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Monday, September 14
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8:30am Local and Global Climate Action on the Path to Paris
12pm MASS Seminar - Fuqing Zhang (Penn State)
12pm Subsidies, Climate Change, Electric Markets, and FERC
12:15pm Rethinking Landsat: The American State and Big Oil in the Space Race
4pm Water in Motion: Mysteries from Rivendell
4pm Gauging the Effects of Teach for America on Hard-to-Staff Schools
5pm Purposeful Gaming
6pm The Unreasonable Labs & City Awake Boston Pitch Night
6pm Continuing the Conversation: Community Planning and Development
7pm Science in Cooking: Pasta Magic
7pm Science by the Pint: What is Synthetic Biology?
7pm Science Monday
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Tuesday, September 15
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8:30am Net Zero Police HQ in Cincinnati
9am Cambridge Charette on Homelessness
12pm Bob Schieffer - The 2016 Presidential Election
12pm When online is offline: the case for hyperlocal webservers and networks
12pm Sustainability and HSW [Health, Safety, Welfare]: From Little Victories to Transformation Change
1pm A Dialogue on Homelessness
2:45pm Technology Adoption Under Uncertainty: Take Up and Subsequent Investment in Zambia
3pm Climate Change Risk Assessment and Management: Several Case Studies, toward a reproducible framework
3pm xTalks: The Future of STEM Education: Using a MOOC to Prepare the Next Generation of Faculty
3pm Debate: Should Congress Approve the Nuclear Agreement with Iran?
4pm Positive Computing: Technologies for psychological wellbeing and human potential
4:15pm The Arab Spring’s Uneven Harvest: Successes, Setbacks, and Failed States
4:30pm Starr Forum: Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
5:30pm MIT Center for Real Estate Thought Leader Speaker Series
5:30pm e4Dev - Exploring the intersection of energy and human development
5:30pm The Utility of the Creative Process
6pm Boston New Technology September 2015 Product Showcase #BNT57
6pm Organs-on-a-Chip: Revolutionizing the Drug Discovery Process
6:30pm Food in the City: Boston Happy Hour
7pm Can You Understand Me Now? Human Languages as Efficient Communication Systems
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Wednesday, September 16
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7:30am September Boston Sustainability Breakfast
9am Fenway Park: Sports, Performing Arts, Future of Tech
9am Cambridge Charette on Homelessness
12pm CIVIL / RIGHTS / ACT: Art & Activism in the Sixties
12pm A Social Science Guide to the Iraq Conflict: Discussion of a Work in Progress
12:10pm Salinity and Temperature of the Abyssal Ocean at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)
4:10pm Getting to No: Examining How No Boston Olympics Won the Fight Over the 2024 Summer Games
4:15pm Why is the Estimated Value of Clean Air so Low?
5pm Maker Spaces in the Middle East: Tools for Transformation and Opportunities for MIT Students
6pm Maziar Bahari: Journalism Is Not a Crime
7:40pm Wednesday Night Journalism Movie Series: War Photographer
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Thursday, September 17
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10am National Drive Electric Week Event - Boston
11:45am Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals Reporting: Evaluation of Data and Recommendations for Policymakers
1pm Interrogating God: Studying Torture, Practicing Divinity
2pm Agricultural Solutions to Climate Change
4pm Pathological Crystals: From Spirals to Therapies for Stone Disease
4pm Black Liveness Matters: Tracing the Sounding Subject
4pm Workshop on the Sustainability of the World's Food and Farming Systems
4pm New Visions and Strategies for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace
4:10pm The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform
4:30pm Through the Looking-Glass: Conspiracy Theories as an Alternative World of Global Health
4:45pm Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming
5:15pm Races and Religions: Does Knowing Globally Help Us At Home?
6pm The 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
7pm HackMIT Presents: PayPal & Affirm Cofounder, Max Levchin
7pm Jane McGonigal discusses her new book "SuperBetter" with Scot Osterweil
7pm "AMIA Repetita" & Alan Sabrosky: Israel did 9/11 - Free UPandOUT film screening [2 false-flags, many similarities]
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Friday, September 18
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Hacking Eating Tracking - Symposium + Hackathon on Quantification of Human Eating Behavior
9am PARKing Day, Cambridge
10am Cambridge Charette on Homelessness
10am Dissolve: A Modest Proposal to Rethink Global Health
10am Dissolve: A Modest Proposal to Rethink Global Health
11am Freecycle at the Smith Center
12pm Corporate Sustainability and Human Rights: Policy Changes
12pm The role of fire in our climate system: perspectives on different forcings, biomes, and timescales
12pm Askwith Forum: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren
1pm IACS Seminar: Using Big Data to Uncover New Empirical Laws in Economics & Finance
1pm Women in Biotech
2:30pm Historic Trees and Historicizing Tree-Rings
4pm Black Liveness Matters: Tracing the Sounding Subject
4pm Move Over, Mice: How the fusion of systems biology with "Organs-on-Chips" may humanize drug development
5pm Conversations about Synthetic Biology
6pm The Future Society at Harvard Kennedy School Presents: Paypal & Affirm Cofounder Max Levchin
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Saturday, September 19
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8:30am EV Day
9am Somerville Garden Club Annual Plant Sale
1pm The 2015 Ig Nobel Informal Lectures
2pm The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
4pm Sustainability and Environmental Management / Sustainability: Panel / HEEC Mixer
6pm Don't Look Away: An evening with Jay Critchley, Conceptual Public Artist, Performer, Provocateur ... Trickster!
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Sunday, September 20
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9am Swapfest
11am Boston Local Food Festival
12pm Don't Look Away: Closing Reception with public dialogue at 3:30 pm
2pm SciStreet Hackathon
5pm 12th Annual Revels RiverSing
6pm Book Discussion and Dinner with Arlene Blum
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Monday, September 21
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12pm Webinar - The Technology-Based Transformation of the Media Industry
12pm MASS Seminar - Howard Bluestein (Oklahoma)
12pm Extending Locational Marginal Cost Pricing to Retail Electricity Markets and Distributed Generation
12:15pm Meanwhile in Japan – Filming in the Nuclear Exclusion Zone
12:30pm Architecture Lecture: panel discussion on tech startups related to the built environment
4pm A Precinct Too Far: Assessing the Cost of Going to the Polling Place Using Boundary Discontinuities
4pm Visualization for Everyone: Public, Social, and Collaborative
4:15pm Can African Women Redefine Liberation for All?
4:30pm A New Russian Ideology: Forceful but Uncertain
6pm Ancient Eclipses, Roman Fish Tanks, and the Enigma of Global Sea Level Rise
6pm The future of our cities – meet Thomas Geisel
7pm Science and Cooking: The Science of Sugar
7pm Film Screening: The Day After Peace
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Tuesday, September 22
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12pm Jonathan Capehart - Civil Rights, Partisan Values and the Media
1pm Public hearing on GMO labeling
3pm Adapting to Extreme Events: Household Response to Floods in Urban Areas
3pm Communities in Networks
3:30pm HBeeS Honey Tasting
4pm The Social Physics of Wellbeing
7pm Discussion & Signing with Harvard Alum Evan Thomas: "Being Nixon: A Man Divided"
7pm An engaging reading and discussion with WILLIAM POWERS on new book: 'NEW SLOW CITY'
7pm Charles Murray
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Monday, September 14
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Diplomats from nearly 200 countries meet in Paris this December to forge a global climate agreement. Much progress has been made toward reducing the emissions responsible for climate change, but the path toward a low-carbon world is a difficult one. How are leaders and thinkers across the globe – from Boston to Beijing – confronting the decarbonization challenge? Where do we stand less than three months from a climate summit that will define global energy for decades to come?
In addition to Chief Blackmon, we'll hear perspectives from Kelly Levin, a senior associate at the World Resources Institute; Valerie Karplus, assistant professor of global economics and management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Project Director at Tsinghua-MIT China Energy and Climate Project; and Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres.
This event is jointly hosted by The Christian Science Monitor and the World Resources Institute. It is free and open to the public, so please spread the word. Doors open at 8:00 a.m. for networking. Have a question you'd like to ask the guests? Email me, David Unger, at ungerd@csmonitor.com. I'll be moderating the event, and I am curious to hear what topics you'd like to see addressed.
Join us to see why Boston is the hub for social impact.
Agenda
6:00 - 6:15: Quick introduction of Unreasonable Labs and City Awake
6:15 - 7:00: Lightning pitches from our entrepreneurs
7:00 - 8:00: Mingle and meet with the teams
Light snacks will be served.
Featured teams
Caffeinated Capital: Caffeinated Capital is working to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline by leveraging mainstream Social Impact Bonds for evidence-based treatment for at-risk youth.
Jim O’Connell, President, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
Dr. O’Connell graduated summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 1970 and received his master’s degree in theology from Cambridge University in 1972. After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1982, he completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1985, Dr. O’Connell began fulltime clinical work with homeless individuals as the founding physician of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, which now serves over 12,000 homeless persons each year in two hospital-based clinics (Boston Medical Center and MGH) and in more than 70 shelters and outreach sites in Boston. With his colleagues, Dr. O’Connell established the nation’s first medical respite program for homeless persons in September, 1985, with 25 beds in the Lemuel Shattuck Shelter. This innovative program now provides acute and sub-acute, pre- and post-operative, and palliative and end-of-life care in BHCHP’s free-standing 104-bed Barbara McInnis House. Working with the MGH Laboratory of Computer Science, Dr. O’Connell designed and implemented the nation’s first computerized medical record for a homeless program in 1995. From 1989 until 1996, Dr. O’Connell served as the National Program Director of the Homeless Families Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Dr. O’Connell is the editor of The Health Care of Homeless Persons: A Manual of Communicable Diseases in Shelters and on the Streets. His articles have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Circulation, the American Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Clinical Ethics, and several other medical journals. Dr. O’Connell has been featured on ABC’s Nightline and in a feature-length documentary entitled “Give Me a Shot of Anything.” He has received numerous awards, including the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award in 2012 and The Trustees’ Medal at the bicentennial celebration of MGH in 2011. Dr. O’Connell is president of BHCHP and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Web site: http://economics.mit.edu/files/10724
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Development Economics Seminar
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
Pay homage to baseball legends and learn the folklore of Boston sports. We'll also learn about flying robots and get a sense of where this hot industry is heading and how it's impacting society. "From the Top" youth musicians will provide guerrilla entertainment in unexpected places.
A Social Science Guide to the Iraq Conflict: Discussion of a Work in Progress
Wednesday, September 16
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Roger Peterson
Security Studies Program Wednesday Seminar Series
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/ssp/seminars/index.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
617-253-7529
elinah@mit.edu
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The 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony will introduce ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners - Each has done something that makes people laugh then think.
Winners will travel to the ceremony, at their own expense, from around the world to receive their prize from a group of genuine, genuinely bemused Nobel Laureates, in Harvard's historic and largest theater. Additional info will appear in the Improbable Research blog: http://www.improbable.com/category/ig-nobel/
HackMIT Presents: PayPal & Affirm Cofounder, Max Levchin
Thursday, September 17
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
MIT, Building W20-208, Stratton Student Center, Lobdell Dining Hall, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/hackmit-presents-paypal-affirm-cofounder-max-levchin-tickets-18056502485
HackMIT is proud to welcome Max Levchin to headline Hack Week MIT. Max is a cofounder of PayPal, fmr Chairman of Yelp, Board Director of Yahoo!, Chairman and cofounder of Glow, CEO of Affirm, serial entreprenenur, angel investor and was named Innovator of the Year by MIT Technology Review in 2002.
This one hour fireside chat moderated by Richard Ni will cover a range of topics including the convergence of finance, data and security, healthcare, insurance and the disruption Silicon Valley is having on the largest industries in the world.
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Jane McGonigal discusses her new book "SuperBetter" with Scot Osterweil
Thursday, September 17
7:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
We're thrilled to join Harvard Book Store as they host Jane McGonigal, who will discuss her new book "SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient -- Powered by the Science of Games" with our own Scot Ostwerweil here at MIT.
SuperBetter will be on sale here and will feature a book signing!
In 2009 Jane McGonigal suffered a severe concussion. Unable to think clearly or work or even get out of bed, she became anxious and depressed, even suicidal. But rather than let herself sink further, she decided to get better by doing what she does best: she turned her recovery process into a resilience-building game. What started as a simple motivational exercise quickly became a set of rules for "post-traumatic growth" that she shared on her blog. These rules led to a digital game and a major research study with the National Institutes of Health. Today nearly half a million people have played SuperBetter to get stronger, happier, and healthier.
Web site: http://cmsw.mit.edu/event/jane-mcgonigal-discusses-her-new-book-super
better-with-scot-osterweil/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Harvard Book Store
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
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"AMIA Repetita" & Alan Sabrosky: Israel did 9/11 - Free UPandOUT film screening [2 false-flags, many similarities]
Thursday, September 17
doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor
Folks, we are having two very special guests at our Sept film screening:
Ellie Ommani*, coming up from NY, is co-founder of AIFC (https://www.facebook.com/AIFCIran) - American-Iranian Friendship Committee; she is a retired NY school teacher and life-long activist.
Karla Hansen, *coming in from IOWA, is the director/producer of Silent Screams: The Impact of US Drone Attacks; (http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?itemid=10272) she is a licensed social work and long-time social justice advocate. Please come
and help give Ellie and Karla a rousing welcome!
