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- Nerd Nite 146: Monsters and Heroes – March 2023
- “Action Figures: Advancements and Photography” by Eric Antonowicz
- “Quick Sketch Academy: Monster Drawing” by Sara Farr
- Nerd Nite 145: Changing Your Mind – February 2023
- “Ketamine: Then and Now” by Patrick Harris, PhD, LPC
- “The Ethics of Love Spells” by Rowan Halliday
- Nerd Nite 144: Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit – January 2023
- “Unlucky Rabbit’s Year: How the Aztecs Prepare for the End of the World” by Kevin Garcia
- “Hare Raising Tails from Across the Bunnyverse” by Mickey Delp
- Nerd Nite 143: Game Night – December 2022
- “Games As a Service” by Preston Swincher
- Nerd Nite 142: Saving the World – November 2022
- “Life on the Rocks” by Juli Berwald
- “Performing Environmental Counter-Narratives” by Nic Bennett
- Nerd Nite 141: Swords and Spookiness – October 2022
- “Historical European Martial Arts (or, What the Heck is a Zwerchhau?)” by Andreas Fabis
- “The History of Interactive Halloween Adventures in Austin” by Keith Ewing
- Nerd Nite 140: Art and War – September 2022
- “The Battle of Midway” by L.B. Deyo
- “Immersive Information: Data and Sensors in New Media Art” by Kyle Evans
- Nerd Nite 139: Always Read the Terms and Conditions – August 2022
- “Level Up Your Character: An Introduction to Optimizing in Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition” by Josh Davis
- “Math Happens Back Then and Right Now” by Lauren Siegel
- Nerd Nite 138: What Do We Do With These Numbers? – July 2022
- “Nothing To Hide, Yet Everything To Fear: Privacy In The Digital Age” by Kevin Welch
- “Austin & Ridesharing: A Lesser-Known Story” by Connor McGee
- Nerd Nite 137: Is This Thing On? – June 2022
- “Life in Hellstrip: One Person’s Journey in Ecological Restoration” by Lewis Weil
- “Sexy Nerdy Times with Miss. Adam Maurer: Pandemic Edition” by Miss. Adam Maurer
- Nerd Nite 136: Every Experience Carries Its Lesson – August 2021
- “Adaptations of Dune” by BE Allatt” by
- “Blank Page Poetry: Using Writing and Sketching For Expression” by Hank Blackwell and Linda Webb, PhD
- Nerd Nite 135: We Got the Beat – May 2021
- “Composing Music for Cartoons” by Neil Parfitt
- “Sound Design for Synthesizers” by Ken Flux Pierce
- Nerd Nite 134: Tabletop RPGs and Rainforest Trees – April 2021
- “Are TTRPGs Art?” by Simon Ingrand
- “The Really REALLY Important Climate Solution” by Chris Searles
- Nerd Nite 133: Virtual Experiences – March 2021
- “Transitioning from Live Comedy to Streaming OR How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Animal Crossing” by Ralphie Hardesty
- “IRLXD and The Eureka Room” by Mike Stefanik
- Nerd Nite 132: February Means A Lot – February 2021
- “Underground Tejas Trails To Freedom” by Dr. Shaun Treat
- “Consent: What’s Your ‘Why’?” by Snow and Marvel
- Nerd Nite 131: Nerdy Holidays! – December 2020
- “Hanukkah: The Jewish Cinco de Mayo!” by Jill V. Friedman
- “Cookie Cutter Trends in Christmas Romance Movies” by Holli Cuomo and Scarlett Alexandra
- Nerd Nite 130: It Starts (and Restarts) In Austin – November 2020
- “BedPost Confessions: 10 years of Entertainment, Ethics, and Education” by Miranda Wylie
- “Roller Derby and The Austin Revival” by Ted Hochules
- Nerd Nite 129: Vote for Bats! – October 2020
- “Ranked Choice Voting” by Chris Flesher
- “Austin’s Awesome Bats” by Lee Mackenzie and Dianne Odegard, Austin Bat Refuge
- Nerd Nite 128: The Pattern – September 2020
- “Reading the Matrix: Using machine learning to see realities in big data” by Laura Cuttill
- “Correctly Wrong: Interpreting COVID-19 Testing Accuracy” by Dr. Zain Hakeem
- Nerd Nite 127 &er; The Dionysium: Tales from the Plague – August 2020
- The Dionysium Debate
- “Camus’s The Plague and Our Plague” by Dr. Kathleen Higgins
- Nerd Nite 126: A Lot All At Once – June 2020
- “‘Why do sloths poop on the ground?’ and other animal poop mysteries” by Lehua Gray
- “Self, Legislation, Tech, and Community Involvement For Progress” by David Hensley
- “Competence is Sexy; Compassion is Sexy” by Galen Kim Davis
- Nerd Nite 125: Cat Nite – May 2020
- “The Fast & the Furriest: Navigating Kitten Season and Community Cats” by Erin Cole
- “Is that an Ocelot?”: The Fight to Save a Native Texas Wildcat by Dr. Sharon Wilcox
- Nerd Nite 124: Spaaace! – April 2020
- “The Sound of Space-Time” by M. J. B. Rosell
- “Glaciers around the Solar System” by Sophie Goliber
- Nerd Nite 123: Let’s Be Real (Nerdy) With Each Other – February 2020
- “Sexual Wellness and the Future of HIV: Or How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Barebacking (Again)” by Dilla
- “Behind the Mic: Titillating Podcasts” by Myrriah Gossett
- “What Can Kink Do For You?” by Adam Maurer, LMFT, LPC
- Nerd Nite 122: New Year, Nerd You! – January 2020
- “The Joy of Eating” by Drew Castillo
- “Calming Down Like a Child” by Eley Escandell
