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<div class="views-field-field-sn-img-fid"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Black'"><b>This week:</b></font></div><div class="views-field-field-sn-img-fid"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Black'"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="views-field-field-sn-img-fid"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Thursday, November 8 - 4:30pm - </font></b></div><div class="views-field-field-sn-img-fid"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Knight Science Journalism at MIT seminar room, E19-623, MIT Campus, 400 Main St., Cambridge, MA</font></b></div>
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<span class="field-content"><span class="seminar-title"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Black'" size="5"><b><a href="http://ksj.mit.edu/seminars-news/seminars/1493">1493</a> </b></font></span></span></div><div class="views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><a href="http://www.charlesmann.org/" title="Charles C. Mann's Site" style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; ">Charles C. Mann</a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">, Journalist </font></font></b></span></div><div class="views-field-nothing"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Black'"><b><br></b></font><span class="field-content"><div class="seminar-speaker">More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together - and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas.</div><br>This global ecological tumult - the "Columbian Exchange" - was the greatest event in the history of life since the death of the dinosaurs. At the same time, it played an enormous role in human history, fostering the rise of Europe, devastating imperial China, convulsing Africa, and transforming the Americas. The Columbian Exchange began our era of globalization, and its effects continue today.<div class="seminar-note"></div></span>
</div><div class="views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"><br></span></div><div class="views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"><br></span></div><div class="views-field-nothing"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Black'"><b>Later this month: </b></font></div><div class="views-field-nothing"><br></div></div><div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even">
<div class="views-field-field-date-value"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Tuesday, November 13 - 4:30pm - </font></b></div><div class="views-field-field-date-value"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Knight Science Journalism at MIT seminar room, E19-623, MIT Campus, 400 Main St., Cambridge, MA</font></b></div>
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<span class="field-content"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Black'" size="5"><b><span class="seminar-title"><a href="http://ksj.mit.edu/seminars-news/seminars/some-new-insights-brains-blind">Some New Insights from the Brains of the Blind</a></span>
</b></font><div class="seminar-speaker"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><font class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; "><a href="http://www.mit.edu/%7Esaxe" title="Rebecca Saxe's Site">Rebecca Saxe</a> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">- Associate Professor - MIT</font></font></b></div><div class="seminar-speaker"><br></div><div class="seminar-note"></div></span>
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<div class="views-field-field-date-value"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Thursday, November 15 - 4:30pm - </font></b></div><div class="views-field-field-date-value"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Knight Science Journalism at MIT seminar room, E19-623, MIT Campus, 400 Main St., Cambridge, MA</font></b></div>
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<span class="field-content"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Black'" size="5"><b><span class="seminar-title"><a href="http://ksj.mit.edu/seminars-news/seminars/darwin-dna">From Darwin to DNA</a></span>
</b></font><div class="seminar-speaker"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><a href="http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/hoekstra/" title="Hopi Hoekstra's Site" style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; ">Hopi Hoekstra</a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Black'"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">- Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology - Harvard</font></font></b></div><div class="seminar-note"></div></span>
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<div class="views-field-field-date-value"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Tuesday, November 20 - 4:30pm - </font></b></div><div class="views-field-field-date-value"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Knight Science Journalism at MIT seminar room, E19-623, MIT Campus, 400 Main St., Cambridge, MA</font></b></div><div class="views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"><div class="seminar-speaker"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><a href="http://web.mit.edu/eccl/" title="Laura Schulz's Site" style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; ">Laura Schulz</a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Black'"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">- Class of 1943 Career Dev Associate Professor - MIT</font></font></b></div><div class="seminar-note"></div></span>
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<div class="views-field-field-date-value"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Tuesday, November 27 - 4:30pm - </font></b></div><div class="views-field-field-date-value"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Knight Science Journalism at MIT seminar room, E19-623, MIT Campus, 400 Main St., Cambridge, MA</font></b></div>
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<b><span class="field-content"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; "><span class="seminar-title"><a href="http://ksj.mit.edu/seminars-news/seminars/crises-and-technocracy-why-engineers-are">CRISES AND TECHNOCRACY Why Engineers are Being Elected African Presidents</a></span>
</font><div class="seminar-speaker"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><font class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; "><a href="http://www.belfercenter.org/global/" title="Calestous Juma's Site">Calestous Juma</a> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">- Harvard Kennedy School</font></font></div><div class="seminar-note" style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; "></div></span>
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<div class="views-field-field-date-value"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Thursday, November 29 - 4:30pm - </font></b></div><div class="views-field-field-date-value"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Knight Science Journalism at MIT seminar room, E19-623, MIT Campus, 400 Main St., Cambridge, MA</font></b></div>
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<span class="field-content"><b><span class="seminar-title" style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: x-large; "><a href="http://ksj.mit.edu/seminars-news/seminars/population-mixture-human-history">Population mixture in human history</a></span>
<div class="seminar-speaker"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><a href="http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/BBS/fac/reich.php" title="David Reich's Site" style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; ">David Reich</a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Black'"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">- Department of Genetics Harvard Medical School</font></font></div><div class="seminar-speaker" style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: x-large; "><br></div><div class="seminar-speaker" style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: x-large; "><img height="90" width="113" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="90da0247-8991-4f2d-8284-0f68e4747bed" src="cid:83E5142F-4FDC-4E08-9D1A-EB284AAE0A11@mit.edu"></div></b></span></div></div></body></html>