Hey there, Ira here. Last week, we marked the end of our Science Friday book club reading of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time.

And to celebrate, we held a time traveler cocktail party at caveat in New York City.

We had hands-on physics demos, made time capsules, learned about the quest to find intermediate mass black holes,

and of course, there were themed drinks.

So we thought we'd share a selection of highlights from the night so you could enjoy it too.

Oh, and one quick warning, this was an after-hours cocktail party,

so the language isn't quite as squeaky clean as your average science Friday.

Here's events manager Rachel Baton, kicking things on.

Hello, thank you all so much for being here and for joining me across the expanse of space

and time. I want to practice something with you all. We're going to do this a couple times

throughout the evening. When I say what time is it, I want you to yell, space time, okay? So what

time is it? Space time. Oh, that feels good. All right. So Ryan Mendelbaum is a space

right over Gizmodo where they cover anything smaller

than a virus and anything larger than a planet.

Ryan first started a brief history of time in high school and they're super into birds,

which I think is very cool.

They'll be in conversation with Jillian Bellowary, who is PhD in astronomy at the University

of Washington and is currently an assistant professor at Queensboro Community College and a research scientist

at the American Museum of National History,

where she studies the formation and evolution

of massive black holes using cosmological hydrodynamic

simulations.

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