What do they talk about at Science On Tap?  Here is a list of previous Science on Tap topics. Topics at Science on Tap, second Monday night of each month at National Mechanics (22 South 3^rd St in Philadelphia):

• “Chile Peppers: Heat and History”
• “Underwater Communications: Fiber Optics & Whale Songs”
• “Imaging the Body Abnormal: Art & Artifice in Historical Medical Photography”
• “Shocking Streams and Freaky Fish”
• “Fermentation: The Amazing Mother of it All in Wine and Beer”
• “Living the High Life: Insights on the Private Lives of Giraffes”
• “The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements”
• “Yellow Fever Epidemics in Philadelphia”
• “Fertilizer: More Than Just The Brown Stuff”
• “Bedtime Stories for Fido: Life in a Biodiversity Laboratory”
• “A Toast to Fixing the Sky”
• “The Association of Creative Zoology”
• “The Burke and Hare Murders: Sixteen Good Reasons Not to Drink Whisky with Strangers”
• “The Slippery Facts About Oil Spills”
• “The Search for the Other Earth”
• “What’s in the Air? Low-tech Tools for Finding Out”
• “The Impact of Meteors on the Origin and Early Evolution of Life”
• “Imperialism and the Family Business: Population Structure and Political Change on the Central Coast of Peru”
• “The Origin and Evolution of Beer”
• “Dinosaur Studies in China”
• “Embracing Darwin”
• “Dramatic Evolution: Bringing Science to the Stage”
• “No Family History: Investigating What’s Behind the Breast Cancer Epidemic”
• “Bringing Physics to Physicians”
• “Cold Hard Science: Fossil Discoveries in the Canadian Arctic and the Origin of Limbed Animals”
• “The Unknown Skeleton – Forensic Anthropology and the Unsolvable Case”
• “How the Tortoises Got their Shells and the Finches Got their Beaks: The Role of Evo-Devo in Solving Darwin’s Dilemmas”
• “Take Some Fruit and Pass the Seeds”