The Social Study
Host on Eventship
Curiosity-driven talks in bars and breweries. Smart, casual, and social.
Upcoming events
- Who Supports the Leader? The Hidden Mental Health Cost of Being in Charge — Oct 29, 2026
- Is Education Over? Rethinking How We Learn in the Age of AI — Oct 29, 2026
- From Pixels to Pedals: How AI Learns to Drive — Oct 29, 2026
- Laughing Matters: What Humor Reveals About the Mind — Nov 4, 2026
- The Women Behind The Space Age: Three Pioneers, Overlooked Stories — Nov 4, 2026
- Implicit Spillover: How Unconscious Associations Shape Consumer Choice — Nov 5, 2026
- When Medicine Meets Everyday Life: Why Medication Design Matters — Nov 11, 2026
- The Design of Calm: Why Some Spaces Just Feel Right — Nov 11, 2026
- More Than Companions: The Science and Rules Behind Support Animals — Nov 17, 2026
- Where Do I Belong? Race, Identity, and College Choice — Nov 17, 2026
- Think You Know Bollywood? Beyond the Songs and Stereotypes — Nov 19, 2026
Past events
- After the Impact: What Really Happens to the Injured Brain — Oct 23, 2026
- The Last Employee: AI, Globalization, and the Future of Work — Oct 22, 2026
- Beyond the Trip: What Psychedelics Do to the Brain and Body — Oct 20, 2026
- Who’s Really In Your Corner? The Science of Building a Stronger Social World — Oct 15, 2026
- Your Mind In The Natural Order: Rethinking Consciousness Through Biology — Oct 13, 2026
- The Fantasy of Entrepreneurship: What Happens When There Is No Previous Playbook — Oct 8, 2026
- Hue’s the Boss? What Color Is Really Doing to You — Oct 8, 2026
- Anthropology Through Science Fiction: What Imagined Worlds Reveal About Being Human — Sep 24, 2026
- Cancer’s Achilles’ Heel: How Targeted Therapies Are Changing Treatment — Sep 17, 2026
- Crisis Leadership: Lessons from Inside a Terrorist Attack — Sep 15, 2026
- The Science of Space: How Building Design Shapes the Way We Think and Feel — Sep 9, 2026
- Lights out: Data Centers and the Coming Strain on the Electric Grid — Sep 8, 2026
- The Story You Carry: Becoming the Hero of Your Life After Trauma — Sep 3, 2026
- The Happyness Project: Purpose, Perspective, and the Practice of Joy — Sep 3, 2026
- Who Gets To Go To Space? Equity, Representation, and Humanity’s Future Beyond Earth — Aug 25, 2026
- How Immigrants Built America: The Talent, Grit & Genius Behind U.S. Innovation — Aug 19, 2026
- Rewiring Recovery: The Science of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy for Addiction — Aug 18, 2026
- Beyond the Yellow Tape: The True Life of a CSI — Aug 13, 2026
- Introduction to Quantum Modeling: Predicting Matter Before It’s Made — Aug 13, 2026
- Yesterday’s Tomorrow: What Science Fiction Got Right, Wrong, and Still Might — Aug 12, 2026
- Survival of the Dreamers: The Evolutionary Power of Imagination — Aug 6, 2026
- The Unexpected Glimmer: How Radiation Therapy Became Precision Cancer Care — Aug 4, 2026
- Men's Mental Health: Yes, It's a Thing and What to Do about It — Jul 30, 2026
- Fit for Life: The Real Science Behind Movement and Longevity — Jul 23, 2026
- The Why of Money: Getting Out of Your Own Way to Earn What You Deserve — Jul 23, 2026
- Corporate Reckoning: How Businesses Atone for Historical Wrongs — Jul 16, 2026
- The Psychology of Cults: Influence, Identity, and the Hidden Mechanics of Control — Jul 16, 2026
- How You’re Using AI: And How It’s Using You — Jul 14, 2026
- Presidential Seclusion: A Rare Virtual Tour of Camp David — Jul 9, 2026
- The Happyness Project: Purpose, Perspective, and Positivity — Jul 8, 2026
- A Bit of Sunshine Below the Surface: How Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy Can Change Your Life — Jul 7, 2026
- Peering Into Lost Landscapes: Reading Artifacts as Spatial Archives — Jun 30, 2026
- Can I Pull You for a Chat? Parasocial Relationships in the Digital Age — Jun 25, 2026
- Your Body’s Alarm System: Identifying and Regulating our Nervous system Response — Jun 25, 2026
- Inside Deepfakes: An Interactive Deep Dive into the New Global AI Nightmare — Jun 18, 2026
