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AT THE<br />

BAR, SHOUTING<br />

AT SOMEONE ON THE STAGE.<br />

Typically, such interjections are<br />

limited to quick bursts of “Play<br />

‘Freebird!’” or other, more colorful,<br />

witticisms. But on a Tuesday night<br />

in Brooklyn not long ago, the guy<br />

with the shaved head and the beer<br />

in his hand bellowed, “From a<br />

bio-geographical standpoint, how<br />

much overlap is there between New<br />

Guinea and Australia?”<br />

The lady on the stage was Dr.<br />

Susan Pell of the Brooklyn Botanic<br />

Garden, and she had an answer<br />

ready. (The short version, for those<br />

who are curious, was “Tons.”) But<br />

prior to this evening—at talks<br />

describing her fauna-gathering<br />

expedition to a volcanic island<br />

chain off of Papua New Guinea to<br />

student groups, gardening clubs<br />

and museum audiences—Pell<br />

had never prefaced her response<br />

by asking the crowd, “Doesn’t<br />

someone have a beer for me?”<br />

Welcome to the Secret<br />

Science Club.<br />

(opposite page) Audience member Susannah Shepherd with “Rump Ape,” an entry in the<br />

The Carnivorous Nights Taxidermy Contest at Union Hall, Brooklyn, NY, for the Secret Science Club;<br />

(this page) Ryan Toth from the Evolution Store displays a photo of a two-faced cat<br />

NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong> GO MAGAZINE<br />

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