Nerd Nite Fort Collins S2025E08

There are many different ways to think about anything, and sometimes a new perspective changes everything. This month's presentations get meta on poetry, which touches the symbolic nature of cognition – whoa! If that didn't bend your mind, then let's noodle on what worms can teach us about... everything. It's going to be a great night! Doors at 6:30, talks start at 7:00. Be there and be square!

The fall of a line: how poetry sounds

Jenny Morse, PhD

Most people try to read poems to get an image or a story, which is great but not all that poetry does. Poetry combines visual art--because it is an image on the page made by line breaks and spacing choices--with music--because the natural sounds of the language contribute to the meaning of the poem. In this talk, I'll look at some of my favorite poems in terms of their arrangement on the page and the way they use the sounds in language. 

Worm Majix

John Anderson

What I've learned from and about worms. From Charles Darwin and friends to some of the most recent observations. Deeply rooted in the world of life and death on this planet.nearly. Best I know now of some of the most interesting stuff them worms got going on. From leaf folding to sidewalk surfing and procreating. "It just might be that these "simple" creatures could play an even more important role in the survival of life on this earth than we have ever dreamt of" Sophie Reinecke