- When Longing Becomes Your Lover: Untangling Limerence in Modern Dating — Jun 16, 2026
- Same Board, Different Lives: What Chess Reveals About Pressure, Access, and Opportunity — Jun 3, 2026
- Pain, Myths, and Medical Blind Spots: Why Endometriosis Isn’t What We Think It Is — Jun 3, 2026
- The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction: How the System Gets It Wrong, and How We Undo It — Jun 2, 2026
- Blue Economy and Innovation in San Diego — May 26, 2026
- Gold Rush Colorado: How Cripple Creek Changed Everything — May 26, 2026
- Mo Money Mo Problems: Financial Literacy in a TikTok World — May 21, 2026
- Who Will Lead the Next Giant Leap? — May 21, 2026
- High Science: Cannabis, the eCBome & the Biology of homeostasis — May 19, 2026
- When Crushes Become Criminal: The Hidden Reality of Modern (Cyber) Stalking — May 12, 2026
- Tales of Life and Death in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Wildfire — May 7, 2026
- Ego Unmasked: Decoding Inner Dialogue — May 5, 2026
- Small Microbes, Big Stakes: The Infant Microbiome and Lifelong Health — Apr 29, 2026
- Endometriosis Unmasked: Science vs. the Stories We’ve Been Told — Apr 28, 2026
- The Street Art Revolution — Apr 28, 2026
- The Black Market Drug Market Hidden in Plain Sight — Apr 23, 2026
- Before the First Dose: One Deep Dive into How We Test mRNA Vaccines for Safety — Apr 21, 2026
- Discover The Science and The Magic Behind Living Light — Apr 14, 2026
- A Queen’s Toast: Liquid Authority in Ancient Peru — Apr 14, 2026
- Who Built This City? — Apr 9, 2026
- How AI Can Warp Our Reality — Apr 8, 2026
- How Dust Reveals Distant Worlds! — Apr 2, 2026
- The Rise of Television: From Broadcast Beginnings to Streaming Giants — Apr 2, 2026
- Identifying Truthful Media in the Age of Misinformation — Mar 25, 2026
- From Concept to Clinic: The Journey of Drug Discovery — Mar 19, 2026
- Belief with Conditions: How Juvenile Justice Learned to Fear Kids — Mar 19, 2026
- Built to Fail: How Schools Become Gateways to Incarceration — Mar 18, 2026
- You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent — Mar 10, 2026
- Spines, Shields, Sprays, Swords, and Stripes: The Evolution of Mammalian Defenses and Coloration — Mar 10, 2026
- The Economic and Societal Impacts of Space Weather — Mar 4, 2026
- The Why of Money - How to Leverage Other Peoples Money — Mar 3, 2026
- When Sharing Isn’t Caring: Epidemics in a Connected World — Feb 26, 2026
- Fossils Beneath Your Feet — Feb 26, 2026
- The Women Pioneers of Space Science — Feb 24, 2026
- Navigating the Data Deluge — Feb 19, 2026
- Cults and the Human Need for Belonging — Feb 19, 2026
- Degrees of Freedom: On Robotics and Social Justice — Feb 12, 2026
- Blessed Bones: The Human Body and Religious Expression in Italy — Feb 11, 2026
- Evaluating Next-Generation Technologies for a Clean & Green Energy Future — Feb 5, 2026
- Don’t Take the Blue Pill (Or the Red One): Navigating the Matrix of Counterfeits — Feb 5, 2026
- Inside the Black Box: How ChatGPT Handles Your Data (and How to Keep It Yours) — Feb 4, 2026
- Closing the Gap for Our Ocean Giants: A Story of Hope from Baja — Jan 30, 2026
- From Cradle to Cancer: How the Microbiome Shapes Health Across a Lifetime — Jan 29, 2026
- The Mythology of Race & Mass Subjugation — Jan 22, 2026
- The Hidden Costs of Pollution — Jan 20, 2026
- An Evening of Sound & Story with the SD Symphony and Jacobs Music Center — Jan 13, 2026
- The Sociology of Illicit Markets — Jan 13, 2026
- Persistent Effects of Adolescent THC — Jan 8, 2026
- Un-Gypsied: Rewriting the Story of the Romani People — Jan 8, 2026
- Mythology Today: How Ancient Stories Shape Language, Laws and Life — Dec 17, 2025
- Engineered Viruses: Nature’s Pirates Turned Therapeutic Tools — Dec 17, 2025
- What Is Reality? The Intersection of Physics, Philosophy, and Faith — Dec 12, 2025
- The Restriction Paradox: How Dieting Creates the Problems It Tries to Solve — Dec 11, 2025
- Beheadings and Betrayals: The Powerful Women of Baroque Art History — Dec 3, 2025
- Your Money, Your Mind: Why Smart People Stay Stuck — Dec 3, 2025