About us
Profs and Pints brings professors and other college instructors into bars, cafes, and other venues to give fascinating talks or to conduct instructive workshops. They cover a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, popular culture, horticulture, literature, creative writing, and personal finance. Anyone interested in learning and in meeting people with similar interests should join. Lectures are structured to allow at least a half hour for questions and an additional hour for audience members to meet each other. Admission to Profs and Pints events requires the purchase of tickets, either in advance (through the ticket link provided in event descriptions) or at the door to the venue. Many events sell out in advance. Your indication on Meetup of your intent to attend an event constitutes neither a reservation nor payment for that event.
Although Profs and Pints has a social mission--expanding access to higher learning while offering college instructors a new income source--it is NOT a 501c3. It was established as a for-profit company in hopes that, by developing a profitable business model, it would be able to spread to other communities much more quickly than a nonprofit dependent on philanthropic support. That said, it is welcoming partners and collaborators as it seeks to build up audiences and spread to new cities. For more information email profsandpints@hotmail.com.
Thank you for your interest in Profs and Pints.
Regards,
Peter Schmidt, Founder, Profs and PInts
Upcoming events
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Profs & Pints Nashville: Nature’s Hidden Logic
Fait la Force Brewing, 1414 3rd Ave S St101, Nashville, TN, USProfs and Pints Nashville presents: “Nature’s Hidden Logic,” a look at how natural selection and evolution are being harnessed to solve today’s problems, with Owen Jones, professor of law and of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University and author of Force of Nature: Understanding Evolution's Deepest Logic—and Putting It to Use.
[Doors open at 6 pm. Talk starts at 7. Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Available at https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/nashville-nature-logic .]
Research shows that deep misconceptions about how natural selection actually works are surprisingly common, even among biology teachers and medical students.
Those misunderstandings don't just affect our understanding of the past. They also can cost us opportunities and undermine our efforts to reach our goals. They sometimes even imperil lives, having previously led us, for example, to rely on cancer treatments that actually made cancer stronger.
Join Vanderbilt professor Owen Jones for a talk that will show you how natural selection is far more than a process that helped shape life on Earth. It is one of nature's most powerful problem-solving frameworks and one of today's most underused tools for innovation. NASA, for example, designed a better satellite antenna using evolution rather than engineering alone.
Drawing on fascinating examples from medicine, artificial intelligence, engineering, psychology, economics, law, and beyond, Professor Jones will show how evolutionary thinking is already helping scientists improve cancer treatments, design remarkable new technologies, and solve problems that have resisted conventional approaches.
You'll leave with a new understanding of how natural selection actually works and why it matters far beyond biology. You’ll see how thinking more like nature can help us build smarter technologies, wiser policies, and a more resilient future. (Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID.)
Image: Wildebeest crossing a river. (Photo by Eric Inafuku / Creative Commons.)
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