[Sci-tech-public] Knight Fellowships: Upcoming Events

[Molly Seamans]

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Upcoming Author Events

The Knight Science Journalism Fellowships program invites you to  
attend two upcoming author events, on October 13 and 16.

	

Tuesday, October 13

Seminar with Michael Specter
4:00–6:00 pm in MIT E19-623
Denialism: How irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms  
the planet, and threatens our lives.

New Yorker writer Michael Specter covers science, technology and  
global health issues for the magazine, and has been a science writer  
for The Washington Post and The New York Times. He will speak about  
his new book 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.
	 	
Friday October 16

Brown Bag Lunch with K.C. Cole
12:00–2:00 pm in MIT E51-345
Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the  
world he made up

K.C. Cole, USC Annenberg School of Journalism, is a long-time science  
writer for the L.A. Times, and the author of several books, the most  
recent 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.

Please feel free to bring your lunch.

Sponsored by the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT and the  
Program in Science, Technology, and Society




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