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Secret Science Alert: This month, the Secret Science Club will be meeting at the Bell House , an all-new all-awesome venue in Gowanus, Brooklyn, created by the owners of Union Hall (our lovely hosts). Where will you be on the night after the presidential election? The Secret Science Club is “ready on day one” with more Earth-shattering lectures, flaming cocktails, and scorching-hot sounds. Wednesday, November 5 @ 8 pm at the Bell House Tyler Volk of New York University lectures on the State of the Earth: “ CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge ” Without carbon, we are nothing. The fourth most abundant element in the Universe , carbon is in the soil, the air, the oceans, the cells of every living thing—and unfortunately in the fossil fuels we burn. As fossil fuels are combusted, they release carbon atoms that have been locked underground for millions of years, causing gigatons of CO2 to enter the global carbon cycle. Biologist Tyler Volk is science director of the

Calling All Brainiacs . . . and Cine-maniacs Comedy. Techno thriller. Documentary. Science Noir. On Wednesday, October 22 at 7 PM, we’ll be showing a selection of short films that are in competition for big prizes sponsored by Nature magazine and the Imagine Science Film Festival . You get to contribute to the judging—AND meet some of the filmmakers. The first-ever Imagine Science Film Festival is the brainchild of SSC resident scientist/filmmaker, Alexis Gambis—he’ll be on-hand to answer your brainiest questions and oversee the mixing of the cocktail of the night: the Lab Rat. But wait, there’s even more filmic fun to be had . . . The Imagine Science Film Festival runs from October 16 to 25 at a whole host of venues around town. Don’t miss the festival’s opening night kickoff party at the New York Academy of Sciences on Thursday, October 16 at 7 pm —which is sponsored by our pals at Science & the City. For $25 ($15 for students), you get: --a panel discussion on science, film a