- “The (Mostly) Painless Way to Improve Your Life And Make it Stick” by Angela Arnold
- Nerd Nite 121: Naughty, Nice, Legendary! – December 2019
- “Everyone’s A Philanthropist (and other lies that are true)” by Paul E. Hendricks
- “Riding with the Pack: Finding Your Tribe in Unlikely Places” by Patrick Harris
- “21 Days of Christmas” by Stas Bilder
- Nerd Nite 120: The History Of… – November 2019
- “Toilet Paper is Confusing” by Wendy Mitchell
- “Vermouth — The Ancient and Modern Origins of a Neglected and Misunderstood Drink” by Ty Harvey
- “A Rush to the Head: The History and Science of Roller Coasters” by Kelly Saccomanno
- Nerd Nite 119: Demystifying – October 2019
- “Death Cafe: Drink tea (and coffee!), eat cake, and discuss death.” by Heather Black, RN, BSN, CHPN
- “Magical World of Bats” by Merlin Tuttle
- “Suicide Brides of the Driskill Hotel: Fact vs. Fiction” by Tanya Estes
- Nerd Nite 118: The Making Of – September 2019
- Nerd Nite 117: Expanding – August 2019
- “The New Science of Singing” by Matt Ramsey
- “Why is it so dang hard to make friends?!” by Robyn Rap
- “Augment Your Umvelt: Sensory Augmentation 101″ by Trevor Goodman
- Nerd Nite 116: Theories of Relation-tivity – July 2019
- “Fantastic Sex: Non-Normative Love and Relationships in Genre Fiction” by BE Allatt
- “Innovations in Sexual Health” by Ben Walker and Joe McAdams
- “Everything Your Gym Teacher Forgot To Tell You About Sex” by Adam Maurer, LMFT, LPC
- Nerd Nite 115: Shall We Play a Game? – June 2019
- “Wand-Ring Wands – Awesome DIY Magic Wands!” by Jonathan Leistiko
- “From Game to Life Strategy: Learning & Loving El Juego Bonito” by Chris Benevich
- “The Future of Soccer Is Female” by Dave Brett Wasser
- Nerd Nite 114: M is for… – May 2019
- “M is For Metallurgy: The Science of Metals” by Andrew DeVillier
- “Designing for Brain Health: Words, Ways, and Warmth” by Stephanie Morgan
- “Machine Learning for a Free and Open Internet” by Dr. Brandon Wiley
- Nerd Nite 113: Bee Curious – April 2019
- “Prussian Politics, Cell Theory, and Death by Sausages” by John Alaniz
- “Bee Barf: How Bees Make Honey and Other Un-bee-lievable Things Bees Do” by Erika Thompson
- “Retcon Artists: Retroactive Continuity in Popular Fiction and the Rise of Fake News” by Andrew J. Friedenthal
- Nerd Nite 112: Music! – March 2019
- “Music for the People” by Mickey Delp
- “An Improvisational Group Called Mongoose” by Christopher Petkus
- “Gradus ad Parnassum: Making Compositional Algorithms Based on 18th Century Species Counterpoint” by Dr. Thomas Echols
- Nerd Nite 111: I Want to Love You Like an Animal – February 2019
- “The Secret Sexy Signals of Fishes (& why they are better at privacy than 21st century humans)” by Molly Cummings
- “The Bonding Brain: Molecules, Memory, and Evolution” by Steven Phelps
- “A Taste for the Beautiful” by Michael Ryan
- Nerd Nite 110: Nerd Fun & Games – January 2019
- “An Introduction to the Sleestak Curve” by Sam Spetalnick
- “Characterization Through ‘Voice’ In Roleplay” by Michelle Elbert
- “Beyond the Lightning Bolt: Intro to Modern LARP” by Marc Majcher
- Nerd Nite 109: I Pity the Yule – December 2018
- “Pack Your Bags: We’re Going On A Gelt Trip! A Brief History of Hanukkah” by Jill V. Friedman
- “Undead Toys, Weird Presents, and Santa Killers: Christmas in the Comic Books!” by Brandon Zuern
- “Making a ‘Horribly Depressed’ Computer” by Alan Watts
- Nerd Nite 108: Adventures on the Electronic Frontier – November 2018
- “Net Neutrality 101” by Kevin Welch
- “Keep Austin Wired: A History of Local Net.Activism” by Jon Lebkowsky
- “A More Secure Home Network” by Chris Boyd
- Nerd Nite 107: Blood, Horror (Films!), and Nightmares – October 2018
- “BLOOD!!!! No… Seriously.” by Nick Canedo & Sean Roulier
- “Together in the Darkness: Our Connection with Horror” by Saul Ravencraft
- “Nightmares: Harmless Epiphenomenon and Mythological Thrift Shop” by Dan Crean
- Nerd Nite 106: From Sky to Springs – September 2018
- “Water Flowing Underground” by Saj Zappitello
- “Restoring the World” by Matt McCaw
- “Good Science = Good Water, but Grate Science = Greater Water” by Kevin Thuesen
- Nerd Nite 105: Villains, Skullduggery, and Mass Destruction – August 2018
- “Nuclear War & Nuclear Peace” by L.B. Deyo
- “How to Make good Bad Guys” by Kevin Garcia
- “Mission Possible – the Art of the Hack” by Shaun Cuttill
- Nerd Nite 104: A Texan and Two Austrians Walk into a Bar – July 2018
- “Tandy versus Radio Shack: A Mostly True Tale” by Paul Schreiber
- “From Caveman to Start-Up Bro: Clare W. Graves’ Value Systems and Their Application for Our Daily Lives” by L. Sophie Zechmeister
- “The Impact of Content Marketing” by Patrick Perlinger
- Nerd Nite 103: Hot Nerd Action and Good Solid Parenting – June 2018
- “Sex-Positive Parenting: Strategies for Raising Sexually Healthy Children” by Melissa Pintor Carnagey, LBSW
- “The Art of Spanking” by Nikki DaVaughn
- “Modern Swingers: An Ethnographic Study” by Stephanie E.
