Monday Monday

Happy Monday, everyone! Tonight there are three main events taking place around the city. If you like geobiology, you will be happy with the picks:

Hooked on a Feeling: The Science of Touch
Science in the City is back! This public-aimed organization is a great resource for science people and they are kicking off the new season with the first of five lectures about our senses. Tonight scientist Ranulfo Romo and filmmaker Kun Chang will discuss our sense of touch. I guess it's hard to imagine not having any of our senses, but for me this one would be the biggest. Not being able to feel pain sounds like a great superhero power to have until you get your hand chopped off without realizing it. The event begins at 6:30pm and ends at 9:00pm.

Post-Pleistocene
The Explorer's Club will be hosting a discussion of primal art with Jeff Whetstone. Whetstone has just published a book about post-Civil War cave paintings in Tennessee and Alabama and he will compare those paintings to those from the Ice Age. Deep down, how much have we really changed?

Biogeography of Pantropical Angiosperms
If you are interested in plant evolution, this is the place to be. Andrea Weeks will giving her lecture titled "Historical Biogeography of Pantropical Angiosperms: A Case Study Using 'Terebinthaceae.'" As I said before, it will be a thrill for people interested in exactly that. The talk will start at 6:30pm at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.