The speakers and stories for Dark Horse are live! Here are six incredible tales about unexpected champions, coming to you on Tuesday, Sep 1st. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/dark-horse...
We are back after our summer break and our next show brings you stories of long shots, last laughs, and ideas that were written off, until they prevailed. Join us for Dark Horse: tales about unexpected champions at Public Works on Sep 1st. Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/dark-horse...
Mess with the hat, you get the stab. Jonathan tell us about Edwardian hatpin wars. 👒🗡️ #Suffragette #FashionHistory #StayCurious
At Curiosity Guild, when the villain of the story deserves boos, he gets them. 👎❄️ #HistoryVillains #ArcticExploration #AdaBlackjack #StayCurious
If you're weird enough and commit to the bit, you can be anything. 🥂👑 Words to live by from Jamie Reffell. #CommitToTheBit #SFHistory #Inspiration
The 1793 version of "This email could have been an internal memo." @evacide.bsky.social reads the Qianlong Emperor's reply to King George III's request to trade. ✉️🔥 #ImperialSass #StayCurious
The 1920s "fountain of youth" was... monkey parts? 🐒😳 Science was a wild west back then, as Seth Rosenblatt relates. #MedicalHistory #MadScience #HistoriesMysteries #StayCurious
Ross McKegney asks, why have a house when you can have a moving island castle? 🏝️🏰 The Victorian dream was literally built different. #SteampunkRealLife #Inventions #Utopia #StayCurious
Danielle Roberts presents the official bouquet for when your startup pivots from running shoes to AI. 💐💻 San Francisco, are you okay? #StartupLife #SFHistory #AIInfrastructure #Floriography #SayItWithFlowers #StayCurious
A toast to everyone who came out to LOCK HORNS yesterday! What an evening. #StayCurious #CuriosityGuild #Cheers
Lock Horns is tomorrow! Don’t miss our last show before a summer break. We’ve got six incredible stories of clashing egos, epic battles and fights worth picking. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/lock-horns... Hosted by Isolde Honore Tuesday, June 2nd Doors 6:30pm, show 7:30pm Public Works (21+)
One brave emu took a suicide mission to save the flock. Sahil Bansal salutes a true feathered war hero. #AnimalHeroes #EmuWar #WildHistory #StayCurious
Lock Horns is next week! This is our last show before a summer break. Don't miss out: www.eventbrite.com/e/lock-horns... Hosted by Isolde Honoré Tuesday, June 2nd Doors 6:30pm, show 7:30pm Public Works, 21+ 161 Erie Street, SF Ticket links up top. Story previews down below
It’s for gout ointment, I swear! 🤥 Christina Liu shows us the boldest lie in botanical spy history. #HistoricalSpies #PlantTok #ScienceHistory #StayCurious
Sometimes I talk about things that are not cybersecurity or human rights. On June 2nd, come hear me talk about the Opium Wars--that time the British Empire fought the war on drugs, on the side of drugs.
Our last show before a summer break is just around the corner, Lock Horns: stories of refusing to back down. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/lock-horns... Six true stories of underdogs, hold-outs, and troublemakers. Tuesday, June 2nd.
Our last show before a summer break is just around the corner, Lock Horns: stories of refusing to back down. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/lock-horns... Six true stories of underdogs, hold-outs, and troublemakers. Tuesday, June 2nd.
Doing field research in 110-degree heat wearing rubber boots and a necktie. 👔🥾 The 1920s were a different breed. #VintageStyle #FieldWork #DesertLife #StayCurious
When you're trying to loot a Spanish galleon but your friend just wants to look at the flowers... 🌸⚔️ The ultimate "unsuccessful" pirate. #Relatable #BotanistLife #FullBloom
Let's hear it one more time for the amazing speakers of Full Bloom! Photo: Seth Rosenblatt
Our next show in June, Lock Horns, is live! Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/lock-horns... Six stories of clashing egos, butting heads, and absolutely refusing to back down. Tuesday, June 2nd Doors 6:30pm, show 7:30 Public Works 161 Erie Street, SF 21+
Full Bloom is TOMORROW! Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/full-bloom... Six stories that took root, ran wild, and are blooming on May 5th! Martin Strauss - Ruthless Buccaneer or Respected Botanist: Why Not Both? E. Anne Killpack - Save the Date: High-Stakes Heist of the California Medjool
This Tuesday at Curiosity Guild's next show, Full Bloom, Danielle Roberts will tell us about the glass flowers of Harvard. A father & son embarked on the most "under promise, over deliver" group project of all time that spanned 50 years, several continents, and changed science education. But how?
Kyle Weaver joins us on stage at Full Bloom!. Want to know about the sexy silphium & why Caesar coveted this sensational plant? For over 500 years, Cyrene flourished because of a single plant: silphium. Said to taste incredible, rouse the passions, & “restore the menses". But where did it all go?
We can't have a show called Full Bloom and not talk about Tulips! Avani Gadani will take us behind the scnes of Tulipmania: How an aphid caused the world's first bubble. How did a traveler, an aphid, and the East India company turn an economic powerhouse into a speculative circus? Find out May 5th
Full Bloom is next Tuesday, May 5th! E. Anne Killpack - Save the date: The high-stakes heist of the California Medjool Agricultural explorers smuggled date palms from a Moroccan plague. With extinction looming, could nine fugitives build a global empire—or was the 'King of Dates' about to vanish?
Full Bloom is less than 2 weeks away! Don’t forget to get your tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/full-bloom... Hosted by Martin Strauss Tuesday, May 5th Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:30pm Public Works 161 Erie Street, SF 21+ 1/4
April (thunderous) showers bring May flowers. And stories related to plants and flowers - six of them. Tickets for our May show - Full Bloom - are live! Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/full-bloom... Hosted by Martin Strauss Tuesday, May 5th Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:30pm Public Works, SF
The stage is set and the crowd is excited for FOOL'S ERRAND!
Fool's Errand is tonight at Public Works. Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:30pm. We have an incredible lineup of murderous birds, local SF icons, grand scientific ideas, Arctic adventurers and art wars! Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/fools-erra... See you there.