- Nerd Nite 102: Changing Minds: Beer, AI, and Mental Health – May 2018
- “Beer is Good for You” by Anna Lepeley, PhD
- “10 Weird and Wonderful Artificial Intelligences” by Ginette Methot and Curtis Seare
- “Mental Health Data That Will Blow Your Mind” by Daniel Morehead, MD
- Nerd Nite 101: From A Different Point Of View – April 2018
- “Too Hot for Robot” by Bon V Davis II
- “From Yuri’s Flight to Yuri’s Night” by Benjamin Howard
- “FPV and Drones: Changing our perspective one flight at a time” by Josh Ingram
- Nerd Nite 100: Love ’em & Leave ’em – February 2018
- “Star Death and Our Cosmic Origins” by Liz Kruesi
- “A Year in the Life of a Galaxy” by Joel Green
- “Give Your Own Nerd Nite Talk!” by Nichole Bennett
- Nerd Nite 99: Under The Influence – January 2018
- “Zombie Brains: Microbial Mind Control” by Rayna Harris
- “Party Gods: Deeds and Downfalls of Drunk Deities” by Kevin Garcia
- “Mars? How about the ocean? Can we *successfully* geoengineer our own planet?” by David S. Trossman
- Nerd Nite 98: The Eyes Have It – December 2017
- “Third Eye Blind: Evolution of the Circadian Clock and Why We Don’t Have a Pineal Eye” by Will Gelnaw
- “The Poetry of Jellyfish Science” by Juli Berwald
- Nerd Nite 97: Trivial Pursuits – November 2017
- “Bullet Curtains, Knife-Throwing Maids, and Shared Art: The Allure of Touhou” by Jennifer Raye
- “The History Of Tech Noir Films – Or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Our Existential Paranoia” by Kevin Welch
- “Pork barrel science, or What biologists have learned from dressing animals in clothes” by Dr. Tessa Solomon-Lane
- Nerd Nite 96: Communication Breakdown – October 2017
- “Super computing ‘cool’ applications” by Alex Bara
- “Put Down Your Phone, Increase Your Happiness: How to Develop a Healthy Relationship with Your Smartphone” by Gina Helfrich
- “Giving Voice: History, Science, and Application of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technology” by Jenna Haggard, SLP-A
- Nerd Nite 95: Party in the Anthropocene – September 2017
- “Secrets of the Feral City” by Christopher Brown
- “Low Carbon Leisure, Low Carbon Pleasure” by Dominic Boyer, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Cymene Howe
- Nerd Nite 94: Monomyths, Monoliths & Monokinis – August 2017
- “From Old Gods to New: The Connection Between Ancient Storytelling and Comic Book Movies” by Kevin Garcia
- “From Fiber to Fitting: Forming Fashionable Frocks” by Lilia Beaman
- “Yellow Brick Road: How LEGO became the largest toy company on Earth.” by J. J. Eggers
- Nerd Nite 93: Austrian Invasion, Part Zwei – July 2017
- “NESpectre: The Massively Multi-Haunted NES” by Andy Reitano
- “The Inuit: Culture, Conflicts and Contracts” by Jessica Burns
- “Prototyping, or How to Actually Start Making Things” by Stefan Salcher
- Nerd Nite 92: The Kids Are Alright – June 2017
- “We Are Van: How a Puppet was Born from a Love of Literacy” by Gabriel Ransenberg & Devo Carpenter
- “How moms control our biology: stories from birds and beyond” by Becca Young Brim
- “The Orange Years: A Primer on The Story of the Nickelodeon Network” by Scott Barber and Adam Sweeney
- Nerd Nite 91: Makers, Math & Mental Illness – May 2017
- “Fourier, the Freaky Freq” by Matthew Herman
- “Moore’s Law and The Maker Faire” by Joey Ficklin
- “The brain in mental illness: gaining knowledge, defeating stigma” by Steve Strakowski, MD
- Nerd Nite 90: Be Our Guest – April 2017
- “LATINO TOONS: Independent Comix from Latin America” by NAVA
- “There are always two ways out of the tunnel” by Ernesto Walker
- “Refugees, Actually” by Rachel Factor
- Nerd Nite 89: Sex Strikes Back – February 2017
- “Jezebel: The History of Black Women in Burlesque & Cabaret” by Nikki DaVaughn
- “So Many Choices!? Navigating the ever-changing landscape of open relationships” by Heather McPherson, LPC-S, LMFT
- “From boxes to ‘-ness’: a journey exploring gender” by Sam Killermann
- “Gender 👏 is 👏 a 👏 Construct 👏“
- Nerd Nite 88: Skillz to Pay the Billz – January 2017
- “Blues Dance:The Missing Half of the Music” by Josh Davis
- “PC Gaming in the 1980’s: A Digital (R)evolution” by Jeff Johannigman
- “A life shaped by sailing: Find out how yours can be enriched (with sailing treasure) too!” by Cap’n James Parsons of the Pirate
