The Best $95 I've Ever Spent: The New York Academy of Sciences

For any readers in the New York area, I highly suggest you pony up $95 for annual membership in the New York Academy of Sciences. Not only do you get a host of email and print updates, their lecture series (at their newly installed HQ in 7 WTC) are outstanding. Just in the next week, I'm going to see:

The Science of Taste: Molecular Gastronomy
Speaker: Hervé This, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris

Biology and Art: Two Worlds or One?
This
conference will explore the nature of the science-art interface, the
inspiration this interface provides to scientists and artists alike,
and the impact of these interactions on art, research, and other human
endeavors.

Brain Science: New Syntheses
Host: Steven J. Pinker, Harvard University

Speakers: Bruce Lahn, University of Chicago; Rebecca Saxe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In
tonight's New Vistas lecture, a leader in the field of cognitive
neuroscience moderates a discussion with two researchers who explore
how the physiology of the brain gives rise to our experience of mind.


And I do believe its 100% tax-deductible.