AMIA Repetita has critical importance /today/ - as USRael ramps up anti-Iran hysteria]
[shades of 9/11: plants on the ground & USRael immediately - before the dust settles - blaming Iran, destroying evidence, railroading an investigation...; days prior to the attacks, work crews are going in and out of the buildings; higher-ups who would normally be at these sites are diverted to other locations; witness testimony is ignored; cui bono? etc, etc ... ]
Backgound video http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16pkw0_amia-bombing-mou-between-iran-argentina-faces-challenges_news
Buenos Aires 1994: A terrorist attack at the AMIA Jewish community center: 85 dead (1 Jewish), hundreds injured. From day one--before a single piece of evidence is produced--the US and Israel blame Iran. Israel tried to sidetrack an Argentine investigation, using powerful Wall Street assets and influential pro-Israel lobbies (e.g., the Anti-Defamation League and AIPAC).
On January 27, 2013, Argentina announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran to establish a "truth commission" to investigate the AMIA bombing. /AMIA Repetita/ is an expose of this case. A case that to this day has Israel gunning for Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, to discredit Argentine/Iranian cooperation to get to the bottom of this unsolved case.
"Tel-Aviv and Washington immediately blamed Iran and Hezbollah, despite the fact that the attack had the unmistakable fingerprints of a false-flag operation. Fifteen years later, the AMIA bombing continues to serve as a pretext for an even more vicious smear and fear campaign against Iran, pandering in particular to Israel?s interests, including those in Latin America." ~Belen Fernandez, Voltairenet
"To my knowledge, there was never any real evidence [of Iranian responsibility]. They never came up with anything." ~ James Cheek, US Ambassador to Argentina at the time of the AMIA bombing
Adrian Salbuch [economist and globalization expert, international political analyst, researcher and consultant. Author of several books on geopolitics in Spanish and English (including The Coming World Government: Tragedy & Hope), he is also a conference speaker in Argentina and radio/TV commentator] - False Flag Attacks in Argentina: 1992 and 1994 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article162474.html)
"In the ensuing chaos amidst the rubble, tempers ran very high with local police when Israeli Army intelligence officers planted an Israeli flag in the rubble. Almost immediately, those same Israelis ??luckily?? found a piece of the alleged car-bomb ?? a white Renault ??Trafic?? van ?? that ??luckily?? just happened to have the manufacturer??s serial number on it. This was reminiscent of other highly unlikely but ??lucky?? finds, such as the FBI??s locating one alleged suicide bomber intact passport in the rubble of the World Trade Center just after 9/11!"
...This ??evidence?? was finally rejected by the Court when it became so flagrantly obvious that it had been planted at the scene of the crime. They then came up with several other pieces of ??the car-bomb van??, which, when sent to the local Renault plant for verification, turned out to belong to two different vehicles, one of which apparently didn??t have a fuel pump installed, so it could have hardly gone anywhere!"
...The Argentine Courts have spent 15 years searching for proof of an ??Iranian ?? Syrian ?? Hezbollah Connection??, which they have never found, for the simple but powerful reason that such a link does not exist. However, both terror attacks fall quite neatly into place in a much more logical way when you insert them within the rationale, not of a non-existent ??Iranian Connection??, but rather of a very concrete ??Israeli Connection/??.
...similar to 9/11, although [Zionists] have shown the technical capability to carry out false flag attacks with (almost) technical perfection ...they still are
extremely sloppy in that they have left their fingerprints all over the place when perpetrating these attacks which have been revealed by inconsistencies that have proven impossible to explain away."
"The bombed building housed then and now not just the AMIA Mutual Association, but also the DAIA - Argentine Delegation of Israeli Associations the powerful local Jewish lobby working for Israel. After more than 21 years, this has become Argentina's most corruption-riddled case, where obscene meddling by Israel's Mossad, and America's CIA and FBI included such pranks as planting false evidence of a nonexistent car bomb, censoring other much more likely leads, and paying kickbacks to false witnesses in order to falsely incriminate Hezbollah, either through Syria at first, or Iran since 2006."
No legitimate historian gives any credence to the USRaeli version of events.
Israel Did 9/11 (Israeli Mossad)
Dr. Alan Sabrosky, in an interview on Press TV, lays out the case of Israeli involvement in 9/11 and US military awareness of it.
"I am also absolutely certain as a strategic analyst that 9/11 itself, from which all else flows, was a classic Mossad-orchestrated operation. But Mossad did not do it alone." ~Dr. Alan Sabrosky
"[T]he US have been waging a 3-decade war for domination of the Middle East." ~Israeli propagandist Jeffrey Goldberg in an inadvertent admission.
http://rule19.org/videos
Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!
*free film & free door prizes
****[donations are encouraged]
*feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed
Editorial Comment: The editor does not endorse these conclusions but includes this event as the discussion of these issues are useful. I have been following the events in Argentina from my great distance and have found the controversy there to be important, whatever the outcome.
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Friday, September 18
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Hacking Eating Tracking - Symposium + Hackathon on Quantification of Human Eating Behavior
September 18-20
Cambridge, MA
http://www.hackingeatingtracking.org
Currently accepting hacker applications and pre-registration for attendance: http://www.hackingeatingtracking.org/hackathon/
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PARKing Day, Cambridge
Friday, September 18
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
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Cambridge Charette on Homelessness
Friday, September 18
10:00 am – 12 noon: Community Recommendations
YWCA, Hannum Hall, Central Square, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge
The City of Cambridge Department of Human Service Programs, in consultation with the Cambridge Homeless Continuum of Care (CoC) and other City departments, has partnered with the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) to facilitate a community planning process on homelessness. Please join us September 15-18 for a unique community planning experience.
CSH has developed a Charrette model that will enable our community to engage in a focused, time-limited process that will result in a Strategic Action Plan to address homelessness in Cambridge. In January 2015, the City Council’s Human Services and Veterans Committee held a hearing to discuss the city’s efforts and planning around homelessness. The need for an updated planning process was described at that time. This planning effort around homelessness will help inform the citywide planning process.
The initial phase of planning has been led by a local Steering Committee comprised of a diverse group of stakeholders, working in concert with CSH consultants and City staff from the Department of Human Service Programs. Using input from the public received at two community meetings held in June, the Steering Committee identified six issue areas to be addressed during Charrette Week: Serving Frequent Users of Emergency Services; Service Navigation and Systems Coordination; The “Housing First” Service Model; Services and Policies to Prevent Homelessness; Increasing Housing Supply for People Experiencing Homelessness; and Strategies for Increasing Investment.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, September 15 and 16, each issue area will have a dedicated fishbowl-style session, a facilitated dialogue between community members and local and national experts. CSH will present their recommendations to the community on the morning of Friday, September 18, followed by a final round of feedback from the community. Mayor David Maher and City Manager Richard C. Rossi will provide opening remarks to Charrette participants on Tuesday, September 15. City Councilor Marc McGovern, Chair of the City Council’s Human Services and Veterans Committee, will provide opening comments on Wednesday, September 16. Please see times and locations below.
“We are thrilled to have this opportunity to engage the community in strategizing how to most effectively address the critical issues facing individuals and families experiencing homelessness, as well as the community as a whole,” said Ellen Semonoff, Assistant City Manager for Human Services.
The public is warmly invited to attend these meetings, which will address the root causes and propose actionable solutions to the multiple facets of homelessness in Cambridge. You can come for as much or as little as you like—whether for just one session or all three days. Community members with firsthand experience with homelessness are especially encouraged to attend. Please help us make this an experience that will truly impact homelessness in Cambridge.
To see Charrette updates or learn more, visit cambridgecharrette.yolasite.com and follow us on twitter @CambMACoC.
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Dissolve: A Modest Proposal to Rethink Global Health
Friday, September 18
10:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building E25-401, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study
This event will feature Didier Fassin, from the Institute for Advanced Study, who will present an original talk entitled, "Dissolve: A Modest Proposal to Rethink Global Health."
We hope you will be able to join us!
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Anthropology Program, IMES
For more information, contact: Brittany Peters
bapeters@mit.edu
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Black Liveness Matters: Tracing the Sounding Subject
WHEN Fri., Sep. 18, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Faculty Club Library, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
SPEAKER(S) George E. Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, & director of the Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS George and Joyce Wein Lectures (2 of 2)
9/17 - Karel Capek Meets Blind Tom
9/18 - Composition as Ethnography
A Q+A and reception will follow each lecture.
The George and Joyce Wein Lecture Series in African and African American Music brings an artist or scholar to Harvard to speak on issues pertaining to African, African American, and African Diasporic music. Established by George Wein, the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, in honor of his late wife, Joyce, and cosponsored with the Department of African and African American Studies, the series consists of one lecture and a master class or performance on two consecutive days.
LINK http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events-lectures/events/september-18-2015-400pm/george-e-lewis-george-and-joyce-wein-lectures-2-2
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Monday, September 14
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8:30am Local and Global Climate Action on the Path to Paris
12pm MASS Seminar - Fuqing Zhang (Penn State)
12pm Subsidies, Climate Change, Electric Markets, and FERC
12:15pm Rethinking Landsat: The American State and Big Oil in the Space Race
4pm Water in Motion: Mysteries from Rivendell
4pm Gauging the Effects of Teach for America on Hard-to-Staff Schools
5pm Purposeful Gaming
6pm The Unreasonable Labs & City Awake Boston Pitch Night
6pm Continuing the Conversation: Community Planning and Development
7pm Science in Cooking: Pasta Magic
7pm Science by the Pint: What is Synthetic Biology?
7pm Science Monday
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Tuesday, September 15
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8:30am Net Zero Police HQ in Cincinnati
9am Cambridge Charette on Homelessness
12pm Bob Schieffer - The 2016 Presidential Election
12pm When online is offline: the case for hyperlocal webservers and networks
12pm Sustainability and HSW [Health, Safety, Welfare]: From Little Victories to Transformation Change
1pm A Dialogue on Homelessness
2:45pm Technology Adoption Under Uncertainty: Take Up and Subsequent Investment in Zambia
3pm Climate Change Risk Assessment and Management: Several Case Studies, toward a reproducible framework
3pm xTalks: The Future of STEM Education: Using a MOOC to Prepare the Next Generation of Faculty
3pm Debate: Should Congress Approve the Nuclear Agreement with Iran?
4pm Positive Computing: Technologies for psychological wellbeing and human potential
4:15pm The Arab Spring’s Uneven Harvest: Successes, Setbacks, and Failed States
4:30pm Starr Forum: Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
5:30pm MIT Center for Real Estate Thought Leader Speaker Series
5:30pm e4Dev - Exploring the intersection of energy and human development
5:30pm The Utility of the Creative Process
6pm Boston New Technology September 2015 Product Showcase #BNT57
6pm Organs-on-a-Chip: Revolutionizing the Drug Discovery Process
6:30pm Food in the City: Boston Happy Hour
7pm Can You Understand Me Now? Human Languages as Efficient Communication Systems
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Wednesday, September 16
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7:30am September Boston Sustainability Breakfast
9am Fenway Park: Sports, Performing Arts, Future of Tech
9am Cambridge Charette on Homelessness
12pm CIVIL / RIGHTS / ACT: Art & Activism in the Sixties
12pm A Social Science Guide to the Iraq Conflict: Discussion of a Work in Progress
12:10pm Salinity and Temperature of the Abyssal Ocean at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)
4:10pm Getting to No: Examining How No Boston Olympics Won the Fight Over the 2024 Summer Games
4:15pm Why is the Estimated Value of Clean Air so Low?
5pm Maker Spaces in the Middle East: Tools for Transformation and Opportunities for MIT Students
6pm Maziar Bahari: Journalism Is Not a Crime
7:40pm Wednesday Night Journalism Movie Series: War Photographer
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Thursday, September 17
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10am National Drive Electric Week Event - Boston
11:45am Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals Reporting: Evaluation of Data and Recommendations for Policymakers
1pm Interrogating God: Studying Torture, Practicing Divinity
2pm Agricultural Solutions to Climate Change
4pm Pathological Crystals: From Spirals to Therapies for Stone Disease
4pm Black Liveness Matters: Tracing the Sounding Subject
4pm Workshop on the Sustainability of the World's Food and Farming Systems
4pm New Visions and Strategies for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace
4:10pm The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform
4:30pm Through the Looking-Glass: Conspiracy Theories as an Alternative World of Global Health
4:45pm Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming
5:15pm Races and Religions: Does Knowing Globally Help Us At Home?
6pm The 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
7pm HackMIT Presents: PayPal & Affirm Cofounder, Max Levchin
7pm Jane McGonigal discusses her new book "SuperBetter" with Scot Osterweil
7pm "AMIA Repetita" & Alan Sabrosky: Israel did 9/11 - Free UPandOUT film screening [2 false-flags, many similarities]
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Friday, September 18
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Hacking Eating Tracking - Symposium + Hackathon on Quantification of Human Eating Behavior
9am PARKing Day, Cambridge
10am Cambridge Charette on Homelessness
10am Dissolve: A Modest Proposal to Rethink Global Health
10am Dissolve: A Modest Proposal to Rethink Global Health
11am Freecycle at the Smith Center
12pm Corporate Sustainability and Human Rights: Policy Changes
12pm The role of fire in our climate system: perspectives on different forcings, biomes, and timescales
12pm Askwith Forum: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren
1pm IACS Seminar: Using Big Data to Uncover New Empirical Laws in Economics & Finance
1pm Women in Biotech
2:30pm Historic Trees and Historicizing Tree-Rings
4pm Black Liveness Matters: Tracing the Sounding Subject
4pm Move Over, Mice: How the fusion of systems biology with "Organs-on-Chips" may humanize drug development
5pm Conversations about Synthetic Biology
6pm The Future Society at Harvard Kennedy School Presents: Paypal & Affirm Cofounder Max Levchin
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Saturday, September 19
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8:30am EV Day
9am Somerville Garden Club Annual Plant Sale
1pm The 2015 Ig Nobel Informal Lectures
2pm The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
4pm Sustainability and Environmental Management / Sustainability: Panel / HEEC Mixer
6pm Don't Look Away: An evening with Jay Critchley, Conceptual Public Artist, Performer, Provocateur ... Trickster!