- Nerd Nite 87: Holiday Crossover! – December 2016
- “Return of Falconry: Sport of Kings/Nerds” by Steve Oleson
- “Aquascaping : Changing the way we see the modern freshwater aquarium” by Hiep Hong
- “The Venus Patrol 20: the best weird & wonderful games of 2016” by Brandon Boyer
- Nerd Nite 86: Popped Culture – November 2016
- “Math in Futurama” by Pedro Morales
- “Those Were the Greeks? The use and misuse of archaeology and ancient mythology in popular media” by Jamie Aprile
- Nerd Nite 85: Canerdians! – October 2016
- “Storytelling through concept albums- Gilgamesh through Deltron 3030 (and beyond)” by Amy Cavender
- “Alien Minds: Food for thought or thoughtful food?” by Lauren Shorser
- “Proud to be Canadian! Sorry.” by Virve Aljas
- Nerd Nite 84: Soul of the Machine – September 2016
- “Charles Mingus, Saint Francis, and Search for the Divine” by Owen Egerton
- “Drum Machines” by Mickey Delp
- “Underground Electronic Music” by Andria Benet
- Nerd Nite 83: Input/Output – August 2016
- “Deaf Gamer Network: History and Game Design” by Candy Villesca
- “A Non-Mathematical Introduction to the Theory of Computation” by Brandon Wiley
- “From Code to Your Eyes: How a Frame Gets Generated in a 3D Video Game” by Issam Khalil
- Nerd Nite 82: Austrian Invasion! – July 2016
- “Traditional Austrian Culture and Vinegar Fermentation” by Thomas Hollerer
- “The Perception of Randomness and Order in Life and in Math” by Isabella Deutsch
- “A tour through the stem cell world: from iPSCs to Organoids” by Sejla Salic
- Nerd Nite 81: Unscientifically Speaking – June 2016
- “On Psychics & Senses” by Vivian Hua (華婷婷)
- “One Artist & One Scientist Draw One Tree” by Jedidiah Dore & Hayley Gillespie
- “(Il)logical Intuition: Brujería, Academia, and Other Things that Don’t Make Sense” by Yvette DeChavez
- Nerd Nite 80: Cultura – May 2016
- “Sex and Power: Abortion and contraception policy in Texas” by Amanda Jean Stevenson
- “Cultura Within” by Angelica Sibrian
- Nerd Nite 79: What Rough Beast? – April 2016
- “Out of the woods and into our trash: How animals thrive in the human world” by Calder Kamin
- “The Gault Site, Zooarchaeology, and Identifying the Unidentifiable” by Erin Keenan
- “The Age of CRISPR – What Will We Do Now That We Can Do Anything?” by Joe Hanson
- Nerd Nite 78: Through a Lens, Weirdly – February 2016
- “Wittgenstein’s Tractatus” by L.B. Deyo
- “Herbert and Jodorowsky: The Unintentional Meta-Messiah in ‘Jodorowsky’s Dune’” by Brandy Eileen Allatt
- “Not-So-Young Turks: an Exploration of Otherworldly Turkish Cinema” by Tim League and Joe Ziemba
- Nerd Nite 77: Ace in the Hole – January 2016
- “Lemmium” by J. J. Eggers
- “How to avoid a tough situation — and get out of possibly the most dangerous situation of your life” by Mark Childers & Salil Puri
- “The Art of Hostage Negotiation: Past, Present, and Future” by James Nichols
- Nerd Nite 76: A Sea Turtle, a Dinosaur & a Jellyfish Walk into a Bar – December 2015
- “Should You Prepare to Meet Your Jellyfish Overlords?” by Juli Berwald
- “Sea Turtles: Here for Millions of Years, Almost Gone in a Generation” by Melissa Gaskill
- “Dinosaurs in Living Color” by Julia Clarke
- Nerd Nite 75: Escher, Dress those IllumiNaughty Ladies! – November 2015
- “Orange is the New Black: Through the Lens of Feminist Criminology” by Stephanie Foster
- “The ‘Truth’ About Secret Societies” by Randy Smith
- “Mathematics and the Art of Surface Pattern Design” by Ann Kilzer
- Nerd Nite 74: Close En-quarters – October 2015
- “Space is hard” by Leon Vanstone
- “The Dumpster Project: Building Home in an Unlikely Space” by Amanda Masino and Karen Magid
- “Austin’s Underground Frontier” by Justin Shaw
- Nerd Nite 73: The Other Side (co-sponsored by AMODA) – September 2015
- “Penguin Poop From Space and Other Shenanigans From A Russian Research Vessel” by M. Potter
- “Electronic Divination: Surrender to the Machine!” by Rachel Simone Weil
- “In the Night and in the Shadows: Charles Meryon’s Dark Visions of the City of Light” by Sarah Abare
- “AMODA” by Stephen Fishman with performance by Kyle Evans
- Nerd Nite 72: The Bizness – August 2015
- “The Bad-Ass Life and Music of Bobby Darin” by Jeff Gross
