<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.sciencehistory.org/event/lunchtime-lecture-robin-wolfe-scheffler" class=""><b class="">Brightening Biochemistry: The Role of Humor in Scientific Research with Prof. Robin Scheffler</b></a><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><i class="">Presented as part of the Science History Institute Lunchtime Lectures</i></div><div class=""><b class="">Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 17, 2021</b><div class=""><b class="">1:00pm - 1:45pm (EST)</b></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">In the 1920s members of the Sir William Dunn Institute for Biochemistry at Cambridge University published </span><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Brighter Biochemistry</em><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">, a comic journal “better than Punch.” Humor, however, is no laughing matter for modern science: it provides a means of addressing conflict, change, and chance in the laboratory. In this talk Robin Wolff Scheffler will use </span><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Brighter Biochemistry</em><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""> to illustrate the important perspective that humor offers on the process of scientific work and the historical experience of scientists.</span></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">More information can be found here: <a href="https://www.sciencehistory.org/event/lunchtime-lecture-robin-wolfe-scheffler" class="">https://www.sciencehistory.org/event/lunchtime-lecture-robin-wolfe-scheffler</a></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Watch Live on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwJ0l33dDvA" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwJ0l33dDvA</a></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">——————————————————————————————</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><a href="https://sts-program.mit.edu/events/" class="">David Mindell: The Work of the Future</a></b></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">Monday, February 22, 2021</b></div><div class=""><b class="">4;00pm - 5:30pm (EST)</b></div></div></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;" class="">Join </span><strong style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/david-a-mindell/" class="">Prof. David A. Mindell</a></strong><span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;" class="">,
Frances and David Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and
Manufacturing (STS), Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and
co-chair, MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, </span><span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;" class="">as he discusses the task force report’s findings.</span></div></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class="">In the fall of 2017, MIT President Reif issued a call to action, <a class="link-build-content" href="http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AVMAABYC8YEAAcrl88IAAAA8xasAAAAAHAEAJPu7AAiQzwBfs9LBtpioP41qRImzp-EyOygAuAAIIWc/1/Jf8KBXnMvAivinixGX_bVQ/aHR0cDovL3ByZXNpZGVudC5taXQuZWR1L3NwZWVjaGVzLXdyaXRpbmcvdHJhbnNmb3JtYXRpdmUtYXV0b21hdGlvbi1jb21pbmctaW1wYWN0LXVz" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">for the nation</a> and especially <a class="link-build-content" href="http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AVMAABYC8YEAAcrl88IAAAA8xasAAAAAHAEAJPu7AAiQzwBfs9LBtpioP41qRImzp-EyOygAuAAIIWc/2/dLiQpkjH9eqxtpq6aQfM2g/aHR0cDovL3ByZXNpZGVudC5taXQuZWR1L3NwZWVjaGVzLXdyaXRpbmcvbWl0LWFuZC1mdXR1cmUtd29yaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">for MIT</a>. In response, in February 2018, the formation of the <a class="link-build-content" href="http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AVMAABYC8YEAAcrl88IAAAA8xasAAAAAHAEAJPu7AAiQzwBfs9LBtpioP41qRImzp-EyOygAuAAIIWc/3/bQLWvp-mL7WG2L5glJMDvA/aHR0cHM6Ly93b3Jrb2Z0aGVmdXR1cmUubWl0LmVkdQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future</a> was announced and in November 2020, the task force released its final report, <a class="link-build-content" href="http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AVMAABYC8YEAAcrl88IAAAA8xasAAAAAHAEAJPu7AAiQzwBfs9LBtpioP41qRImzp-EyOygAuAAIIWc/4/7M05bC1BU2KwzqHrKJXbZg/aHR0cHM6Ly93b3Jrb2Z0aGVmdXR1cmUubWl0LmVkdS8yMDIwLUZpbmFsLVJlcG9ydA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines</a>.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class="">The report provides insight into how new technologies are changing the nature of work and what institutional reforms are needed to support workers and promote broader shared prosperity.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote>Register in advance for this Zoom meeting: <a href="https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuf-msrT8tHdyCnbezDH-6PdjluUzJMZIz" class="">https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuf-msrT8tHdyCnbezDH-6PdjluUzJMZIz</a><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">
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