gone on a fantastic intellectual journey.
URL:https://thoughtontap.org/event/profs-and-pints-the-search-for-alien-life/
LOCATION:https://www.crowdcast.io/e/phonehome/register
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SUMMARY:Science on Tap–Seattle:  A Good Time To Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future by Perri Klass
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe steady beating back of infant and child mortality is one of our greatest human achievements. At this Science on Tap\, Perri Klass\, MD\, will talk about her new book A Good Time To Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future and the fight against child mortality that transformed the way we live. She will be joined by David Oshinsky\, PhD\, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book Polio: An American Story and Professor in the Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She will discuss the science and history of some of these medical breakthroughs that have saved countless children’s lives\, and will pay tribute to scientists\, public health advocates\, and groundbreaking women doctors who brought new scientific ideas about sanitation and vaccination to families. \nJoin us to learn about how these scientists\, healers\, reformers\, and parents who rewrote the human experience so that―for the first time in human memory―early death is now the exception rather than the rule.
URL:https://thoughtontap.org/event/science-on-tap-seattle-a-good-time-to-be-born-how-science-and-public-health-gave-children-a-future-by-perri-klass/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YyuJb12kTQ6RW9PaFGd16A
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SUMMARY:Thought on Tap: Confronting Legacies of Voter Suppression
DESCRIPTION: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 as matters of the past\, the 2020 presidential election has demonstrated that equal voting rights are still not available to all U.S. citizens.\n\nA few questions to be considered are: How are voting rights suppressed today? What is motivating voter suppression? And how can we combat voter suppression in 2020 and beyond?\n\nJoin us on Thursday\, November 12\, from 5:30 to 6:30 pm to listen to an illustrious panel of experts on these questions and more\, shortly after what is sure to be one of the most dramatic elections in U.S. history.\n\nWe’ll provide some food for thought\, you set up your own tap for drinks and join us as we tackle these and other important questions.\n\nThought on Tap is brought to you by Core Humanities\, the College of Liberal Arts\, and the Laughing Planet. Podcasts and transcripts of past Thought on Tap episodes are available on the Core Humanities website.\n\nModerator:\n\nStephen Pasqualina\, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Core Humanities Program at the University of Nevada\, Reno\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n\n 	Natalie Van Hoozer – a bilingual English/Spanish freelance journalist at KUNR\n 	Greta de Jong – Professor of History at UNR\, focusing on racism and the post-civil rights era\n 	Precious Hall – Professor of Political Science at Truckee Meadows Community College\, teaching American Government and Politics and Social Issues
URL:https://thoughtontap.org/event/thought-on-tap-confronting-legacies-of-voter-suppression/
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SUMMARY:Science on Tap–SHI: Untapped at Home (Netflix Watch Party): "The Founder"
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n \nby Kyle Gronostajski \n\n\n\n\n  \nBreak up your quaran-routine and invite your housemates for a Science on Tap Philadelphia monthly movie screening with Teleparty (formerly Netflix Party). Talk to our expert hosts through the chat function\, ask questions in real time\, and learn more about the myths and misrepresentations in some of our favorite movies. \nIf you have a Netflix account and a home computer\, you can join our party! This is a free event\, but preregistration is required as Netflix Party limits the number of attendees for each session. \nHow to Access Teleparty\nNetflix Party is now called Teleparty\, but don’t be alarmed! It’s still the same platform. You can find instructions on how to install Teleparty at teleparty.com. \n\nAll preregistered guests will be sent the link to the event before the event start time. It will also be available in the Digital Links section of the Eventbrite event.\nMake sure to download the Teleparty extension for Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.\n\nFeatured Movie\nThe Founder (2016\, PG-13)\nChanneling ambition\, persistence\, and ruthlessness\, salesman Ray Kroc turns two brothers’ innovative fast food eatery\, McDonald’s\, into the biggest restaurant business in the world.\n \nMeet Our Expert\nMegan Haupt has 20 years of storytelling experience spanning several industries. She collaborates with businesses\, organizations\, and individuals to help them connect with diverse audiences through shared human experiences around food and food practices. Megan’s professional skills include education and experience design\, both of which are sustained by her love of research. She feels that food education needs to be a combination of honoring and challenging and that information needs to be presented in a way that engages people at the core of their being. Her research focuses on food and cultural practices\, food and morality\, food and race\, food futurism\, and food history. To learn more about her work in the field of food education\, visit hungryeducation.com.
