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<font color="#FF0000"><b>Reminder -- Today! Thursday, April
17<br><br>
</font>Science, Technology, and Global Security Working Group at MIT<br>
Arms Control and International Criminal Law<br>
</b>Matthew Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural
Sciences, Harvard University<br>
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm, MIT, E51-095
[<a href="https://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9006205">bio</a>]
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<font color="#FF0000"><b>EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF April 21, 2008: <br><br>
</font><u>Monday, April 21
</u>
<br>
STS Circle at Harvard<br>
Working Levels, Working Knowledge: Indoor Radon and the Environmental
Protection Agency
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Ellen Bales (History of Science and Technology, UC Berkeley) <br>
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
sang-hyun_kim@ksg.harvard.edu. <br>
For more information, please visit:
<a href="http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts">
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts</a><br>
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<b><u>Friday, April 25 - Saturday, April 26 <br>
</u></b>Conference - What's the Use of Race?<br>
Organized by the Center for the Study of Diversity in Science,
Technology, and Medicine. For more information, visit the
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/csd/WUR/Welcome.html">conference website</a>.
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[at the MIT Faculty Club]<br>
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<b><u>Saturday, April 26 – Sunday, May 4
</u>
<br>
Cambridge Science Festival<br>
</b>The 2nd Annual Cambridge Science Festival runs from April 26 - May
4.<br>
For more information:
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/museum/">http://web.mit.edu/museum/</a><br>
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<font color="#FF0000"><b>UPCOMING<br><br>
</font><u>Monday, April 28<br>
</u>STS Colloquium<br>
Strategies of Estrangement: Automata, Exhibition, and Claude Shannon's
Epic Theater of Science <br>
</b>Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Northwestern University and MIT
(Visiting)<br>
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095<br>
Joint colloquium with Comparative Media Studies, MIT<br><br>
<b><u>Tuesday, April 29<br>
</u>MIT Museum Soap Box <br>
Relational, Sociable Robotics<br>
</b>Sherry Turkle and Cynthia Breazeal, MIT <br>
6:00-7:30, MIT Museum's Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery<br>
This event takes place during THE CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE FESTIVAL (April 26 -
MAY 4, 2008)<br><br>
<b><u>Wednesday, April 30</b> <br>
</u><b>Space Policy Seminar <br>
Perceptions and Attitudes toward Spaceflight<br>
</b>John Schwartz, The New York Times<br>
Mike Cabbage, NASA Public Affairs Office<br>
5:00 pm, MIT, 33-116<br><br>
<b><u>Thursday, May 1<br>
</u></b>Informal lecture by David Billington, Princeton University<br>
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095<br><br>
<b><u>Friday, May 2<br>
</u>Morison Prize Lecture<br>
"The New Epoch" and the 21st Century Imperative for Engineering
History<br>
</b>David Billington, Princeton University<br>
2:00 pm, MIT, Bartos Theater
[<a href="http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9000833&date=2008/05/02">
more information</a>] <br><br>
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