<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The Technology & Culture Forum is hosting a bunch of sci-tech-soc related events this month (see forwarded list below). This Wednesday, January 14th, John Durant will be hosting and discussing a screening of "Expelled" a documentary about the Intelligent Design movement. It should be quite interesting. I encourage you to attend if you can!<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Xaq</div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Amy McCreath <<a href="mailto:mccreath@MIT.EDU">mccreath@MIT.EDU</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">January 5, 2009 12:17:50 PM EST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:tacforum@mit.edu">tacforum@mit.edu</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[TaCforum] Great January events</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Technology and Culture Forum encourages you to join us for our excellent IAP events. </span></font></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Details are in the IAP guide at <a href="http://student.mit.edu/iap/nstcf.html">http://student.mit.edu/iap/nstcf.html</a></span></font></font></div><div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b>Expelled: A film & discussion about intelligent design and American schools.</b></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b>Wednesday, January 14th, 6:30-9:00 pm, MIT Building W11, Main Dining Room.</b></span></span></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: 16.0px Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Ben Stein's "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" explores the freedom (or lack thereof) of academic institutions to challenge scientific orthodoxy regarding evolution. We will view the film and then join in conversation, facilitated by Prof. John Durant of MIT's Program in Science, Technology and Society. A free, simple dinner will be served.</span></font></font></div></div><div><i>We have room for 50 people. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">You must RSVP </span>to reserve a spot and a dinner. </i></div><div><i>Please sign up with Patricia Weinmann as <a href="mailto:weinmann@mit.edu">weinmann@mit.edu</a> by January 12th.</i></div><div><i><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></i></div><div><i><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: 18.0px Times"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The Future of Inventing: Automated, Collaborative, Distributive Inventing</font></span></font></b></font><font style="font: 16.0px Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </font></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: 16.0px Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Speaker:</font></span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> Robert Plotkin, Esq. MIT alum, Patent Lawyer, Author of "The Genie in the Machine"</font></span></font></i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: 13.0px Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><b>Thursday, January 15th, 1:00 pm - 3:00pm, MIT Building 4- Room 153.</b></font></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">We think of an "inventor" as someone who sits alone in a workshop, sketching designs and hammering out prototypes. In the future, individual inventorship will increasingly be overtaken by various forms of "collaborative inventing" as inventors leverage computer technology as an inventive tool. This talk will provide real-world examples of the phenomena that are changing the face of inventing. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><font style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">No enrollment limit, no advance sign up.</font></span></font></font></span></span></div></i></div><div><i><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></i></div><div><i><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>Radical Abundance: A Theology of Sustainability</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><b>Friday, January 30th from 5:00 pm -9:00 pm, and Saturday, January 31st, from 9:00am-4:00pm, MIT's<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></b><font style=""><u style=""><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32&Buildings=go" style=""><b style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;">Stata Center</span></font></b></a></u></font></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">Video presentations by noted theologians and community organizers and small-group discussion with others on-site on the warrant for --and strategies for -- creating just, sustainable relations, drawing on the wisdom of liberation theology and successful community organizing.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 53, 155); font-size: 13px; "><i style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">You must register</span> for this event by January 21st by contacting Christina English at </font></i><a href="mailto:cenglish@mit.edu" style=""><font style=""><u style=""><i style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;">cenglish@mit.edu</span></font></i></u></font></a><i style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" style="">. Registration fee is $30 (free for students). </font></i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00359B" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; "><i style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" style="">This event is offered in partnership with Trinity Institute and the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.</font></i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: 18.0px Times"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Nuclear Weapons: Physics, History, and Abolition?</font></span></font></b></font><font style="font: 16.0px Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </font></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">A four-part series, featuring Prof. Aron Bernstein and Prof. Kosta Tsipis.</span></font></div></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Although we are not official sponsors of this series, as partners in the MIT Coalition for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, we strongly encourage your participation in it. Details are at <a href="http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns8.html">http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns8.html</a></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Happy New Year and hope to see you soon,</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div></span></font></div></span></font></div></i></div></div><br><br><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The Rev. 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