Posted at 10:53 AM on 10-14-08 by Rob T Firefly
In support of Doctor Atomic, an operatically fictionalized account of the events surrounding Dr. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project, there’s a historical event this Friday afternoon at CUNY with some of the real people involved with the project.
The Manhattan Project was one of the largest and most secretive military projects upon which the United States has ever embarked. Most of the people involved did not fully know the details. Join us for an in-depth series of presentations and discussion of the Manhattan Project with Harold Agnew, former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and photographers Rachel Fermi (granddaughter of renowned physicist and grandfather of the first nuclear reactor Enrico Fermi) and Esther Samra together in conversation with selected Manhattan Project veterans.
Check out the event’s website for more info and location details.
(via Science & the City)
tags: events, history
Posted at 12:34 AM on 10-5-08 by Rob T Firefly
Many of you already know about our long-standing community at Livejournal, so old-school that it predates this very site.
Of course, not everyone uses Livejournal these days. NYC2600 people can be found on a myriad of social networking and community sites all over the Web. How can they be found? This is where you come in.
Do you know of, or would you like to start, an NYC2600 forum, community, group, or equivalent gathering place on another social network or similar site on the Internet? If so, we’d love to know about it! Please contact us with the details necessary to add it to our Internet Forums page, so the rest of us NYC2600 folks can find our way over.
tags: fun, resource, site
Posted at 11:40 AM on 10-1-08 by Rob T Firefly
Halloween is coming! Here are a couple of neat things to do about it.
ZombieCon - Saturday, October 18
ZombieCon can best be described as a weird hybrid of flash mob, pub crawl, and “Thriller” video. Hundreds of New Yorkers gather, in their best zombie gear, and go on a travelling quest for yummy brains throughout Manhattan. The event falls on Saturday, October 18, and more details will be released through the event’s own email list.
The Village Halloween Parade - Halloween, Friday, October 31
The main Halloween celebration in New York - and many say the entire country, if not the entire world. Starting at Sixth Street and Broome Avenue, the parade marches uptown all the way to 21st street. Anyone in costume is welcome to march in the parade, from the quickest face-paint job or dollar-store mask to creations so elaborate your head will spin. For more info, check out the event’s Wikipedia article.
Many NYC2600 folks, including this editor, occasionally or regularly participate in the parade. In years past, many of us have managed to gather before the parade, dig each other’s costumery, perform at the event together, and hang out afterward on the one truly wild event of this scale our town has left.
Want to come with us to either of these events? We’ve created this post in our Livejournal forum to figure out some sort of plans. (A Livejournal account isn’t required to post comments, anonymous comments are enabled. An OpenID will also work.) You can use those comment threads to discuss meeting up, or contact us and we’ll be sure to let you know the plan once it exists.
All are more than welcome to join us, regulars and newbies alike! Bring your friends!
tags: events, fun, nyc
