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November 17, 2023 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
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- Elizabeth Tasker (Mastodon) (Twitter) — Asteroid smuggling for beginners
- Christian Horn (Mastodon) — Mastodon: join the Federation!

- Nithin Coca (Mastodon) (Linkedin) — Real Time Censorship and Digital Authoritarianism in Chinese-occupied Tibet
- Michael Pronko (Jazz in Japan) (Facebook) (Instagram) (Twitter) (Mastodon) — The Impossibility of Writing Tokyo

- Christine Houser (Twitter) — Lessons from the Great Kanto Earthquake: expect the unexpected
- Fabio Lisi (Linkedin) (Twitter) — Sexually Transmitted Infections: Making the invisible visible
- Films of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government Disaster Prevention Information
- WaNavi help cards
- NHK World On-Demand: Disaster Preparedness

- Adrian Lee and Cody Clements (teTra Aviation) — Plane Meets Helicopter: The Electrifying Rise of eVTOL Aircraft
- Rambling Steve Gardner (Facebook) — MIZ SALLY’S YELLOW CAT SONG BOOK: music and dementia drawings

- Kitty Z. Xu (Quant UX Con) — From brain science to quantitative UX
- Harald Kümmerle (Twitter) — ‘Heretic dataism’ and Japan’s cluster-focused approach to COVID-19

- Akram Al-Wahabi (Spotify) — Science Podcasting: Giving Scientists their Flowers
- Hirokuni Kim (Twitter) (Swallow Scooters) — Anatomy of an E-Scooter’s Lithium Ion Battery
- Eli K.P. William (Twitter) — How Not to Write a Dystopian Sci-fi Trilogy: Lessons from a Decade Lost in a Dark Future

- Thomas Hitchcock (Twitter)(Mastodon) — Sex Education: Reproductive Diversity Across the Tree of Life
- Paul Cohen — From Flight Sim to Digital Twin: The Evolution of MSFS
- Sherif Adel (Twitter) (Instagram) — Cross-cultural humor, is it even possible?

- Thomas Hitchcock (Twitter)(Mastodon) — Sex Education: Reproductive Diversity Across the Tree of Life
- Hirokuni Kim (Twitter) (Swallow Scooters) — Anatomy of an E-Scooter’s Lithium Ion Battery

- Darryl Wharton-Rigby (Twitter) (Instagram) — Guerrilla Filmmaking in Tokyo: Seeking Forgiveness, Not Permission
- Masataka Watanabe — Mind Uploading in 20 Years through Consciousness Research

- James Gibbs — Cleaning Up Tokyo Rivers
- CJ Hostetter (Twitter) and Matt Kaemmerer (Twitter) — Interface Drama: A New Way of Telling Stories Through Software
- Rod van Meter (Twitter) (Mastodon) — Forty Years as a Beginning Astrophotographer

- Luis Costigan — Uncertain by default: How Effective Altruism does good better
- Lee Atkin — Cat Rescue, the Full (Litter) Scoop
- Andrew Todd — The End of End to End: Point to Point Privacy on the World Wide Web (and 1980s novelty phones)

- Tuukka Takala — Virtual Reality Avatars: Tips and Tricks on Reinventing Yourself as Somebody Else
- Jens Wilkinson — Designing Synthetic Sounds
- Makoto Mizukami — Home Sweet Phone: The World of Worldwide Mobile SIMs

- BJ Fox — Crossing the Cultural Comedy Divide
- Nithin Coca — Palm Oil, Coconuts, and Why Sustainable Sourcing is so Challenging
- Melvin Charles DY — The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything (in Search Ads)

- Andy Houwen — Ezra Pound and the Last Samurai [video]
- Sarah Crites — In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream: Narrow Escapes & Miraculous Saves in Space Exploration (April 2018) [video]
- Ryosuke Iritani — Economics of the Sexes in Nature: How Organisms Play Games [video]

- Kathryn Elmer — Species Recovery After Collapse [video]
- Saida Caballero-Nieves — Arecibo: The Telescope of Enchantment [video]
- Don Warren — Wherever You Go, There You Are: From the Scilly Seas to GPS [video]

