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Cafe Scientifique

Bryant-Lake Bowl Cabaret Theater
Minneapolis, MN

Hosted by John Erik Troyer Ph.D.
Cafe Scientifique is a happy hour forum for science and culture hosted by the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum of Natural History. Each month, experts from a variety of fields present cutting-edge research on diverse scientific topics - from the politics of genetic testing, to the possibility of a new flu pandemic.

This month: Human Hearing and the Frog Chorus
U of M professor Mark Bee studies the mechanisms and evolution of acoustic communication in animals. Humans with hearing loss often cannot pick out an individual voice amid background noises, but frogs in a chorus excel at this. What can we learn from their abilities? Could the encroaching sounds of traffic and other human noises be threatening animals' important ability to recognize acoustic signals?

Kid Friendly: No

Dog Friendly: No

Non-Smoking: No

Wheelchair Accessible: No

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