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Nerds of Albuquerque -Join us for Nerd Nite #17 on Thursday, September 4th at 7 pm at Green Jeans Food Hall.
September's show, our last with our host Rob, will feature beer! in space! and a return visit from Nerd Nite favorite Danny Tallon, who will be bringing us an exploration of Tolkien fanfic.
Our talks:
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**Title**: On Tolkien's Canon: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Be Okay With Fanfiction
**Blurb**: The Lord of the Rings is a literary giant in Western culture. Since its publication in 1954, it has loomed over nearly every work of fantasy that has been published since. But what do we know about it, and what do we only THINK we know about it?
**Bio**: Nerd Nite Return-speaker Danny Tallon is a high school science teacher and community theater actor who just so happens to be a super-fan of Tolkien. If you don't believe him, his license plate reads NOROLIM (which means "giddy-up!" in Elvish), and he ended his last best-man speech with an Elvish blessing that brought an "aww" to the audience. He believes that language and literature are vitally important for our culture, and he loves digging at works of fiction to see what truths are lying underneath. When he's not over-analyzing every book he reads, he is an avid tabletop gamer, RPG game-master, and movie watcher.
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**Title**: Beer! In Space!
**Blurb**: Have you ever been sitting at the bar, staring at your drink, watching the bubbles swirl around, and wondered, how does this work? We'll talk about how your favorite bevvies stay in the glass on Earth, how that changes once they leave the clutches of gravity, and what sort of silly contraptions people have thought up to enable high-altitude libations (and why beer may not be the best choice).
**Bio**: Liz Hyde is an aerospace engineer who cut her teeth designing, building, and flying science experiments at NASA and the US Geological Survey. Her projects have ranged from strapping cryocooled infrared astronomy instruments to the back of a 747, to installing small radio beacons to track sea otters in Monterey Bay, to dreaming up commercial economies at the Moon, to traipsing through the forest to measure the effects of Wildfires on landscapes (usings drones, of course). Some of these experiments involved moving fluid around in microgravity, and what better way to test these experiments than parabolic flight campaigns on the Zero-G aircraft. Liz currently works at a space startup in Albuquerque, and has just celebrated her first New Mexi-versery.
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Come join us for a drink, learn something new, and meet fellow nerds! Tell your friends, and help us spread the word about Nerd Nite Albuquerque! And, as always, if you're interested in giving a talk of your own, hit us up at [this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfscy9cs4mTI746tziajERqozrzE3q9WnWXf_tPOX1mXDPGA/viewform?usp=sf_link).
And remember: Nerd Nite happens because of nerds like you.
Tickets: Free! But please RSVP so we know how many nerds to expect.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
3600 Cutler Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM, United States, New Mexico 87110
