{"id":1660,"date":"2008-12-25T07:34:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T07:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2010-12-25T01:41:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T01:41:31","slug":"christmas-feast-at-the-athenaeum-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2008\/12\/25\/christmas-feast-at-the-athenaeum-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Feast at the Athenaeum Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

One short post as Christmas Eve draws to a close on the west coast of America.<\/p>\n

And a flavourful evening it’s been too, in both the culinary and scientific senses; for tonight I dined at CalTech’s Athenaeum Club in Pasadena, California.<\/p>\n

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Athenaeum in Pasadena<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first club dinner in February 1931 was attended by Albert Einstein, Robert A. Millikan, and A. \t\t\tA. Michelson; the club has since hosted the likes of Richard Feynman (physicist), David Baltimore (biologist) and Maarten Schmidt (Astronomer).\u00a0\u00a0 I got through the door on the strength of my father-in-law’s double qualification as Caltech graduate and former Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) employee.<\/p>\n

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(Chemical) Abstract Dining in the Athenaeum Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve eaten in the main dining room before, but tonight was especially interesting as we were hosted in one of the more private library rooms.\u00a0\u00a0 That meant I got to enjoy the somewhat surreal experience of tucking into my prime rib surrounded by the last fifty years’ worth of Chemical Abstracts; food for thought as it were….groan.<\/p>\n

\"Food
Food for thought<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clearly time to stop, take the indigestion tablets, and go to bed.<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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