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I have just returned from our State Science Conference where I spent some time thinking and contemplating many things.... First I was able to hear a keynote speaker, Dr. Kenneth Wesson , speak about creativity. He said many things that stuck in my mind...like the fact that multitasking and stress is going to kill us!!!  More importantly he spoke about the connections between art and science. Did you know that every major scientist has a connection to some type of art - whether it be playing a musical instrument, painting, drawing, even dance or acting???  It's a brain connection!  You may have heard this recently...we are leaving the information age and entering the innovative age. Creativity is back in style!  He said that one of the biggest problems in our society and classrooms is that kids don't play anymore. And...either do adults by the way! If you have been teaching as long as I have you may remember the term purposeful play...guess what? That'...

The Secret Science Club is teaming up with the  Imagine Science Film Festival  for “Controlled Experiments,” a night of science-inspired short films! Animation. Documentary. Music Video. Live Experiments! Don’t miss some of the Imagine Science Film Festival’s trippiest , coolest, most futuristic entries from around the Universe including  Locus Solus, Flutter, Insane in the Chromatophores, The Whiskey Water Trick, SpacePart12, Microscopic Opera,  and much more! Before & After --Try our animated cocktail of the night , the Zoetrope --Groove to  cinematic sounds --Board the BioBus  outside the Bell House, talk to researchers, and peer into  microscopes -- Plus! A live experiment/performance by filmmaker/provocateur Luis Nieto… science meets the surreal. The Secret Science Club hosts the Imagine Science Film Festival on Wednesday, November 14, 8 pm @ the Bell House , 149 7th St. (between 2nd and 3rd avenues) in Gowanus, Brook...