Scirens.com is proud to partner with Perimeter Institute for two live webcasts on June 22nd and 23rd at 8 PM EDT: Emmy Noether: Her life, work, and influence (Monday) and The Genesis and Renaissance of General Relativity (Tuesday). These free public lectures are part of the Convergence–Perimeter’s first-ever alumni reunion and a new kind of physics conference providing a …

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If there’s anything Jack Horner wants you to know, it’s that “Birds ARE dinosaurs.” Earlier this week, my fellow Sciren Taryn O’Neill and I attended a special event at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles where the enthusiastic paleontologist, who has served as a science consultant on all the Jurassic Park films, talked about …

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This post was originally published on Sciren Tamara Krinsky’s blog ScienceLush.  I love it when creative, imaginary life supports STEM action in real life! Last week I talked about the new scholarship named for “The Big Bang Theory” established to support low-income students at UCLA pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). This week, …

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This post was originally published on ScienceLush, Tamara Krinsky’s blog. It’s  busy week here in LA for science-infused entertainment! Or is that entertainment-infused science? You decide… 2nd Annual Sci-Fest LA We’re all used to seeing science fiction on screen, where futures both utopian and apocalyptic are often realized with the help of extensive special effects. …

The Lush List 5/28/15: Sci-Fest LA, Big Bang Theory STEM Scholarships and Boldly Go! Read More »

It's official: all of the Scirens have had the pleasure of talking nerdy with our friend Cara Santa Maria. If you haven't listened to all the episodes, they're posted below. Thanks, Cara, for the intellectual stimulation and the laughs!!

On International Women’s Day, we Scirens are proud to sound the ‘Scirens’ Call’ for Women in STEM! Empowering and celebrating women in STEM fields (and inspiring the next generation) is part of our group DNA so we’re especially excited to be able to do so in our first official video. This video is a result of being asked to …

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It’s the SCIRENS 1ST ANNIVERSARY on the interwebz! Whohoo! Exactly a year ago yesterday (February 26th) a newly formed group of sci-enthusiastic actresses posted a tweet asking what area of science most interests you. We’ve come pretty far since that question. Thanks to social media, thanks to YOU, we feel like we’ve had a positive impact in …

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Scirens.com is proud to partner with Perimeter Institute for a live webcast of Kendrick Smith‘s free public lecture entitled “Cosmology in the 21st Century” on Wed., Feb. 4 at 7:00 p.m. EST (4:00 p.m. PST).  The pre-talk video will begin at 6:45 p.m. EST. On February 4, Perimeter Institute will feature PI’s own Dr. Kendrick Smith, a leading cosmologist, who …

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I was beyond excited when we Scirens were invited to the NASA Social for the ORION Spacecraft test launch! (which ended up going perfectly after the 1st scrubbed launch). We had a chance to learn more about this spacecraft which is integral to the next stage of NASA space travel, and its missions, including Asteroid deflection and… *drum …

Field Notes: TO at JPL/NASA Social for Orion Test Launch Read More »

Join the Scirens for our first science entertainment event! Music, comedy, physics, and love collide in one tour-de-force performance coming Thursday, November 20 to Upstairs at Vitello’s in Studio City when our Sciren Gia Mora performs her critically acclaimed one-woman show, Einstein’s Girl. TICKETS $20 Reserve online or 818.769.0905 Combining jazz standards with standup comedy and original music, …

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