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ALL YOUR BUTTS ARE BELONG TO US

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You know the drill. Three amazing speakers. Three weird-but-fascinating talks. One great evening.

This month’s lineup:

“Speedrunning: The Art of Going Fast and Breaking Video Games (and all my controllers in the process)” by RUBIEHART
Why play a video game for fun and relaxation when you can master it and break it’s physics into a million pieces? Join RUBIEHART on a deep dive into what speedrunning is, and the journey of one of the greatest e-sports of this generation.

!!!! ALSO !!!! come to the show early (6pm early, not 6am early) and have a chance to try your own hand at a boss battle speed run. Who knows, you might even beat RUBIEHART’s best time? (Lol, right. Good luck n00b).

“Bees?! Strength, irrelevant. Resistance, futile. They wish to improve themselves.” by Katherine Offutt
Contrary to popular belief: DC’s most productive residents do in fact work on capitol hill! The district is home to over 200 urban beekeepers, and 15 million bees – what makes bees so well suited to receiving aid from people, and why have people been messing around in hives for centuries? We’ve been assimilated, of course.

“Butt Soft, What Butt Through Yonder Window Butts??: An Exploration Of Butts and Things That Aren’t Butts But Look a Whole Lot Like Butts” by Rae Pendergrass
WTF is a butt!? Can butts be weaponized?? If an animal plops some goop out of their all-purpose hole that is both a mouth and an anus, is it pooping or throwing up?! Is it really biologically likely that an anaconda wouldn’t want none unless you’ve got buns, hun!?!? Is being a buttface really as bad and shameful as Andrew from 2nd grade once tried to imply when he called me one while blowing raspberries in my direction???????????????

The deetz:

Doors at 6, show at 6:30 (ish) @ DC9 nightclub

$10 tickets available online or at the door (until we sell out)

We do a short break between lectures so you can socialize, intoxicate yourself, pee, call your agent, plan a heist, etc. There’s tasty food and drink at the venue, so come hungry and thirsty.


BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

We also have an extra special show for you this month IN ADDITION to our regular Nerd Nite programming! We love you so much, we want to see you more than once this month!! If you love sea shanties, you will shat you pants when you hear SPACE SHANTIES!!! Come see Captain Ben Corbin’s Space Shanty Singalong Spectacular! Not to mention, we will have Space Burlesque by Maki Roll, Space Comedy by Kasha Patel, and Space Swag by NASA!!

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COSTUMES ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED FOR SPACE SHANTIES!!

Space Shanties are on TUESDAY, 07/18 at 7:00pm @ DC9 (later than our normal show time!)

Want to give a talk? Want to tell us we’re cute? Want to send us $50,000? Email us at dc at nerdnite dotcom.

BIRDS VS FISH (also that time the CIA really actually made people do drugs to try and control their minds)

NERDS!!!!!!!

This Saturday we have DOUBLE THE NERD NITE!

Our regular show at DC9 Nightclub features one of science’s most polarizing battles: BIRDS VS FISH!!

Representing #teamfish is Nerd Nite DC’s own Tiffany Atkinson with her talk “Flyer than a Motherfisher: Why Fish are Fire and the Obvious Choice in the Birds vs Fishes Debate”

Making the case for the superiority of our feathered friends is Zach Slavin with his talk about how “Birds Are Real, and Really Cool”

And we’ll also have a talk from the fantastic Sereia Spinner all about the horrifying, horny, how-is-this-a-true-story-wtf tale of “Operation Midnight Climax: the CIA Mind Control Brothel”.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE:

If you’re attending Awesome Con, swing by room 204 at 8pm for a special Nerd Nite Awesome Con show, featuring talks from three Nerd Nite all-stars:

Nerd Nite DC host Rae Pendergrass will be dissecting frogs with her talk on “A Bot, An Anthropologist, and A Comedy Researcher Walk Into A Bar: The Science of Comedy”

Ben Corbin will be returning with his now-infamous talk on “The Human Rocket: The Efficacy of Using Bodily Fluids to Propel Yourself in Space” (complete with, uh, original research).

And Dr. Pete Thompson will show us the wonders of the ocean with his talk on “Why is My Thumb Bleeding and My Mind Blown?: Stomatopods, AKA Thumbsplitting Shrimp”

Terrible music, wtf-ing about flat earthers, and social constructs! Nerd Nite DC on 5/20!

When: 3/18 – Doors: 6, Show 6:30
Where: DC9 Nightclub
Tickets: $10 – bit.ly/maynerd

This month’s talks:

Intersubjectivity: Constructing Social Constructs by Pete Miller

You’ve heard that various impactful entities in our lives are “Social constructs.” How are they constructed and of what? The answer is intersubjectivity, lesser known cousin of objectivity and subjectivity. You use it and it affects you all the damn time. It’s worth knowing about.

Conspiracy Geodesy: The Rocky Road from Flat Earth to Plate Tectonics (and Back Again) by Chris Gee

How did we get from the likes of Rectangle Earth to our modern planetary paradigm? And how did Flat-Earth Theory make a 21st-century comeback? This talk will weave together planetary geology, science history, behavioral psychology, and a goldmine of godawful rock puns to explore some of the ingenious ways we’ve cracked the Earth’s deepest secrets – and why we believe what we do about the world we live in.

Unwanted, Unlistenable, and Unbothered: How democracy, science, & philosophy birthed the worst song ever (and why it slaps) by navi

What makes music unlistenable? And what happens if you engineer a song SO unlistenable, it loops back around to being listenable again (or at the least, a fascinating experiment in science). Join navi as he takes a deep dive into the wacky melodic choices that make up the 1997 experiment “The Most Unwanted Song”!