SCIENCE CHEMISTRY DISCOVERY IS IN YOUR DNA. TECH ASTRONOMY FOOD April 25–May 3 PROGRAM GUIDE 2014 www.PhilaScienceFestival.org Presenting Sponsor: Learn more and buy your tickets in advance at www.PhilaScienceFestival.org 1 When you learn something that you’re really excited about, your brain releases dopamine, which makes you feel good and want to learn more! Turns out, when you’re enjoying yourself, you’re more likely to remember what you learn, which is what leads to great discoveries! We’re built for it. DISCOVERY IS IN YOUR DNA. AND THERE IS SO MUCH TO DISCOVER. Welcome to the 2014 Philadelphia Science Festival. Since our inaugural celebration in 2011, we’ve challenged Philadelphians of all ages to explore the science that makes this city truly wonderful. Over the course of the nine–day festival you’ll have the chance to unleash your inner geek at 100+ events taking place throughout the region. Kids and adults alike will have the opportunity to gaze at the night sky, get messy while learning all about chemistry, understand the physics of skateboarding, explore the wonders of our local ecosystems, and so much more, right here in our collective backyard! We’ve developed a new suite of programs specifically with adults in mind— you’ll hear life-changing stories from researchers, learn all about your brain while bar-hopping, see how math can help you win, get a scientific perspective on just why we are so fanatic about our sports teams, and so much more! We are grateful to The Dow Chemical Company generously supporting the Festival as Presenting Sponsor for the fourth consecutive year. Whether you’re a life-long science lover or have never thought the topics offered something for you, we promise that you’ll find something in the festival that speaks to your passions! Get excited, learn something new, and GET NERDY PHILADELPHIA! 2 Advanced registration is strongly recommended. Tickets may not be available at the door. Learn more and buy your tickets in advance at www.PhilaScienceFestival.org 3 Festival at a glance a at Festival PAGE 6 PAGE 14 PAGE 18 PAGE 22 PAGE 26 PAGE 32 FRIDAY, APRIL 25 SUNDAY, APRIL 27 SUNDAY, APRIL 27 MONDAY, APRIL 28 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30 SATURDAY, MAY 3 PSF Kickoff Party: EXplorer Sunday Nerd Nite Brunch: Science on Tap Quizzo I Love My Science Job Science Carnival Science After Hours 6:00 PM 4:00 PM on the Parkway Building and Handling Body vs. Booze 6:30 PM 12:00 PM National Mechanics Quorum, University City 10:00 AM Rowboats Frankford Hall Science Center The Franklin Institute The Franklin Institute 11:00 AM Science Happy Hour: Great Gigs Astronomy Night Independence Seaport Remix Interactive Human Health To Veg or Not to Veg 1:00 PM 7:30 PM Museum 1:30 PM 6:00 PM 6:00 PM World Cafe Live Continental Old City The Pavilion at Franklin Theater Various locations Food and Farming Franklin Square The Franklin Institute 11:00 AM Murder at Mütter™: Philadelphia’s Love/Hate The Longview Center Serial Killer Relationship with Sports Love, Lust, and Loathing PAGE 10 for Agriculture 2:30 PM 6:00 PM 6:00 PM PAGE 34 The Mütter Museum of Frankford Hall Frankford Hall SATURDAY, APRIL 26 HighWaterLine: A the College of Physicians EDUCATOR EVENTS Walking Art Experience Feathered Friends Playing With Numbers of Philadelphia 12:00 PM 6:30 PM 6:00 PM DISCOVERY DAY Monday, APRIL 28 Target Science Crawl: Iron Hill Brewery Rembrandt’s Clark Park Integrating STEM into Brain Games Plasma Lab Sleep: A Bedtime Story Project-Based Learning 10:00 AM 4:00 PM 12:00 PM 6:30 PM 10:00 AM Indy Hall glance a at Festival Hunting Park A.J. Drexel PAGE 24 Fels Planetarium The Franklin Institute 11:00 AM Plasma Institute The Franklin Institute Sounds Made Up: TUESDAY, APRIL 29 Project Learning Tree Naturepalooza at Outdoor Adventure (True) Tales From the 4:00 PM History of Science The Schuylkill Center 1:00 PM Science Night at the John Heinz National 11:00 AM 4:00 PM PAGE 28 John Heinz Ballpark Wildlife Refuge National Wildlife Refuge World Cafe Live Fox Chase Farm 7:05 PM THURSDAY, MAY 1 Save the Penguins! 12:00 PM Ecosystem Exploration Citizens Bank Park 4:30 PM 1:00 PM Temple University PAGE 20 Science Happy Hour: DIY Science: Riverbend Environmental Misunderstood Monsters Fermentation PAGE 12 Tuesday, APRIL 29 Education Center 6:00 PM 6:00 PM NEIGHBORHOOD Science of Helicopters Continental Old City DiBruno Bros. SUNDAY, APRIL 27 Science of Skateboarding SCIENCE 4:00 PM 2:00 PM West Philly Science Science Storytelling The Franklin Institute EXplorer Sunday Paine’s Skatepark Showcase 6:30 PM Monday 3:30 PM Teaching Math & Science 6:00 PM The Franklin Institute Birding Smackdown! Water Lab: Cecil B. Moore Library Using Spatial Thinking World Cafe Live 7:00 AM What Lives in our Rivers? Charles L. Durham Library Cure You or Kill You 4:30 PM Bartram’s Garden & 2:00 PM 6:30 PM Temple Univ. Spatial Eastwick Library Creatures That Make The