Thursday, August 24, 2017 7:30 PM Location: Maynard’s (address on Meetup) Maynard has kindly offered to host the Skeptical Salon for August! And it’s a short book, so it won’t get TOO much in the way of your summertime adventures. … Continue reading
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Saturday, July 29, 2017 12:30 PM Location: The Long Room Second verse, same as the first! Drinks and discourse (or just the discourse!) with similarly-minded folks at a casual summer Meetup. The Long Room is a coffeeshop by day and kid-friendly … Continue reading
Thursday, July 20, 2017 6:00 PM Location: Argonne National Laboratory For millennia, food has been one of life’s simpler and necessary pleasures. In our modern age, food has become increasingly complex – from farmers seeking new ways to feed a … Continue reading
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 7:00 PM Location: The Radler A healthy athlete dies of complications from heatstroke during training. The medical examiner finds a legal botanical dietary supplement played a “significant role” in the death. How are regulatory agencies able … Continue reading
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 6:00 PM Location: BrickStone Brewery “The influence of clouds on the climate: past, present, and future” On Tuesday, June 20 at 6:30pm, Green Drinks Kankakee will be hosting presenter Dylan Gaeta, a University of Chicago PhD … Continue reading
Saturday, June 17, 2017 12:30 PM Location: The Long Room UPDATED: Last-minute venue selection! We’re gonna try The Long Room for a casual Meetup this month; hope to see you there! We’re still looking for speakers for our meetups… could … Continue reading
Thursday, June 1, 2017 7:00 PM Location: Volumes Bookcafe The Illinois Science Council and Volumes Books are partnering to bring science journalist Dave Levitan to Chicago on June 1, 2017 to discuss his new book, Not a Scientist: How Politicians … Continue reading
Saturday, May 20 11:00 AM Location: Berghoff Restaurant Join March Against Myths in the continued struggle to #DefendScience! WHAT TO EXPECT We are being joined by special guests plant geneticist Karl Haro von Mogel and media personality/author Kavin Senapathy to help … Continue reading
Saturday, May 15, 2017 5:00 PM Location: Chicago Cultural Center - Claudia Cassidy Theater How the Ear’s Works Work: A Biological Hearing Aid Optimizes Your Hearing The Grossman Institute’s Mind and Brain Annual Public Lecture A. James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D. … Continue reading
Saturday, April 22, 2017 10:00 AM Location: Congress Parkway & Michigan Avenue (March entrance) The March for Science Chicago was inspired by threats to the validity of scientific data, to the role of scientific organizations in policy making, and to the … Continue reading