The spooky season is finally here! Dust off your cobwebs, set up your 12ft tall yard skeletons, and mark your calendars for the Nerd Nite SF 2025 season finale! It’s our last show of the year and we’ve got talks to cover spooky situations like falling into a time vortex (how do you defend yourself if you wind up in another era?), questioning whether your senses are lying to you (sure, let’s add more existential terror to our lives), and how to survive the most terrifying thing of all: Public Speaking.
All this and so much more on October 22nd at 7pm at the Rickshaw Stop! Tickets are a frightfully good deal: $15 per head!*
Self-Defense For Time Travelers
By: Mike Capozzola
Mike Capozzola is a London-based, American comedian and actor. He’s performed in most of the USA and in 25 countries across the UK, Europe and Middle East. Mike played the ‘Veteran MiB agent’ in “Men in Black International” and has appeared in “The Phantom of the Open” and “The Batman.” Find more of his work at www.IMDb.me/MikeCapozzola.
At the intersection of history and theoretical physics, comedian Mike Capozzola looks at the unexpected consequences of irresponsible Time-Travel. Learn non-lethal, humane ways to outsmart velociraptors, fisticuffs champ, a centaur and a 1950’s American ‘Greaser.’
Disagreeing About Your Senses
By: Zeke Kossover
Have you ever wondered if your blue might be some else’s green? Thought we’d never know? Some really clever experiments have shed insight into personal sensory domains that were thought only answerable by philosophy. Join me as we look at some sensory illusions and what they can tell us about how brains process the world.
Marc “Zeke” Kossover was an Albert Einstein Distinguished Education Fellow and 21-year veteran teacher before dying and going to teacher heaven and becoming an educator at the Exploratorium.
Experiments in Experience: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Event Design
By: Amanda Freise
Whether you’ve stumbled through a music festival, sipped wine at an art opening, or found yourself learning quantum physics in a bar…none of that happened by accident. Someone designed that event with you (and maybe your tipsy friends) in mind. Together we’ll pull back the curtain on how public art and science programs are crafted to invite creativity and curiosity, while leaving plenty of room for playfulness and connection.
Amanda Freise is Senior Program Developer on the Public Programs team at the Exploratorium. Trained as a molecular pharmacologist, she earned her PhD and taught microbiology at UCLA before realizing her true fascination wasn’t with microbes and molecules, but with people and how they connect. Along the way, she discovered the power of art, dance, and a really sick subwoofer. Thanks to her Type A personality, Amanda has led a Burning Man camp, organized science talks in the desert, produced music festivals, and curated art at these events — all experiences she now channels into designing public programs that blend art, science, and play in unexpected ways.
*If you bring a sack of heads you will be charged for each head individually.