Comments | ilexcassine: Venus Transit and kvetching about the lack of adult engagement in science

ilexcassine

Venus Transit and kvetching about the lack of adult engagement in science

Jun 05, 2012 13:33

Why can't there be Venus Transit viewing telescopes set up at a bar? All the events that I've found for viewing are aimed at small children. Its great that there are science events for small children, no doubt, I'd never argue against that. But why do you have to age out of being curious about science/astronomy as a layperson (which is the ( Read more... )

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ilexcassine June 6 2012, 04:11:58 UTC

I did a little googling, cuz I thought I remembered some folks that were up to that sort of thing being profiled in the NYT... yup. In Austin, of course: https://www.facebook.com/scienceinthepub/info
Damn Austin, with all the cool things. And NYC too: http://secretscienceclub.blogspot.com/ (though I'm okay with NYC having all the cool things, because its so hard to live there people ought to get something for the trouble)

Maybe I need to start something around here. Unfortunately the most likely bar for this (Hell, decidedly not a sports bar) closed. Bah. Maybe one of the places with the ubiquitous trivia nights would be game for something like that.