About this Event
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🧠 Lecture: "Spaghetti Science: What Pasta Tells Us About The Universe"
🎤 Speaker: Dr. Joseph Howlett
Join us for a delightful evening with Dr. Joseph Howlett as he uncovers the surprising connections between everyone’s favorite carbohydrate—pasta—and the universe’s deepest secrets. For over a century, physicists have been fascinated by spaghetti, using it as a playful yet powerful tool to explore profound scientific concepts.
In this engaging lecture, Dr. Howlett will guide us through the peculiar world of pasta science, revealing how studies of this everyday food have shed light on everything from undersea cables to the fundamental building blocks of matter. Blending humor with cutting-edge science, he will show how our daily lives intersect with the grand mysteries of the cosmos.
Dr. Joseph Howlett is a Senior Reporter at Scientific American. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the BBC, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many other outlets. Before becoming a journalist, he spent a decade as a particle physicist at Columbia and Stanford Universities, searching for answers to the universe’s biggest mysteries.
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Agenda
6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.
6:55 PM – Host introduction
7:00 PM – Lecture begins
7:45 PM – Audience Q&A
8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round
8:30 PM – Wrap up.
Event venue & nearby stays
North Beach, North Beach, San Francisco, United States
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