Science On Tap 10/8 In Vancouver: Dementia Research, With Dr. Larry Sherman (Photo) - 09/19/25

Date: Wed, Oct 8th, 2025

Time: 7 pm

Location: Kiggins Theatre Vancouver, Wa

Tickets: $15-$45

Event Website: scienceontaporwa.org/events/kiggins_oct_8_dementia/

• If everyone lived long enough, would we all develop some form of dementia? 
• What causes dementia, and how does it progress?
• Why did earlier clinical trials to treat dementia fail?
• Do current treatments help?
• What do new findings suggest about how to treat dementia?

Forty-seven million people worldwide are affected by dementias. These diseases, including Alzheimer’s Disease, have devastating impacts on affected individuals, their families, and their friends. Join us to explore these and other questions, as well as new insights into how dementias begin and possible ways to slow or even stop them.  

Dr. Larry S. Sherman is a Professor of Neuroscience at OHSU. He is also the President of the local chapter of the Society for Neuroscience. He has over 120 publications related to brain development and neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis. (You may remember him from our shows Music & the Brain and Neuroscience of Racism!)

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Science On Tap Wed 9/24 In PDX: Cannabis In Reproductive Health (Photo) - 09/09/25

Date: Wed, Sept 24th, 2025

Time: 7 pm

Location: Alberta Rose Theatre

Tickets: $15-$45

Event Website: scienceontaporwa.org/events/alberta_sep_24_cannabis/

What we know, and what we still need to know, about the effects of cannabis on: 

• Sexual health and function 
• Reproductive health and fertility 
• Pregnancy and offspring  
• Menopausal symptoms 

Science on Tap is a science lecture series where you can sit back, drink a pint, and enjoy learning. Listen to experts talk about the science in your neighborhood and around the world. You don't have to be a science geek to have fun--all you need is a thirst for knowledge! For more information on this event or about Science on Tap, visit Science on Tap OR WA.

Science On Tap 9/17 In Portland: Mary Roach Interview – Adventures In Human Anatomy (Photo) - 09/01/25

Date: Wed, Sept 17th, 2025

Time: 7 pm

Location: Alberta Rose Theatre

Tickets: $25-$45

Event Website: scienceontaporwa.org/events/alberta_sep_17_maryroach/

Join us for an interview (now a full-on tradition) with the friend-of-Science-on-Tap Mary Roach about her latest book!

The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what’s available—sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet canopies, and breasts from petroleum by-products.

In Replaceable You, Mary Roach sets sail on the uncharted waters of regenerative medicine, exploring the remarkable advances and difficult questions prompted by the human body’s failings. When and how does a person decide they’d be better off with a prosthetic than their existing limb? Is there a sensitive way to harvest tissue and bones from the deceased? Which animals might be the best organ donors? Through interviews with patients, physicians, pathologists, engineers, and scientists, Roach immerses readers in the wondrous, improbable, and surreal quest to build a new you.

Mary Roach is the author of the New York Times bestsellers STIFF, SPOOK, BONK, GULP, GRUNT, and PACKING FOR MARS. Mary has written for National Geographic, Wired, and The New York Times Magazine, among others, and her TED talk made the TED 20 Most Watched list. She has been a guest editor for Best American Science and Nature Writing and a finalist for the Royal Society’s Winton Prize

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Science on Tap is a science lecture series where you can sit back, drink a pint, and enjoy learning. Listen to experts talk about the science in your neighborhood and around the world. You don't have to be a science geek to have fun--all you need is a thirst for knowledge! For more information on this event or about Science on Tap, visit Science on Tap OR WA.