Looks like there is another great lineup for March's Nerd Nite, where you can learn all you ever wanted to know about Oscar Wilde, how to survive while doing science in the wilds of Madagascar, Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union, and how stress effects your primitive little brain.
When: Saturday March 10, 2012, 6PM (doors), 6:30PM (show)
Where: DC9, 1914 9th St NW
Music: Imperial China
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[read more] Looks like there is another great lineup for March's Nerd Nite, where you can learn all you ever wanted to know about Oscar Wilde, how to survive while doing science in the wilds of Madagascar, Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union, and how stress effects your primitive little brain.
When: Saturday March 10, 2012, 6PM (doors), 6:30PM (show)
Where: DC9, 1914 9th St NW
Music: Imperial China
And the nerds are:
Surviving and Thriving with a High Octane Brain
By Valarie Molaison
If you waste a lot of time worrying, warning, watching, and wringing your hands--- Congratulations! Charles Darwin would call you FIT. Ah, yes, survival of the fittest…. Always on the lookout for danger. You’re alive, and doomed to a fretful existence. If I just described you or someone you love, RUN (but not with sharp scissors) to learn more about how stress and worry operate in the brain, and simple ways to trick yourself into calm. With a beer in one hand, leave the other free to practice with me the Hand Model of the Triune Brain. Scared? This is your first test. I dare you to join the rest of the fretful at Nerd Night.
Bio: Val is a Congressional Science Fellow working in the Senate on health and women’s policy issues. Her friends call her “Doctor Death” behind her back because she is a licensed psychologist specializing in grief, trauma, and life transition. She has held a lot of hands, held a lot of beers, and helped turn many a survivor into a thriver.
How To Be Oscar Wilde
By Alexandra Petri
"I put all my genius into my life. I put only my talent into my works." So said Oscar Wilde, Irish wit, poet, playwright, author, celebrity, interior design lecturer, and eventual prisoner C.33. Oscar defined modern celebrity culture and understood it better than almost anyone before or since. It's been said that next to being witty oneself, the best thing is to quote another's wit, and Oscar remains one of the most quotable wits there is. I'll lead you on the Oscar tour, from his childhood to his fame to his public martyrdom, with more Wilde quotations per inch than the arm of someone who has made a regrettable choice of tattoos.
Bio: Alexandra Petri is a humor columnist and blogger for the Washington Post. Her online commenters once suggested that she take a week off from quoting Oscar Wilde. It was one of the hardest things she's ever had to do, and by the time she finished she was a quivering, hollow shell of her former self. She's been a devotee of Oscar ever since ninth grade, when she was laid up on the couch to recover from the removal of her wisdom teeth with a bag of frozen peas and a copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Lemur Biology in the Axis of Evil: A schistosomiasis love story in 10 easy lessons.
By Alex Dehgan
What’s it like doing research in areas as diverse as a poolhouse in Iraq while under fire, in the western reaches of the Himalayans in post-conflict Afghanistan, in the leech and predator-filled rainforests of southeastern Madagascar, and under the chaos of the collapsing halls of the Kremlin? Research, science diplomacy, and conservation exist in a variety of places from Afghanistan to Madagascar, and some of the cool scientific findings uncovered along the way will be shared, as will the joys of schistosomiasis, the Taliban, and being mortared while at work.
Bio: Dr. Alex Dehgan is the Science and Technology Adviser to the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Previously, Alex also worked in multiple positions in the at the Department of State where he developed a science diplomacy strategy towards Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and previous to that he was the founding Afghanistan Country Director for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Afghanistan Program. He holds a Ph.D in Evolutionary Biology, focused on extinction and adaptation of lemur species. He was chosen as an “Icon of Science” by Seed Magazine in 2005 and likes to do science while wearing full body armor.
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