I went down to bell house last night for secret science club, a monthly science lecture series at a bar in Gowanish. As always, the bell house was packed with scientists and science enthusiasts.
James Hanson is the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute – the part of NASA that studies the earth, rather than the stars. Anyway, this dude became a science hero when he called out the Bush Administration for editing his global warming reports. The president has a lot of power, but not the power to control the scientific method.
Rad dude, but unfortunately, his lecture wasn’t that exciting. He was basically power pointing to the choir. Previous secret science club lectures had video’s of rats running around on various drugs. Hanson just gave us a bunch of graphs with watts per meter squared and parts per million all over the place.
This is halfway through the Huge Copenhagen Climate talks, and Hanson was talking to a bunch of kids in a Brooklyn bar. Essentially a “fuck you” to the worlds leaders.
On the plus side, I hung out with Justin Talent afterward and caught up on life.
Bell House is a nice spot, but the beers are expensive. I wouldn’t go there except for science.
