Nerd Nite #16: Bay Area Mysteries, Science in Magic and The Novato Space Station Museum

Mysteries of the Bay Area

Shipwrecks, Strange Stones and Secret Graves

From sunken treasure and spaceships to mass graves and massive walls, Nerd Nite brings you more Bay Area unsolved mysteries than Unsolved Mysteries. Get a history of UFO sightings in the Bay Area, hear the grisly details of Evergreen Cemetery's mass burial, learn about the Drake's Bay disaster that sunk a huge (and still undiscovered) trove of gold just off the Golden State, and follow the baffling Tomales Bay stone walls that lead into the Great Unknown.

Speaker: Robin Marks, Discovery Street Tours

Got Your Knows
How Neuroscience Makes Magic Work

Real magic fools the brain and the mind, with science exploiting the gap between what we know about the world and how we feel it works. The subjective experience of perception and attention is an illusion, with our brains filling in the gaps. For magic to work, the hand doesn't need to be quicker than the eye, just quicker than our ability to interpret what we're perceiving. Learn how neuroscience and magic intersect to blur the boundaries between the probable and the impossible.

Speaker: Luigi Anzivino, ExplOratorium

SuperNOVATO
Marin's Space Station Museum

To Infinity and Be-… back in time for dinner! Discover one of the world's largest private collections of space exploration artifacts at Novato's Space Station Museum. From a full size Gemini boiler to items from the moon and Apollo missions, see how a local "moon room" of U.S., Russian and Soviet space memorabilia became a fully operational space museum and supplied many of the permanent displays at The Chabot Space & Science Center.

Speakers: Ken and Debbie Winans, Space Station Museum