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Profs & Pints DC: How Mad Scientists Are Made

The Bier Baron Tavern 1523 22nd Street Northwest, Washington, DC, United States

Profs and Pints DC presents: “How Mad Scientists are Made,” a look at monstrous experiments and quests for forbidden knowledge in literature, folklore, and film, with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at Ohio State University and co-founders of The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic. “It’s alive!” the Dr. Frankenstein of films […]

$12. – $13

Profs & Pints DC: The Fertility Industry through a Microscope

The Bier Baron Tavern 1523 22nd Street Northwest, Washington, DC, United States

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Fertility Industry through a Microscope,” a look at how new means of human reproduction have given birth to big questions, with Sonia Suter, professor of law, scholar of emerging reproductive technologies, and founding director of the Health Law Initiative at The George Washington University Law School. Scientists have come […]

$12. – $13

Profs & Pints DC: What Was T Rex Thinking?

metrobar dc 640 Rhode Island Ave NE, Washington, DC, United States

Profs and Pints DC presents: “What Was T Rex Thinking?” a look at the brains of dinosaurs and how they might live on in our backyard birds, with Amy Balanoff, assistant research professor of behavioral biology at Johns Hopkins University and scholar of brain evolution. The term “bird brain” typically is used as a pejorative, […]

$13.50 – $17

Profs & Pints DC: Life at Earth’s Poles

Penn Social 801 E St NW, Washington, DC, United States

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Life at Earth’s Poles,” a chance to become more familiar with whales, penguins, polar bears, and other denizens of our planet’s coldest climates, with Chris Parsons, whale and dolphin researcher and associate professor in the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at Exeter University. At a time of year when many […]

$13.50 – $17.

Profs & Pints DC: Race and Fast Food

Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Washington, DC, United States

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Race and Fast Food,” with Marcia Chatelain, professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. During the height of the George Floyd protests McDonald’s released a video on social media declaring that “Black Lives Matter,” thus […]

$13.50 – $17.

Profs & Pints DC: The Webb Telescope and NASA’s Next Big Thing

Penn Social 801 E St NW, Washington, DC, United States

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Webb Telescope and NASA's Next Big Thing,” with Ori Fox, Deputy Project Scientist for the Roman Space Telescope at the Space Telescope Science Institute. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now a household name, having produced spectacular images of the most distant objects in our universe and revolutionized our […]

$13.50 – $17.

Profs & Pints DC: Cosmic Blasts

Penn Social 801 E St NW, Washington, DC, United States

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Cosmic Blasts,” a look at extreme events in our universe, with Alexander J. van der Horst, associate professor of astrophysics at George Washington University, teacher of a course on the origins of the cosmos, and researcher of gamma-ray bursts and other transient sources of emission in space. While most of […]

$13.50 – $17.

Profs & Pints DC: How Friendship Evolved in Nature

Penn Social 801 E St NW, Washington, DC, United States

Profs and Pints DC presents: “How Friendship Evolved in Nature,” an Earth Day talk on the biological origins of our social bonds, with Riva Riley, affiliate assistant professor of biology at the University of Maryland at College Park, stand-up comedian, and zoologist who researches animal behavior. When we think about the natural world, we often […]

$13.50 – $17.