A new season of Brainfood for the Curious is starting up at the State Museum
One of the talks is about the history of the museum, which was once in the State Education Building. / photo: New York State Museum
The State Museum's Brainfood for the Curious series of short lunchtime talks returns for a new season next week.
The 20-minute talks feature a scientist, curator, or historian in the museum's Huxley Theater starting at 12:10 pm. Afterward the speaker sticks around for a short a Q&A period. You're welcome to bring your lunch.
Talk topics this time around range from auto racing to the Erie Canal to art to ethnography to history to ice age animals to snails.
Here's the quick-scan lineup for the new season...
See that link at the start for descriptions.
October9: 70 Years of Racing History at Watkins Glen
October 16: Wonders of the State Museum
October 23: Take a Tour of the Grand Erie Canal in the 1820s
October 30: A Sneak Peek of the Historic Woodstock Art Colony/Arthur A. Anderson Collection and Exhibition
November 6: Tourmaline Beautiful and Versatile
November 20: Early Watercraft in the Northeast
December 11: Meltwater Mayhem and the Last Ice Age
December 18: What is Ethnography, and Why is it Important to the NYSM Contemporary Native Art Collection?
January 8: The Snails Have Landed! Meet New York's Terrestrial Snails
January 22: Objects of Slavery and Freedom in the New York State Museum's Historical Archaeology Collection
February 5: Mystery of the Missing Ice Age Predators of New York
February 19: Late Pleistocene Peoples in Western New York
March 5: Time-Traveling to the Catskills - 380 Million Years Ago
March 19: Natural History Collections, Next-generation DNA Sequencing, and the Evolution of Birds
March 26: Earth's Earliest Life
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