June readings and events
Hi everyone,
I'm very excited for two events coming up -- if you're in the San Francisco Bay Area or Denver, Colorado, I hope you'll join me!
On June 4, I'll be participating in the enormous, wonderful Bay Area Book Festival. I'll be joining author Abby Smith Rumsey ("When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future") for a conversation on the future of consciousness, memory and sensory perception. The discussion will be moderated by Berkeleyside founder, journalist Lance Knobel, and will be a preview for "Uncharted, the Berkeley Festival of Ideas." Our talk goes from 3:15 to 4:30 pm and we're in the Berkeley City College auditorium. More information and advance tickets here.
And on June 8, I'll be giving a talk at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, which some of you might know as the setting for my Chapter #1. The museum is one of the world's leaders in the quest to find a sixth basic taste -- something beyond salty, sweet, sour, bitter and savory (umami.) Through a vast citizen science project, they're testing whether people can also taste ... fat. I'll speak about what happened when they put me through their experiment, as well as some of my other adventures with biohackers, engineers, surgeons and others exploring the cutting edge of sensory perception.
The talk is at 7:00 pm at the museum's Ricketson Auditorium and is $10 for the public or $8 for museum members. More info and tickets are here.
Please come on by if you can, and help me spread the word!
Next stops in my summer book tour: Los Angeles and San Diego in July!
I'm very excited for two events coming up -- if you're in the San Francisco Bay Area or Denver, Colorado, I hope you'll join me!
On June 4, I'll be participating in the enormous, wonderful Bay Area Book Festival. I'll be joining author Abby Smith Rumsey ("When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future") for a conversation on the future of consciousness, memory and sensory perception. The discussion will be moderated by Berkeleyside founder, journalist Lance Knobel, and will be a preview for "Uncharted, the Berkeley Festival of Ideas." Our talk goes from 3:15 to 4:30 pm and we're in the Berkeley City College auditorium. More information and advance tickets here.
And on June 8, I'll be giving a talk at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, which some of you might know as the setting for my Chapter #1. The museum is one of the world's leaders in the quest to find a sixth basic taste -- something beyond salty, sweet, sour, bitter and savory (umami.) Through a vast citizen science project, they're testing whether people can also taste ... fat. I'll speak about what happened when they put me through their experiment, as well as some of my other adventures with biohackers, engineers, surgeons and others exploring the cutting edge of sensory perception.
The talk is at 7:00 pm at the museum's Ricketson Auditorium and is $10 for the public or $8 for museum members. More info and tickets are here.
Please come on by if you can, and help me spread the word!
Next stops in my summer book tour: Los Angeles and San Diego in July!
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