When you imagine someone working in the music field, what do you see? A composer? A musician? A conductor? Would you ever picture a scientist or an engineer? The areas of science and music appear to some to be diametrically opposed to one another, but nothing could be farther from the truth in today’s music industry.
By Jennifer Fisher, Pioneer Press via the Chicago Tribune
Originally published at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/highland-park/news/ct-hpn-aaron-freeman-tl-0319-20150316-story.html
For the first time in his long career as a comedian, Aaron Freeman’s jokes are being fact-checked.
“I’ve never had anyone fact-check my jokes,” says the Highland Park resident. “It adds an extra degree of difficulty.”
An extra degree of difficulty, however, comes with the territory in Freeman’s new role as artist-in-residence for the Chicago Council on Science & Technology, a regional consortium on science and technology education and policy.
Continue reading “Highland Park comedian tackles the humor in science”
As part of C2ST’s participation in Brain Awareness Week Artist In Residence Aaron Freeman talks with gastronterologist Dr. Jack Ohringer about our body’s “other brain”.
“Vandals of the Void: Damaging Meteors from Chelyabinsk to Chicago” with William S. Higgins
Two years ago, a window-shattering shock wave injured 1400 Russians, and startled the world, as a small asteroid hit Chelyabinsk. Violent meteors are rare, but they can be devastating—and meteors have assaulted Chicagoland at least twice. Continue reading “C2ST Speakeasy: “Vandals of the Void: Damaging Meteors from Chelyabinsk to Chicago” with William S. Higgins”
PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COMMUNITY CINEMA AND ITVS.
Follow the story of foreign researcher and Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal whose study, An American Dilemma (1944), provided a provocative inquiry into the dissonance between stated beliefs as a society and what is perpetuated and allowed in the name of those beliefs. Continue reading “American Denial”
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at Illinois Institute of Technology Perlstein Hall Auditorium
Many Americans want to start now to develop alternatives to burning fossilized carbon. Solar energy is one of those options. This presentation will provide a back-of-the-envelope analysis of what it would take to power the entire U.S. economy with solar energy. Continue reading “Should America Launch A Major Push Into Solar Energy? – Phillip Dowd”