by Wayt Gibbs | Jan 25, 2020 | Past Events
About 35 NSWA members gathered at Folio in Pike Place Market on January 16 for the annual NSWA member meeting. Board member Elizabeth Sharpe presented NSWA’s first-annual Best of the Northwest Science Writing Awards, and outgoing president Jane Hu recounted...
by Wayt Gibbs | Nov 26, 2019 | Past Events
In his new book The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch outlines a quantitative theory of consciousness that suggests it is far more widespread than commonly assumed and is not some kind of computation or hack. And writing in Scientific American, Koch discusses the...
by Wayt Gibbs | May 22, 2019 | Past Events
We grabbed our thinking caps for our second-annual NSWA Science Trivia Night on May 22 at Floating Bridge Brewing Co. Building on the success of last year’s spring social event, this special NSWA-organized quiz game was hosted by Geeks Who Drink. We showed off...
by Wayt Gibbs | Sep 10, 2018 | Past Events
The discovery that genes can jump from one species to another radically shifted scientists’ understanding of the tree of life. In his latest book, bestselling author David Quammen guides us through stories of the new technologies and discoveries that are...
by Wayt Gibbs | Apr 18, 2018 | Past Events
Members and guests joined us April 18 for a science-themed trivia quiz night and social event at Floating Bridge Brewing in the U. District. This special NSWA-organized evening was hosted by the quizmasters at Geeks Who Drink and tested our knowledge of arcane facts...