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Sunday, September 20
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9am Swapfest
11am Boston Local Food Festival
12pm Don't Look Away: Closing Reception with public dialogue at 3:30 pm
2pm SciStreet Hackathon
5pm 12th Annual Revels RiverSing
6pm Book Discussion and Dinner with Arlene Blum
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Monday, September 21
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12pm Webinar - The Technology-Based Transformation of the Media Industry
12pm MASS Seminar - Howard Bluestein (Oklahoma)
12pm Extending Locational Marginal Cost Pricing to Retail Electricity Markets and Distributed Generation
12:15pm Meanwhile in Japan – Filming in the Nuclear Exclusion Zone
12:30pm Architecture Lecture: panel discussion on tech startups related to the built environment
4pm A Precinct Too Far: Assessing the Cost of Going to the Polling Place Using Boundary Discontinuities
4pm Visualization for Everyone: Public, Social, and Collaborative
4:15pm Can African Women Redefine Liberation for All?
4:30pm A New Russian Ideology: Forceful but Uncertain
6pm Ancient Eclipses, Roman Fish Tanks, and the Enigma of Global Sea Level Rise
6pm The future of our cities – meet Thomas Geisel
7pm Science and Cooking: The Science of Sugar
7pm Film Screening: The Day After Peace
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Tuesday, September 22
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12pm Jonathan Capehart - Civil Rights, Partisan Values and the Media
1pm Public hearing on GMO labeling
3pm Adapting to Extreme Events: Household Response to Floods in Urban Areas
3pm Communities in Networks
3:30pm HBeeS Honey Tasting
4pm The Social Physics of Wellbeing
7pm Discussion & Signing with Harvard Alum Evan Thomas: "Being Nixon: A Man Divided"
7pm An engaging reading and discussion with WILLIAM POWERS on new book: 'NEW SLOW CITY'
7pm Charles Murray
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
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Monday, September 14
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Local and Global Climate Action on the Path to Paris
Monday, September 14
Monday, September 14
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM (EDT)
The Hall of Ideas, 200 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston
The Hall of Ideas, 200 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-and-global-climate-action-on-the-path-to-paris-tickets-18192159238
with Austin Blackmon, Boston's Chief of Environment, Energy and Open Space
Join us for a discussion of local and global energy and climate action with Austin Blackmon, Boston's chief environment and energy official and other experts.
with Austin Blackmon, Boston's Chief of Environment, Energy and Open Space
Join us for a discussion of local and global energy and climate action with Austin Blackmon, Boston's chief environment and energy official and other experts.
Diplomats from nearly 200 countries meet in Paris this December to forge a global climate agreement. Much progress has been made toward reducing the emissions responsible for climate change, but the path toward a low-carbon world is a difficult one. How are leaders and thinkers across the globe – from Boston to Beijing – confronting the decarbonization challenge? Where do we stand less than three months from a climate summit that will define global energy for decades to come?
In addition to Chief Blackmon, we'll hear perspectives from Kelly Levin, a senior associate at the World Resources Institute; Valerie Karplus, assistant professor of global economics and management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Project Director at Tsinghua-MIT China Energy and Climate Project; and Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres.
This event is jointly hosted by The Christian Science Monitor and the World Resources Institute. It is free and open to the public, so please spread the word. Doors open at 8:00 a.m. for networking. Have a question you'd like to ask the guests? Email me, David Unger, at ungerd@csmonitor.com. I'll be moderating the event, and I am curious to hear what topics you'd like to see addressed.
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MASS Seminar - Fuqing Zhang (Penn State)
Monday, September 14
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Fuqing Zhang (Penn State)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu
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Subsidies, Climate Change, Electric Markets, and FERC
Monday, September 14
12pm - 1:30pm
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
John Moot, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
John Moot, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
This series is presented by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Lunch will be provided.
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693
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Rethinking Landsat: The American State and Big Oil in the Space Race
Monday, September 14
Rethinking Landsat: The American State and Big Oil in the Space Race
Monday, September 14
12:15pm to 2:00pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall Room 100F, 29 OXford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Megan Black (Harvard, Warren Center)
The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.
There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.
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Harvard, Pierce Hall Room 100F, 29 OXford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Megan Black (Harvard, Warren Center)
The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.
There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.
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Water in Motion: Mysteries from Rivendell
Monday, September 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Harvard, Haller Hall, (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Harvard, Haller Hall, (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dr. Inez Fung, UC Berkeley
Abstract: California is in the midst of a four-year drought. How do some trees survive the drought? We have been carrying out intensive high-frequency monitoring of the water cycle in a small (4000 m2) steep (35o slope) watershed dubbed “Rivendell” in the Angelo Coast Range Reserve in Northern California. The data have revealed many surprises. The water table ~20 meters below the surface rises by about 1 meter after the first storms of the season. Adjacent evergreen trees transpire in different seasons. We present a simple model of the fast processes that redistribute water in the subsurface, and hypothesize that the weathered bedrock could be a non-negligible reservoir of moisture to sustain trees through dry seasons.
About Inez: Inez Fung has been studying climate change and the carbon cycle for the last 30 year. She is an architect of large-scale mathematical modeling approaches and numerical models to represent the geographic and temporal variations of sources and sinks of CO2, dust and other trace substances around the globe. Inez Fung received her S.B. in Applied Mathematics and her Sc.D. in Meteorology from MIT. She joined the Berkeley faculty in 1998. She is a Professor of Atmospheric Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Fung is the US lead of the 2014 report “Climate Change: Evidence and Causes” published jointly by the Royal Society and the National Academy of Sciences. She is a subject in a biography series for middle-school readers “Women’s Adventure in Science” launched by the National Academy of Sciences. The title of her biography is “Forecast Earth”.
About Inez: Inez Fung has been studying climate change and the carbon cycle for the last 30 year. She is an architect of large-scale mathematical modeling approaches and numerical models to represent the geographic and temporal variations of sources and sinks of CO2, dust and other trace substances around the globe. Inez Fung received her S.B. in Applied Mathematics and her Sc.D. in Meteorology from MIT. She joined the Berkeley faculty in 1998. She is a Professor of Atmospheric Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Fung is the US lead of the 2014 report “Climate Change: Evidence and Causes” published jointly by the Royal Society and the National Academy of Sciences. She is a subject in a biography series for middle-school readers “Women’s Adventure in Science” launched by the National Academy of Sciences. The title of her biography is “Forecast Earth”.
EPS Colloquium Series
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Gauging the Effects of Teach for America on Hard-to-Staff Schools
Monday, September 14
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sally Hudson (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Purposeful Gaming
WHEN Mon., Sep. 14, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ludics Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center
SPEAKER(S) Mary Flanagan, Dartmouth College
Constance Rinaldo, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO rapti@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is an international consortium of the world’s leading natural history libraries. The BHL digital library has the goal of improving research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. The BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) also links to the literature in BHL. The Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology is a founding member of the BHL and Connie Rinaldo, the Librarian of the MCZ, will describe the BHL, including unique features such as taxonomic intelligence, and the need for better optical character recognition which led to the purposeful gaming grant developed by partners Missouri Botanical Garden (lead institution), Cornell University and the New York Botanical Garden. To improve optical character recognition for content such as handwritten field notes and items with complex structure, the partners thought that combining the power of crowdsourcing with the fun of gaming might be a good incentive to become part of a crowd-sourcing transcription community. After a competitive biddingprocess, the partners determined that Tiltfactor was the best match for developing the game to improve transcription. Staff in the Ernst Mayr Library (primarily Joe deVeer and Patrick Randall) have led the review of transcription tools and outreach through social media.
Mary Flanagan, the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College, is a leading innovator, artist, educator and designer, whose works have included everything from game-inspired art, to commercial games that shift people’s thinking about biases and stereotypes. Her interest in play and culture led to her acclaimed book, Critical Play, with MIT Press (2009). Her fifth academic book, Values at Play in Digital Games, with philosopher Helen Nissenbaum, was released in 2014. Flanagan established the internationally recognized game research laboratory Tiltfactor (www.tiltfactor.org) in 2003 to invent "humanist" games and take on social through games. At Tiltfactor, designers create and research catchy games that teach or transform “under the radar” using psychological principles. Professor Flanagan will discuss gaming, the politically sensitive issues surrounding work and play without compensation, demo the games that were built for this project and touch on issues about what makes an ethical use of the play/volunteer approach—perhaps getting into the reinvention of the “commons" (common good).
For more information about the gaming project, see the BHL blog.
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/purposeful-gaming
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Gauging the Effects of Teach for America on Hard-to-Staff Schools
Monday, September 14
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sally Hudson (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Purposeful Gaming
WHEN Mon., Sep. 14, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ludics Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center
SPEAKER(S) Mary Flanagan, Dartmouth College
Constance Rinaldo, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO rapti@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is an international consortium of the world’s leading natural history libraries. The BHL digital library has the goal of improving research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. The BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) also links to the literature in BHL. The Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology is a founding member of the BHL and Connie Rinaldo, the Librarian of the MCZ, will describe the BHL, including unique features such as taxonomic intelligence, and the need for better optical character recognition which led to the purposeful gaming grant developed by partners Missouri Botanical Garden (lead institution), Cornell University and the New York Botanical Garden. To improve optical character recognition for content such as handwritten field notes and items with complex structure, the partners thought that combining the power of crowdsourcing with the fun of gaming might be a good incentive to become part of a crowd-sourcing transcription community. After a competitive biddingprocess, the partners determined that Tiltfactor was the best match for developing the game to improve transcription. Staff in the Ernst Mayr Library (primarily Joe deVeer and Patrick Randall) have led the review of transcription tools and outreach through social media.
Mary Flanagan, the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College, is a leading innovator, artist, educator and designer, whose works have included everything from game-inspired art, to commercial games that shift people’s thinking about biases and stereotypes. Her interest in play and culture led to her acclaimed book, Critical Play, with MIT Press (2009). Her fifth academic book, Values at Play in Digital Games, with philosopher Helen Nissenbaum, was released in 2014. Flanagan established the internationally recognized game research laboratory Tiltfactor (www.tiltfactor.org) in 2003 to invent "humanist" games and take on social through games. At Tiltfactor, designers create and research catchy games that teach or transform “under the radar” using psychological principles. Professor Flanagan will discuss gaming, the politically sensitive issues surrounding work and play without compensation, demo the games that were built for this project and touch on issues about what makes an ethical use of the play/volunteer approach—perhaps getting into the reinvention of the “commons" (common good).
For more information about the gaming project, see the BHL blog.
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/purposeful-gaming
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The Unreasonable Labs & City Awake Boston Pitch Night
Monday, September 14
Monday, September 14
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, 17th Floor, Boston
Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, 17th Floor, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-unreasonable-labs-city-awake-boston-pitch-night-tickets-18183080082
Unreasonable Labs in partnership with City Awake present:
The Unreasonable Labs Boston Pitch Night
Come learn about the nine innovative and exciting social impact startups participating in the first-ever Unreasonable Labs Boston, a hyper-accelerator focused on funding readiness for early-stage companies. You'll get to meet the teams working to bring more affordable and ecofriendly fuel, better drug delivery for pediatric tuberculosis, social impact bonds and a lot more to communities around the world. You will have the chance to vote for your favorite team, provide feedback on the pitches, and meet leaders in the social impact space in Boston.
Unreasonable Labs in partnership with City Awake present:
The Unreasonable Labs Boston Pitch Night
Come learn about the nine innovative and exciting social impact startups participating in the first-ever Unreasonable Labs Boston, a hyper-accelerator focused on funding readiness for early-stage companies. You'll get to meet the teams working to bring more affordable and ecofriendly fuel, better drug delivery for pediatric tuberculosis, social impact bonds and a lot more to communities around the world. You will have the chance to vote for your favorite team, provide feedback on the pitches, and meet leaders in the social impact space in Boston.
Join us to see why Boston is the hub for social impact.
Agenda
6:00 - 6:15: Quick introduction of Unreasonable Labs and City Awake
6:15 - 7:00: Lightning pitches from our entrepreneurs
7:00 - 8:00: Mingle and meet with the teams
Light snacks will be served.
Featured teams
Caffeinated Capital: Caffeinated Capital is working to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline by leveraging mainstream Social Impact Bonds for evidence-based treatment for at-risk youth.
EarthFrendz: EarthFrendz is an artisan focused social enterprise, that transform surplus remnants of textiles discarded as industrial waste into sustainable fashionable accessories.
Emzingo: Emzingo offers leadership solutions that help businesses, academic institutions, individuals, and social enterprises expand to their full potential and effectively address current and upcoming global challenges.
Health Advocacy Innovations: HAI is building a system to more accurately and efficiently treat pediatric drug-resistant tuberculosis; redesigning a means of measuring a child's weight that does not involve literacy or scales, and designing a device that will accurately dispense the correct amount of medication.
Level Ground MMA: Level Ground unleashes the strength, power, and ingenuity of urban youth by coupling athletic programming with academic advancement, mentorship, and employment opportunities.
Takachar: Takachar has developed a low-cost, decentralized, and patent pending system that converts biomass waste into low-cost fuel.
Tulalens: Tulalens crowdsources information on critical needs to improve lives in low-income communities.
Ubuntu Capital: Ubuntu leverages a reputation-based credit score-alternative to expand the formal sector in developing economies.
VOTO Mobile: VOTO Mobile helps organisations (charities, government agencies, private sector) communicate with the poorest 2 Billion people on the planet through their mobile phones.
About Unreasonable Labs
The Unreasonable Institute (the organization behind Labs) gets entrepreneurs what they need to scale solutions to the world’s biggest problems. It identifies entrepreneurs with the potential to address problems like poverty, lack of education, and social injustice at scale, and then swarms them with mentors, funders, and partners to help grow their impact. Unreasonable Labs are programs of the Institute. The Boston Lab is focused on investment preparedness.
