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<td colspan="3" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><h1>Upcoming Author Events</h1>
<p>The Knight Science Journalism Fellowships program invites you to attend two upcoming author events, on October 13 and 16.</p></td>
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<td><h2>Tuesday, October 13</h2>
<p><strong>Seminar with Michael Specter</strong><br>
4:00–6:00 pm
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<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?selection=E19&zoom=15">MIT E19-623</a></p>
<h5>Denialism: How irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms the planet, and threatens our lives.</h5>
<p><strong><em>New Yorker</em> writer Michael Specter </strong>covers science, technology and global health issues for the magazine, and has been a science writer for <em>The Washington Post </em>and <em>The New York Times</em>. He will speak about <a href="http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594202308,00.html?Denialism_Michael_Specter#">his new book</a> on the dangerous rise of denialism, including cases such as the protestors who marched in Washington against childhood vaccines, the single most effective public health measure in history. </p></td>
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<td valign="top"><h2>Friday October 16</h2>
<p><strong>Brown Bag Lunch with K.C. Cole</strong><br>
12:00–2:00 pm
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<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?selection=E51&zoom=15">MIT E51-345</a></p>
<h5><strong>Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up</strong></h5>
<p><strong>K.C. Cole,</strong> USC Annenberg School of Journalism, is a long-time science writer for the <em>L.A. Times</em>, and the author of several books, <a href="http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=1098829">the most recent</a> a memoir/biography of her late mentor, Frank Oppenheimer, the “uncle” of the atom bomb and the founder of San Francisco’s well-known “museum of awareness”—the Exploratorium. She will talk about the book, and the nature of science in the public mind.</p>
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<p><em>Please feel free to bring your lunch.</em></p>
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<h3>Sponsored by the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society</h3></td>
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