I've gone to a number of these Secret Science Club events at the Bell House in Brooklyn (a long walk from WBAI's Atlantic Ave. offices). Sometimes there have been 300 people there, usually 150 or so .... who woulda thunk it? Brooklynites are hungry for continuing their college education once they get out .... and it's FREE.

- Mitchel

It's a holiday for your brain . . .
Monday, December 15, 8PM @ the Bell House, free

Secret Science Club presents Cognitive Scientist Gary Marcus on "The Future of the Brain"

Think, drink, and kick the holidays into high gear! Secret Science Club brings beautiful brain science to the Bell House with cognitive scientist and best-selling author Gary Marcus.

Before

--Have a nip of our cocktail of the night, the Holiday for Your Brain
--Warm to jolly neurogrooves
--Stick around for the Q&A + snag a copy of Gary Marcus's new book, The Future of the Brain

Gary Marcus is professor of psychology and neural science at NYU, visitor at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, contributor to the New Yorker, and author of Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age and Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind. Mostly recently, he co-edited of The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists.

This holiday edition of the Secret Science Club meets Monday, December 15, 8PM @ the Bell House, 149 7th St (between 2nd and 3rd avenues) in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Subway: F or G to 4th Avenue, R to 9th Street.

Doors open at 7:30PM. Please bring ID. 21+. No cover. Just bring your smart self!

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