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”
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.
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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.
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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”!
Get ready to party like it’s 1903, wrap your brain around your funny bone, and learn why ducks put the fowl in water fowl next Saturday, 3/18 at DC9 Nightclub!
Our talks for the evening:
“Revolutions: The First Drive Across America” by Zach Omer
“A Bot, An Anthropologist, and A Comedy Researcher Walk Into A Bar: The Science of Comedy” by Rae Pendergrass
“This Is Not A Ducking Joke: An Absolutely Derange Diatribe About Dabblers, Divers, and Death-DealingDuckery” by Kali Holder
