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[bec_87rb]

Whenever I want to hate this job.

Lunchtime lecture on dark matter.

What to look up: Linde. also: Fermi+positron+balloon

I stopped him afterwards (there was a crowd at the podium afterwards) to ask what the million-cubic-meter balloon had detected that suggested dark matter existed and got this:

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[bec_87rb]

They set it up in Dining Room A, and someone was filming it, so it might appear online somewhere - maybe under the dude's name, and it was PACKED. These free and open to the public lectures can get huge.

People lined the walls, a few more chairs were brought in, and they would have questioned him for another hour I bet if time had permitted. Attendees certainly mobbed the podium afterwards, ahaha - nerdz! If you want to feel like a rock star, astonomers or physicists, lecture here.

Not all of these fill the space, but this one did. And they have lectures on art, history, literature, you name it: poetry readings, whatever someone is researching, Chinese language table, all kinds of language tables, lots of ethnic history - the Jews of Indonesia, experiences of women entrepreneurs in sub-saharan Africa. The choral traditions of Canadian Mennonites. I went to one on 12th century turkish trade. Klingon linguistics - there have been 2 over other years here that I know of, given by the creator of Klingon. Seriously. Preservation techniques. How to fight stress. Learn to ballroom dance. Right now they have a series on learning Hawaiian dance taught by a visiting Hawaiian dance professor.

Crazy stuff. But if you dig physics and astonomy, they definitely have you covered.

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[suegypt]

And it's free? #*&^%lucky!!!!