- Karamoon — Only Deep Hypertext Can Save The World [video]
- Johanna Rotko — Colorful Microbial Images with Yeasts and Fungi [video]
- Kyogo Kawaguchi — Chirality and Topology in Your Hands [video]

- Alex Watson — The Footnote: A Defense [video]
- Hiroyuki Tajima — Projectiles, Pressure and the Stinky Math of Penguin Poo [video]
- Rumpa Pal — Sigma Meets Pi: How Molecules Interact in Quantum Crystallography [video]

- Yuri Kimura — YOKOSO! Tour of the National Museum of Nature and Science [video]
- Emi Do — De-commodifying Real Estate: the Co-op Dream that Doesn’t Require Roommates [video]
- Robert Smith? — What can Zombies and Mathematics Teach Us about COVID-19? [video]

- Christine Houser — Fuji-san: The Forces Driving Japan’s Most Iconic Volcano [video]
- Fahrettin Haczeyni — Foie Gras: Protecting the Liver from a Silent Disease (October 2019) [video]
- Martin Skrodzki — Seeing and Recognizing: Two Very Different Animals for Robots [video]

- John A. Baumlin Jr. — Digital Tools for Democracy [video]
- Steve Marshall — The Psychology of Magic (September 2016) [video]
- Joan Chen — Password Protected? Myths and Risks in Cybersecurity [video]

- Otis Brunner — Mining the Deep Sea: A Literal Race to the Bottom [video]
- Chrissie Shears-Ozeki — Solving Mysteries from Traces of Ancient Life [video]
- Catherine Beauchemin — What is a Virophysicist and What Do They Do During a Pandemic? [video]

- Don Warren — First Stars, Furthest Stars: The End of the Cosmic Dark Age [video]
- Miriam Stadje — The Missing Link: Why Humans Talk and Apes Do Not (February 2019) [video]
- Matt Richardson — Rocket Science: A Risk-Free, Earth-Based, Libation-Fueled Crash Course (September 2019) [video]

- Yuri Kimura — The Dinosaur Hunter under a Lucky Star (June 2019) [video]
- Chelsea Hostetter — A Journey Into the Uncanny Valley of Dolls (March 2019) [video]
- Corey Myers — CO2 Removal: Pumping the Earth’s Stomach (December 2019) [video]

- Stefano Di Carlo — After Rescue: the Next Steps in the Life of a Migrant
- Harriet Ocharo — Cloud Computing: You Can’t Live Without It
- Judith Pascoe — On the Bullet Train with Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights in Japan

- Syrielle Montariol — Neural Networks: Deep Versus Green
- Xiaochen Su — Seeing Sino-Russian Relations at the Grassroots Level
- Anna Murray — “You Mean it’s Just Sounds?”: Randomness and Live Music

- Kristiina Jokinen — Boundary Crossing Robots
- Bektur Ryskeldiev — Everywhere but Here: How Extended Reality is Changing the Ways We Communicate Online and Offline
- Corey Myers — CO2 Removal: Pumping the Earth’s Stomach [video]

- Deron Marquez — Casinos Are Coming: What Japan Can Learn from American Tribal Gaming
- Julia Marino — Kumano Kodo for a Cure: A Journey of Hope and Healing in Japan
- Don Warren — Interstellar Memes

- Evan Fallenberg — Sex on the Page: How Writers Deal with Writing the Sex Scene
- Fahrettin Haczeyni — Foie Gras: Protecting the Liver from a Silent Disease [video]
- Sarah Naimi — We Are Stardust: A Nuclear Physicist Explains What It Really Means

- Michah Dowbak — Mad Dog Jones: All Dreams Simultaneously
- Chris Gerpheide — Models All the Way Down: Making a Programming Language
- Matt Richardson — Rocket Science: A Risk-Free, Earth-Based, Libation-Fueled Crash Course [video]


- Margo Brennan — VDay Osaka: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls
- Tom Kelly — Single Cells: A Revolution in Biology, Medicine and Beyond
- Matt Kaemmerer — Modes and Moods: How Musical Scales Create Emotion [video]

- Yuri Kimura — The Dinosaur Hunter under a Lucky Star [video]
- Jan Jaap van Assen — Seeing Goop
- James Reynolds — Disasters and Drones: Capturing Nature’s Exceptional Events