About City Awake
City Awake works to establish Boston as a global hub for social impact through which anyone can connect and scale ideas to build a better future. As a growing organization, City Awake thrives due to the invaluable support of the Boston community, and importantly, as a result of the passion and commitment of its volunteer-driven team. Learn more and join the movement at City Awake!
Emzingo: Emzingo offers leadership solutions that help businesses, academic institutions, individuals, and social enterprises expand to their full potential and effectively address current and upcoming global challenges.
Health Advocacy Innovations: HAI is building a system to more accurately and efficiently treat pediatric drug-resistant tuberculosis; redesigning a means of measuring a child's weight that does not involve literacy or scales, and designing a device that will accurately dispense the correct amount of medication.
Level Ground MMA: Level Ground unleashes the strength, power, and ingenuity of urban youth by coupling athletic programming with academic advancement, mentorship, and employment opportunities.
Takachar: Takachar has developed a low-cost, decentralized, and patent pending system that converts biomass waste into low-cost fuel.
Tulalens: Tulalens crowdsources information on critical needs to improve lives in low-income communities.
Ubuntu Capital: Ubuntu leverages a reputation-based credit score-alternative to expand the formal sector in developing economies.
VOTO Mobile: VOTO Mobile helps organisations (charities, government agencies, private sector) communicate with the poorest 2 Billion people on the planet through their mobile phones.
About Unreasonable Labs
The Unreasonable Institute (the organization behind Labs) gets entrepreneurs what they need to scale solutions to the world’s biggest problems. It identifies entrepreneurs with the potential to address problems like poverty, lack of education, and social injustice at scale, and then swarms them with mentors, funders, and partners to help grow their impact. Unreasonable Labs are programs of the Institute. The Boston Lab is focused on investment preparedness.
About City Awake
City Awake works to establish Boston as a global hub for social impact through which anyone can connect and scale ideas to build a better future. As a growing organization, City Awake thrives due to the invaluable support of the Boston community, and importantly, as a result of the passion and commitment of its volunteer-driven team. Learn more and join the movement at City Awake!
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Continuing the Conversation: Community Planning and Development
Monday, September 14
6-9pm
Freedom House, 5 Crawford St., Dorchester
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/1493365124322250/
On Monday, September 14th, Boston NAACP, in collaboration with The Berkman Center For Internet & Society at Harvard University and UMass Boston Professor Michael Johnson, will host its second conversation on planning and development processes and issues - and the need for community-led processes - highlighted by Boston's attempt to bid to host the 2024 Olympics.
I have attached an invitation to the conversation from Professor Charles Nesson at The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a flyer for the event. The following is a link to the FB invite:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1493365124322250/
We'd appreciate your help in spreading the word about this conversation.
Boston's unsuccessful attempt to become the U.S. candidate for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games started a variety of powerful and important discussions about the future of Boston generally, many of which deserve to be continued. If we properly build on the momentum of these conversations, the legacy of Boston's 2024 Olympic bid could be much more than regret and political division. It could instead usher in a new era of community engagement and involvement on major urban issues.
An opportunity has arisen to model a more democratic community planning process. I would therefore like to invite you to join me, Professor Johnson, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and other distinguished guests for dinner and discussion on September 14, 2015, from 6-9pm, so that together we can explore the possibilities offered by hosting the MINEPS VI conference, an international conference on youth and sport. More broadly, we will also be exploring new ways and tools with which Boston?s communities and citizens can more effectively discuss issues of significance, and make their voices heard in any related decision-making process.
The dinner will take place at Freedom House, 5 Crawford St., Dorchester, on September 14, 2015 from 6-9pm. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to
Annie Pruitt (apruitt@cyber.law.harvard.edu) and Nia K. Evans (economicdev@bostonnaacp.org) as soon as possible.
I very much hope that you can join us as we continue this important conversation.
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or feedback.
Best,
Nia K. Evans
Chair, Economic Development and Labor and Industry, Boston NAACP
On Monday, September 14th, Boston NAACP, in collaboration with The Berkman Center For Internet & Society at Harvard University and UMass Boston Professor Michael Johnson, will host its second conversation on planning and development processes and issues - and the need for community-led processes - highlighted by Boston's attempt to bid to host the 2024 Olympics.
I have attached an invitation to the conversation from Professor Charles Nesson at The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a flyer for the event. The following is a link to the FB invite:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1493365124322250/
We'd appreciate your help in spreading the word about this conversation.
Boston's unsuccessful attempt to become the U.S. candidate for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games started a variety of powerful and important discussions about the future of Boston generally, many of which deserve to be continued. If we properly build on the momentum of these conversations, the legacy of Boston's 2024 Olympic bid could be much more than regret and political division. It could instead usher in a new era of community engagement and involvement on major urban issues.
An opportunity has arisen to model a more democratic community planning process. I would therefore like to invite you to join me, Professor Johnson, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and other distinguished guests for dinner and discussion on September 14, 2015, from 6-9pm, so that together we can explore the possibilities offered by hosting the MINEPS VI conference, an international conference on youth and sport. More broadly, we will also be exploring new ways and tools with which Boston?s communities and citizens can more effectively discuss issues of significance, and make their voices heard in any related decision-making process.
The dinner will take place at Freedom House, 5 Crawford St., Dorchester, on September 14, 2015 from 6-9pm. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to
Annie Pruitt (apruitt@cyber.law.harvard.edu) and Nia K. Evans (economicdev@bostonnaacp.org) as soon as possible.
I very much hope that you can join us as we continue this important conversation.
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or feedback.
Best,
Nia K. Evans
Chair, Economic Development and Labor and Industry, Boston NAACP
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Science in Cooking: Pasta Magic
Monday, September 14
7 pm
Harvard, Science Center Lecture Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Mark Ladner, (@ChefMarkLadner), Del Posto
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Science by the Pint: What is Synthetic Biology?
Monday, September 14
7pm
The Burren, Davis Square, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu
Science in Cooking: Pasta Magic
Monday, September 14
7 pm
Harvard, Science Center Lecture Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Mark Ladner, (@ChefMarkLadner), Del Posto
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Science by the Pint: What is Synthetic Biology?
Monday, September 14
7pm
The Burren, Davis Square, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu
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Science Monday
Monday, September 14
7:00 PM
Ames Street Deli, 73 Ames Street Cambridge
7:00 PM
Ames Street Deli, 73 Ames Street Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-monday-tickets-17974052876
Science Monday is back!
Summer may be on its way out, but the fun is only beginning. Bring your team of 2 to 6 to Ames Street Deli on Monday night to sip some cocktails, answer some science questions, and complete a middle-school level science project for fun and glory!
This month, we have Harvard biologists Alex Schier and Vlad Denic as our guest judges, and Boston Globe's Miss Conduct is back as our emcee.
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Tuesday, September 15
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Summer may be on its way out, but the fun is only beginning. Bring your team of 2 to 6 to Ames Street Deli on Monday night to sip some cocktails, answer some science questions, and complete a middle-school level science project for fun and glory!
This month, we have Harvard biologists Alex Schier and Vlad Denic as our guest judges, and Boston Globe's Miss Conduct is back as our emcee.
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Tuesday, September 15
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Net Zero Police HQ in Cincinnati
Tuesday, September 15
8:30 to 10:00 am
50 Milk Street, 15th floor, Aristotle Conference Room, Boston
RSVP at http://usgbcma.org/civicrm/event/register?id=871&reset=1
Cost: $0 - $10
Talk by Chad Edwards and Shawn Hesse of Emersion Design about the District 3 Police Headquarters project in Cincinnati, which will be the city’s first net zero and LEED Platinum building. The project is publicly funded and a fixed-price design-build project that has come in on budget. Sponsored by the USGBC Massachusetts Chapter. Free for members; fee for non-members.
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Cambridge Charette on Homelessness
Tuesday, September 15
9:00 am: Introduction
9:30 – 11:30 am: Serving Frequent Users of Emergency Services
12:30 – 2:30 pm: “Housing First” Services Models
3:00 – 5:00 pm: Strategies for Increasing Investment
Sheraton Commander, Harvard Square, 16 Garden Street, Cambridge
The City of Cambridge Department of Human Service Programs, in consultation with the Cambridge Homeless Continuum of Care (CoC) and other City departments, has partnered with the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) to facilitate a community planning process on homelessness. Please join us September 15-18 for a unique community planning experience.
CSH has developed a Charrette model that will enable our community to engage in a focused, time-limited process that will result in a Strategic Action Plan to address homelessness in Cambridge. In January 2015, the City Council’s Human Services and Veterans Committee held a hearing to discuss the city’s efforts and planning around homelessness. The need for an updated planning process was described at that time. This planning effort around homelessness will help inform the citywide planning process.
The initial phase of planning has been led by a local Steering Committee comprised of a diverse group of stakeholders, working in concert with CSH consultants and City staff from the Department of Human Service Programs. Using input from the public received at two community meetings held in June, the Steering Committee identified six issue areas to be addressed during Charrette Week: Serving Frequent Users of Emergency Services; Service Navigation and Systems Coordination; The “Housing First” Service Model; Services and Policies to Prevent Homelessness; Increasing Housing Supply for People Experiencing Homelessness; and Strategies for Increasing Investment.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, September 15 and 16, each issue area will have a dedicated fishbowl-style session, a facilitated dialogue between community members and local and national experts. CSH will present their recommendations to the community on the morning of Friday, September 18, followed by a final round of feedback from the community. Mayor David Maher and City Manager Richard C. Rossi will provide opening remarks to Charrette participants on Tuesday, September 15. City Councilor Marc McGovern, Chair of the City Council’s Human Services and Veterans Committee, will provide opening comments on Wednesday, September 16. Please see times and locations below.
“We are thrilled to have this opportunity to engage the community in strategizing how to most effectively address the critical issues facing individuals and families experiencing homelessness, as well as the community as a whole,” said Ellen Semonoff, Assistant City Manager for Human Services.
The public is warmly invited to attend these meetings, which will address the root causes and propose actionable solutions to the multiple facets of homelessness in Cambridge. You can come for as much or as little as you like—whether for just one session or all three days. Community members with firsthand experience with homelessness are especially encouraged to attend. Please help us make this an experience that will truly impact homelessness in Cambridge.
To see Charrette updates or learn more, visit cambridgecharrette.yolasite.com and follow us on twitter @CambMACoC.
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Bob Schieffer - The 2016 Presidential Election
Tuesday, September 15
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
In his first event as the new Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, Bob Schieffer, one of America’s most honored and respected journalists, gives his expert analysis on the current status of the 2016 presidential election campaign.
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When online is offline: the case for hyperlocal webservers and networks
Tuesday, September 15
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East B, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/09/Griffey#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/09/Griffey at 12:00 pm
with Berkman Fellow, Jason Griffey
The LibraryBox Project (along with other emerging projects like PirateBox, occupy.here, IdeasBox, and others) is an attempt at bridging the divide in delivery of digital information in areas where there is a lack of communications infrastructure or where that infrastructure has been damaged or is overly monitored or controlled. As self-contained, non-connected portable servers, these devices can be used to circumvent governmental firewalls, distribute information in areas of political upheaval, reach the most remote areas to deliver healthcare information, and help recovery efforts after natural disasters. This presentation will be an overview of the LibraryBox project and its current state, goals and development roadmap, and a discussion of possible next directions and needs.
About Jason
Jason Griffey is the founder and principal at Evenly Distributed (http://evenlydistributed.net), a technology consulting and creation firm for libraries, museums, education, and other non-profits. Jason is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where he studies hyperlocal micronetworks such as his LibraryBox project.
He has written extensively on libraries and technology, most recently a chapter in The Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know: A LITA Guide. His previous book, Mobile Technology and Libraries, is a part of the award-winning Tech Set series. Named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2009, Griffey has written and spoken internationally on topics such as the future of technology and libraries, personal electronics in the library, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV.
He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces.
Griffey is the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system. He can be stalked obsessively online, and spends his free time with his daughter Eliza, reading, obsessing over gadgets, and preparing for the inevitable zombie uprising.
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Sustainability and HSW [Health, Safety, Welfare]: From Little Victories to Transformation Change
Tuesday, September 15
12:00–1:30 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.architects.org/programs-and-events/sustainability-education-committee-36
Leith Sharp Hon. BSA, Director of Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will discuss the relationship between Sustainability and HSW, and enlarge the topic to cover transformational change within design organizations.
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Cambridge Charette on Homelessness
Tuesday, September 15
9:00 am: Introduction
9:30 – 11:30 am: Serving Frequent Users of Emergency Services
12:30 – 2:30 pm: “Housing First” Services Models
3:00 – 5:00 pm: Strategies for Increasing Investment
Sheraton Commander, Harvard Square, 16 Garden Street, Cambridge
The City of Cambridge Department of Human Service Programs, in consultation with the Cambridge Homeless Continuum of Care (CoC) and other City departments, has partnered with the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) to facilitate a community planning process on homelessness. Please join us September 15-18 for a unique community planning experience.
CSH has developed a Charrette model that will enable our community to engage in a focused, time-limited process that will result in a Strategic Action Plan to address homelessness in Cambridge. In January 2015, the City Council’s Human Services and Veterans Committee held a hearing to discuss the city’s efforts and planning around homelessness. The need for an updated planning process was described at that time. This planning effort around homelessness will help inform the citywide planning process.
