Nerd Nite SF

New video! (Aaaaargh, this preview image!) Last year, vector and disease ecologist Dr. Andrea Swei of San Francisco State University gave this excellent talk about ticks and Lyme disease right here in our own Bay Area backyard. (So, yeah, add that to your list of worries right now.) Grab a drink or your coping mechanism of choice and enjoy this fascinating talk! And be sure to subscribe to the Nerd Nite YouTube channel for more talks from Nerd Nites all around the world. ===...========= There are many things to be worried about in today’s world: climate change, parking tickets, an Ebola outbreak but a disease that can be transmitted only by a small, non-flying bug shouldn’t be one of them. And yet Lyme disease, caused by a tick-transmitted bacteria, is one of the biggest and most rapidly emerging threats to Americans. How can this be? Dr. Andrea Swei is a vector and disease ecologist at San Francisco State University who has been studying this complex and interesting disease for over two decades. She will share how Lyme has emerged and how studying lizards and bobcats in the wild can help us understand where and when this disease can come out of the woods to bite us. See more

Hey friends, Per the SFDPH recommendations, we've decided to cancel our March program. We agonized over this decision for the past week, but as an evidence-based entertainment event, it seems like the smart play is to follow the lead of public health experts! Pandemic permitting, our April event is scheduled for 4/15. Until then, enjoy some Nerd Nite talks virtually on YouTube.... Your pals, Bart, Lucy, Alexander

Here’s what your DJ played last night. And, yes, that opening hour was 100% baroquesploitation! The Green Birds, Fischio barocco The Zombies, A Rose for Emily Margo Guryan, Take a Picture... Lalo Schifrin, The Blues for Johann Sebastian Les Swingle Singers, Prélude no. 21 en ut majeur Baroque Jazz Trio, Delhi Dailey Minnie Riperton, Les Fleurs Paul Piot et son grand orchestre, Amour, Vacances et Baroque Lallo Gori con i Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni, Come svaligiammo la banca d’Italia - seq. 5 Janko Nilovic, La Romance d’Hélène The Free Design, Eleanor Rigby The New Society, (I Prithee) Do Not Ask for Love Alain Goraguer, La Planete sauvage Les Swingle Singers, Invention à deux voix no. 1 en ut majeur Jonny Teupen, Barockin’ the Blues Ole Jensen and His Music/Roger Webb, Bach-Style Bobby Christian, Waltz Baroque Fabio Fabor, Continuum Enoch Light and the Light Brigade, Pass, and I Call You Baroque Jazz Trio, Cesar Go Back Home [presentation: Baroque Music, the Jazz of the 18th Century by Daniel Deitch] Neoangin, Homeless Bone Salt Water Taffy, Sticks & Stones The Lucksmiths, Broken Bones Brother Bones, Sweet Georgia Brown Neoangin, Celebrity Bones Cliff Johns, Rollin Bones Steve Gray, Funny Bone The Jumping Jacques, Haunted House [presentation: Skeletons in the Closet by Lindsay Palaima] Dick Hyman, Tap Dance in the Memory Banks Eyeless in Gaza, Kodak Ghosts Run Amok Would-Be-Goods, Cecil Beaton’s Scrapbook Depeche Mode, Photographic [presentation: Tales of San Francisco by Western Neighborhoods Project] Peggy Lee, (Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay

Another month, another bare-bones poster design...

Here’s what your DJ played last night: Orriel Smith, Winds of Space Nancy Priddy, Ebony Glass Mort Garson, Plantasia... General Strike, We Travel the Spaceways Nancy Wilson, Ode to Billie Joe Titus Turner, Hungry Man Susan Christie, I Love Onions Lalo Schifrin, Wheat Germ Landscapes The Higsons, Gotta Let This Heat Out Diagram Brothers, Those Men in White Coats The Pop Group, Feed the Hungry White Town, Save the World (But Don’t Save Me) The Houstons, Solar Light 101 Strings, Astral Freakout Jack Arel, Strange Galaxy Cal Tjader, Solar Heat Anthony Rochester, Burkholderia Skeeter Davis, The End of the World Phil Harris, Some Little Bug Is Going to Find You [presentation: How to Win Friends and Influence Bacteria with Sarah Richardson] John Schott, Milky Way The Human League, The Black Hit of Space Love Is All, Big Bangs, Black Holes, Meteorites Birds ’n Brass, Fritzy Baby Spanky Wilson, Sunshine of Your Love [presentation: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Runaway Universe by Dr. Jeffrey Silverman] Fingerbobs, Seeds Camberwell Now, Greenfingers The Hepburns, Underneath the Giant Rhubarb The Dubious Brothers, South America Welcomes the Nazis [presentation: The Botanists’ War by Bart Bernhardt]

