We here at Nerd Nite NYC have started our annual summer break. We will be back on August 20, 2026 for our annual water-themed Nite in collaboration with the Hudson River Park WetLab — and then our 21st season kicks-off at Littlefield on Saturday September 11, 2026. See you soon!
Buy tickets for our show on August 20, 2026 featuring fun-yet-informative presentations about oysters and platypuses and mermaids here: https://events.humanitix.com/science-after-dark-ask-a-scientist-pier-40-wetlab-apf66aq5
Back to the Lectures At-Hand:
*Presentation #1
Oysters
by Deborah Wolfson
Description coming soon
*Presentation #2
Platypus, Mermaid, Person
by Uri Bram
Description: Platypuses. Mermaids. Some of the most famous residents of the watery world seem to combine traits of otherwise incompatible creatures. Presumably this is just a coincidence, but what if it’s not? The presentation explores the theories of geneticist Eugene McCarthy, whose writing challenges the centrality of Darwinian evolution, and forces us to question: what does true scientific exploration look like?
Bio: Uri Bram’s dream was to become a Victorian gentleman inventor, but as a young man he messed this up by failing to be born wealthy in the 1800s. Instead he writes on the internet, makes board games, and tries to figure out why people do things. He is the publisher of The Browser curation newsletter and the creator of the board game Person Do Thing.