Nerd Nite NYC’s final show of our 2024-2025 season is Friday April 11, 2025. This special show is all about the hazards of reproduction – whether human or insect, solo, or with another. Instead of our usual format of three fun-yet-informative presentations, this time we’ll feature one presentation about insect sex by Ben Taylor followed by the hilarious 60-minute one-woman show by our pal Sarah Adelman about being fired from a sperm bank. And to get you in the mood, for the first time in six or seven years, we’ll open the doors early for hetero speed dating where 15 single ladies will meet 15 single fellas. Tickets here.
Nerd Nite NYC
Friday April 11, 2025 at Littlefield
Doors/check-in for Speed Dating at 6:30pm. Speed dating starts at 7pm. $25.
Presentations-Only: $12. Doors for the Presentations-Only at 8:05pm. Starts at 8:15pm.
635 Sackett Street, Park Slope/Gowanus Brooklyn
Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nerd-nite-nyc-tickets-1253530135379?aff=oddtdtcreator
Back to the Lectures At-Hand
*Presentation #1
Sex Catapults: How to Avoid Cannibalism When Mating
by Ben Taylor
Description: Catapults: they’re amazing! Stored potential energy rapidly released as forward motion to launch missiles, basketballs, watermelons, and even flying cars through the air. We know them, we build them, we love them. But humans are not alone in our adoration of the contraption, for while nature may abhor a vacuum, she loves a nasty catapult. And nature puts catapults in one fun place in particular, namely the bodies of arthropods…insects, crustaceans, spiders, and the various creepy-crawlies of the planet. How do catapults come in handy for arthropods? In some species, females cannibalize their mates prior to, during, or after copulation. The best way to avoid being devoured by your mate is make sure you have some spring in your step!
Bio: Ben Taylor is the School Programs Manager at the American Museum of Natural History. He has been the boss of Nerd Nite Madison and Nerd Nite DC and currently guest hosts Nerd Nite NYC. He has been stung in the face.
*Presentation #2 (60 minutes)
EGG: A Solo Show
by Sarah Adelman
Sarah Adelman, a neurotic, overachieving scientist at a prestigious NYC sperm bank, watches her carefully-planned life suddenly explode when Human Resources discovers her raunchy online comedy routine about her day job. EGG was developed during a year-long residency at Ars Nova Theater in its prestigious comedy program and was an official selection for the New York Comedy Festival. EGG is directed by Iris Bahr and you can read more about Sarah at www.sarahadelmancomedy.com or follow her on instagram @sarahadelman1
