SciSpotlight: NYSCI News Digest

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NYSCI will be at Pier 26 in Hudson River Park tomorrow, Sept 24 for #SubmergeNYC Marine Science Festival. Join us for a FREE, day-long event to celebrate local marine science and to raise awareness about our coastal waters. Enjoy hands-on science activities, catch-and-release fishing, science stage events, kayaking and more! http://bit.ly/2cGC1GH

Image: NYSCI/David Handschuh

Our newest art exhibit "Climatic Visions II" opens tomorrow, July 30. Experience the creativity of how these artists express climate change and it's impact on various geographic locations. Image: Isabella Jacob | Air.Ice.Rock #4, collage (at New York Hall of Science)

Let other #Pokémon players know who's the leader at this gym with your very own "Gotta Hit The Gym" T-shirt. Will you be collecting your defender bonus? • Available in our Science Shop for $19.99 • #nysci #pokemongo #pokemonfan (at New York Hall of Science)

The early bird gets the worm, and by worm we mean World @makerfaire tickets. #nysci members get a 30-50% off discount. Early-bird pricing ends July 31. • Photo by @andrewkellyphoto • #MakerFaire #FamilyFun #queensny #nyc (at New York Hall of Science)

Here's a wonderful (off the record) shot of #billcunningham at NYSCI's Gala in 2014. Photo by @andrewkellyphoto

It's #FreeFriday at the museum during 2 – 5 pm. Enjoy @brickfestlive live for their final weekend at #NYSCI before it's all gone. #lego #queensny #itsinqueens #nyc (at New York Hall of Science)

Happy Birthday to Alan Turing, who would have been 104 today. His well known work in mathematics, software and computing, celebrated in “The Imitation Game" largely eclipsed his remarkable theoretical work in morphogenesis, a theory for how identical cells manage to differentiate to result in organisms composed of many different kinds of cells and resulting structures like internal organs, limbs, etc. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. #AlanTuring #tbt #science #STEM

Drawing on historical images and texts, Halloran, who holds an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale, pays homage to astronomers ranging from Hypatia of Alexandria to Caroline Herschel (whose nephew John, incidentally, invented the cyanotype mere months before Anna Atkins pioneered its use in scientific illustration) to the team of women “computers” at the Harvard Observatory known as Pickering’s Harem.

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