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Big Apple Barbeque

We celebrate the 7th annual Big Apple Barbeque Block Party by speaking with Kenny Callaghan, pitmaster and executive chef of Blue Smoke, and Patrick Martin, a pitmaster from Nolensville, Tennessee, including an on-air sampling of different styles of barbeque. The Big Apple Barbeque Block Party is June 13-14, 11:00 am-7:00 pm, in Madison Square Park.

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Iranian Election

Elections are being held today in Iran. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been locked in a neck-and-neck race with reform-minded former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi, and in recent days the campaign has become particularly heated. We’ll talk to CNN’s Chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour from Iran.

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Blast!

Filmmaker Paul Devlin and his brother Mark Devlin discuss Paul's film "BLAST!" It follows Mark, a cosmologist, as he leads a team of scientists launching a revolutionary new telescope under a NASA high-altitude balloon, with the hopes of figuring out how all the galaxies were formed. "BLAST!" opens at Cinema Village June 12. More information about screening times and tickets here.

Events: Director Paul Devlin and atrophysicist Mark Devlin will hold a Q&A
Friday, June 12
After the 7:00 and 9:00 pm screenings

Director Paul Devlin will hold a Q&A
Saturday, June 13
After the 7:00 and 9:00 pm screenings

Director Paul Devlin will hold a Q&A
Sunday, June 14
After the 5:10 pm screening

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Avian Einsteins

Leading bird scientists Erich Jarvis and Irene Pepperberg explore how striking parallels between bird and human brains are providing new insights into how we acquire language and links between hearing and movement. Neurobiologist Erich Jarvis leads a Duke University team that studies how songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds learn and pass along new sounds. Irene Pepperberg is adjunct associate professor at Brandeis University and research associate and lecturer at Harvard, and the author of Alex and Me.

Event: Erich Jarvis and Irene Pepperberg will be taking part in a panel discussion
Avian Einsteins
Saturday, June 13, at 3:30 pm
NYU Skirball Center
566 LaGuardia Place, at Washington Square South
More information and tickets here.
Avian Einsteins is part of the World Science Festival, in New York City June 10-14.

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Please Explain: Bees

The honeybees is just one species of bee, and they often get the most attention, but there are an estimated 20,000 different species of bees in the world. Bees play an important role in pollinating plants, and many have highly developed methods of socialization and communication. We'll learn all about bees, and the latest on Colony Collapse Disorder, with Bryan Danforth, professor of entomology at Cornell University, and Maryann Frazier, senior extension associate in the Department of Entomology at Penn State University.

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