{"id":279,"date":"2007-09-12T07:21:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T11:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=279"},"modified":"2008-08-05T19:26:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T23:26:15","slug":"science-cafe-at-brevard-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Science Cafe and Flying Circus of Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brevard Zoo has a popular program called the Science Cafe, where an expert on a certain topic related to science gives a short talk, but then the rest of the event is devoted to a conversation with the audience. The next one is tonight at 6 p.m. Here is a short story<\/a> about this evening’s subject.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, FSU will host the Flying Circus of Physics<\/a>. There’s a lot of demonstrations, hands-on stuff and a paper airplane contest. Heck, the chemical “medicince” show is supposed to feature exploding stuff … what other motivation do you need to attend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Brevard Zoo has a popular program called the Science Cafe, where an expert on a certain topic related to science gives a short talk, but then the rest of the event is devoted to a conversation with the audience. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-4v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":930,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=930","url_meta":{"origin":279,"position":0},"title":"Science Cafe, Orlando","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Science Cafe Orlando is talking about the Physics of Saturn's Ring System Wednesday night. 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