- “ACL Fest Tickets: While Supplies Last” by Connor McGee
- “To the Left of the Dial: College Radio in the US” by Elizabeth Hansen
- Nerd Nite Presents: Waking Life with Bob Sabiston – July 2015
- “It was all a dream: A look back at Waking Life” by Bob Sabiston
- Nerd Nite 71: Almost an Animal – July 2015
- “Bald Eagles v. Banana Slugs: What’s the deal with college mascots?” by Jen Nailos
- “Pets in the Ancient World” by Brendan McLeod
- “The Robot Petting Zoo: Why can’t I just hold a kitten?” by Bon V. Davis II
- Nerd Nite 70: Sick Mods! – June 2015
- “You’re growing what in there?: A brief overview of noninvasive prenatal testing and fetal DNA analysis” by Claire Sellers
- “My Shoes Talk to Twitter: Wearable Technology and the Internet” by Kassandra Perch
- “The Modern Freak” by The Lizardman
- Nerd Nite 69: Balance – May 2015
- “Countersteering and the cerebrum: The mechanics of balance on two wheels” by Zach Vonler
- “Shrinking Heads and Expanding Minds: A Psychiatrist Wonders About Mental Illness” by Daniel Morehead, MD
- “Tour of Origami” by Robby Kraft
- Nerd Nite 68: MONEY – is it a gas? – April 2015
- “Love in the Time of Quantitative Easing” by Ken Standley
- “Grab the Bear by the Bulls, the Funny True History of Markets and Capital” by Jake McClure
- “Bitcoin: A Revolution In Trust” by Scott Rose
- Nerd Nite Presents: The Comedy of Politics and the Politics of Comedy – March 2015
- “The Comedy of Politics and the Politics of Comedy” by Dominic Boyer
- “The Comedy of Politics and the Politics of Comedy” by Jón Gnarr
- Nerd Nite 67: Civitas – February 2015
- “When Deep Throat is a Late Night Meeting: The Captivatingly Mundane World of Local Political Journalism (in the ATX)” by Mike Kanin
- “How can nerds make change in the policy arena?” by Representative Mary Gonzalez
- “Sheryl Cole interviewed” by Sheryl Cole / Michael Kanin
- Nerd Nite 66: Good, Evil, It All Sounds Fine to Me – January 2015
- “Sex, Murder, and Magic in 17th Century France: The Affair of the Poisons” by Marianna Symeonides
- “How to be Good: Overcoming Unconscious Bias (with some help from Aristotle)” by Dr. Gina Helfrich
- “Sound’s Good To Me!” by Tim Fitzgerald
- “Jennifer Ferrell Clip” by Tim Fitzgerald
- “New Nerd Nite Shirt 2015” by Stephen Fishman
- Nerd Nite 65: All Your Game Are Belong To Us – December 2014
- “Austin in the Game: a non-exhaustive list of references to Austin made in commercial video games” by John Henderson
- “Descended from 8-Bit: The process of arranging video game music compositions for a live band” by Amanda Lepre
- “The Venus Patrol 20: the best weird & wonderful games of 2014” by Brandon Boyer
- Nerd Nite 64: You think this is a game? – November 2014
- “But That’s a BOY Toy: Gender and Advertising in Engineering Toys” by Libby Banks
- “Spoony Bards: An Overview of Video Game Localization” by Cullen Scarborough
- “From Michel Foucault to Tim Duncan: A Gameplan on Basketball and Postmodernism” by Joe Faina
- Nerd Nite 63: On the Edge – October 2014
- “Tribes on the Edge: a behind the scenes tale of CauseCentric exploration” by Céline Cousteau
- “Journey to the Edge of the Universe” by Rachael Livermore
- “Go Ahead & Do It: The Raddest Women in Science” by Dr. Hayley Gillespie
- Nerd Nite 62: Magic Kingdom Come – September 2014
- “Growing Up in the Happiest Place on Earth: A Brief History of Disneyland” by Jeffrey Silverman
- “Celestial Dodge Ball” by Judit Gyorgyey Ries
- “Puns: You’re Not Groaner Believe This” by Cameron Russell
- Nerd Nite 61: Total Nerdicorn – August 2014
- “Finding the Right Tools for the As-yet-to-be-determined Job.” by Stephen Hal Fishman
- “Interpretive Dance: Not as Lame as it Sounds.” by Lindsey Taylor
- “This jam is a time machine. Music as the flux capacitor of the soul.” by Lyman Hardy III
- Nerd Nite Presents The Life Aquatic – July 2014
- Nerd Nite 60: Intergalactic Nerdisis – July 2014
- “Science friction: Banging, Rubbing and Ringing in the Sounds of the Future” by Buzz Moran
- “From Radio Play to Comic Book to Stage: how we created The Intergalactic Nemesis” by Jason Neulander
- “A day in the life on tour!” by Jessie Douglas
- Nerd Nite 59: Library Lovers & Awesome Archivists – June 2014