The initial phase of planning has been led by a local Steering Committee comprised of a diverse group of stakeholders, working in concert with CSH consultants and City staff from the Department of Human Service Programs. Using input from the public received at two community meetings held in June, the Steering Committee identified six issue areas to be addressed during Charrette Week: Serving Frequent Users of Emergency Services; Service Navigation and Systems Coordination; The “Housing First” Service Model; Services and Policies to Prevent Homelessness; Increasing Housing Supply for People Experiencing Homelessness; and Strategies for Increasing Investment.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, September 15 and 16, each issue area will have a dedicated fishbowl-style session, a facilitated dialogue between community members and local and national experts. CSH will present their recommendations to the community on the morning of Friday, September 18, followed by a final round of feedback from the community. Mayor David Maher and City Manager Richard C. Rossi will provide opening remarks to Charrette participants on Tuesday, September 15. City Councilor Marc McGovern, Chair of the City Council’s Human Services and Veterans Committee, will provide opening comments on Wednesday, September 16. Please see times and locations below.
“We are thrilled to have this opportunity to engage the community in strategizing how to most effectively address the critical issues facing individuals and families experiencing homelessness, as well as the community as a whole,” said Ellen Semonoff, Assistant City Manager for Human Services.
The public is warmly invited to attend these meetings, which will address the root causes and propose actionable solutions to the multiple facets of homelessness in Cambridge. You can come for as much or as little as you like—whether for just one session or all three days. Community members with firsthand experience with homelessness are especially encouraged to attend. Please help us make this an experience that will truly impact homelessness in Cambridge.
To see Charrette updates or learn more, visit cambridgecharrette.yolasite.com and follow us on twitter @CambMACoC.
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Bob Schieffer - The 2016 Presidential Election
Tuesday, September 15
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
In his first event as the new Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, Bob Schieffer, one of America’s most honored and respected journalists, gives his expert analysis on the current status of the 2016 presidential election campaign.
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When online is offline: the case for hyperlocal webservers and networks
Tuesday, September 15
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East B, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/09/Griffey#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/09/Griffey at 12:00 pm
with Berkman Fellow, Jason Griffey
The LibraryBox Project (along with other emerging projects like PirateBox, occupy.here, IdeasBox, and others) is an attempt at bridging the divide in delivery of digital information in areas where there is a lack of communications infrastructure or where that infrastructure has been damaged or is overly monitored or controlled. As self-contained, non-connected portable servers, these devices can be used to circumvent governmental firewalls, distribute information in areas of political upheaval, reach the most remote areas to deliver healthcare information, and help recovery efforts after natural disasters. This presentation will be an overview of the LibraryBox project and its current state, goals and development roadmap, and a discussion of possible next directions and needs.
About Jason
Jason Griffey is the founder and principal at Evenly Distributed (http://evenlydistributed.net), a technology consulting and creation firm for libraries, museums, education, and other non-profits. Jason is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where he studies hyperlocal micronetworks such as his LibraryBox project.
He has written extensively on libraries and technology, most recently a chapter in The Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know: A LITA Guide. His previous book, Mobile Technology and Libraries, is a part of the award-winning Tech Set series. Named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2009, Griffey has written and spoken internationally on topics such as the future of technology and libraries, personal electronics in the library, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV.
He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces.
Griffey is the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system. He can be stalked obsessively online, and spends his free time with his daughter Eliza, reading, obsessing over gadgets, and preparing for the inevitable zombie uprising.
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Sustainability and HSW [Health, Safety, Welfare]: From Little Victories to Transformation Change
Tuesday, September 15
12:00–1:30 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.architects.org/programs-and-events/sustainability-education-committee-36
Leith Sharp Hon. BSA, Director of Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will discuss the relationship between Sustainability and HSW, and enlarge the topic to cover transformational change within design organizations.
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A Dialogue on Homelessness
Tuesday, September 15
1–2 p.m.
BU, Instructional Building, 72 East Concord Street, Hiebert Lounge, Boston
Tuesday, September 15
1–2 p.m.
BU, Instructional Building, 72 East Concord Street, Hiebert Lounge, Boston
Jim O’Connell, President, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
Dr. O’Connell graduated summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 1970 and received his master’s degree in theology from Cambridge University in 1972. After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1982, he completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1985, Dr. O’Connell began fulltime clinical work with homeless individuals as the founding physician of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, which now serves over 12,000 homeless persons each year in two hospital-based clinics (Boston Medical Center and MGH) and in more than 70 shelters and outreach sites in Boston. With his colleagues, Dr. O’Connell established the nation’s first medical respite program for homeless persons in September, 1985, with 25 beds in the Lemuel Shattuck Shelter. This innovative program now provides acute and sub-acute, pre- and post-operative, and palliative and end-of-life care in BHCHP’s free-standing 104-bed Barbara McInnis House. Working with the MGH Laboratory of Computer Science, Dr. O’Connell designed and implemented the nation’s first computerized medical record for a homeless program in 1995. From 1989 until 1996, Dr. O’Connell served as the National Program Director of the Homeless Families Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Dr. O’Connell is the editor of The Health Care of Homeless Persons: A Manual of Communicable Diseases in Shelters and on the Streets. His articles have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Circulation, the American Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Clinical Ethics, and several other medical journals. Dr. O’Connell has been featured on ABC’s Nightline and in a feature-length documentary entitled “Give Me a Shot of Anything.” He has received numerous awards, including the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award in 2012 and The Trustees’ Medal at the bicentennial celebration of MGH in 2011. Dr. O’Connell is president of BHCHP and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Technology Adoption Under Uncertainty: Take Up and Subsequent Investment in Zambia
Tuesday, September 15
2:45p–4:00p
Harvard, Harvard Hall 104, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Speaker: Kelsey Jack (Tufts University)
2:45p–4:00p
Harvard, Harvard Hall 104, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Speaker: Kelsey Jack (Tufts University)
Web site: http://economics.mit.edu/files/10724
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Development Economics Seminar
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Climate Change Risk Assessment and Management: Several Case Studies, toward a reproducible framework
Tuesday, September 15
3:00 to 4:00 pm unless listed otherwise
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Patrick Ray, Research Professor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, (Tufts MS/Phd)
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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xTalks: The Future of STEM Education: Using a MOOC to Prepare the Next Generation of Faculty
Tuesday, September 15
3:00p–4:30p
MIT, Building 4-153, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: Bennett Goldberg
Talk Description: More than 80% of future STEM faculty that will teach the next generation of students in the 4,500+ institutions of higher education in the US receive their PhDs at fewer than 100 institutions. Preparing graduate students and postdocs at these relatively few research universities to use evidence-based instruction, active-learning, and effective teaching practices can change the future of higher education. Dr. Bennett Golldberg will discuss the model of the Center for the Integration of Research Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) Network, a coalition of 22 universities preparing future faculty. To scale and reach the more than 43,000 STEM PhDs that graduate each year and 20,000 that take postdoctoral positions, we created a massive open online course, 'An Introduction to Evidence-based Undergraduate STEM Teaching.' Remarkably, 50% of postdocs and nearly 40% of graduate students who signed up completed the course, demonstrating a significant need and success at serving our target audience. Bennett Goldberg is Professor of Physics and Director of STEM Education Initiatives in the Office of the Provost, Boston University.
xTalks: Digital Discourses
The xTalks series provides a forum to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences through online learning environments and other digital technologies.
This event is co-sponsored with the Teaching and Learning Laboratory at MIT.
Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/news-and-events/events/future-stem-education-using-mooc-prepare-next-generation-faculty
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Office of Digital Learning, Teaching and Learning Laboratory, OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles
617-324-9185
ruggles@mit.edu
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Debate: Should Congress Approve the Nuclear Agreement with Iran?
WHEN Tue., Sep. 15, 2015, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Taubman Building, Nye A, 5th Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S) Jim Walsh, expert in international security and a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program
CONTACT INFO atom@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Congress is entering the final phase of its review of the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action”—the nuclear agreement between the P5+1 and Iran. A vote on the agreement will take place in a matter of days. In this debate, nonproliferation experts William Tobey and Jim Walsh will engage in a formal debate of the resolution “Congress should approve the nuclear agreement with Iran,” moderated by Prof. Matthew Bunn. The debate will be followed by Q&A with the audience. Light refreshments provided.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6693/debate.html
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Positive Computing: Technologies for psychological wellbeing and human potential
Tuesday, September 15
4:00pm - 5:30pm
MIT, Building E14-633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Rafael Calvo
Digital technologies have made their way into all the aspects of our lives that, according to psychology, influence our wellbeing—everything from social relationships and curiosity to engagement and learning. By bringing together research and methodologies well-established in psychology, education, neuroscience and human-computer interaction, we can begin to cultivate a new field dedicated to the design and development of technology that supports wellbeing and human potential. Positive computing has been called the "buzzword you need to know for 2015" by the Washington Post and Forbes. In this seminar, Dr. Rafael Calvo will present an introduction to his human-computer interaction work, aiming to support psychological wellbeing. The suggested HCI framework builds on psychology, education, design, and other disciplines addressing intrapersonal factors of wellbeing such as motivation, engagement, reflective thought and mindfulness, interpersonal factors such as empathy, and extrapersonal such as altruism. For more information visit positivecomputing.org.
Biography: Rafael Calvo is Professor at the University of Sydney, and ARC Future Fellow. He has taught at several universities, high schools, and professional training institutions. He worked at the Language Technology Institute in Carnegie Mellon University, Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina) and on sabbaticals at the University of Cambridge and the University of Memphis. Rafael also has worked as an Internet consultant for projects in the US, Australia, Brazil, and Argentina. He is the recipient of five awards for his work on learning technologies, and the author of two books and many publications in the fields of learning technologies, affective computing, and computational intelligence. Rafael is associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR-HF). Rafael is editor of the Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing and co-author of Positive Computing (MIT Press) with Dorian Peters. For more information visit rafael-calvo.com
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xTalks: The Future of STEM Education: Using a MOOC to Prepare the Next Generation of Faculty
Tuesday, September 15
3:00p–4:30p
MIT, Building 4-153, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: Bennett Goldberg
Talk Description: More than 80% of future STEM faculty that will teach the next generation of students in the 4,500+ institutions of higher education in the US receive their PhDs at fewer than 100 institutions. Preparing graduate students and postdocs at these relatively few research universities to use evidence-based instruction, active-learning, and effective teaching practices can change the future of higher education. Dr. Bennett Golldberg will discuss the model of the Center for the Integration of Research Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) Network, a coalition of 22 universities preparing future faculty. To scale and reach the more than 43,000 STEM PhDs that graduate each year and 20,000 that take postdoctoral positions, we created a massive open online course, 'An Introduction to Evidence-based Undergraduate STEM Teaching.' Remarkably, 50% of postdocs and nearly 40% of graduate students who signed up completed the course, demonstrating a significant need and success at serving our target audience. Bennett Goldberg is Professor of Physics and Director of STEM Education Initiatives in the Office of the Provost, Boston University.
xTalks: Digital Discourses
The xTalks series provides a forum to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences through online learning environments and other digital technologies.
This event is co-sponsored with the Teaching and Learning Laboratory at MIT.
Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/news-and-events/events/future-stem-education-using-mooc-prepare-next-generation-faculty
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Office of Digital Learning, Teaching and Learning Laboratory, OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles
617-324-9185
ruggles@mit.edu
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Debate: Should Congress Approve the Nuclear Agreement with Iran?
WHEN Tue., Sep. 15, 2015, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Taubman Building, Nye A, 5th Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S) Jim Walsh, expert in international security and a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program
CONTACT INFO atom@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Congress is entering the final phase of its review of the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action”—the nuclear agreement between the P5+1 and Iran. A vote on the agreement will take place in a matter of days. In this debate, nonproliferation experts William Tobey and Jim Walsh will engage in a formal debate of the resolution “Congress should approve the nuclear agreement with Iran,” moderated by Prof. Matthew Bunn. The debate will be followed by Q&A with the audience. Light refreshments provided.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6693/debate.html
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Positive Computing: Technologies for psychological wellbeing and human potential
Tuesday, September 15
4:00pm - 5:30pm
MIT, Building E14-633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Rafael Calvo
Digital technologies have made their way into all the aspects of our lives that, according to psychology, influence our wellbeing—everything from social relationships and curiosity to engagement and learning. By bringing together research and methodologies well-established in psychology, education, neuroscience and human-computer interaction, we can begin to cultivate a new field dedicated to the design and development of technology that supports wellbeing and human potential. Positive computing has been called the "buzzword you need to know for 2015" by the Washington Post and Forbes. In this seminar, Dr. Rafael Calvo will present an introduction to his human-computer interaction work, aiming to support psychological wellbeing. The suggested HCI framework builds on psychology, education, design, and other disciplines addressing intrapersonal factors of wellbeing such as motivation, engagement, reflective thought and mindfulness, interpersonal factors such as empathy, and extrapersonal such as altruism. For more information visit positivecomputing.org.
Biography: Rafael Calvo is Professor at the University of Sydney, and ARC Future Fellow. He has taught at several universities, high schools, and professional training institutions. He worked at the Language Technology Institute in Carnegie Mellon University, Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina) and on sabbaticals at the University of Cambridge and the University of Memphis. Rafael also has worked as an Internet consultant for projects in the US, Australia, Brazil, and Argentina. He is the recipient of five awards for his work on learning technologies, and the author of two books and many publications in the fields of learning technologies, affective computing, and computational intelligence. Rafael is associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR-HF). Rafael is editor of the Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing and co-author of Positive Computing (MIT Press) with Dorian Peters. For more information visit rafael-calvo.com
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The Arab Spring’s Uneven Harvest: Successes, Setbacks, and Failed States
WHEN Tue., Sep. 15, 2015, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Ground Floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Middle East Initiative
SPEAKER(S) A seminar with Hedi Larbi, Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar, Fall 2015, MEI and Paul Salem, vice president for research and policy, Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C. Introductory session for the fall 2015 study group led by MEI Visiting Scholar Hedi Larbi, "Rewriting the Arab Social Contract: Toward Inclusive Development and Politics in the Arab World."
