NerdNite[35]: To be or not to be radioactive?
Why doesn’t Shakespeare get the credit he deserves… for being a total perv? And whatever happened to that Fukushima radiation that was supposed to kill all us West Coasters?
This month, Nerd Nite is bringing you two fabulously nerdy talks on dirty talkin’ Shakespeare and the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Bee there and be square!
Nerd Nite Seattle
LUCID
November 17, 2014
7:30 (Doors open at 6:30)
Admission: $5
Watching Shakespeare Like A Groundling
Anthea Carns
These days people think of Shakespeare plays as the stuff of monarchs and monologues, high ideals, and men in tights. Right? Right … But that leaves out the sex, blood, and rock and roll that made Shakespeare so popular in his own time. Get a crash course on who Shakespeare was, why we still care about his plays, and why you should be laughing when people talk about horns.
Anthea Carns has been onstage, backstage, or writing about the stage for the last eighteen years. She graduated with a BFA in Dramaturgy from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and is still trying to convince people that dramaturgy is a real word. She is currently working on Book-It Theatre’s “Pride and Prejudice.” Her favorite Shakespeare character is the bear.
Radioactive Fish: Do you we have anything to fear from Fukushima?
Andrew H. Thatcher, MSHP, CHP
Continued concern regarding the potential impact of the Fukushima nuclear accident to individuals in the United States has focused lately on radioactive contamination in ocean fish. The talk will review the existing contamination in the Pacific Ocean and the contribution of Fukushima to the total. We’ll then focus on the contamination levels in fish tissue and estimate the potential dose to humans.
Drew is a board certified health physicist with a master degree in health physics from Georgia Tech. Drew has over 28 years of experience in nuclear and regulatory programs evaluating exposures from both ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
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