- “The Amazing Archives of Central Texas” by Jennifer Hecker
- “Will we need public libraries in ten years?” by Michelle Cervantes
- “It’s The World’s Biggest Party, And You’re Invited: How to Enjoy Soccer’s World Cup” by Dave Brett Wasser
- Nerd Nite 58: Sacrifice Your Body – May 2014
- “Body Language-The Art of Interpreting Live Performances Into ASL by Visual Voice Interpreting” by Shelby Mitchusson & Suzie Bush
- “I love Earth. That’s why I’m going to Mars.” by Sonia Van Meter
- “Strength Athletics: Hoisting Rocks Through Time” by Chris van der Hoeven
- Nerd Nite 57: Nerd Nite vs. Smart Girls – April 2014
- “One Weird Trick…Weird ways to stay fit (and have fun) in Austin” by Pam LeBlanc
- “Wilderness Medicine: A neurological explanation and psychoanalysis on being lost, then found, and, factors that determines who lives and dies” by Kimery Duda
- “GET YOUR HAIR WET: The importance of play in the life of a human being” by Ashley Kuske
- Nerd Nite 56: NNSX: Deep Space, Dark Energy, Neural Time! – March 2014
- “Dark Energy. Or, Hunting the Heffalump” by Sarah Tuttle
- “Time in the Brain” by Dr. Chess Stetson
- “Increasing the Awesome: NASA’s Next Huge Space Telescope, Part 2” by Amber Straughn
- Nerd Nite 55: Sex Nite Confessions – February 2014
- “A Brief History of Select Kinks” by Megan E. Allen
- “Simplified Dating” by Harris O’Malley (aka Dr. NerdLove)
- “Sex Nite Confessions” by Sexpert Panel
- Nerd Nite 54: Serious Fun – January 2014
- “Twisty Puzzles: More than Fun & Games” by Jeffry Mayoff
- “Twisty Puzzles: More than Fun & Games” by Jeffry Mayoff
- “Death Of A Salesbot: Adult Themes in Transformers: The Movie, The Toys, The Show” by Colin Gray
- “Mastery: Cataloging Every Sega Master System Game” by Derek Slaton
- Nerd Nite 53: Once and Future Nerds – December 2013
- “Neuroscience, Evolution, Law and Ethics: The evolutionary reasons smart people do stupid things” by Jake Joiner
- “StarDate 2014: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the McDonald Observatory” by Rebecca Johnson
- “Yesterday’s Tomorrows” by Heydn Ericson
- Nerd Nite 52: Music is a Calculation – November 2013
- “Harmonics in Math, Art and Music” by Dr. Fumiko Futamura
- “The Best of All Possible Worlds: Grażyna Bacewicz’s Music & the Conflicting Forces in Post-War Poland” by Sam Spetalnick
- “Music Is Math” by Tiffany Criswell
- Nerd Nite 51: BUGS BUGS BUGS BUGS – October 2013
- “Invading Ants — what can be done?” by Rob Plowes
- “Entomophagy: Feeding a Growing Population Without Destroying the Planet” by Robert Nathan Allen
- “Spiders Demystified” by Ian Wright
- Nerd Nite 50: Technoarchaeology! – September 2013
- “Printer Jam: Ink-Enhanced Video Games of the 1990s” by Rachel Simone Weil
- “0x0000B11D : Jeff Spangenberg is a weenie” by Andrew Reitano
- “The Golden Age of the Home Computer” by Mickey Delp
- Nerd Nite Beerpalooza! – August 2013
- “A Molecular Approach to Tasting Beer” by Jeff Young of Black Star Coop
- “Wild Fermentation” by Jeffrey Stuffings of Jester King
- “Craft Beer and Cultural Relevance” by Josh Hare of Hops & Grain
- Nerd Nite 49: GameGamesGames – August 2013
- “The Devil with the Hole-y Glove – Willie Wells & Austin’s Negro League Baseball History” by Eric Robinson
- “Falconry: Sport of Kings/Nerds” by Steve Oleson
- “Pining for Droogs at the Milkbar: Despotic Mind and Body Control in YA Dystopian Fiction, 1993-2013” by Gwynne Ash
- Nerd Nite 48: Adapted! – July 2013
- “Climate Change and Human Evolution: From Petite Primates to Big-ass, Bipedal Apes” by Sierra Castedo
- “Algae 101: Saving the world one micro-organism at a time” by Michael Jochum
- “Year of the Pig” by Mark Hainds
- Nerd Nite 47: Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age – June 2013
- “Bad Copy?: Musical Origins, Mimesis, and late 80’s Christian Metal” by Jesse Kinbarovsky
- “Cymbals: Their history and mystery” by Matt Herman
- “Drum Solo” by Matt Herman
- “WTF is IDM” by Tim Bedard
- Nerd Nite 46: Nerds At Play! – May 2013
- “Roleplaying Games – Modern Cooperative Storytelling” by Nathan Black & Marc Majcher
- “Ham Radio: The Original Nerd Hobby” by Jim Bryce
- “Cosplay Curious” by Michelle Elbert
- Nerd Nite 45: Keep Austin Specialty – April 2013
