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Nerd Nite SF: "Calibrating Fermentation in Dr. No's Lair" by Matt Hollis, 8/17/2011
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Secret complexes buried beneath an innocent-seeming hillside. Stainless steel cauldrons containing one of the world's most treasured commodities. High-tech laboratories in search of the perfect formula…
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Nerd Nite SF: "Skeeball 101 – Roll Like a Champion" by Joey the Cat & Black Devil, 11/16/11
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We've all seen the movie montages where the hero trains under a grueling regimen, suffers setbacks, but eventually triumphs to becomes a champion, like in Rocky or the Karate Kid. For Joey the Cat,…
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Nerd Nite SF: "Pisco: History in a Glass" by Gregory Dicum, 4/20/11
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Pisco, the white spirit distilled from grapes, has been made in Peru for 400 years, and found a ready audience in late-19th-century San Francisco among sophisticated tipplers at places like the Bank…
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Nerd Nite SF: "Wort Its Weight in Gold: A History of Beer" by Yug Varma, 9/21/11
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While most of us imbibe beer in all its forms frequently and freely, few of us stop to consider the sheer weight of history that has molded beer into its present form. Beer, in turn, has molded history…
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Despite what you might have heard, the oldest profession is metallurgy. (Other old professions needed coinage, of course.) And although everything can be bought with gold, it can be taken with steel.…
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Nerd Nite SF: "Neutrophils: Microbe Hunters That Make Waves" by Sheel Dandekar, 8/17/11
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Neutrophils are one of the first immune cells to reach sites of infection in the body, where they pursue and quickly engulf foreign invaders like bacteria. With only the tiniest whiff of scent, they…
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Nerd Nite SF: "Practical Special Effects: Livin' Large in Miniature" by Fon Davis, 9/21/11
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Fon may appear to be a grown man who plays with toys – and he is – but he has also built models and props for movies for over 20 years, from The Nightmare Before Christmas to the Star Wars series.…
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"Political science" sounds like an oxymoron, but the controversial field of political psychology gets inside your head and examines why you vote (because your neighbors do), why you like one candidate…
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Nerd Nite SF: "20,000 Leagues Under the TCP: The Undersea Internet" by Chris Woodfield, 3/16/11
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There's a lot more to making the internet a global phenomenon than two tin cans and a very long string. For the past 150+ years, cable engineers have dealt with outsized egos, third-world politics,…
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Nerd Nite SF: "Hail Caesar!: The DOs and DON’Ts of Roman Dictatorship" by Caleb Bushner, 7/20/11
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Take a tour of the history, customs, and culture of the ancient Romans: who they were, what they accomplished, and how they shaped our modern world. And, of course, their murderous and dysfunctional…
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Most Americans have at least picked out a few chords on guitar, and all of us have enjoyed some of its diverse repertoire. But few people know the names of any great balalaika or lute player, so I…
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Nerd Nite SF: "This Audio Guide Goes to 11" by Michael Epstein, 5/18/11
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The history of audio guides is rife with stories of Dutch hearing-impaired headset hijackers, teaching Tut to talk 3,300 years after his death, and brave experiments in isolation chambers. But the…
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