New and improved! Nerd Nite SF poster #116.

Here’s what your DJ played at NNSF #115: Geoff Love and His Orchestra, The Theme from JAWS Sven Libaek, To Catch A Shark Hildegard Knef, Macky Messer... Hugo Montenegro, The Shark Vanishing Twin, Choose Your Own Adventure John Barry, Theme from THE DEEP Astrud Gilberto, Crickets Sing for Anamaria Dee Felice Trio, The Crickets Sing Les Objets, La saison des mouches The Hepburns, Writer Friend Adam and the Ants, Antmusic Bad Dream Fancy Dress, Dali’s Diet The Cure, A Forest The Hepburns, Screenplay Furniture, Throw Away the Script The Higsons, Insect Love Martha & the Muffins, Insect Love DNA, Zoo Tango [presentation: Scripting Outside the Lines with Michael Epstein] Springblossom, White Shark Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Electricity Lalo Schifrin, The Theme from JAWS Sven Libaek, Danger Reef/Seasnakes (with shark narration by William Shattner) [presentation: Shark Electrosensors - A Sixth Sense with Brandon Brown] Charles Trenet, La cigale et la fourmi Depeche Mode, The Landscape Is Changing [presentation: Feeding the Future: An Insect Approach to Sustaining Humans and Habitats with Brian Fisher] Julie London, Yummy, Yummy, Yummy [bonus cuts] Blossom Dearie, Discover Who I Am Sven Libaek, Misty Canyon Elaine Delmar, Sneaking Up on You Blossom Dearie, I Like London in the Rain

Which door will you take? C’mon down to the Rickshaw Stop tonight and open all three.

Here’s what the DJ played last night: Pseudo Code, Les microbes de Dieu Testbild!, Rymdfolk The Glove, Perfect Murder... Felt, All the People I Like Are Those That Are Dead Always, How to Commit the Perfect Murder The Dragees, Shoot to Kill Resonance, O.K. Chicago John Keating, The Unknown Planet Charlie, Spacer Woman Herman’s Rocket, Space Woman The Normal, Warm Leatherette Another Sunny Day, You Should All Be Murdered Would-Be-Goods, Death à la carte Jeannie Hoffman, Frankie and Johnny Lee Hazlewood, The Girl on Death Row Nancy Sinatra, Bang, Bang Peppino de Luca e I Marc 4, Metronomo della morte (from L’UOMO DAGLI OCCHI DI GHIACCIO) Lalo Schifrin, Life Insurance [presentation: Working Stiff & First Cut: The Real Work of a Forensic Pathologist by Dr. Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell] Jake Thackray, Caroline Diggeby-Pratte Dory Langdon, No Neoangin, The Snooty Snob Leslie Podkin, You Won’t Need No Money William Klein, Serge Gainsbourg and Michel Colombier, No No Yes Yes Jeremy’s Secret, Let’s Get Married [presentation: Pride and Pop Culture: Looking for Mr. Darcy Across the Internet by Bianca Hernandez] Anthony Rochester, Interplanetary Relationships Can Be Problematic at the Best of Times The Rah Band, Messages from the Stars Geoff Love’s Big Disco Sound, Close Encounters of the Third Kind [presentation: Where Are All the Aliens? by Michael Wall] Player [1], Space Invaders Bobby Cannon, Moon Man Bob Dorough, Little Twelvetoes Asha Puthli, Space Talk

This month’s poster design is about as cohesive as an exquisite corpse...