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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Please join us today --
Wednesday, May 3rd, @ 12:00 noon:<br><br>
<font size=4><b><u>STS Brown Bag Lunch Talk</u></b></font><br><br>
<font size=4 color="#0000FF"><b>"Beyond En-trope-y, Or, How I
learned to stop worrying<br>
and love Victorian Thermodynamics"</b></font><br><br>
<font size=4><b>Barri Gold, Visiting Scholar, STS Program,
MIT</b></font><br><br>
<font size=4><b>12:00 noon, MIT, E51-191</b></font><br><br>
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Barri Gold received her B.S. in Physics from MIT and her Ph. D. in
English<br>
Language and Literature, from the University of Chicago. Now an
Associate<br>
Professor at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, she is currently at
work on a<br>
book entitled _Bodies in Heat: The Nineteenth-Century's Romance with
Energy_. <br>
Her talk explores the "discovery" of the laws of thermodynamics
taking place in<br>
poetry and in physics in the early days of the science of
energy.<br><br>
Please feel free to bring your lunch; coffee and dessert will be
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