Phage Talks: Infecting the Playa with Science!
Tuesday, August 28th, 2018, 8 PM – 9 PM
Wednesday, August 29th, 2018, 8 PM – 9 PM
Thursday, August 30th, 2018, 8 PM – 9 PM
Friday, August 31st, 2018, 8 PM – 9 PM
Description:
Come recharge your batteries with a dose of SCIENCE! Join us for Phage's geektastic series of 12 minute talks by actual scientists, nightly at 8pm in the Phage dome.
MONDAY AUGUST 27, 8PM:
* Secular Geometry [Daniel Alvarez-Gavela]
* Fasting: The physician within [Gabrielle Reason]
* Hacking Lotteries [Matt Brand]
* Shenzhen: An Alternative to American-Style Innovation [Bunnie Huang]
TUESDAY AUGUST 28, 8PM:
* MRI for Fun and Pleasure - What I learned from looking inside 1000s of bodies [Marcus Foster]
* Global Review of Drug Checking Services 2017 [Larissa Maier]
* Collective Cognition: How We Outsource Beliefs to the Community [Steven Sloman]
* Closing the AI Knowledge Gap [Ziv Epstein]
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 29, 8PM:
* The Uncanny Valley of Autism [Mavarick]
* How will we combat antibiotic resistance? [Matthew Oberhardt]
* Constructive perception: theory, experiments, and phenomenology [Maddie Cusimano, Sarah Schwettmann, & Luke Hewitt]
* DNA and the Golden State Killer [Anna Lewis]
THURSDAY AUGUST 30, 8PM:
* Build with Life [Danny]
* New frontiers in genome engineering [Marie La Russa]
* Should Robots Have Sex? [Rob McBride]
* How ancient genetic programs connect human hearing impairment to gravity sensing in plants, and other evolutionary oddities [John Woods]
FRIDAY AUGUST 31, 8PM:
* Rethinking Tough Kids: Lessons on Humility on an Pediatric Psych Unit [Lexasaurus]
* The Origin of Matter [Edwin Chiu]
* Global Community Bio [David Kong]
* The Decommodified Urban Economics of Burning Man and the Gift of a Big Black Rock City [David Albouy]