URL:https://thoughtontap.org/event/science-on-tap-shi-untapped-at-home-netflix-watch-party-the-founder/
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SUMMARY:Science Distilled: Using technology to overcome the challenges of 2020
DESCRIPTION:“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. \nThis Science Distilled event brings together leaders from across Nevada to share their experiences of resilience\, hope\, and innovation. We will explore the imaginative ways that they are using technology to overcome difficulties\, continue connecting us\, and provide long-term solutions to some of society’s most daunting problems. \nTenacity in the face of adversity is a part of the Nevada identity that runs deep. Let’s celebrate the spirit of innovation and resilience that Nevada communities have brought to face the challenges created by this pandemic. \nThis virtual edition of Science Distilled will be live-streamed on YouTube. To make sure you don’t miss it\, visit the YouTube page and click “Set Reminder.” \nSubmit your questions to our panelists any time before the event! Visit www.slido.com and enter #overcome2020. You can view all audience questions\, vote on your favorites\, and add your own. \n\n\n\n\nFeatured speakers:\nSena Loyd\, Director of Research and Workforce Development drives Blockchains research and education initiatives. Prior to Blockchains\, she served as Director of a public library and digital learning center working closely with community partners to provide lifelong learning opportunities. They were the first public library in the nation to offer an industry recognized credential in Manufacturing Technology. \nRachel Kingham is the Community Manager at Reno Collective\, Reno’s first coworking hub. She spends her days connecting members to members and members to resources – while striving to share the awesomeness that is coworking with the community-at-large. As a mother of 2\, Rachel stays pretty busy round-the-clock\, but when able she carves out free time for making art and day-dreaming about travel. \nJaci McCune\, Professional Learning Facilitator\, joins us from the Northwest Regional Professional Development Program and member of Nevada’s STEM Advisory Council and Computer Science Sub-Committee. Her main focus is to provide training and support to Nevada educators in integrated educational technology and computer science. Her free time is spent with her husband and two kids at sporting events\, skiing\, hiking\, or flying. \nBrian Hager\, Executive Director\, leads the UNLV Medicine Ackerman Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Solutions. He is responsible for executing the overall strategic plan of the center. Brian has a passion to serve and better his community by building stronger partnerships.  He stays busy year round\, taking advantage of all that Vegas and Nevada has to offer.
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SUMMARY:Nevada Humanities: A Valley of Light and Shadows
DESCRIPTION: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”? \nA Valley of Light and Shadow walks the thin neon line between salvation and damnation. \nSurrounded by cannabis dispensaries and slot machines\, these Las Vegas writers find their sense of right and wrong unmoored. Some reach a realization that their earlier moral lines were naively drawn. Others come to terms with the notion that Las Vegas is where good people go to submit to vice or where bad people land\, hoping for a second chance. And some celebrate the best parts of Las Vegas\, where good people can achieve great things. \nIn this 11th volume of the annual Las Vegas Writes anthology\, 14 local writers share their deepest and most tantalizing stories about surviving in shadow and thriving in light\, crafting an enduring message for the future. \nJoin us online on October 22 at 7 pm PDT to hear from the contributors of Las Vegas Writes Volume 11: A Valley of Light and Shadow: Las Vegas Writers on Good and Evil. \nFeatured authors: Keith Brantley\, Brittany Bronson\, Tim Chizmar\, Laura Decker\, Krista Diamond\, Fawn Douglas\, Eric Duran-Valle\, Samantha Goodman\, Don Hall\, Dana Jerman\, Glenn Puitt\, Elizabeth Quiñones-Zaldaña\, and Beth Rosenberg. \nEdited by Jarret Keene\nCover Design: Christopher Smith\nCover Art: Aaron Mayes \nPublisher: Huntington Press\nBook Sales: Purchase here \n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\nLas Vegas Writes is a program of Nevada Humanities and is a featured project in collaboration with the Las Vegas Book Festival\, published by Huntington Press. Learn more about Nevada Humanities\, Las Vegas Writes\, and the Las Vegas Book Festival.
URL:https://thoughtontap.org/event/nevada-humanities-a-valley-of-light-and-shadows/
CATEGORIES:Nevada Humanities
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SUMMARY:Nerd Nite: October
DESCRIPTION:Spencer Eusden: Teaching Grade School Students to Conduct Scientific Research\n\n\nChristina Ladam: Making Sense of the 2020 Election\n\n\nJill Griener: Biased and Unfiltered Recommendations for the Upcoming Election
URL:https://thoughtontap.org/event/nerd-nite-october/
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CATEGORIES:Nerd Nite
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