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Nerd Nite East Bay: Geeky Lectures in a Bar | Oakland

Every Last Monday Through February 2nd.
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Monday, May 29, 2017 - 7:00 pm | Cost: $8*
*$8 in advance; $10 at the door

Club 21 | 2111 Franklin St, Oakland, CA

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CANCELED: Nerd Nite East Bay: Geeky Lectures in a Bar | Oakland

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Nerd Nite East Bay is a monthly lecture-in-a-bar series. They get smart and interesting people, give them lots of free drinks, and put them on stage in front of a couple hundred tipsy nerds.

Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it’s salacious, and it’s always nerdy.

Nerd Nite East Bay
Every last Monday | Doors at 7 pm; Talks begin at 7:30 pm
The Uptown Nightclub, 1928 Telegraph in Oakland
$8 in advance; $10 at the door | 21+

Please note that Nerd Nite East Bay moved to their new location at The Uptown Nightclub. 

Last Update: 2/11/20 – Event Link

Who’s Your Daddy?
The Unique (and Tasty) History of Crawfish

Lobsters are Red, Crabs can be Blue, Learn to Catch and Cook Crawfish, They’re Good Eatin’ Too. Discover the unique natural history of “the lobster’s ugly cousin” and its revered place in the culture of New Orleans. Break away from the industrial catch and learn how to capture your own crawfish, plus expert instruction on crawfish cooking and the critical “pinch, suck and moltin boil” that will help you crush your next crustacean meal.

Lawrence McKendell is an expert on the history and culinary delights of crawdads. Raised in Orinda with roots from New Orleans, he’s also the owner and creative director of the web and graphic design firm McKendell Design and appears in the local weekly video podcasts “Scooberlicious Ultimate” and “The 510”.

Charlie and the Championship Factory
The Swingin’ A’s of the Swingin’ ‘70s

Facial hair, neon clothes and so much swinging: the Oakland A’s WERE the 1970s. Led by charismatic and perhaps crazy owner Charlie O. Finley, the Athletics won titles, introduced ball girls, hot pants and MC Hammer to the world, filled newspapers with stories of clubhouse fights, and brought hippie hair and handlebar mustaches back to baseball for the first time in fifty years. Check out vintage video of Oakland, hear how 1970s Oakland pride once centered on the A’s, and see how it all suddenly came crashing down.

Jason Turbow is the best-selling author of the book Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic, about the bawdy, brawling Oakland A’s of the 1970s that utterly transformed baseball. His books can be found wherever fine books are sold and jasonturbow.com.

Greenhouse Classes
The Scientists Who Discovered Global Warming

In retrospect, hints about the effects of fossil fuel combustion on earth’s climate have been scattered throughout physics textbooks for over four hundred years. See the “debate” about global warming and the greenhouse effect from a different perspective as we travel through history and see what Sir Isaac Newton’s constituent colors of light, Herschel’s work on sun spots, Tyndall’s study of gases and Svante Arrhenius’s first calculations on planetary CO2 teach us about the modern warming world.

Avi Flamholz studies the origins and engineering of photosynthesis in the Graduate Program in Biology at the University of California at Berkeley.

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Cost: $8*
*$8 in advance; $10 at the door
Categories: Club / DJ, East Bay, Geek Event, Lectures & Workshops
Venue: Club 21
Address: 2111 Franklin St, Oakland, CA