Nerdnite NYC:
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Take a peak at the nerdiest social gathering in town.
By Olivia Koski | Posted March 18, 2010
Posted in: Featured, Physical Science Blog, uncategorized
(See full article here, or: http://www.scienceline.org/2010/03/18/nerds-gather-at-galapagos-art-space/#more-6276)
Speed dating for thinkers. [Photo Credit: Olivia Koski]
Matt Wasowski is on to something. He’s the boss of NYC “Nerd Nite,” a monthly gathering where nerds can drink and be nerdy. Each month there’s a special line-up of nerd-friendly lectures. Anything goes, as long as it’s educational and fun.
On March 12, it was musings on the famous mathematical constant pi, the legal case for gay marriage, and a history of badass mathematicians. As usual, attendance was high.
There was even a speed dating event before the lectures got started, with 25 nerdy gals and the same number of guys hoping to find love. It’s an enormously popular portion of the evening, and despite its $25 price tag (lecture included), it sells out almost immediately.
The darling of the evening was the rapper “Dopest Nerd.” He wowed the audience with tales of messed up mathematicians, from the extremely prolific yet homeless and amphetamine-addicted Paul Erdos, to the tragic suicide of the father of computing, Alan Turing. He ended the event in style with a rap about the distance formula.
I get intereviewed at my monthly hang out in this video.
Watch Paco strut his thing on stage, and then later I flutter my eyelashes when I talk about zombies. Shamelessly.
And my friends Ted, Connor, and Diane are in it.
Here are clips to that third presenter of the night (Friday, March 12th Nerdnite):
Adam Hanlon (Paco), from Math for America.
The clips are in four parts, below. The last is a nerdy rap.
He discusses: "Mathematicians: Behind the Music. Go behind the scenes of the mathematician subculture. Rock stars have their reputation because everybody knows about the depraved, idiosyncratic degeneracy that goes on in the back of the tour bus, backstage and in the hotel room; but few have seen the dark underbelly of mathematicians throughout history. Learn about the feuds (Pythagoras vs. Hippaseus, Liebnitz vs. Newton, and Descartes vs. Euler), extreme presonalities (Erdos, Perelman, And Hawking, etc.), and of course, the intrinsic interest and passion for solving problems that fuels these crazy geniuses. Understand the passion that motivates the subculture, so that even people who say, 'I'm not a math person,' can begin to appreaciate it and realize that they too could easily be a part of this world."
Part One:
Part Two:
Part Three:
And Part Four, Nerd Rap:
I have also presented for Nerdnite and can put mine up (from Early October, 2009).
It is about (neurology/pathology) the biology of zombies, if they were to be real, what they would be most like.
Take a peak at the nerdiest social gathering in town.
By Olivia Koski | Posted March 18, 2010
Posted in: Featured, Physical Science Blog, uncategorized
(See full article here, or: http://www.scienceline.org/2010/03/18/nerds-gather-at-galapagos-art-space/#more-6276)
Speed dating for thinkers. [Photo Credit: Olivia Koski]
Matt Wasowski is on to something. He’s the boss of NYC “Nerd Nite,” a monthly gathering where nerds can drink and be nerdy. Each month there’s a special line-up of nerd-friendly lectures. Anything goes, as long as it’s educational and fun.
On March 12, it was musings on the famous mathematical constant pi, the legal case for gay marriage, and a history of badass mathematicians. As usual, attendance was high.
There was even a speed dating event before the lectures got started, with 25 nerdy gals and the same number of guys hoping to find love. It’s an enormously popular portion of the evening, and despite its $25 price tag (lecture included), it sells out almost immediately.
The darling of the evening was the rapper “Dopest Nerd.” He wowed the audience with tales of messed up mathematicians, from the extremely prolific yet homeless and amphetamine-addicted Paul Erdos, to the tragic suicide of the father of computing, Alan Turing. He ended the event in style with a rap about the distance formula.
Click to viewI get intereviewed at my monthly hang out in this video.
Watch Paco strut his thing on stage, and then later I flutter my eyelashes when I talk about zombies. Shamelessly.
And my friends Ted, Connor, and Diane are in it.
Here are clips to that third presenter of the night (Friday, March 12th Nerdnite):
Adam Hanlon (Paco), from Math for America.
The clips are in four parts, below. The last is a nerdy rap.
He discusses: "Mathematicians: Behind the Music. Go behind the scenes of the mathematician subculture. Rock stars have their reputation because everybody knows about the depraved, idiosyncratic degeneracy that goes on in the back of the tour bus, backstage and in the hotel room; but few have seen the dark underbelly of mathematicians throughout history. Learn about the feuds (Pythagoras vs. Hippaseus, Liebnitz vs. Newton, and Descartes vs. Euler), extreme presonalities (Erdos, Perelman, And Hawking, etc.), and of course, the intrinsic interest and passion for solving problems that fuels these crazy geniuses. Understand the passion that motivates the subculture, so that even people who say, 'I'm not a math person,' can begin to appreaciate it and realize that they too could easily be a part of this world."
Part One:
Part Two:
Part Three:
And Part Four, Nerd Rap:
I have also presented for Nerdnite and can put mine up (from Early October, 2009).
It is about (neurology/pathology) the biology of zombies, if they were to be real, what they would be most like.