Profs and Pints

(https://www.profsandpints.com/philadelphia) presents: **“Climate Change 101,”** a crash course on the science related to directional climate change and global warming, with Sean O'Donnell, professor in Drexel University’s Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science program. (https://profs-and-pints-black-squirrel.ticketleap.com/climatescience/) .] We hear and read a lot about climate change and global warming, and it has become pretty hard to ignore the Philadelphia region’s wacky weather patterns with its recent freakily warm winters, vanishing snow, and late spring “heat domes.” Many of us, however, don’t have much of a grasp of the science explaining such developments and can’t answer questions such as: How do we really know

Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “A Nation That Almost Wasn’t,” on how colonialists' formation of the United States was anything but a foregone conclusion but happened anyway, with Jessica Choppin Roney, associate professor of history at Temple University, director of the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia, and author of Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia. At a time of deep political polarization and disagreement over the fundamental nature and direction of our nation, it’s worthwhile to revisit the early history of the United