We’ve just celebrated our 2nd Nerdaversary at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. We had a fantastic turnout and a tonne of fun – but were sad that we didn’t get any cotton (customary of a 2nd anniversary). We’re kicking off our third year of Nerdery with some great talks on VFX, Beer, and Evolution. If you missed our Anniversary event, we’re back at the Fox Cabaret for March.
Where: Fox Cabaret
When: Tuesday March 22nd, Doors @ 7:00, Talks @ 7:30
Tickets: $6 online
Photos by: www.lindsaysdiet.com
#1 Rejected Princesses: The Unsung Women too Badass for Hollywood
Jason Porath
There is a list in your head. It is safe, it is censored, it is short. It is the list of the women that you learn about in history class – the ones that are “appropriate for kids.”. But what of the unsung ones? The uncompromised, the uncompromising, the unconventional? This talk explores the Disneyfication of girlhood and the alternatives you never knew about.
Bio: In a past life, Jason Porath used to work at DreamWorks Animation on films such as How to Train Your Dragon 2, Megamind, and The Croods. In 2014, he left the animation industry to start Rejected Princesses: a blog celebrating women of history and myth who were too awesome, awful, or offbeat for the animated princess treatment. Part art project, part history lesson, part humor column, it quickly went viral and has been featured in Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, NPR, and newspapers around the world. Later this year, 100 of the entries will be published as a book by Dey Street, a division of Harper Collins.
#2 Thousands of years of evolution to behave like yeast!
Mauricio Lozano
Humanity has been brewing and drinking beer since the Egyptians (they were also making bread and other foods involving the help of microbes). However, it wasn’t until Louis Pasteur discovered yeast in 1876 that we started to study beer! Yes – the same Pasteur that invented the vaccine for rabies and found a way of drinking milk safely (Pasteurization). The guy was a rockstar. The nice twist here is that yeast behave like humans: they will reproduce unstoppably, consume all of their resources and pollute their environment with ethanol until all of them die.
Bio: Mauricio Lozano is a Food Engineer specialized in optimization of food manufacturing processes. He moved to Vancouver in 2009 for his Master Degree in Food Science at UBC. He has worked for Hain Celestial, Molson-Coors, Zag Global and Nectar Juicery. His job has always been in relation to using good bugs, minimizing bad bugs, and killing ugly bugs. Currently he is an instructor at BCIT and the Founder of “Faculty Brewing Co” a Micro Brewery in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver.
#3 Alfred Russel Wallace: a Victorian Journey into Adventure! Discovery! and Evolution!
Dr. Greg Bole
Lecture To-Night including THRILLING DETAILS and TERRIFYING MOMENTS! You may have heard of Charles Darwin and know a thing or two about EVOLUTION, but do you know about the gentleman named ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE? (OM FRS) He was not only the co-discoverer of EVOLUTION BY NATURAL SELECTION, but also led an AMAZING life! From the deepest, darkest jungles of the Amazon to the volcanos and headhunters of Melanesia and the Malay Archipelago, Wallace explored the natural world and collected over ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND natural history specimens. Find out about his thoughts on FLAT EARTHERS, the CANALS OF MARS, VACCINATION and SPIRITUALISM!! A most suitable lecture for young and old, one night only at the FOX CABARET.
Bio: Dr. Greg Bole received his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from Stony Brook University. For the past thirteen years he has been teaching with the Biology Program at UBC and was awarded the 2007/08 Faculty of Science Killam Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He is now a Senior Instructor teaching Evolution, Ecology and Genetics in the departments of Zoology and Botany. Greg started acting when he was 12 years old and continues it as a hobby. He has been portraying and speaking about Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace for the past eleven years on the radio, to public groups, classes and conferences in a wide variety of locations.