- “The Wire: Public Gondola Transit for Austin” by Michael McDaniel
- “Con Olio, Oil and Vinegar Nerds” by Jeff Conarko
- “All That is Satin is NOT Always Silk” by April Kling Meyer
- Nerd Nite 44: NxSA – March 2013
- “Increasing the Awesome: NASA’s Next Huge Space Telescope” by Amber Straughn
- “Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Runaway Universe” by Jeffrey Silverman
- “Assembling Alien Worlds from Scratch” by Joel Green
- Nerd Nite 43: Black History Month – February 2013
- “The Lives of Blacks in Texas 1950-2010” by Jennifer Alexander
- “African Americans and U.S. Navy Diving: A Legacy of Performance Under Pressure” by Fred McGhee
- “The (R)Evolution Of Malcolm X” by Lashonda Lester
- Nerd Nite 42: Nerd Nite + Bedpost Confessions – January 2013
- “How Not To Be Sexy” by Julie Gillis
- “Nerd Nite + Bedpost Confessions: Sexpert Panel” by Sexpert Panel
- “Cock Blocking in the Lonestar State: How Texas’s Sex Toy Ban Got Overturned in Court” by Julie Sunday
- “From Crocodile Dung to Condoms: An Oral History of Birth Control” by Arlene Cornejo
- Nerd Nite 41: Word Nerds – December 2012
- “Scrabble: It’s Your Word Against Mine” by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
- “Spoken Nerd: An Incomplete History of Nerd Poetry” by Mike Henry
- “Geeking Out All Over Hollywood” by Ernest Cline
- “Nerd Nite Promo – Ernest Cline“
- Nerd Nite 40: Keep Austin Fed – November 2012
- “What is Sake? And why would anyone make it in Texas?” by Yoed Anis
- “Aqua Dulce Farm: Sustainably growing organic veggies and fresh fish in Austin” by Jack Waite
- “Afield: A Chef’s Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish” by Chef Jesse Griffiths with Jody Horton
- Nerd Nite 39: Boo! – October 2012
- “20 Hits from Hell” by George Royer
- “BLOOD!” by Edwin Wise
- “The Dark Side of Human Mating” by David Buss
- Nerd Nite 38: Nerd Nite & Dorkbot: Makin’ It Together – September 2012
- “Hello, Arduino: Meet the tiny computer built for makers and crafters” by Sharon Cichelli
- “Replicating Reality: Print Adventures in the 3rd Dimension” by Matt Mancuso
- “How to Make a Robot Without Knowing Electronics” by Luke Keyes
- Nerd Nite 37: In the Cards – August 2012
- “Tarot is bullsh*t, but it works” by JC Dwyer
- “How to stop losing at No Limit Texas Hold’em” by John Porterfield
- “Party Game Deconstruction: Case Studies in Maximal Fun Generation” by Jonathan Leistiko
- Nerd Nite 36: Space, Redefined – July 2012
- Nerd Nite 35: Mixed Media – June 2012
- “How The Intergalactic Nemesis Started Taking Over the World” by Jason Neulander
- “The Neuroscience of Logo Design” by Dr. Cynthia Phelps
- “Advanced techniques for digital fine art nature photography” by Bruce Leander
- Nerd Nite 34: The Machines are Learning! – May 2012
- “Machine Learning and How it is Revolutionizing Computing” by Dr. Raymond Mooney
- “Teaching a Computer to Understand Human Language” by Dr. David Chen
- “Work Smarter, Train Faster: How to Train Your Robot Using Fewer Attempts” by Chris Flesher
- Nerd Nite 33: Hidden Structures – April 2012
- “Hot, Wet, & Infectious: Tropical Diseases in the United States” by Stavana Strutz
- “Words Making Babies: Why Exocentric Compounds Are Sexy” by Chris Magyar
- “I-35: Why Did It Take a While to Get Here?” by Kenneth A Perrine
- Nerd Nite 32: Interact with Music – March 2012
- “Electronic Sound Synthesis” by Mickey Delp
- “Art and Our Community” by Matthew Hinsley
- “Chiptunes and the Tools That Love Them” by Jared Blondeau
- Nerd Nite 31: Sex Nite Confessions – February 2012
- “Cybering: The Art of Sexy Chat” by Isabeau Dumont
- “Sex Education in Texas– Learning How To Do It In The Lone Star State” by Amy Cavender
- “Nerding Out Non-Monogamy Style” by Julie Gillis
- Nerd Nite 30: Randomizers, Magicology, and Balloon-Kata – December 2011
- “Randomizers, Meeples, and Metaphysics: Game Design and Applied Philosophy” by Jonathan Leistiko
- “Societal Magic” by Trevor Kniffin
- “Nate the Great’s Balloon Dojo” by Nate Culpepper
- Nerd Nite 29: Foodie Nite! – November 2011
- “Farming to Facebook, the new frontier of food” by Addie Broyles
- “We don’t need no stinking sides, a nerds view of Central Texas BBQ” by Tom Mahnke and Matthew Johnson
