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An Outsider’s Inside View of Science in Iran

Busboys and Poets 1025 5th Street, NW, Washington, DC, United States

With the Iran nuclear negotiations thick in the news this year, Science magazine’s intrepid international science editor, Richard Stone, gained exclusive access to some of that country’s top scientists, among them president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran; to leading-edge research facilities, including a new astronomy observatory; and to environmental sites, such as the […]

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A DC Science Café Event! Light Matters: Photons and Atoms At Play

Busboys and Poets 1025 5th Street, NW, Washington, DC, United States

What could be more fundamental and wondrous than matter and light? Join University of Maryland chemistry professor John Fourkas for an uncommonly illuminating and substantial tour on the forefronts of light, matter and their interactions.

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A DC Science Café Event: Three Trillion Trees!

Busboys and Poets 1025 5th Street, NW, Washington, DC, United States

For each of the 7.2 billion people on the planet, there are hundreds of trees. These beloved cohabitants of Spaceship Earth give us breath, food, shelter and beauty. Their importance in ecological systems cannot be overstated. And many of them face novel threats as the human touch on the planet gets ever heavier. Join University […]

Science on Stage—Comedy, Music, Poetry & More

At a first-of-its-kind DC Science Café event, local performers moved by the scientific narrative of our times will share their songs, poetry, rap, comedy and other favored forms of expression in an on-stage demonstration of just how well art and science go together.

DC Science Cafe: From exotic pet trade to urban biodiversity — Oct 3rd

Busboys and Poets 1025 5th Street, NW, Washington, DC, United States

Meet the new socio-environmental scientists from the exotic pet trade to urban biodiversity! Wildlife veterinarian and research scientist Elizabeth Daut is applying this synthesis to tease out how the interplay of government policy and the importation of animals primarily for the exotic pet industry opens ecosystems, native wildlife, and people to a range of health threats. Ecologist and evolutionary biologist Chris Trisos is looking into how the growth of urbanization—cities now cover 3% of Earth’s land surface—could reduce, or perhaps increase, the diversity among plant and animal communities across the entire planet. Join Elizabeth and Chris for a discussion about how their new approach to synthesizing disparate sciences, theories, data, and tools can open the way to asking and answering complex and consequential questions about people, society and ecosystems.

DC Science Café “Saving Science From Itself” – Jan 24, 2017

Busboys and Poets 1025 5th Street, NW, Washington, DC, United States

The common and long-held claim that the self-direction of science accounts for its social benefits is a myth and has led to alarming flaws in science's organization, funding, and reward systems. The most important foundation of the scientific enterprise — trust in its fundamental validity and social value — is now at risk.

DC Science Café: Extreme Seeing (Oct 16)

Busboys & Poets — Hyattsville 5331 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, MD, United States

Join sensory physiologist Tom Cronin of the University of Maryland Baltimore County for a discussion about some of biology’s most amazing and capable visual systems.

DC Science Café: An Ode to Saturn (March 26)

Busboys & Poets -- 5Th & K Strs 1025 5Th St., NW, Washington, DC, United States

Join two of the scientists who have been part of one of the greatest journeys of planetary exploration: The Cassini–Huygens Mission to Saturn and its moons.

DC Science Café: Picturing Science — the joys and concerns of scientific image-making

Busboys and Poets -- Brookland 625 Monroe St NE, Washington, DC, United States

Photo courtesy of Felice Frankel. Science is about revealing what has never been seen and discerned before. Visual depictions of nature date back tens of thousands of years in cave paintings. But the tools and techniques that today’s researchers, designers, and artists now can wield to compose visual representations of scientific discoveries has led to […]

A DC Science Café Event: Gravity, or an Homage to the Mysteries of Universal Attraction

Busboys and Poets -- Mount Vernon Triangle 450 K Street, NW, Washington, DC, United States

Join science writer Ron Cowen and University of Maryland astrophysicist Cole Miller for a gripping tour of gravity that will take you from a 1919 eclipse that really made Einstein’s day, out to the surface of neutron stars and the event horizons of black holes, and back again to the gravitational attraction that keeps you planted on the ground and ever-so-subtly pulled toward every other human being on the planet.

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The D.C. Science Writers Association is a group of journalists, writers, public information officers (PIOs), and audio and video producers who cover breaking research, science and technology. Our events bring together science writers for socializing, networking, science-based tours and events, and professional development workshops. The D.C. Science Writers Association is dedicated to providing a safe and welcoming experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, national origin, or religion. DCSWA does not tolerate harassment of members in any form.