Thirsty for real conversation?  Come to Café Sci and join a lively discussion at a local pub.And you get to talk with your mouth full…with free appetizers, plus drink specials!THE TOPIC: Your body is remarkably perfect. That pair of arms you have for example. One left, one right. How did they know to grow that way? It’s as if each hand knew what the other was doing.If you look hard, you can find the recipe that helped your body turn out the way it did. It’s all right there in your DNA.We’ve all heard of DNA, but it is really just a little molecule. How does the recipe in this molecule get turned into you: a living, breathing creature? The race to understand this is leading to discoveries and tools that are rapidly transforming our ability to guide life itself.Join Café Sci as Harvard Medical School researcher Cliff Tabin brings us tales from the front lines of genetics. What is the limit of our capacity to direct the shape life takes? What does it look like when one species evolves from another? Does this mean we’re finally on the verge of growing wings?THE DETAILS:Café Sci meets in Inman SquareStarts at 6:30pm, Sunday, May 18The Thirsty Scholar, www.thirstyscholarpub.com 70 Beacon Street, SomervilleFREE FOOD! DRINK SPECIALS!This Sunday’s event is produced in participation with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: www.amacad.org. Root for the Celtics! If they go to a game 7 with Cleveland we may have to reschedule this event. Café Sci encourages open, easy-to-understand conversation.  No lectures.  No PowerPoint. No technical jargon.Café Sci is free and open to all (21+ at Thirsty Scholar). Bring your friends, tell your neighbors, post this message, and pass it along.Café Sci is an ongoing series.To be added to the e-mail list write to getinvolved@wgbh.org.Find other science cafes at www.sciencecafes.org.Hosted by the public television science series NOVA scienceNOW, produced by WGBH. Watch online at: www.pbs.org/nova/sciencenow
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