Black Squirrel Club

Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “An Introduction to Irish,” on a resurgent language and the basics of using it, with Mike Malloy, Irish Language instructor at Villanova University. Gear up for Saint Patrick’s Day by taking a whirlwind tour of the Irish language and how to use it with Mike Malloy, an instructor for Irish at Villanova University and a regular teacher for the Irish language organization Daltaí na Gaeilge. He’ll talk about where the Irish language comes from, whether it is properly called “Gaelic,” and how to pronounce Irish words and names. You’ll learn some basic Irish words and

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

Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “Finding the Cosmic Puzzle’s Missing Pieces,” a look at how the fields of astronomy and subatomic physics are working in tandem to shed light on the darkest parts of the universe, with Mark Trodden, professor of physics, co-director of the Center for Particle Cosmology, and associate dean for the natural sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. For most of the last century, physicists pushed our understanding of the microscopic world down to ever-smaller sizes, splitting the atom to reveal its inner workings and enable astonishing new discoveries, including, most recently, the Higgs particle. At the

(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