Woodlands Fairmount Water Works Your Skin Crawl Laurel Hill Cemetery & Intelligence Learning Falls of Schuylkill Library Center Life in the Graveyard 6:30 PM 9:30 AM & 2:00 PM Haverford Ave Library Frankford Hall PAGE 16 PAGE 30 Wednesday, APRIL 30 Laurel Hill Cemetery Ramonita de Rodriguez Perspectives on Understanding the SUNDAY, APRIL 27 Library Making Medicine Public Heath FRIDAY, MAY 2 Urban Watershed 6:00 PM 4:00 PM 10:00 AM Tuesday 3:30 PM Temple University School Rembrandt’s Chemical Heritage Fairmount Water Works SCIENCE DAY at SMITH Andorra Library of Pharmacy MEMORIAL Playground Foundation First Friday Bushrod Library 5:00 PM AP Computer Science & Playhouse Microscope Station Chemical Heritage Principles Logan Library 5:00 PM 10:00 AM Mess Fest at Foundation University City Smith Playground Drexel University Science Center 1:00 PM wednesday 3:30 PM The Magical Mushroom Rush Building 5:30 PM Charles Santore Library Field Work with an How the Brain The Wagner Free Thursday, May 1 Urban Naturalist Develops from Infancy Fox Chase Library Institute of Science Mathematics in K-12/ 10:00 AM to Adolescence Fumo Family Library Higher Education The Schuylkill Center Beer Chemistry 1:30 PM Katharine Drexel Library 4:30 PM 7:00 PM University of Pennsylvania Clothes of the Future What’s the Matter Wyoming Library Yards Brewing Company Fisher-Bennet Hall 10:30 AM with Pluto? The ExCITE Center at 3:00 PM thursday 3:30 PM Friday, May 2 Drexel University Haddington Library Educator Forum 2014 Chicks, Bees, Richmond Library 9:00 AM School of the Future and Farm Fun Wadsworth Library 10:30 AM FIELD TRIP Wyck Historic House OPPORTUNITIES and Garden Various locations 4 Advanced registration is strongly recommended. Tickets may not be available at the door. Learn more and buy your tickets in advance at www.PhilaScienceFestival.org 5 friday 25 , Astronomy NIGHT APRIL APRIL , 25 Scientists have INVENTED A friday NEW CAR ENGINE that RUNS ON LIqUID NITROGEN. COOL! PSF Kick-Off Party: Science Carnival After Hours Kick-off the 2014 Festival with live science shows, music, demonstrations, and a variety of sensory stimulating stations—all tailored to grownups. Be there to tap (and taste!) the 2014 Yard’s Official Science Festival beer and play in some of The Franklin Institute’s most iconic galleries. $15; $10 Franklin Institute Members, 21+ Friday, April 25, 7:30–10:30 PM 6:30–9:30 PM The Franklin Institute | 222 North 20th Street Grab a blanket and experience the wonders of the night sky! Join Collaborators: AT&T, Action Science, Association of Women in Forensic Science, local astronomers at 25+ sites—from universities to community Chipocrite, Crazy Aaron’s Puttyworld, Dow Chemical Company, Fractals Rock, centers, wildlife refuges to cemeteries—across the region for free, Friends of Laurel Hill Cemetery, Geosyntec Consultants, John James Audubon simultaneous stargazing parties. Center at Mill Grove, Inolex, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Temple University, The Franklin Institute, The Nature Conservancy, Thomas Jefferson University, University of Pennsylvania FREE Underwritten by AT&T and Allen + Gerritsen VARYING LOCATIONS, SEE NEXT PAGE FOR MAP J Just A SMALL static spark has ENOUGH energy to MAkE HYDROGEN gas explode. 6 Learn more and buy your tickets in advance at www.PhilaScienceFestival.org 7 21 North Philadelphia (above Lehigh): Northeast Philadelphia: ASTRONOMY NIGHT ASPIRA Campus 20 MaST Charter School 6301 North 2nd Street 1800 Byberry Road Friday, April 25, 7:30–10:30 PM 22 Historic Fair Hill Burial Ground 2900 Germantown Avenue Fairmount Park: Northwest Philadelphia: 24 Laurel Hill Cemetery 23 Philadelphia Center for Arts & Technology 1 Awbury Arboretum 3822 Ridge Avenue 2111 Eastburn Avenue 20 1 Awbury Road 25 Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse 3500 Reservoir Drive 2 Blair Christian Academy 220 West Upsal Street 3 Grumblethorpe Historic House & Garden 5267 Germantown Avenue 4 Imani Educational Circle Charter School 5 5612 Greene Street 9 5 John Story Jenks School 23 8301 Germantown Avenue 1 21 2 West Philadelphia: 4 6 Drexel University Dornsife Center 3 for Neighborhood Partnerships 3509 Spring Garden Street 7 The Woodlands 4000 Woodland Avenue 8 24 North Philadelphia (below Lehigh): 22 17 Hagert Street Playground Suburbs: 2040 East Hagert Street 8 Haverford College 25 17 370 West Lancaster Avenue 18 Teens 4 Good Urban Farm Lower Merion, PA Poplar Street between 8th and 9th Streets 18 9 Riverbend Environmental Education Center 6 19 19 Zoar United Methodist Church 1950 Spring Mill Road 13 1204 Melon Street Gladwyne, PA 16 7 14 15 10 Swarthmore College Science Center, 11 Center City: Van de Kamp Observatory 13 Folks Arts-Cultural Treasures 500 College Avenue, Whittier Place Charter School Swarthmore, PA 1023 Callowhill Street 11 Battleship New Jersey 14 Independence Seaport Museum 100 Clinton St 211 South Christopher Columbus Blvd.