- Ryo Kawamoto — Grubs Love Garbage: Flies are the Future of Food Recycling
- Kumi Yokoe — Trending: The Millennial Generation and Global Change
- John Livingston — Discovering Planets is, Like, so 2018

- Emilie Kristine Bagge — Mitochondria in the Depressive Mind
- Yasutomo Takano — Paper Digest: Summarizing Science using AI
- Kipp Cannon — E-Mottainai: Breathing Life into Scrap Electronics in Tokyo [video]

- Jonathan McDonald — Being a Gaijin “Talent” in Japan
- Chelsea Hostetter — A Journey Into the Uncanny Valley of Dolls [video]
- Max Frenzel — Next-Level Art: Becoming More Creative with AI

- Shinya Fujii — Whiplash: the Secret of the World’s Fastest Drumming
- Miriam Stadje — The Missing Link: Why Humans Talk and Apes Do Not [video]
- Tim Hornyak — Swimming in Tokyo Bay and Other Environmental Reporting Tales

- Peter Mears — Falling into Shadows
- Katie Mack — Everything You Wanted to Know About Dark Matter but Were Afraid to Ask
- Jens Wilkinson — Conlanging Across the Universe

- Anne McKnight — Butterflies and Smog: A Short History of the Japanese Science Film (科学映画)
- Tsubasa Kondo — Dapps: Distributed, Decentralized, and Dank
- James Welker — “Boys Love” in Japan: Manga and So Much More

- Daniel Jeans — The Next Frontier of Physics with the International Linear Collider
- Thomas Chater — Lights, Camera, Calcium: Watching Neurons Communicate
- Ade Irma Suriajaya — When Infinity Becomes Finite

- Jordan A. Y. Smith — Tokyo Poetics: Ads, Mags, Slams, Jams & Ciphers
- Don Warren — Fast Radio Bursts
- Nadia Boudjella — North Korea in Pantone®: The Color Chart of a Hidden Country

- Louis Consoletti — Traditional Japanese Animation: A Close Look at a Dying Art
- Shayna Magnuson — Mixed Martial Arts (MMA): What It Is and What It Isn’t [video]
- Marc Abrahams — Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes

- Farnaz Khatibi — The Science of Death
- Yusuke Murakami — Everyday Life on Mars
- Alisa Freedman — Emoji and Cultural Literacy [video]

- Chiaki — How the Recession Changed Japan’s Sex Industry
- Jean-Pierre Bellier — How Does an Octopus Arm Think?
- Nick Friedman — Island Song: Monitoring Okinawa’s Soundscape to Understand its Biodiversity

- Catherine Beauchemin — Lack of Math: Side Effects Include Dizziness and Distrust
- Patrick Savage — The Science of the World’s Music
- Roland Haller — Memory: Through the Looking Glass of the Hippocampus

- Logan Fulcher — Visual DJing and the Gestalt Artwork: Collage
- Albéric Derible — Are Honorifics Always About Being Polite?
- Sarah Crites — In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream: Narrow Escapes & Miraculous Saves in Space Exploration [video]

- Emi Do — Platform Co-operatives: Democratization of our Digital Economy
- Ken Wong — Measuring the Expansion of the Universe with Gravitational Lensing
- Michael Penn — Facebook and the Impoverishment of the News Media Industry

- Ayako Ono — Space Art and Space Tourism: Sights and Sounds Inspired by the Cosmos
- Mark Holmes — Hot Dots: Controlling Light at the Quantum Level
- Danielle DeLatte — Space Analogs: Blasting Off Without Leaving Earth

- Rod Van Meter — #QuantumNative: Online Quantum Computing for the Algorithmically Uneducated
- Morgane Rosendale — How Jellyfish, Corals and Algae Help us Break the Neural Code
- Eli K.P. William — Narrative Frames and Technological Discovery: Or How Trapping My Protagonist in an Elevator Gave Birth to a Crypto-Privacy Protection Agency

- Olaf Witkowski — Befriending the Alien: the Expansion of Intelligence in the Universe
- tarinainanika — How Bodies Think and Thoughts Act: the Art of Corporeal Mime
- Aurora Simionescu — Chasing Shadows: Photos from the Great American Eclipse

