Climate in Words and Numbers:
How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs
 

Joyce Chaplin
Professor of Early American History
Harvard University

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Kate Brown
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Title: “Controversy over Chernobyl Health Consequences: A case of slow...

Felice Frankel
Research Scientist (MIT) and Science Photographer

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Nominated for three Oscars, including Best Picture, Hidden Figures is the incredible untold story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe)—brilliant African American women working at NASA, who served as the brains...

Brendan J. Meade, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Daniel Gilbert, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, and Scott Kuindersma, Assistant Professor of Engineering & Computer Science, will talk about natural disasters, how to predict them, why we aren't properly concerned about risks of this...

Speaker: Naomi Oreskes
 
Scientists are often reluctant to speak in public on contested issues, for fear that this will “politicize” their science and have a negative impact on their credibility.  In this talk, I examine these concerns, by exploring historical...

Roy Scranton
Assistant Professor of English, University of Notre Dame
Author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (2015)

The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey (Dean of Arts and Humanities,...

Title: "Characterization of black holes with gravitational waves,"

Title: "Journey to the Beginning of Time: Turning Metaphysics into Physics"
Lawrence Krauss, ASU physicist, cosmologist, and author of A Universe from Nothing, The Physics of Star Trek, and Fear of Physics.

CONTAINMENT, a film co-directed by Peter Galison, Harvard University, and Robb Moss, Harvard University, is about the disposition of nuclear waste for now and for the next 10,000 years.

UCBerkeley cosmologist & astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma kicks off the first of a series of weekly discussions.... Read more about Black Hole Initiative Colloquium: Chung-Pei Ma