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BACK TO THE MOON!: Andrew Chaikin, author of “A Man on the Moon,” recounts his conversations with Aldrin, Armstrong and other Apollo astronauts and discusses the recent LCROSS moon mission. It’s been forty years since One Giant Leap and instead of lunar suburbs and sweet dune buggies, we’re intentionally crashing rockets into the moon’s surface. Sounds like something we’d do.

Yes, yes, Seafair is this weekend, but if you are a parent of a gradeschooler, or a nerd, or both, then there is a much more important event. Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince is playing at the Pacific Science Center IMAX.

A few weeks ago, Seattlest had the pleasure of attending the Seattle Laser Dome's latest show, Laser Daft Punk. Our love for Daft Punk has been completely irrational since their WaMu Center show, so between that and the fact that it'd been a while since our last laser show (Laser Plan B), we headed down with some friends to check it out.

Tonight protons and electrons will be flying as the Northwest Science Writers Association and Pacific Science Center host a scientifically-charged event titled "Dumb, Getting Dumber?"

We've already mentioned the Thermals show tonight, but if you're more inclined to shake your bon bon tonight, here are some safe bets.

Is your coffee cup half-empty yet? Krispy Kreme is selling a 16-ounce drip for a dime, which may be good news for those Microsoft temps getting a 10 percent pay cut. That's 40,000 grumpy Microserfs temporary workers, if you're counting. Is this why Washington is Number Two in bankruptcy growth? Even Lucy, the famous Ethiopian fossil (no really, she's old) isn't making money. Her last day at the Pacific Science Center is March 8. The snow isn't sticking around either, but you're probably okay with that.

Two hundred years ago today Charles Darwin was born, and 150 years ago this year, he killed God by publishing this momentous occasion, but for the life of us, while putting together today's "Can't Miss It," we couldn't find a single damned happy hour, lecture, or event for tonight. And strangely, neither Elliott Bay Books nor Town Hall even have an event scheduled, leaving us thinking that maybe we could have worked something out.

Tonight's the all-ages Red Bull Big Tune Battle at Neumo's. It's a big hiphop competition (twelve producers are picked to compete, whittled down from the eighty who applied from all over the Northwest and even northern California), and the regional showdown for one of the only legit national beat battles. This year's featured guests are Detroit's Black Milk and Elzhi.

NOT BURLESQUE: Columbia City Theater is a really great room to watch singer-songwriters do their thing. Tonight, the room will host a CD release party for the exquisitely talented Shenandoah Davis, featuring special guest Molly Rose, and others. Grab a drink and kick back in the old Vaudeville theater for a night of introspective, arty songwriting.

SCIENCE WITH A TWIST: We've always had fun at the Pacific Science Center's monthly events for adults. If you enjoy science and drinking, you can't get much better than this. This month's event is focused around their new exhibit, Speed, and a drink they're calling the "Turbo Charger." Win tickets to the new Batman movie, watch a speed-themed movie on the IMAX screen, and eat and drink to your heart's content.

CHARITABLE INDULGENCES: If you're not too hungover from tonight's couture cocktails with Jack Mackenroth at Product Runway, something beautiful involving imported beer and fine Scotch is happening in Fremont both tonight and tomorrow: the HopScotch Spring Beer and Scotch Festival. The festival's a benefit for NW Folklife, so think of your purchase of extra tequila tastings as an act of springtime charity.

"Keep in mind the name Matthew Brzezinski. This book feels like a practice run from a young author destined for big things."

We had no idea that FOSEP was hosting firebrands like these guys. As blogfish (where we also learned October 8 was International Cephalopod Awareness Day) puts it, the duo's Framing Science talk "has stirred some blogging scientists to react with great umbrage." Great fucking umbrage, indeed! (It turns out it's just the atheists, being thin-skinned again.) The Seattle event didn't umbrage that many Seattleites that we could see. Many headed over to McMenamins for beer after. But it should have, and not just Dawkins' apologists. We'll explain.

When you call your memoir Avoid Boring People, as Dr. James Watson did, and then go around the country talking about it, you've set yourself up for a rather easy dig.

James Watson, one of the science heroes of the 20th Century, talks tonight at Pacific Science Center.

tomorrow night. So excited, in fact, that we thought we'd go to the Google to find out what sorts of happenings are going to, well, happen tomorrow in celebration of the big release.

MUSIC: Other than at Sasquatch in May, tonight's your only chance to see Smoosh on their current tour, when they open for Bloc Party at the Paramount. Yeah, Bright Eyes are also playing over at the Showbox, but seriously, you'd try to get scalped tickets to go see them over Smoosh? Whatever.

Because we don't go out on school nights and we need to plan...

>>>UW Forum for Science and Ethics Policy, 5:30pm. Dr. Dennis Schatz, VP for Education at the Pacific Science Center, cheerleads for “Making Science as Pervasive as Sports in Society.” His ulterior motive? It can only be to pack the Sonics off to Oklahoma and build our very own Exploratorium right here in Seattle, to which we say “Be Aggressive, Be Be Aggressive!” Free. UW Health Sciences Building, T-478.

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If you are anything like some us at Seattlest, you've wasted months, if not years, of your life playing video games. Oh, for all of those hours. The things we could have done.

The weather can't make up its mind, but at Seattlest, we can. We're going to rain down our weekend plans on you. Recognize.

If, like Seattlest, you're a dead-tree-media reading tool of a dying paradigm, you might have read Elizabeth Kolbert's three-part series "The Climate of Man" last spring when it was published in The New Yorker. If you prefer your dead-tree media in hardcover, however, you're in luck -- Kolbert's new book Field Notes from a Catastrophe collects all three parts in handy pulped-plant form.

Seattlest has been completely remiss in not mentioning (till now) the astronomy edutainment extraordinaire known as Starball. We were in attendance at the Smith Planetarium a few weeks ago for the show's return engagement here in Seattle, where it was originally developed before heading to such exotic locales as Valencia, Spain and Philadelphia, PA. Going into the event, we weren't exactly sure what to expect, given what we had already read:

If you are at all like us, your formative years were spent watching the 'Transformers' and 'Thundercats.' Sure, sure our mom said we should have been 'reading' or 'doing something productive' but we said to that 'Mom, we are learning. We are learning about lasers. Oh, and about talking cats, too.'.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Sleater-Kinney has officially made it. This evening at the Pacific Science Center, their newest album will be immortalized in the most rock of mediums, the laser light show. We're planning on going not only because we love Sleater-Kinney, but what we have heard of their new album is really good. It's 5 bucks. Not a bad deal on a visual stimuli per dollar ratio. The show starts at 9pm which we will prepare for by seeing if their album 'Call the Doctor' syncs up with any episodes of 'Doogie Howser M.D.'.