COST RSVP required
TICKET WEB LINK https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NEN8TeRT7DB9kb-z3FFJwEpMxagJ88IPN_ncfFAJnfs/viewform
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6683/arab_springs_uneven_harvest.html
WHEN Tue., Sep. 15, 2015, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Ground Floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Middle East Initiative
SPEAKER(S) A seminar with Hedi Larbi, Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar, Fall 2015, MEI and Paul Salem, vice president for research and policy, Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C. Introductory session for the fall 2015 study group led by MEI Visiting Scholar Hedi Larbi, "Rewriting the Arab Social Contract: Toward Inclusive Development and Politics in the Arab World."
COST RSVP required
TICKET WEB LINK https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NEN8TeRT7DB9kb-z3FFJwEpMxagJ88IPN_ncfFAJnfs/viewform
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6683/arab_springs_uneven_harvest.html
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Starr Forum: Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
Tuesday, September 15
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building 34-101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
A conversation with Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A distinguished political leader and relentless champion of free speech and women's rights, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today's most admired and controversial public figures. She will be coming to MIT to discuss her latest book: "Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now" (published March 2015). Hirsi Ali has been honored as one of TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People," a "Glamour Magazine Hero" and as "Reader's Digest's European of the Year." Praised as "required reading for everyone everywhere," her memoir "Infidel" illustrates how a determined woman can impact much more history than just her own. Currently, Hirsi Ali is a fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.
Joining the conversation will be John Tirman, the executive director and a principal research scientist at MIT's Center for International Studies. A prolific writer, his most recent book is "Dream Chasers: Immigration and the American Backlash" (published March 2015).
Refreshments will be served.
Copies of the book, "Heretic," will be available for purchase at the event.
CIS Starr Forum
A public events series on pressing issues in international affairs, sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cis/starr.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
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MIT Center for Real Estate Thought Leader Speaker Series
Tuesday, September 15
5:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building 9-354, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Lisa Picard MSRED 95
Lisa Picard '95, EVP and Regional Manager, Skanska in Seattle
She will address innovations in complex urban mixed use properties
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for Real Estate
For more information, contact: Michelle Heller
253.8311
mheller1@mit.edu
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e4Dev - Exploring the intersection of energy and human development
Tuesday, September 15
5:30pm
MIT, Building E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SNHu77snlKbQUbxsvz5FFaZ40xdzcLJ8hAyHZoCszHQ/viewform
We hope you had a great summer! For this Fall semester, we have a number of great events, speakers, and opportunities planned for you.
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The Utility of the Creative Process
Tuesday, September 15
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Avenue, i-lab Classroom (Room 122), Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-utility-of-the-creative-process-tickets-18371790520
Creativity is one of the most essential and vital attributes for being a successful entrepreneur. But what does it mean to practice a creative process within our disparate sectors, and how do you exercise this process for professional growth and deeper understanding; both for the individual and the organization?
In this session John Michael Schert, Chicago Booth Visiting Artist and Social Entrepreneur, will evaluate what it means to practice a creative process and help attendees learn how to build space for their own creative capacity. Looking at Trey McIntyre Project (TMP) as a case study, John Michael will discuss the choices made in launching an arts, non-profit startup in Boise, ID that grew to national and international acclaim. TMP changed the performing arts domain by first and foremost supporting the creative process, and building from it business, media and funding strategies that were acknowledged and emulated by the field.
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Boston New Technology September 2015 Product Showcase #BNT57
Tuesday, September 15
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Foley Hoag, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston
Free event! Come learn about 7 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Q&A. Please follow @BostonNewTech and use the #BNT57 hashtag in social media posts: details here.
Agenda:
6:00 to 7:00 - Networking with dinner and drinks
7:00 to 7:10 - Announcements
7:10 to 8:30 - Presentations, Q&A
8:30 to 9:00 - More Networking
9:00 - More networking over drinks across the street, at The Whiskey Priest, 150 Northern Ave. (at Seaport Blvd.), Boston, MA. (optional)
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Organs-on-a-Chip: Revolutionizing the Drug Discovery Process
Tuesday, September 15
6:00pm - 9:00pm
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/organs-on-chips-revolutionizing-the-drug-discovery-process-registration-17283423184
Don Ingber, M.D., Ph.D.
The paradigm used by pharmaceutical companies to discover and develop new drugs is broken. Clinical studies take years to complete and testing a single compound can cost more than $2 million. Meanwhile, innumerable animal lives are lost, and the process often fails to predict human responses because traditional animal models do not accurately mimic human physiology. For these reasons, the pharmaceutical industry needs alternative ways to screen drug candidates in the laboratory. Microchips, called organs-on-chips, could one day form an accurate alternative to traditional animal testing. How is emulating human systems on microchips changing the drug development process?
About Don Ingber, M.D., Ph.D.
Founding Director, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University
Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology, Harvard Medical School & Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children's Hospital
Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Donald E. Ingber is the Founding Director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He received his B.A., M.A., M.Phil., M.D. and Ph.D. from Yale University. Dr. Ingber's work has catalyzed the convergence of far-reaching disciplines never before connected, ranging from biology, medicine, engineering, computer science and physics to art, architecture and design. His efforts contributed to the emergence of the field of Biologically Inspired Engineering, and at the Wyss Institute, he oversees a multifaceted mission to identify the mechanisms that living organisms use to self-assemble from molecules and cells, and to apply these design principles to develop advanced materials and devices for healthcare and to improve sustainability. He also leads the Biomimetic Microsystems Platform in which microfabrication techniques from the computer industry are used to build tiny, complex, three-dimensional models of living human organs. These "Organs on Chips" mimic complicated human functions as a way to replace traditional animal-based methods for testing of drugs and establishment of human disease models. In addition, he has made major contributions to understanding cell structure, mechanobiology, tissue engineering, tumor angiogenesis, systems biology, nanobiotechnology, medical devices, and translational medicine. Dr. Ingber has authored more than 400 publications and 100 patents, founded three companies to commercialize his technologies, and has received numerous honors in a broad range of disciplines, including the Holst Medal, Department of Defense Breast Cancer Innovator Award, Pritzker Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society, Rous-Whipple Award from the American Society for Investigative Pathology, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of In Vitro Biology, Leading Edge Award from the Society of Toxicology, NC3Rs Award, and 2015 Design of the Year Award. He is also an honorary member of the Society of Toxicology, and member of both the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the U.S National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine). His work has been featured by various national and international media organizations, such as BBC, NOVA, CBS, and NPR, and his organs-on-chips technology is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.
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Food in the City: Boston Happy Hour
Tuesday, September 15
6:30 PM
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Area-Urban-Agriculture/events/224101481/?a=ea1_grp&rv=ea1
Boston-Area Urban Agriculture
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Can You Understand Me Now? Human Languages as Efficient Communication Systems
Tuesday, September 15
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Le Laboratoire Cambridge, 650 E Kendall Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/can-you-understand-me-now-human-languages-as-efficient-communication-systems-with-mits-richard-tickets-18455728581
with MIT's Richard Futrell
Human languages have many properties that seem surprising from the perspective of communication: they are ambiguous, redundant, and apparently arbitrary. Richard Futrell, a PhD student in Cognitive Science at MIT, will discuss the remarkable variations among languages: some languages require you to mark gender all the time; in other languages never. In some languages you can rearrange words in whatever order you like, whereas in others, such as English, you can’t.
Surprisingly, many of the universal properties of languages and the range of arrangements in particular languages can be predicted by assuming that languages are efficient and robust communication systems. Futrell explains how this recent line of research works, and what it can tell us about language and the human mind.
CafeSci Boston is a monthly science event organized by NOVA and WGBH Educational Foundation.
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Wednesday, September 16
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Starr Forum: Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
Tuesday, September 15
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building 34-101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
A conversation with Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A distinguished political leader and relentless champion of free speech and women's rights, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today's most admired and controversial public figures. She will be coming to MIT to discuss her latest book: "Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now" (published March 2015). Hirsi Ali has been honored as one of TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People," a "Glamour Magazine Hero" and as "Reader's Digest's European of the Year." Praised as "required reading for everyone everywhere," her memoir "Infidel" illustrates how a determined woman can impact much more history than just her own. Currently, Hirsi Ali is a fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.
Joining the conversation will be John Tirman, the executive director and a principal research scientist at MIT's Center for International Studies. A prolific writer, his most recent book is "Dream Chasers: Immigration and the American Backlash" (published March 2015).
Refreshments will be served.
Copies of the book, "Heretic," will be available for purchase at the event.
CIS Starr Forum
A public events series on pressing issues in international affairs, sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cis/starr.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
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MIT Center for Real Estate Thought Leader Speaker Series
Tuesday, September 15
5:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building 9-354, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Lisa Picard MSRED 95
Lisa Picard '95, EVP and Regional Manager, Skanska in Seattle
She will address innovations in complex urban mixed use properties
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for Real Estate
For more information, contact: Michelle Heller
253.8311
mheller1@mit.edu
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e4Dev - Exploring the intersection of energy and human development
Tuesday, September 15
5:30pm
MIT, Building E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SNHu77snlKbQUbxsvz5FFaZ40xdzcLJ8hAyHZoCszHQ/viewform
We hope you had a great summer! For this Fall semester, we have a number of great events, speakers, and opportunities planned for you.
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The Utility of the Creative Process
Tuesday, September 15
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Avenue, i-lab Classroom (Room 122), Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-utility-of-the-creative-process-tickets-18371790520
Creativity is one of the most essential and vital attributes for being a successful entrepreneur. But what does it mean to practice a creative process within our disparate sectors, and how do you exercise this process for professional growth and deeper understanding; both for the individual and the organization?
In this session John Michael Schert, Chicago Booth Visiting Artist and Social Entrepreneur, will evaluate what it means to practice a creative process and help attendees learn how to build space for their own creative capacity. Looking at Trey McIntyre Project (TMP) as a case study, John Michael will discuss the choices made in launching an arts, non-profit startup in Boise, ID that grew to national and international acclaim. TMP changed the performing arts domain by first and foremost supporting the creative process, and building from it business, media and funding strategies that were acknowledged and emulated by the field.
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Boston New Technology September 2015 Product Showcase #BNT57
Tuesday, September 15
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Foley Hoag, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston
Free event! Come learn about 7 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Q&A. Please follow @BostonNewTech and use the #BNT57 hashtag in social media posts: details here.
Agenda:
6:00 to 7:00 - Networking with dinner and drinks
7:00 to 7:10 - Announcements
7:10 to 8:30 - Presentations, Q&A
8:30 to 9:00 - More Networking
9:00 - More networking over drinks across the street, at The Whiskey Priest, 150 Northern Ave. (at Seaport Blvd.), Boston, MA. (optional)
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Organs-on-a-Chip: Revolutionizing the Drug Discovery Process
Tuesday, September 15
6:00pm - 9:00pm
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/organs-on-chips-revolutionizing-the-drug-discovery-process-registration-17283423184
Don Ingber, M.D., Ph.D.
The paradigm used by pharmaceutical companies to discover and develop new drugs is broken. Clinical studies take years to complete and testing a single compound can cost more than $2 million. Meanwhile, innumerable animal lives are lost, and the process often fails to predict human responses because traditional animal models do not accurately mimic human physiology. For these reasons, the pharmaceutical industry needs alternative ways to screen drug candidates in the laboratory. Microchips, called organs-on-chips, could one day form an accurate alternative to traditional animal testing. How is emulating human systems on microchips changing the drug development process?
About Don Ingber, M.D., Ph.D.
Founding Director, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University
Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology, Harvard Medical School & Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children's Hospital
Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Donald E. Ingber is the Founding Director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He received his B.A., M.A., M.Phil., M.D. and Ph.D. from Yale University. Dr. Ingber's work has catalyzed the convergence of far-reaching disciplines never before connected, ranging from biology, medicine, engineering, computer science and physics to art, architecture and design. His efforts contributed to the emergence of the field of Biologically Inspired Engineering, and at the Wyss Institute, he oversees a multifaceted mission to identify the mechanisms that living organisms use to self-assemble from molecules and cells, and to apply these design principles to develop advanced materials and devices for healthcare and to improve sustainability. He also leads the Biomimetic Microsystems Platform in which microfabrication techniques from the computer industry are used to build tiny, complex, three-dimensional models of living human organs. These "Organs on Chips" mimic complicated human functions as a way to replace traditional animal-based methods for testing of drugs and establishment of human disease models. In addition, he has made major contributions to understanding cell structure, mechanobiology, tissue engineering, tumor angiogenesis, systems biology, nanobiotechnology, medical devices, and translational medicine. Dr. Ingber has authored more than 400 publications and 100 patents, founded three companies to commercialize his technologies, and has received numerous honors in a broad range of disciplines, including the Holst Medal, Department of Defense Breast Cancer Innovator Award, Pritzker Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society, Rous-Whipple Award from the American Society for Investigative Pathology, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of In Vitro Biology, Leading Edge Award from the Society of Toxicology, NC3Rs Award, and 2015 Design of the Year Award. He is also an honorary member of the Society of Toxicology, and member of both the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the U.S National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine). His work has been featured by various national and international media organizations, such as BBC, NOVA, CBS, and NPR, and his organs-on-chips technology is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.
