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 3rd 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”
