[Sci-tech-public] STS at the MIT150 Open House, Saturday, April 30

Wed Apr 27 10:53:52 EDT 2011

MIT is opening its doors to the community this Saturday, April 30, and STS
will showcase our research with a soapbox talk at the MIT Museum.  Please
join us for these talks, and enjoy a day of exploring parts of MIT that you
don't normally get to see!

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Soapbox talks: US Civil War, Making Fire, Pluto, Camouflage and everything
in between

Program in Science, Technology, & Society (STS)

MIT Museum (N52) - Ground Floor

1:00 - 2:30 pm

Indigenous Firemaking in Africa--Without Matches!

Prof. Clapperton Mavhunga

Can You Spot an Influenza Pandemic?

Peter Doshi

The Color Wheel

Michael Rossi

Hide and Seek

Prof. Hanna Rose Shell

>From Spacecraft to Icon: Friendship 7's Second Mission

Teasel Muir-Harmony

>From Paper Folds to Manifolds: Origami Meets Mathematics

Alma Steingart

Artifacts and History: An example from the Battle of Gettysburg

Prof. Merritt Roe Smith

Pluto: Revolve In Peace

Lisa Messeri

Technology's Teeth

Michaela Thompson

MIT's Computers That Landed on the Moon

Prof. David Mindell

Moderator: John Durant, Director, MIT Museum and Historical Collections

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In addition, please visit the STS table in the Kresge Lobby (W16), where the
major units of School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (SHASS) will
be all day (11 am - 4pm):
http://mit150.mit.edu/open-house/activity/day-discovery-music-and-great-idea
s-presented-mits-school-humanities-arts-and-so .

For more information about all the activities at the MIT150 Open House,
visit http://mit150.mit.edu/open-house . 

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Karen Gardner 
Academic Administrator 
MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society 
77 Massachusetts Ave., E51-185 
Cambridge, MA  02139 
617-253-9759 (phone) 
617-258-8118 (fax) 
 <http://web.mit.edu/sts> http://web.mit.edu/sts 
 <http://web.mit.edu/hasts> http://web.mit.edu/hasts 

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