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Food in the City: Boston Happy Hour
Tuesday, September 15
6:30 PM
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Area-Urban-Agriculture/events/224101481/?a=ea1_grp&rv=ea1
Boston-Area Urban Agriculture
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Can You Understand Me Now? Human Languages as Efficient Communication Systems
Tuesday, September 15
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Le Laboratoire Cambridge, 650 E Kendall Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/can-you-understand-me-now-human-languages-as-efficient-communication-systems-with-mits-richard-tickets-18455728581
with MIT's Richard Futrell
Human languages have many properties that seem surprising from the perspective of communication: they are ambiguous, redundant, and apparently arbitrary. Richard Futrell, a PhD student in Cognitive Science at MIT, will discuss the remarkable variations among languages: some languages require you to mark gender all the time; in other languages never. In some languages you can rearrange words in whatever order you like, whereas in others, such as English, you can’t.
Surprisingly, many of the universal properties of languages and the range of arrangements in particular languages can be predicted by assuming that languages are efficient and robust communication systems. Futrell explains how this recent line of research works, and what it can tell us about language and the human mind.
CafeSci Boston is a monthly science event organized by NOVA and WGBH Educational Foundation.
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Wednesday, September 16
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September Boston Sustainability Breakfast
Wednesday, September 16
Wednesday, September 16
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM (EDT)
Pret A Manger, 185 Franklin Street, Post Office Square, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/september-boston-sustainability-breakfast-tickets-18466120664
Join us for the September Boston Sustainability breakfast, an informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals together for networking, discussion and moral support. It’s important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good!
So come, get a cup of coffee or a bagel, support a sustainable business and get fired up before work so we can continue trying to change the world. Feel free to drop by any time any time between 7:30 and 830 a.m.
Join us for the September Boston Sustainability breakfast, an informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals together for networking, discussion and moral support. It’s important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good!
So come, get a cup of coffee or a bagel, support a sustainable business and get fired up before work so we can continue trying to change the world. Feel free to drop by any time any time between 7:30 and 830 a.m.
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Fenway Park: Sports, Performing Arts, Future of Tech
Wednesday, September 16
Wednesday, September 16
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM (EDT)
Fenway Park, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/fenway-park-sports-performing-arts-future-of-tech-tickets-18345601187
Pay homage to baseball legends and learn the folklore of Boston sports. We'll also learn about flying robots and get a sense of where this hot industry is heading and how it's impacting society. "From the Top" youth musicians will provide guerrilla entertainment in unexpected places.
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Cambridge Charette on Homelessness
Wednesday, September 16
9:00 am: Introduction
9:30 – 11:30 am: Increasing Housing Supply for People Experiencing Homelessness
12:30 – 2:30 pm: Services and Policies to Prevent Homelessness
3:00 – 5:00 pm: Service Navigation and Systems Coordination
Sheraton Commander, Harvard Square, 16 Garden Street, Cambridge
The City of Cambridge Department of Human Service Programs, in consultation with the Cambridge Homeless Continuum of Care (CoC) and other City departments, has partnered with the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) to facilitate a community planning process on homelessness. Please join us September 15-18 for a unique community planning experience.
CSH has developed a Charrette model that will enable our community to engage in a focused, time-limited process that will result in a Strategic Action Plan to address homelessness in Cambridge. In January 2015, the City Council’s Human Services and Veterans Committee held a hearing to discuss the city’s efforts and planning around homelessness. The need for an updated planning process was described at that time. This planning effort around homelessness will help inform the citywide planning process.
The initial phase of planning has been led by a local Steering Committee comprised of a diverse group of stakeholders, working in concert with CSH consultants and City staff from the Department of Human Service Programs. Using input from the public received at two community meetings held in June, the Steering Committee identified six issue areas to be addressed during Charrette Week: Serving Frequent Users of Emergency Services; Service Navigation and Systems Coordination; The “Housing First” Service Model; Services and Policies to Prevent Homelessness; Increasing Housing Supply for People Experiencing Homelessness; and Strategies for Increasing Investment.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, September 15 and 16, each issue area will have a dedicated fishbowl-style session, a facilitated dialogue between community members and local and national experts. CSH will present their recommendations to the community on the morning of Friday, September 18, followed by a final round of feedback from the community. Mayor David Maher and City Manager Richard C. Rossi will provide opening remarks to Charrette participants on Tuesday, September 15. City Councilor Marc McGovern, Chair of the City Council’s Human Services and Veterans Committee, will provide opening comments on Wednesday, September 16. Please see times and locations below.
“We are thrilled to have this opportunity to engage the community in strategizing how to most effectively address the critical issues facing individuals and families experiencing homelessness, as well as the community as a whole,” said Ellen Semonoff, Assistant City Manager for Human Services.
The public is warmly invited to attend these meetings, which will address the root causes and propose actionable solutions to the multiple facets of homelessness in Cambridge. You can come for as much or as little as you like—whether for just one session or all three days. Community members with firsthand experience with homelessness are especially encouraged to attend. Please help us make this an experience that will truly impact homelessness in Cambridge.
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CIVIL / RIGHTS / ACT: Art & Activism in the Sixties
WHEN Wed., Sep. 16, 2015, 12 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
SPEAKER(S) Kellie Jones, associate professor in art history & archaeology and the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS A Q+A session will follow the lecture.
LINK http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events-lectures/events/september-16-2015-1200pm/fall-colloquium-kellie-jones
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Cambridge Charette on Homelessness
Wednesday, September 16
9:00 am: Introduction
9:30 – 11:30 am: Increasing Housing Supply for People Experiencing Homelessness
12:30 – 2:30 pm: Services and Policies to Prevent Homelessness
3:00 – 5:00 pm: Service Navigation and Systems Coordination
Sheraton Commander, Harvard Square, 16 Garden Street, Cambridge
The City of Cambridge Department of Human Service Programs, in consultation with the Cambridge Homeless Continuum of Care (CoC) and other City departments, has partnered with the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) to facilitate a community planning process on homelessness. Please join us September 15-18 for a unique community planning experience.
CSH has developed a Charrette model that will enable our community to engage in a focused, time-limited process that will result in a Strategic Action Plan to address homelessness in Cambridge. In January 2015, the City Council’s Human Services and Veterans Committee held a hearing to discuss the city’s efforts and planning around homelessness. The need for an updated planning process was described at that time. This planning effort around homelessness will help inform the citywide planning process.
The initial phase of planning has been led by a local Steering Committee comprised of a diverse group of stakeholders, working in concert with CSH consultants and City staff from the Department of Human Service Programs. Using input from the public received at two community meetings held in June, the Steering Committee identified six issue areas to be addressed during Charrette Week: Serving Frequent Users of Emergency Services; Service Navigation and Systems Coordination; The “Housing First” Service Model; Services and Policies to Prevent Homelessness; Increasing Housing Supply for People Experiencing Homelessness; and Strategies for Increasing Investment.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, September 15 and 16, each issue area will have a dedicated fishbowl-style session, a facilitated dialogue between community members and local and national experts. CSH will present their recommendations to the community on the morning of Friday, September 18, followed by a final round of feedback from the community. Mayor David Maher and City Manager Richard C. Rossi will provide opening remarks to Charrette participants on Tuesday, September 15. City Councilor Marc McGovern, Chair of the City Council’s Human Services and Veterans Committee, will provide opening comments on Wednesday, September 16. Please see times and locations below.
“We are thrilled to have this opportunity to engage the community in strategizing how to most effectively address the critical issues facing individuals and families experiencing homelessness, as well as the community as a whole,” said Ellen Semonoff, Assistant City Manager for Human Services.
The public is warmly invited to attend these meetings, which will address the root causes and propose actionable solutions to the multiple facets of homelessness in Cambridge. You can come for as much or as little as you like—whether for just one session or all three days. Community members with firsthand experience with homelessness are especially encouraged to attend. Please help us make this an experience that will truly impact homelessness in Cambridge.
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CIVIL / RIGHTS / ACT: Art & Activism in the Sixties
WHEN Wed., Sep. 16, 2015, 12 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
SPEAKER(S) Kellie Jones, associate professor in art history & archaeology and the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS A Q+A session will follow the lecture.
LINK http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events-lectures/events/september-16-2015-1200pm/fall-colloquium-kellie-jones
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A Social Science Guide to the Iraq Conflict: Discussion of a Work in Progress
Wednesday, September 16
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Roger Peterson
Security Studies Program Wednesday Seminar Series
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/ssp/seminars/index.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
617-253-7529
elinah@mit.edu
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Salinity and Temperature of the Abyssal Ocean at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)
Wednesday, September 16
12:10p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Carl Wunsch (MIT)
Abstract: The abyssal ocean during the last glacial period is widely believed to have been comparatively strongly salt stratified and close to the freezing point of sea water. Much of the support for that view is based on the work of McDuff, Schrag, Adkins, M. Miller and several others who analyzed the chlorinity and oxygen isotope ratios from the pore waters of deep sea cores. The data represent what, in terms of control theory, is termed a "terminal constraint". That theoretical framework is used to revisit the inferences about the LGM abyssal properties, and in particular, to understand the degree to which they are robust to sometimes plausible assumptions about the data.
12:10p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Carl Wunsch (MIT)
Abstract: The abyssal ocean during the last glacial period is widely believed to have been comparatively strongly salt stratified and close to the freezing point of sea water. Much of the support for that view is based on the work of McDuff, Schrag, Adkins, M. Miller and several others who analyzed the chlorinity and oxygen isotope ratios from the pore waters of deep sea cores. The data represent what, in terms of control theory, is termed a "terminal constraint". That theoretical framework is used to revisit the inferences about the LGM abyssal properties, and in particular, to understand the degree to which they are robust to sometimes plausible assumptions about the data.
Sack Lunch Seminars (SLS)
A student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning climate, geophysical fluid dynamics, biogeochemistry, paleo-oceanography/climatology and physical oceanography.
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Darius Collazo
617-253-2127
dcollazo@mit.edu
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Getting to No: Examining How No Boston Olympics Won the Fight Over the 2024 Summer Games
WHEN Wed., Sep. 16, 2015, 4:10 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Social Sciences, Support/Social
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
SPEAKER(S) No Boston Olympics voluntary co-chairs Chris Dempsey, Liam Kerr, and Kelley Gossett; WBZ political analyst Jon Keller and Boston Magazine Digital News Editor Garrett Quinn; Jorrit de Jong, HKS Lecturer in Public Policy and the Academic Director of the Ash Center’s Government Innovation Program
COST No cost
CONTACT INFO Maisie O'Brien maisie_obrien@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS The debate over whether the Boston area should have played host to the 2024 Summer Olympic Games resulted in a stinging defeat for those in the city’s political and financial establishment who publicly threw their weight behind the Olympic bid. A well-funded local organizing committee backed by prominent members of the Boston business community operating with the blessing of much of the city’s political leadership failed to convince the majority of Bostonians that hosting the 2024 Summer Games would be a net positive for the city and commonwealth.
That Boston would be the sole United States bid city appeared all but certain after the U.S. Olympic Committee selected Boston in January, 2015 as its nominee to host the first Olympic Summer Games in the U.S. in nearly three decades. Seven months later the bid was withdrawn amid floundering public opinion polls and the dogged opposition of No Boston Olympics, a small volunteer-led grassroots organization operating on a shoestring budget. No Boston Olympics demonstrated how through the savvy use social media and creative organizing, they were able to counter the well-funded outreach efforts of the Boston 2024 bid committee and its supporters.
Join us on September 16th at 4:10 for a conversation with No Boston Olympics voluntary co-chairs Chris Dempsey, Liam Kerr, and Kelley Gossett to learn how No Boston Olympics was able to convince Bay State residents that hosting the Olympics wasn’t a winner for the commonwealth. Also joining us will by WBZ political analyst Jon Keller and Boston Magazine Digital News Editor Garrett Quinn, who will share their insights and observations on how No Boston Olympics ultimately prevailed in the Olympic debate. Our conversation will be moderated by Jorrit de Jong, HKS Lecturer in Public Policy and the Academic Director of the Ash Center’s Government Innovation Program.
A reception with light refreshments will follow. This event is free and open to the public.
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/event/getting-no-examining-how-no-boston-olympics-won-fight-over-2024-summer-games
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Why is the Estimated Value of Clean Air so Low?
Wednesday, September 16
4:15-5:30 pm
Harvard, Littauer L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Daniel Sullivan, Harvard University
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A student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning climate, geophysical fluid dynamics, biogeochemistry, paleo-oceanography/climatology and physical oceanography.
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Darius Collazo
617-253-2127
dcollazo@mit.edu
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Getting to No: Examining How No Boston Olympics Won the Fight Over the 2024 Summer Games
WHEN Wed., Sep. 16, 2015, 4:10 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Social Sciences, Support/Social
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
SPEAKER(S) No Boston Olympics voluntary co-chairs Chris Dempsey, Liam Kerr, and Kelley Gossett; WBZ political analyst Jon Keller and Boston Magazine Digital News Editor Garrett Quinn; Jorrit de Jong, HKS Lecturer in Public Policy and the Academic Director of the Ash Center’s Government Innovation Program
COST No cost
CONTACT INFO Maisie O'Brien maisie_obrien@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS The debate over whether the Boston area should have played host to the 2024 Summer Olympic Games resulted in a stinging defeat for those in the city’s political and financial establishment who publicly threw their weight behind the Olympic bid. A well-funded local organizing committee backed by prominent members of the Boston business community operating with the blessing of much of the city’s political leadership failed to convince the majority of Bostonians that hosting the 2024 Summer Games would be a net positive for the city and commonwealth.
That Boston would be the sole United States bid city appeared all but certain after the U.S. Olympic Committee selected Boston in January, 2015 as its nominee to host the first Olympic Summer Games in the U.S. in nearly three decades. Seven months later the bid was withdrawn amid floundering public opinion polls and the dogged opposition of No Boston Olympics, a small volunteer-led grassroots organization operating on a shoestring budget. No Boston Olympics demonstrated how through the savvy use social media and creative organizing, they were able to counter the well-funded outreach efforts of the Boston 2024 bid committee and its supporters.
