Thursday, August 8th
Doors 7:30pm / Show 8pm
(We will continue to start at 8pm throughout the summer months)
Free!
Green Jeans
Event info here!
Join us for Nerd Nite ABQ #6!
Nerd Nite is a monthly lecture-in-a-bar series that takes place in 100+ cities around the world. And now we’ve got our very own Albuquerque chapter!
Join us the first Thursday of every month to learn, laugh, and drink. Our next event is on Thursday, August 8th, at 8:00pm at the Green Jeans Food Hall.
Title: Aging – A curable disease?
Blurb: The quest for immortality has been one that humans have long sought after with few results. Recently, critical scientific discoveries have shown that aging can be altered both genetically and pharmaceutically. What could this mean for human lifespan?
Speaker: Olivia Heath, PhD canddiate studying aging in the McCormick Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UNM
Title: Education Outcomes and Card Games
Blurb: Card games provide a unique avenue for reading comprehension for technical fields.
Speaker: Craig Turpin has been an informal Yugioh judge, and played Magic the Gathering for many years. He became particularly interested in the benefits after becoming a lawyer and seeing how early exposure to cards games increases reading comprehension, logic connection-making, and simple arithmetic.
Title: Beavers Will Eat Your Shorts
Blurb: North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is a keystone species that can help humans deal with all kinds of environmental problems, like water supply, water pollution, drought, flooding, wildfire and wildlife habitat. This talk begins with some fiction and factoids about streams and beavers in New Mexico, then veers east all the way to Europe where beaver fur was fashioned into fancy felt hats. The story comes back to Idaho where beavers once zoomed around in helicopters and more recently McMansions jeopardized the nation’s wetlands. In New Mexico we look at how we are helping beavers thrive by planting lots of willows, constructing human-beaver coexistence structures, building faux beaver dams and putting wood back in streams.
Speaker: Karen Menetrey (she/her) is living a self-directed life and striving to reach her full potential after a career as a state employee. Following 30 years in water resource programs, she went to work for Rio Grande Return, a non-profit organization that revitalizes damaged ecosystems using low tech processed-based restoration methods. That means they build stuff with plants and sticks and rocks. Karen is an inchoate Canadian and her hobbies include bird watching, not standing up on a stand-up paddle board, talking about fly fishing, and fermenting things. Ever since she went to adult circus camp she has been practicing alternately exposing and suppressing her inner clown.