- “Getting Dirty: A Behind the Scenes Look at Johnson’s Backyard Garden Organic Farm.” by Brenton Johnson
- Nerd Nite 28: Punless! – September 2011
- “Clues Within the Clues: Solving the New York Times Crossword Puzzle” by Abigail Mahnke
- “Cambodian Shadow Puppetry” by Abra Chusid
- “Super weapons of the near future: It’s about power” by Blake Freeburg
- Nerd Nite 27: Goodbye to All That – August 2011
- “Wiggle or Waggle: Modes of Locomotion in Low Reynolds Number Fluids” by Dan Rumney
- “The Courthouses of Central Texas” by Brantley Hightower
- Nerd Nite 26: Puppetry of the Peonies – July 2011
- “Puppet Improv: Is Totally a Thing” by Sara Farr & Patrick Knisley
- “Hydroponics, Fad or Food’s Future?” by CJ Oden
- “Birding on Broadmeade — Birdwatching and Nature Observation in a Northwest Austin Neighborhood” by Mikael Behrens
- Nerd Nite 25: Obscure Arts – June 2011
- “How to Steal a Nuclear Warhead Without Voiding Your XBox Warranty” by Jamie Schwettmann
- “Hydroponics, Fad or Food’s Future?” by CJ Oden
- “Lock Picking Demystified” by Eric Michaud
- Nerd Nite 24: The Abyss – April 2011
- “Expeditionary Cave Diving” by Bill Stone
- “Sense Deprivation and Immersion” by Robin Arnott
- “Corals are Not Rocks” by Sarah Davies
- Nerd Nite 23: Space Jam – March 2011
- “Stellar Alchemy” by Julie Hollek
- “Planet Construction: Building Alien Worlds” by Joel Green
- “The Beginnings of the Universe” by Athena Stacy
- “The NASA Musical Outreach Program“
- Nerd Nite 22: This Show Is NSFW – February 2011
- “The Mathematics of Dating” by Sheena Madan
- “An Introduction to Erotic Fan Fiction For Aspiring Writers” by F*Bomb
- “Steers, Queers, and… Sex Toys in Texas” by Julie Sunday
- Nerd Nite 21: Fashion, Gaming and a Judge named Barefoot – December 2010
- “Motivation and Games Through the Looking Glass” by Kain Shin
- “Pseudo-Rebellion and the Tyranny of Cool” by Claire James
- “Civil Rights, White Flight, and a Judge named Barefoot: How Brown Vs The Board of Education created Nerd High” by Lisa McAnally-Maddox
- Nerd Nite 20: San Antonio Invades Nerd Nite! – November 2010
- “Anchor Babies & H1Bs : The Many Myths of Immigration Law” by Alexandra Minnaar
- “Heavy Metal: A brief introduction to the carillon, the world’s largest and most hidden instrument” by Sarah Donaldson
- “Getting Jiggy With the Nuts and Bolts of Traditional Irish Music” by Justin Tullius
- Nerd Nite 19: Martinis, Butterflies, Eyeball-Mario! – October 2010
- “Play Nintendo with YOUR EYES and other OMG-DIY magic!” by Hunter S.
- “Butterflies & Climate Change” by Nichole Bennett
- “History of the Martini” by David Alan
- Nerd Nite 18: Bleeps and Burnt Emulsion – September 2010
- “Making Beautiful Noise with Analog Electronics” by Dr. Bleep
- “Tintype Photography” by Heather Curiel
- Nerd Nite 17: Mulling Codes, Mutiny and Wine – August 2010
- “Wondered about Wine? The Ramblings of a Master Sommelier” by David Furer
- “Incident on the USS Somers: The Only Mutiny in US Naval History, or Should We Not Have Hung Those Guys?” by Steven Polunsky
- “Scanning the World: How QR Codes Put the Web Into Real Life” by Rachel Youens
- Nerd Nite 16: Eyeball melting; Tango trotting; Space exploring – July 2010
- “Visual Effects from a Nerd in the Trenches” by Armando Kirwin
- “Why Go Into Space? 43 Reasons in 20 Minutes” by Hal Fulton
- “History and State of the Tango” by Nico Williams
- Nerd Nite 15: Hack, Slice and Hook – June 2010
- “Synthetic Biology: Why Nanites Should be Made of MEAT” by Marshall Vaughan
- “Happy Hookers: How Crochet, Hyperbolic Math, and Cognitive Science All Knit Together” by Tanya Tarr
- “The History of the World Cup, and Why You Should Watch It” by Dave Wasser
- Nerd Nite 14: World Domination – May 2010
- “The Psychology of Persuasion: World Domination in Four Easy Steps” by John De Mott
- “Trial by Fire: The DARPA Grand Challenge and the Search for Robust Autonomy” by David Rosen
- “Hypotheses on the Tactics of Naval Warfare in Space” by Peter Kong
- Nerd Nite 13: No Joke – April 2010
- “Indian Language Politics, or How Gandhi Pissed Off Almost Everyone” by Libby Bowers
- “You gonna eat that?” by Claire Sweet
- “A Planetarium for Austin; an Historical Perspective” by Torvald Hessel