SciPop Talks: Memes, you're doing it wrong.

Do you find yourself searching for hours to send the funniest meme to your friend? If so, “Memes, you’re doing it wrong,” is the SciPop Talk for you! Brad Elder, Biology Department, Doane College, will explain how high-fidelity memes are what separates humans from everything else. Come learn how to give people brain herpes, Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. in the Adele Hall Learning Commons (formerly Love Library North 1^st Floor), at 13^th and R Streets in Lincoln, NE. Popcorn will be served. The talk is free and open to the public.

The SciPop talk series combines science and popular culture and the spring series will mark the third year of these popular talks. The UNL Libraries provide an online list of books and other resources for every talk, which can be found here: http://unl.libguides.com/scipoptalks.

The SciPop talk series builds on the science café model and is co-organized and sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Chemistry Department, Doane College, and the UNL University Libraries. Speakers give interactive thirty-minute talks and then take questions. All talks are open to the general public. Over 1,500 individuals have attended a SciPop talk in person, and there have been over 550 unique views of the UNL SciPop Talks six video collection on YouTube. This speaker series has highlighted over 680 books, videos, and games in the UNL Libraries’ collection.