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Join Gelf and Jan Larsen Art for free events most Thursdays at 7:30, at JLA Studios in DUMBO (map). Coming up:
July 9: Media Circus
July 16: Geeking Out
July 23: Non-Motivational Speaker Series
August 6: Varsity Letters
Media Circus returns to Brooklyn on July 9th with a night devoted to the future of journalism school.What is the role of a trade school in an era where everyone is a publisher? Gelf's monthly speaking series on all things media will examine J-school from the eyes of the people closest to it.
Geeking Out returns! Gelf's monthly science reading is back at JLA Studios in DUMBO, Brooklyn on July 16th at 7:30 pm. This month, we'll be discussing all sorts of geeky goodness with speakers including Arika Okrent, the author of In the Land of Invented Languages, and Viktor Deak, the paleoartist whose hominid evolution renderings can be seen at the Lucy's Legacy exhibit. The work of local artists will be on display as well.
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series returns to Brooklyn, on Thursday, July 22 at 7:30 p.m [at the recession-emasculating price of FREE]. Hobnob about with Neil MacFarquhar, former Middle East correspondent at the New York Times and author of The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East, and other luminaries.
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Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, August 6, at 7:30 p.m. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Wright Thompson, Grant Wahl, and Bruce Weber will read from and talk about their work, and take questions. Thompson will share his narrative features for ESPN. Wahl breaks down the iffy experiment of David Beckham's move stateside. And Weber shares the true tales of baseball umps.
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, July 2, at 7:30 p.m., with a night dedicated to baseball. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Scott Price, Selena Roberts, and members of the New York Daily News sports investigative team will read from and talk about their work, and take questions.
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series returns to Brooklyn, on Thursday, June 25 at 7:30 p.m [at the recession-castrating price of FREE]. Come hear Molly Crabapple, modern-day Victorian muse and creator of the world's largest chain of burlesque life-drawing classes; New Yorker cartoonist and Cartoon Lounge blogger Farley Katz; and Josh Neufeld, longtime illustrator and author of acclaimed graphic novel A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, soon to be published in hardcover.
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If the thought of moving a dead cat disgusts you, then you might be a racist, says scientist Paul Bloom. See the video of his Geeking Out presentation after the jump.
Matthew Alper doesn't believe in God, but he knows why you might. Click through for videos from Alper's talk at June's Geeking Out.
According to astrophysicist Mario Livio, mathematicians love to sit around and come up theories that have no application, until years later. See the video of his Geeking Out presentation after the jump.
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