While sometimes I think accounts of new movements or fads are really just the combination of a particular instance or two with a reporter with the need of a story - but this is a more interesting than most:
Science groups for young professionals who don't wear white coats, like the year-old Secret Science Club at Union Hall, are cropping up in bars and bookstores all over the country, from Massachusetts to Montana. "If you have a certain type of job, after a while that part of your brain starts to deteriorate," said Amy Lee, 25, who works at an Internet startup and was attending her second Secret Science Club meeting. "You want to use it again. Plus, there’s alcohol."Plus there's alcohol - isn't that really the key principle of western society?
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Ben (The Tiger) - November 18, 2007 4:12 pm
<i>At Cafe Sci, held at the Thirsty Scholar Pub in Somerville, Mass., Ben Wiehe, 32, who founded the group, has speakers deliver lectures while sitting on the bar. He also serves chicken wings and quesadillas, and introduced one scientist by saying he flunked out of his first Ph.D program.</i>
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That's my local pub.
Alan - November 18, 2007 6:25 pm
So you must living a life that is half Bill Nye and half Dean Martin.
Sean Liddle - November 18, 2007 8:38 pm
Secret Science Club.. wow.. Thats it, I am starting a Kingston chapter.