[Sci-tech-public] Cafe Sci: Monday, 9 October

[David Kaiser]

Hi, all,

For anyone who might be interested, I will be speaking at an informal 
"Cafe Sci," sponsored by WGBH and NOVA, this coming Monday (9 
October) from 6-8pm.  (Details below.)  The topic will be recent 
efforts by nuclear scientists to make a superheavy element -- element 
114.  More important, the bar where the discussion will be held is 
going to make Oppenheimer martinis; not to be missed.

The Cafe Sci discussion will be based on the recent NOVA "Science 
NOW" segment on the "island of stability," which aired last night on 
PBS.  On the off chance that you might have missed the show, you can 
watch the segment here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3313/02.html

or listen to an audio podcast with more clips from my interview here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/dispatches/060901.html

Special prize to anyone who can guess correctly in what room at MIT 
my interview was filmed...

Hope you're all doing well -
best,
Dave
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CAFÉ SCI TO MEET IN HARVARD SQUARE
Monday, October 9, 6-8pm
@ the Redline bar & grill, Harvard Square
59 JFK Street, www.redlinecambridge.com

Bored with the same tired old conversations?  Come talk about 
something so new no one knows what it looks, feels, or taste like - a 
new arrangement of matter known only as element 114.  Haven't heard 
about it?  That's because it doesn't exist.  YET!

Is the element 114 cocktail best served on the rocks?   Will 114 
enable us to finally make smaller Ipods?  How does the search for 114 
provide a commentary on the practice of science?  Will it destroy the 
world?

You've got questions and we've got Dr. David Kaiser, faculty member 
at MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society and Department 
of Physics.

Talk with your mouth full: food and drink encouraged.  
Café Sci is free and open to all.

Café Sci is part of a grassroots science café movement.  Bring your 
friends, tell your neighbors, post this message, and pass it along.

Café Sci is scheduled to meet next on November 20.  
To be added to the email list, or for more info contact:  
Ben Wiehe at (617) 300-3980, or ben_wiehe at wgbh.org

Hosted by the PBS program NOVA scienceNOW.


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David Kaiser		dikaiser at mit.edu
Associate Professor
Program in Science, Technology, & Society
and Lecturer, Department of Physics
Building E51-185
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Phone: 617 452-3173	Fax: 617 258-8118