C2ST Speakeasy: “Sex, Science and Jokes” with Aaron Freeman

September 15, 2015

Geek Bar Beta
1941 West North Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA

Program Series:
Science and Society

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Aaron Freeman is a renaissance man: a comedian, science enthusiast, and neuroscience instructor. For years he has combined his skills as a comedian with his passion for teaching the world about science. At C2ST Speakeasy he will talk about comedy as a tool for teaching, and how educators can learn a thing or two from comics. C2ST’s own “Comedian-In-Residence” will wax comic about his sci-curious observations on his three favorite subjects. His 30 minute talk will give examples of his education efforts, like “The laws of attraction in physics and romance”, the physiology of why some sperm don’t like each other, and why some rats do. And he’ll share his affection for the neurotransmitter involved in lust, curiosity, the desire to make people laugh and our ability to guffaw.  He will show some of the comic science videos he’s created for the C2ST website and twitter feeds, and invite members of the audience to share some of their favorite science jokes.

Event Details

C2ST Speakeasy is held on the first and third Tuesdays of every month. Attendance is free, but registration is strongly encouraged. To register, click HERE or on the “Get Tickets” button below.

This program is presented in partnership with Geek Bar Chicago

Speaker

Aaron Freeman

Aaron Freeman is a science satirist. He spent three years as a performer on the main stage of Chicago’s Second City Improv Theater, where his fellow cast members included Bonnie Hunt and Mike Meyers. He hosted the emmy-award winning public television documentary, Skokie, Invaded but not Conquered. His comedy routine “Council Wars” is one of the most celebrated in Chicago history and has become part of the city’s political vocabulary. More recently his National Public Radio essay “You should Invite a Physicist to Your Funeral” has been adopted as a secular eulogy around the world. Along with his friend and long-time collaborator Rob Kolson Aaron created and starred in the long-running hit financial satire “Do The White Thing.” He also portrayed Marley’s ghost in the Goodman Theater’s production of A Christmas Carol. For ten years, Aaron hosted the television talk show cleverly titled, Talking with Aaron Freeman, on WPWR-TV. He was, for six years, co-host and chief science correspondent for Chicago Public Radio’s, Metropolis, and host of WTTW’s science and technology program, Chicago Tomorrow. He is a certified meturgeman, a translator of biblical hebrew into entertaining vernacular english. Aaron has authored four books, including, The Comic Torah, Re-imagining the Very Good Book, which he co-created his wife, the comics artist Sharon Rosenzweig. He is a teaching assistant for the University of Chicago’s neurobiology mooc (massive open online course), performs as an emcee and stand-up comic around the world, creates humorous science-based videos for the Annals of Internal Medicine and is currently Artist In Residence for the Chicago Council for Science and Technology.