Pint of Science U.S.

This looks like a great event happening next week in the Tampa area: Pint of Science festival. “The hottest scientific research explained by world experts … all with a beer in hand.”

There’s an article in the Tampa Times about it, too: Pint of Science festival brings experts to the pubs for free talks.

If you want people to listen to the hottest scientific research, lure them with beer. That’s the strategy of the Pint of Science festival next week at several bay area bars.

It’s one way the scientific community is pushing back. Scientists are tired of being vilified in political circles or doubted by a general public who is not educated in basic facts, organizers said.

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In Tampa, more than 20 professors, researchers and industry scientists, mostly from the University of South Florida and Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, eagerly signed up to give talks in local pubs Monday through Wednesday. They’ll talk on everything from climate science to brain research, said festival organizer Parmvir Bahia, a research associate at USF’s College of Medicine who specializes in neuroscience.