Nerd Nite London is a monthly event where three speakers give 18-21 minute fun-yet-informative talks across all disciplines, while the audience drinks along.

Address: Nerd Nite, Paper Dress Vintage, 114-116 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3AH

Details: Wednesday May 20th Tickets £6. Early nerd tickets £5 (limited availability). Tickets on sale here.

Did you known that no other month begins or ends on the same day of the week as May in any year? Neither did we. Come join us to expand your brain with even more sun-soaked knowledge: eighteenth century research into the secrets of the voice, how music can change the flavour of beer, and Einstein’s Nobel Prize winning theories of light.

Be there and be square.

“The science of voice since the French Revolution, Or: How to speak without a head”

Before the age of mass communication, making yourself heard was all about the ability to speak in public. But who should be allowed to do so, and how? After the French Revolution, political activists engaged with cutting-edge medical and scientific research to uncover the secrets of the human voice.

Anna Maerker is a historian of medicine and science at King’s College London. She enjoys visiting collections of pickled organs and artificial bodies around the world.

“Why do guitars taste like hops?”

Beer blogger and ale expert Pete Brown returns to present an exploration of how our senses overlap and influence each other. Using beer and music, his presentation will provide new insight into how we perceive both flavour and sound, and how one can and does influence and even change the other.

Pete Brown specialises in making people thirsty. He is the author of five-and-a-half books as well as the annual Cask Report, and numerous articles in the drinks trade press and consumer press. He appears regularly on TV and radio, and was named Beer Writer of the Year in 2009 and 2012. Pete previously spoke at Nerd Nite about how beer is the root cause of everything good in civilisation.

“Photon Facts”

Comedy duo Punk Science will be coming to Nerd Nite London armed with some fun facts about photons. Illuminating you on some of the objects from the Museum’s collection revolving around light. Sam and John will endeavour to explain Einstein’s theory about the photo electric effect (it’s what he won the Nobel Prize for). It may well be enlightening.

Punk Science are the resident comedy team of the Science Museum. Jon Milton and Sam Furniss have both been part of the stand-up comedy circuit and have lots of experience performing interactive Science shows at the Science Museum. Combining these two things to interest and entertain adults – why should children get all the fun?

All proceeds from Nerd Nite go to charity. This month’s charity is the Disasters Emergency Committee for Nepal. More information about Nerd Nite London can be found by following us on Twitter @nerdnitelondon, liking us on Facebook www.facebook.com/NerdNiteLondon or visiting www.london.nerdnite.com