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NOVA Science Café

NOVA Science Café is a free monthly meetup for science discussions, NOVA film screenings, and community events in the WGBH studio at the Boston Public Library, and other locations across the city. Sponsored by NOVA, the science documentary series on PBS, NOVA Science Café is part of an international network of science cafés with over 350 active cafés in local communities across the U.S. and abroad. Find a Science Café near you!

http://www.sciencecafes.org/

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    Delicious Rot: Unlocking Secrets of the Microbial World

    Tue, Aug 18, 2015
    Humans have been using microbes to make fermented foods such as cheese, miso, and beer for thousands of years. Benjamin Wolfe, Asst. Professor of Microbiology at Tufts University, will discuss how these traditional foods are now serving a new purpose - as model ecosystems for microbiologists. From microbial war and peace on Camembert to the funk in your homemade kimchi, learn how some of your favorite foods are changing our understanding of the microbial world. (Photo: "Blue Stilton Quarter Front" by Dominik Hundhammer, Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via[ Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_Stilton_Quarter_Front.jpg#/media/File:Blue_Stilton_Quarter_Front.jpg ""))
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    The Evolution Of Cooking: Studying Chimpanzee Cognition

    Tue, Jul 21, 2015
    Cooking is a universal human practice, and a complex behavior that involves multiple cognitive skills—such as patience, self-control, and causal reasoning. But the evolutionary origins of cooking are unclear. Examining chimpanzees' cognitive skills can illuminate the emergence of this uniquely human behavior. Harvard researchers Alexandra Rosati and Felix Warneken will present new insights from a recent set of studies in which they found that chimpanzees possess many of the necessary skills for cooking, suggesting that cooking behaviors emerged soon after the control of fire in human evolution.
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    City Trees and the Urban Carbon Cycle

    Tue, May 26, 2015
    The vast majority of our CO2 emissions can be attributed to cities. The combination of large, concentrated greenhouse gas emissions and rapid urban growth make cities key elements of our climate problem, but cities offer the potential to serve as “first responders” for climate action. **Dr. Lucy Hutyra** explores several facets of the carbon cycle at the urban scale including the social drivers of fossil fuel emissions and the physical determinants of biological carbon flows. Photo: [Pixbay](https://pixabay.com/en/brigde-city-trees-travel-691466/ "")
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    A Scientist's Story of Research and Funding

    Tue, Jun 16, 2015
    Dr. Sive will tell a story about scientific research, one crucial point in the spectrum of science + society + jobs. She will talk about a ‘brain tube’ project she is working on at the Whitehead Institute. The 'brain tube' is essential for health and mysteriously connected to disease. Together, we will explore how the project started and how its progress is intertwined with the people who have worked on it, how days in the lab go by, how paradigm shifts in thinking get made, and about the great challenges, frustrations and successes involved.
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