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<b>EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 31, 2008: <br>
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<font color="#FF0000"><b>Monday, March 31<br><br>
</font>STS Circle at Harvard<br>
</b>The Visual Expression of Science: More than Pretty
Pictures
<br>
Felice Frankel, Envisioning Science Program, Initiative in Innovative
Computing, Harvard
University
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12:15-2 p.m., Harvard, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106.
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Sandwich lunches will be provided. Please RSVP to
<a href="mailto:sang-hyun_kim@ksg.harvard.edu">
sang-hyun_kim@ksg.harvard.edu</a>. <br>
For more information, please visit:
<a href="http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts">
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts</a> <br><br>
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<font color="#FF0000"><b>Tuesday, April 1 <br><br>
</font>STS Brown Bag Lunch Talk Co-sponsored by CMS <br>
</b>Methods for the Study of the Natively Digital<br>
Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam
[<a href="http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9005918&date=2008/04/01">
bio</a>] <br>
12:00-2:00 pm, MIT, E51-191 (STS Reading Room) <br>
Feel free to bring your lunch; dessert and coffee will be
provided.<br><br>
<b>Harvard University - Mark M. Horblit Colloquia in the History of
Science<br>
</b>The Science of Mixed People's: Admixture, Genetics and Cultural
Identity <br>
Evelynn Hammonds, Department of the History of Science & African and
African-American Studies<br>
4:00 pm, Harvard, Science Center 469<br><br>
<b>The Way David Macaulay Works: Finding Ideas, Making Books &
Visualizing Our World<br>
</b>David Macaulay, author of <i>The Way Things Work<br>
</i>6:30 pm, MIT, Stata Building, Kirsch Auditorium (32-123)<br>
[<a href="http://web.mit.edu/shass/lecture/macaulay.html">more
information about this event</a>] <br><br>
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<font color="#FF0000"><b>Wednesday, April 2 <br><br>
</font>Harvard University - Comparative Economics Seminar<br>
</b>Putin, Bush and the Future of Nuclear Power<br>
Paul Josephson, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Davis Center for
Russian Studies; <br>
Professor of History, Colby College <br>
12:30-2:00 pm, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room
S354 <br><br>
<b>STS and CMS present <br>
</b>Beyond the Politics of Making Things Visible: Crawling, Scraping and
Mapping Issues with the Web<br>
Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam<br>
3:30-5:30 pm, MIT, E51-275 <br>
[<a href="http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9005919&date=2008/04/02">
abstract and bio</a>] <br><br>
<b>MIT Museum Soap Box <br>
</b>Harnessing Hydrogen from Bacteria for Biofuels<br>
David Berry, Principal, Flagship Ventures<br>
6:00-7:30 pm, MIT Museum’s Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery<br><br>
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<font color="#FF0000"><b>Thursday, April 3 <br><br>
</font>Harvard’s Science & Democracy Lecture Series<br>
</b>Enhancing the Contract: The Federal Government and American Science
in a New Administration <br>
Harold Varmus (Co-winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine for the discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral
oncogenes; President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)<br>
Moderated by Jon Beckwith (Harvard Medical School) with panelists: Sheila
Jasanoff (Kennedy School of Government), Charles Rosenberg (History of
Science, Harvard), and Dan Sarewitz (Arizona State University) <br>
5:00-7:00 pm, Harvard University, Yenching Institute Auditorium at 2
Divinity Avenue <br>
For more information, please visit:
<a href="http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts">
http://www.hks..harvard.edu/sts</a><br><br>
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For information about upcoming events, be sure to look at the STS
website:
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html" eudora="autourl">
http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html</a>. For a complete
listing of activities on the MIT campus, check out the MIT on-line
calendar of events:
<a href="http://events.mit.edu/http://events.mit.edu/" eudora="autourl">
http://events.mit.edu/http://events.mit.edu/</a>.</body>
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