Nerd Nite London February 2024

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: The Backyard Comedy Club, 231 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 0EL / also online

Details: Wednesday, 21 February, 2024. Pre-drinks from 7. Doors open at 7:15pm, event starts at 7.30pm. The online stream will go live at 7:15pm, with the speakers starting at 7.30pm and will be available for around 24 hours.
Be there and be square.

Buy your tickets here.
Please note we have slightly increased our ticket prices — for the first time in quite a while — in order to maximise our ability to donate proceeds to charity. We think these ticket prices are in line with similar events in London.

The Human-flea Journey
Ahhhh, fleas. Tiny, blood-sucking hitch-hikers that have been with us and our pets through history. They are recognised for their involvement in the 14th-century plague and serving as instruments of war, all while having had the spotlight in their own circuses. The intimate relationship between humans and fleas across time will be explored, featuring fun examples from books, artworks, films, and video games.

Card Indexes: how a 5x4 card won the Second World War
The card index has been all but forgotten. Once almost every business an certainly every library would have had banks of card indexes, holding millions of individual cards, allowing clerks to quickly find clients’ details and check book catalogues. They were easy to use, but they took up a huge amount of space and once a card was misfiled then it was impossible to find again.
But by the 1970s computers could process data in a matter of seconds an link individual pieces of information together in a way that no card index could do. These indexes were at their most important in the two world wars, when it was important to keep a track men and women in the armed services, and so much besides. Without the cards neither war could have been fought. Huge card indexes were constructed involving literally millions of cards. They were vital in the Second World War when everybody from MI5 via concentration camp commandants to war crimes investigators used them. The talk will look at how and why they were used, and why they should be important to historians today.

‘How can the NHS learn from one of the FBIs most wanted?’
Population Health Management PHM, an analytical and structured approach to better understanding your population, is seen as key to the NHS meeting the ‘Triple Aim’ better patient outcomes, better patient experience and at the best possible value’. But William Sutton A.K.A. Slick Willy, one the FBI’s first ever ‘most wanted’, has a lesson we need to learn!

Any profits from Nerd Nite London go to charity. This year we continue partnering with The Shine Trust to help foster a new generation of nerds.

More information about Nerd Nite London can be found by following us on X/Twitter @nerdnitelondon, liking us on Facebook at nerdnitelondon or visiting [london.nerdnite.com](https://facebook.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a21a7c87dfcd0b24ac8610321&id=6c1a7378f9&e=cda531aacf). See some of our past speakers on our YouTube channel. For more information about The Shine Trust visit [shinetrust.org.uk](https://facebook.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a21a7c87dfcd0b24ac8610321&id=3954101ee7&e=cda531aacf)