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February 14, 2012 | 7:00 P.M.
Speed Dating: You Can't Always Get What You Want
Join us for a special Valentine's Day edition of Periodic Tables! Broad Street Cafe will have Sexual Chocolate from Foothills Brewing on tap as well as some champagne to help you celebrate the science of mating! Please show up early to get a seat.
Choosing a mate is one of the most important decisions a female can make. In the natural world, females choose males for a variety of reasons. Males aren’t perfect, however, and females must make compromises based on what is best for them and their kids. Dr. Karin Pfennig studies how females make these compromises using desert dwelling frogs, spadefoot toads, which are faced with making rapid mating decisions that can have lifetime consequences. Her work reveals that differences in how females compromise during mate choice contribute to biodiversity and can help us understand something about our own decision making (though perhaps not human mate choice!) as well.
Speaker: Karin Pfennig, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, UNC-Chapel Hill
March 13, 2012 | 7:00 P.M.
The Science of Snot!
Snot – or its scientific name – mucus, is the barrier between your body and the world. Ever wonder why your stomach does not eat itself? Mucus! Why the bacteria in your gut do not give you an infection? Mucus! How your lungs stay sterile, but the bread on the counter turns moldy? That’s right – Mucus. Join Dr. Superfine as he discusses mucus the wonder fluid, what we know, don’t know – and what goes wrong when mucus cannot do its job.
Speaker: Dr. Richard Superfine, Taylor-Williams Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Cold beer.
Hot food.
Cool science.
OFF-SITE EVENT
Second Tuesday of every month
at Broad Street Café
1116 Broad St., Durham
Cost: Free
 
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