Date: Thursday, October 9th
Time: 8pm
Admission: $8 ( Tickets Here )
Location: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 Third Avenue, 11215 Brooklyn NY

***This event is part of Super Week NYC

Tonight, celebrate Super Week at The Morbid Anatomy Museum with an idiosyncratic mix of science & comedy devoted to the lies we tell ourselves about our brains and the lies our brains tell us about our lives (courtesy of doctored photos). The two lectures will be by Caitlin & Peter, and Rose. Science Ex Pt was created by Thank You Robot, Myself, Caitlin, and Danielle.

This Is Your Brain On Lies: Peter Mende-Siedlecki and Caitlin Shure:
With all the science and “science” out there about how your brain works, it can be tough to sort out fact from fiction. We’ve compiled a list of our all-time favorite brain myths and invite you to join us as we have a laugh at their expense.

Fake Images, Fake Memories: Rose Eveleth
Fake images are everywhere. You know that. Just a few notable images that are totally fake include an iconic picture of Abraham Lincoln, the picture of Romney’s kids spelling out money, any picture of a shark during a storm ever, and the famous picture of John Kerry and Jane Fonda, the list goes on. It wouldn’t be a big deal except that fake images can totally alter our memories. If you show people a doctored image of themselves riding in a balloon as a kid - a lot of them will remember it happening.

Peter Mende-Siedlecki and Caitlin Shure once went to college together at Columbia-they both studied neuroscience. They also wrote a musical. Then Peter went off to New Jersey and got a PhD in Psychology from Princeton, while Caitlin kept it real in New York and became a science writer. Now they’re both back on the Upper West Side and if their moms ask, they’re doing GREAT. Peter is a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Psychology at New York University. His research focuses on interactions between social perception, social cognition, and social identity. Caitlin is working towards a PhD in Communications at Columbia, focusing on the generation and translation of scientific facts. This talk marks the first scientific collaboration between Caitlin and Peter since that time they did an fMRI project together senior year. (Which totally worked?)

Rose Eveleth is a writer, producer, and designer based in Brooklyn, New York and the acting technology editor at The Atlantic. She’s dabbled in everything from research on pelagic invertebrates to animations about beer to podcasts about fake tumbleweed farms.

Thank You Robot is reportedly the longest running independent improv team in New York City. “Independent” means they were not formed by the corrupt powers of a theater, but instead attracted magnetically together via their individual affinities for the five medieval “humors:” Sanguine, Phlegmatic, Choleric, Melancholic, and Emo. Their names are Jeremy Bent, Seth Lind, Matt Little, Christopher Scott and John Robert Wilson. They met studying at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, under teachers whom you have seen all over television and movies and commercials for personal hygiene products. Collectively they have written for things like The Onion, SNL Weekend Update, Letterman’s monologue, and strongly worded letters to that dude on the second floor who leaves his laundry in the washer for like four hours after the machine stops. They’ve appeared on stage and in videos all over the place. They are proud to be performing at the Museum of Morbid Anatomy, because that was on their “bucket list,” which is a list of their favorite types of buckets and also places they would like to perform. There’s a pretty good chance they love you, because you are also a hope-filled human trying to enjoy this ride on Spaceship Earth.

The Curfew is Chelsea Clarke, Brandon Gardner, Kevin Hines, Natasha Rothwell, Jim Santangeli, Erik Tanouye, John Timothy, and Charlie Todd.