By Tracy Loew, USA TODAY
It was standing room only at Brown’s Towne Lounge in Salem, Ore., on a recent Tuesday night.
The crowd of about 100 wasn’t there for a popular band or a happy hour special. They came for a lecture on behavioral neuroendocrinology, by Emma Coddington, an assistant professor of biology at Willamette University.
Across the country, thousands of people are gathering for monthly science pubs such as this one — informal lectures combined with food and drink that cover everything from the physics of flight to fire ecology to crime forensics. They’re part of a loosely coordinated global “science cafe” movement that’s been around for a couple of decades but has surged in the past year.
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