- Sakyasingha Dasgupta — Smart Things Everywhere: Learning Deep and Winning Big with Coin-Sized Compute Power
- Rafaela Libano — Becoming a Cyborg Through Disability: Building Prosthetic Limbs
- Will Donovan — Bubble Baths and the Bendiness of Spacetime

- Sean Bonner — Open Data & Monitoring: Better Than A Bag Of Bricks
- Marine Lasbleis — Journey to the Center of the Earth: What’s Up with the Planet Core?
- Kipp Cannon — Gravitational Radiation or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Black Hole Collisions
- Live drawing by Chiyun Yeh (Yo)

- E. McCready — Understanding Expressive Adjectives: the Meaning of “Fucking”
- Maggi Brisbin — Oki Coral Watchers: Citizen Science in Okinawa
- Sadhvi Saxena — The Unspeakable Brain

- Bryan Tran — Tsunami Evacuations: What Does Transportation Planning Have To Do With It?
- Helen Petrakou — Behind the Scenes at the LHC: From Collisions to Discovery
- Elizabeth Tasker — Earth 2.0: Have We Really Found A Planet Like Our Own?

- Amanda Alvarez — Nerd Nite Retrospective: Data & Video of the Year’s Best Moments
- Nathan Shammah — Quantum Technologies: A Revolution Under Construction
- Don Warren — Cosmic Rays: Microscopic Particles, Macroscopic Energies

- Baye McNeil — Alien Activist: Writing about Race Issues in Japan [video]
- Dave duVerle — Bioinformatics and Modern Genomics: Cancer is a Maths Problem! [video]
- Verena Hopp — Nerd Sumo with special appearance by Hakuba Takeshi [video]
- Live drawing by Chiyun Yeh (Yo)

- Kazuhiro Hayashi — Opening scholarly communication: a vision and current challenges for open science [video]
- Nobuko Miyairi — ORCID: get the only flower in the world for you [video]
- Kazutsuna Yamaji — Does open science require a national-level infrastructure? [video]
- Live drawing by Chiyun Yeh (Yo)

- Sai Maddala & Mochinosha Puppet Company explore the hidden world of nanomaterials like carbon nanotubes, graphene, and millenia-old Egyptian inks [video]
- Stefania Soldini & 1740g recount the story of Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe and its dangerous journey to and from the Ryugu asteroid [video]
- Lana Sinapayen & Taran Nibakins puzzle over why it’s hard to decide if an artificial intelligence is actually intelligent or not [video]

- Christine Houser — Earthquakes: the Pulse of a Living Planet
- Sarajean Rossitto — Non-profits in Japan: Where Do They Stand?
- Don Warren — Astrophysical Big Bangs: Supernovae, Gamma Ray Bursts, and the People Who Love Them

- Anupreeta More — Space Warps: Real Science Powered by Citizen Scientists
- Sean Aubin — Debugging your Thoughts with Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Michael Gakuran — Haikyo: Urban Exploration in Japan [video]

- Sai Maddala — A History of Nanotech from Ancient Alchemy to Modern Materials
- Ana San Gabriel — Yum or Yuck? Interacting with Food Through all our Senses
- Donna Weeks — Opinion Poll Overdose: More Politics, Less Science
- Live drawing by Mariya Suzuki

- Ken Kaba — Just the Worst: Why Do We Love Bad Movies?
- Danielle DeLatte — Emerging Space Businesses
- Tomasz Rutkowski — Decoding the Mind in Realtime


- Matt Escobar — The Science of Curiosity
- Ceren Gunes — From Canvas to Console: The Game Art Pipeline
- Sarah Cosentino — Humans and Robots: A Complicated Love Story

- Magician Steve Marshall — The Psychology of Magic [video]
- Daniel Robson, chief editor of IGN Japan — Gaming: The Math, The Mystery, The Miracle
- Graig Russell, director of The Tragedy of Macbeth — Bard Prattle: Walking Shadows in Shakespeare

- Sakyasingha Dasgupta, IBM Research Tokyo — Get Ready, the Smart Machines Are Rising!
- Mitch Altman — The Importance of Failure

- Jay Noyes — Making Your Way in Tokyo with Sword and Axe
- Mikael Reponen — Laser Quest: One Man’s Journey Around the World to Eat Sushi and Discover the True Nature of Atoms
- Lana Sinapayen — From AI to Artificial Life and Back Again