[Sci-tech-public] TODAY ****STS BROWN BAG LUNCH TALK: MAY 3rd @ 12:00 noon****

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>Please join us today -- Wednesday, May 3rd, @ 12:00 noon:
>
>STS Brown Bag Lunch Talk
>
>"Beyond En-trope-y, Or, How I learned to stop worrying
>and love Victorian Thermodynamics"
>
>Barri Gold, Visiting Scholar, STS Program, MIT
>
>12:00 noon, MIT, E51-191
>
>
>Barri Gold received her B.S. in Physics from MIT and her Ph. D. in English
>Language and Literature, from the University of Chicago.  Now an Associate
>Professor at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, she is currently 
>at work on a
>book entitled _Bodies in Heat: The Nineteenth-Century's Romance with Energy_.
>Her talk explores the "discovery" of the laws of thermodynamics 
>taking place in
>poetry and in physics in the early days of the science of energy.
>
>Please feel free to bring your lunch; coffee and dessert will be provided.
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