[Sci-tech-public] [STS Events] Week of February 16, 2021

[Gus Zahariadis]

Brightening Biochemistry: The Role of Humor in Scientific Research with Prof. Robin Scheffler <https://www.sciencehistory.org/event/lunchtime-lecture-robin-wolfe-scheffler>
Presented as part of the Science History Institute Lunchtime Lectures
Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 17, 2021
1:00pm - 1:45pm (EST)

In the 1920s members of the Sir William Dunn Institute for Biochemistry at Cambridge University published Brighter Biochemistry, 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 Brighter Biochemistry to illustrate the important perspective that humor offers on the process of scientific work and the historical experience of scientists.

More information can be found here: https://www.sciencehistory.org/event/lunchtime-lecture-robin-wolfe-scheffler <https://www.sciencehistory.org/event/lunchtime-lecture-robin-wolfe-scheffler>
Watch Live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwJ0l33dDvA <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwJ0l33dDvA>

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David Mindell: The Work of the Future <https://sts-program.mit.edu/events/>
Monday, February 22, 2021
4;00pm - 5:30pm (EST)

Join Prof. David A. Mindell <https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/david-a-mindell/>, 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, as he discusses the task force report’s findings.
	
In the fall of 2017, MIT President Reif issued a call to action, for the nation <http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AVMAABYC8YEAAcrl88IAAAA8xasAAAAAHAEAJPu7AAiQzwBfs9LBtpioP41qRImzp-EyOygAuAAIIWc/1/Jf8KBXnMvAivinixGX_bVQ/aHR0cDovL3ByZXNpZGVudC5taXQuZWR1L3NwZWVjaGVzLXdyaXRpbmcvdHJhbnNmb3JtYXRpdmUtYXV0b21hdGlvbi1jb21pbmctaW1wYWN0LXVz> and especially for MIT <http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AVMAABYC8YEAAcrl88IAAAA8xasAAAAAHAEAJPu7AAiQzwBfs9LBtpioP41qRImzp-EyOygAuAAIIWc/2/dLiQpkjH9eqxtpq6aQfM2g/aHR0cDovL3ByZXNpZGVudC5taXQuZWR1L3NwZWVjaGVzLXdyaXRpbmcvbWl0LWFuZC1mdXR1cmUtd29yaw>. In response, in February 2018, the formation of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future <http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AVMAABYC8YEAAcrl88IAAAA8xasAAAAAHAEAJPu7AAiQzwBfs9LBtpioP41qRImzp-EyOygAuAAIIWc/3/bQLWvp-mL7WG2L5glJMDvA/aHR0cHM6Ly93b3Jrb2Z0aGVmdXR1cmUubWl0LmVkdQ> was announced and in November 2020, the task force released its final report, The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines <http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AVMAABYC8YEAAcrl88IAAAA8xasAAAAAHAEAJPu7AAiQzwBfs9LBtpioP41qRImzp-EyOygAuAAIIWc/4/7M05bC1BU2KwzqHrKJXbZg/aHR0cHM6Ly93b3Jrb2Z0aGVmdXR1cmUubWl0LmVkdS8yMDIwLUZpbmFsLVJlcG9ydA>.
	
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.

Register in advance for this Zoom meeting: https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuf-msrT8tHdyCnbezDH-6PdjluUzJMZIz <https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuf-msrT8tHdyCnbezDH-6PdjluUzJMZIz>

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Gus Zahariadis (he, him, his)
Assistant to the Director; Sr. Admin III
Program in Science, Technology, and Society 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
77 Massachusetts Ave, E51-163B
Cambridge, MA 02139
T: 617.253.3452
gusz at mit.edu <mailto:gusz at mit.edu>
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