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Past Seminars

 
11/15/2011
Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It
Gary Taubes, Author, former Knight Fellow
 
11/10/2011
Planet of Viruses
Carl Zimmer, Author, lecturer, Yale University.
11/8/2011
"Strange Facts," Evocative Maps, and the Puzzles of Geographic Variation in Medical Practice
David Jones, Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Harvard
11/3/2011
The Energy Crisis: A Solar Solution
Daniel Nocera, Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry, MIT
11/1/2011
Addiction by Design: Machne Gambling
Natasha Schull, Associate Professor of Science Technology and Society, MIT
10/27/2011
The Art of Science Television
Paula Apsell, Senior Executive Producer, Nova; Director, WGBH Science Unit
10/25/2011
Human Wars with Microbes
Roberto Kolter, Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School
 
10/20/2011
No seminar.
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10/18/2011
Astrophysics: Darkness at the Heart of the Universe
Paul Schechter, Professor of Astrophysics, MIT
10/13/2011
Nanotechnology and Drug Delivery
Robert Langer, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT
10/11/2011
How Brains Understand Minds
Rebecca Saxe, Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
10/6/2011
No Seminar
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Woods Hole trip
10/4/2011
Climate Change 2011: When Policymakers Fail
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All-day workshop, 9am to 6pm, Bartos Theater, MIT. Fellows and pre-registered guests only.
9/29/2011
Nanotechnology: Building Blocks that are Living Things
Angela Belcher, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, MIT
9/27/2011
Why Humans Cook - the Basis of Human Culture
Richard Wrangham, Professor of Biological Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard