Tonight

Tonight there are two events of note happening in the city:

CUNY will be hosting The Role of Fashion in Mathematics, featuring a lecture by mathematician Harold Edwards. This made me wonder, If math can be affected by trends, am I going to start thinking, "I was just beginning to like integrals, and now I'm being told that Reimann sums are the hip, new thing?" I'm already slow on the uptake with clothes; I don't think I could handle my taste in math being uncool.

Also, the Secret Science Club will be holding its monthly meeting at Union Hall in Park Slope. The speaker tonight will be Columbia neuroscientist Carl Hart who will speak about methamphetamine, the preferred drug of, well, just about anyone living in a rural setting. The people at Union Hall are so thrilled about this theme that they even invented their own cocktail of sorts: the Synapse Sling. I'll be there tossing a few back and appreciating that I'm not addicted to a drug that makes my teeth fall out.