April 9 - Technical Studies of Cultural Heritage: The Artist as Alchemist

Presented by
Lynn Brostoff, PhD
Preservation Directorate
Library of Congress

Lynn Brostoff, PhD, a conservation scientist in the Preservation Directorate at the Library of Congress, will discuss the analysis of museum collections and the alchemical origin of many
artists’ materials.

Lynn Brostoff received a master’s degree in polymer materials science from the University of Cincinnati and master’s in art history (and certificate in conservation) from New York University. She also holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She has worked at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum Conservation Institute and the National Gallery of Art.





Saturday, April 9, 2016
2:00 pm (Note special start time)
Bethesda Regional Library
7400 Arlington Rd
Bethesda, MD

FREE admission – Everyone welcome, members and non-members

Refreshments and socializing after the talk.

For more information, call the 24-hour Skeptic Line at 240-670-NCAS (6227).

Shadow of a Doubt - March 2016

The Monthly Calendar of the National Capital Area Skeptics

• March 19 Lecture: Reproducibility of Scientific Findings: Barriers and Solutions presented by April Clyburne-Sherin, MSc
• NCAS Lecture
• Save the date: May 3 - Philip J. Klass Award dinner
• Concept Presented in NCAS Lecture Wins Awards at High-Level US Government Briefing
• NCAS Elections
• Amazon Smile: Contribute to NCAS at no cost to you
• Shadow Light
• Drinking Skeptically on hiatus

NCAS Public Lecture Series

March 19, 2016 - 1:30pm - 4:00pm

Reproducibility of Scientific Findings:
Barriers and Solutions
April Clyburne-Sherin, MSc
Reproducible Research Evangelist
Center for Open Science

NEW LOCATION
Chevy Chase Library
Downstairs Meeting Room
8005 Connecticut Ave
Chevy Chase, MD
FREE admission – Everyone welcome, members and non-members


Science is a systematic method for accumulating knowledge with the reproducibility of a scientific finding as the highest standard of evaluating scientific evidence. Scientists do not work in isolation but build upon the research of others to incrementally advance human knowledge. However, attempts to reproduce published scientific findings are failing at high rates across many scientific disciplines. Individual scientists now must face two questions: (1) are my findings reproducible?; and (2) do I really know what I thought I knew based on the published findings in my field? The scientific community has to face two larger questions: (1) what is going on?;  (2) how do we fix it?

Mar 19 - Reproducibility of Scientific Findings: Barriers and Solutions

April Clyburne-Sherin, MSc
Reproducible Research Evangelist
Center for Open Science

Feb 13 - Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind

The Monthly Calendar of the National Capital Area Skeptics

• Feb 13 Lecture - Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind by David. J. Linden 
• Amazon Smile: Thanks to our members who are supporting NCAS!
• March NCAS Lecture
• Shadow Light
• Drinking Skeptically on hiatus
• Time to renew?

February 2016

NCAS Public Lecture Series

David J. Linden, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
The Johns Hopkins University

Saturday, February 13, 1:30pm - 4:00pm

National Science Foundation, Room 110
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington VA
  [map]
(Ballston-Marymount University Metro stop)

Enter NSF from the corner of 9th N & N Stuart Streets.
FREE admission –– Everyone welcome, members and non-members

Shadow of a Doubt - December 2016

The Monthly Calendar of the National Capital Area Skeptics

• Jan 9 Lecture - A Brief History of Creation by Bill Mesler
• Torn From Today's Headlines by Scott Snell
  The National Geographic Society Publishes Strange But True Collectors Edition
• AmazonSmile: Thanks to our members who are supporting NCAS!
• Shadow Light
• Drinking Skeptically in MD and  VA!
• Time to Renew?