Join us on September 16th at 4:10 for a conversation with No Boston Olympics voluntary co-chairs Chris Dempsey, Liam Kerr, and Kelley Gossett to learn how No Boston Olympics was able to convince Bay State residents that hosting the Olympics wasn’t a winner for the commonwealth. Also joining us will by WBZ political analyst Jon Keller and Boston Magazine Digital News Editor Garrett Quinn, who will share their insights and observations on how No Boston Olympics ultimately prevailed in the Olympic debate. Our conversation will be moderated by Jorrit de Jong, HKS Lecturer in Public Policy and the Academic Director of the Ash Center’s Government Innovation Program.
A reception with light refreshments will follow. This event is free and open to the public.
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/event/getting-no-examining-how-no-boston-olympics-won-fight-over-2024-summer-games
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Why is the Estimated Value of Clean Air so Low?
Wednesday, September 16
4:15-5:30 pm
Harvard, Littauer L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Daniel Sullivan, Harvard University
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Maker Spaces in the Middle East: Tools for Transformation and Opportunities for MIT Students
Wednesday, September 16
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Light dinner will be served. Please RSVP at www.tinyurl.com/makerspacesrsvp
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Light dinner will be served. Please RSVP at www.tinyurl.com/makerspacesrsvp
Speaker: Dina El-Zanfaly, Loay Malahmeh
Dina El-Zanfaly, Co-Founder Fab Lab Egypt, PhD Candidate, Design and Computation Group
Fab Lab Egypt is a non-governmental community-based makers space and digital fabrication laboratory. It has been providing both virtual and physical making environments for all ages and backgrounds since 2012. The main lab is located in downtown Cairo, and it manages community branches and some labs in STEM schools all over the country. Focusing on building a community of makers, the lab organized Egypt's first Maker Faire last March with 5000 attendees and makers. Besides training and making workshops, Fab Lab Egypt shares machines, tools, skills, resources and ideas with the community to create new opportunities for economic and social benefit.
Loay Malahmeh, Founding Partner ROW
ROW is a humanitarian innovation consortium comprised of academic institutions, NGOs, companies and public sector agencies. ROW develops open hardware innovation ecosystems, fueled by co-creation between refugees, host communities, and the best global resources in the world. ROW established digital fabrication laboratories and innovation centers that provide the tools and training of the Third Industrial RevolutRevolution ??? characterized by the merging of the physical and the digital worlds.
Web site: www.tinyurl.com/makerspacesrsvp
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MISTI, Arab Student Organization, Egyptian Student Association, MISTI MIT-Arab World
For more information, contact: mit-arabworld@mit.edu
Fab Lab Egypt is a non-governmental community-based makers space and digital fabrication laboratory. It has been providing both virtual and physical making environments for all ages and backgrounds since 2012. The main lab is located in downtown Cairo, and it manages community branches and some labs in STEM schools all over the country. Focusing on building a community of makers, the lab organized Egypt's first Maker Faire last March with 5000 attendees and makers. Besides training and making workshops, Fab Lab Egypt shares machines, tools, skills, resources and ideas with the community to create new opportunities for economic and social benefit.
Loay Malahmeh, Founding Partner ROW
ROW is a humanitarian innovation consortium comprised of academic institutions, NGOs, companies and public sector agencies. ROW develops open hardware innovation ecosystems, fueled by co-creation between refugees, host communities, and the best global resources in the world. ROW established digital fabrication laboratories and innovation centers that provide the tools and training of the Third Industrial RevolutRevolution ??? characterized by the merging of the physical and the digital worlds.
Web site: www.tinyurl.com/makerspacesrsvp
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MISTI, Arab Student Organization, Egyptian Student Association, MISTI MIT-Arab World
For more information, contact: mit-arabworld@mit.edu
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Maziar Bahari: Journalism Is Not a Crime
Wednesday, September 16
6:00pm
Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
A discussion with Maziar Bahari, journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist, whose imprisonment in Iran was depicted in the Jon Stewart-directed film Rosewater. Open to the public. This event will also be livestreamed.
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Wednesday Night Journalism Movie Series: War Photographer
WHEN Wed., Sep. 16, 2015, 7:40 – 9:40 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Humanities, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Extension ALM in Journalism Program
"From Watergate to Wikileaks: Journalism Ethics Through Film"
SPEAKER(S) "War Photographer" will be presented by Andrea Bruce, Nieman Fellow '16 and documentary photographer
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO jerlick@fas.harvard.edu
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Thursday, September 17
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National Drive Electric Week Event - Boston
Thursday, September 17
10am to 2pm
Massachusetts State House (Ashburton Park), 95 Bowdoin Street, Boston
Massachusetts State Representatives Jonathan Hecht , Frank Smizik and Bradford Hill , and Massachusetts State Senator Jamie Eldridge will be hosting an electric vehicle event September 17th at the Massachusetts State House.
The Event will feature vehicles from: Smart Car for Two, Nissan, Chevy, BMW, Ford, and Tesla.
Also featured will be two charging stations/technologies: A traditional charging station from NRG and a wireless charging system designed by WiTricity, a Watertown based company.
Vehicles will be parked along Bowdoin Street where members of the public are free to explore and interact with these cutting edge automobiles. Additionally, information on the vehicles present, State programs and incentives, charging technologies and locations will be available in Ashburton Park, located adjacent to the State House on Bowdoin Street.
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Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals Reporting: Evaluation of Data and Recommendations for Policymakers
WHEN Thu., Sep. 17, 2015, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Law, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Regulatory Policy Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Kate Konschnik, lecturer on law and founding director of Harvard Law School's Environmental Policy Initiative
COST Free
RSVP to mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
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Interrogating God: Studying Torture, Practicing Divinity
WHEN Thu., Sep. 17, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Divinity School, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life and HDS Student Association
CONTACT rsl@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS Please join us for a presentation by Marisa Egerstrom, PhD and MDiv candidate, titled "Interrogating God: Studying Torture, Practicing Divinity."
This presentation is part of a series co-sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life and the HDS Student Association, Practicing Divinity: HDS Students Sharing Wisdom on Spiritual Practices, consisting of four, one-hour informal lunchtime presentations/workshops.
The series will feature HDS students sharing some of their expertise, research, and wisdom about a particular spiritual practice with other students, faculty, and staff, and each presentation will briefly highlight a different spiritual practice.
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Maziar Bahari: Journalism Is Not a Crime
Wednesday, September 16
6:00pm
Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
A discussion with Maziar Bahari, journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist, whose imprisonment in Iran was depicted in the Jon Stewart-directed film Rosewater. Open to the public. This event will also be livestreamed.
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Wednesday Night Journalism Movie Series: War Photographer
WHEN Wed., Sep. 16, 2015, 7:40 – 9:40 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Humanities, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Extension ALM in Journalism Program
"From Watergate to Wikileaks: Journalism Ethics Through Film"
SPEAKER(S) "War Photographer" will be presented by Andrea Bruce, Nieman Fellow '16 and documentary photographer
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO jerlick@fas.harvard.edu
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Thursday, September 17
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National Drive Electric Week Event - Boston
Thursday, September 17
10am to 2pm
Massachusetts State House (Ashburton Park), 95 Bowdoin Street, Boston
Massachusetts State Representatives Jonathan Hecht , Frank Smizik and Bradford Hill , and Massachusetts State Senator Jamie Eldridge will be hosting an electric vehicle event September 17th at the Massachusetts State House.
The Event will feature vehicles from: Smart Car for Two, Nissan, Chevy, BMW, Ford, and Tesla.
Also featured will be two charging stations/technologies: A traditional charging station from NRG and a wireless charging system designed by WiTricity, a Watertown based company.
Vehicles will be parked along Bowdoin Street where members of the public are free to explore and interact with these cutting edge automobiles. Additionally, information on the vehicles present, State programs and incentives, charging technologies and locations will be available in Ashburton Park, located adjacent to the State House on Bowdoin Street.
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Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals Reporting: Evaluation of Data and Recommendations for Policymakers
WHEN Thu., Sep. 17, 2015, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Law, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Regulatory Policy Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Kate Konschnik, lecturer on law and founding director of Harvard Law School's Environmental Policy Initiative
COST Free
RSVP to mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
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Interrogating God: Studying Torture, Practicing Divinity
WHEN Thu., Sep. 17, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Divinity School, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life and HDS Student Association
CONTACT rsl@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS Please join us for a presentation by Marisa Egerstrom, PhD and MDiv candidate, titled "Interrogating God: Studying Torture, Practicing Divinity."
This presentation is part of a series co-sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life and the HDS Student Association, Practicing Divinity: HDS Students Sharing Wisdom on Spiritual Practices, consisting of four, one-hour informal lunchtime presentations/workshops.
The series will feature HDS students sharing some of their expertise, research, and wisdom about a particular spiritual practice with other students, faculty, and staff, and each presentation will briefly highlight a different spiritual practice.
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Agricultural Solutions to Climate Change
Thursday, September 17
2pm
Webinar at http://www.bioneers.org/webinar-agricultural-solutions-to-climate-change/
Field innovations and progressive policies can transform agriculture from a greenhouse gas emitter to a climate change solution.
Come join host Arty Mangan, Bioneers Restorative Food Systems Director, to learn about exciting advancements in climate-friendly farming with two leaders in the field:
Innovative rancher John Wick of the Marin Carbon Project, who is proving the power of soil as a carbon sink.
Renata Brillinger, whose organization, California Climate and Agriculture Network, has created a blueprint for a California program on agriculture and climate
Both Renata and John will be at the 2015 Bioneers Conference this October, and this webinar will be a great lead-in to their sessions. We'll also be offering a special conference registration price for webinar attendees.
This webinar is free to the public, but space is limited, so reserve your spot today and share this invite with friends and colleagues!
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Pathological Crystals: From Spirals to Therapies for Stone Disease
Thursday, September 17
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Prof. Michael D. Ward, Silver Professor, Department of Chemistry & Director, Molecular Design Institute Director at New York University
On September 17, the Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series welcomes Professor Michael Ward of New York University, who will illustrate the beauty and complexity of crystal growth through mechanisms often hidden and deceptive in pathological molecular crystals. Refreshments will be served.
Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series
The Center for Materials Science and Engineering, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Processing Center join in welcoming a wide variety of speakers from outside of MIT to meet with faculty and students, and to deliver lectures to which the entire MIT community.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cmse/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Materials@MIT, Center for Materials Science & Engineering, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Processing Center , Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series
For more information, contact: Gina Franzetta
gfranzet@mit.edu
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Black Liveness Matters: Tracing the Sounding Subject
WHEN Thu., Sep. 17, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
SPEAKER(S) George E. Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, & director of the Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS George and Joyce Wein Lectures (1 of 2)
9/17 - Karel Capek Meets Blind Tom
9/18 - Composition as Ethnography
A Q+A and reception will follow each lecture.
The George and Joyce Wein Lecture Series in African and African American Music brings an artist or scholar to Harvard to speak on issues pertaining to African, African American, and African Diasporic music. Established by George Wein, the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, in honor of his late wife, Joyce, and cosponsored with the Department of African and African American Studies, the series consists of one lecture and a master class or performance on two consecutive days.
LINK http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events-lectures/events/september-17-2015-400pm/george-e-lewis-george-and-joyce-wein-lectures-1-2
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Pathological Crystals: From Spirals to Therapies for Stone Disease
Thursday, September 17
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Prof. Michael D. Ward, Silver Professor, Department of Chemistry & Director, Molecular Design Institute Director at New York University
On September 17, the Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series welcomes Professor Michael Ward of New York University, who will illustrate the beauty and complexity of crystal growth through mechanisms often hidden and deceptive in pathological molecular crystals. Refreshments will be served.
Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series
The Center for Materials Science and Engineering, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Processing Center join in welcoming a wide variety of speakers from outside of MIT to meet with faculty and students, and to deliver lectures to which the entire MIT community.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cmse/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Materials@MIT, Center for Materials Science & Engineering, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Processing Center , Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series
For more information, contact: Gina Franzetta
gfranzet@mit.edu
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Black Liveness Matters: Tracing the Sounding Subject
WHEN Thu., Sep. 17, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
SPEAKER(S) George E. Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, & director of the Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS George and Joyce Wein Lectures (1 of 2)
9/17 - Karel Capek Meets Blind Tom
9/18 - Composition as Ethnography
A Q+A and reception will follow each lecture.
The George and Joyce Wein Lecture Series in African and African American Music brings an artist or scholar to Harvard to speak on issues pertaining to African, African American, and African Diasporic music. Established by George Wein, the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, in honor of his late wife, Joyce, and cosponsored with the Department of African and African American Studies, the series consists of one lecture and a master class or performance on two consecutive days.
LINK http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events-lectures/events/september-17-2015-400pm/george-e-lewis-george-and-joyce-wein-lectures-1-2
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Workshop on the Sustainability of the World's Food and Farming Systems
WHEN Thu., Sep. 17, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S153, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Law, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S) Robert Paarlberg, adjunct professor, Harvard Kennedy School; author of "The United States of Excess" (Oxford University Press 2015)
WHEN Thu., Sep. 17, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S153, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Law, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S) Robert Paarlberg, adjunct professor, Harvard Kennedy School; author of "The United States of Excess" (Oxford University Press 2015)
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New Visions and Strategies for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace
WHEN Thu., Sep. 17, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Conference on Intractable Conflicts, Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation; Middle East Seminar, Weatherhead Center for International and Foreign Affairs; Center for Middle Eastern Studies
SPEAKER(S) Hilik Bar, member of the Israeli Knesset and secretary general of the Labor Party
Husam Zomlot, ambassador-at-large, Palestine
Moderator: Gudrun Kramer, head of the Program Supporting Palestinian Refugees, German Association for International Cooperation
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Please note: this Middle East Seminar will take place at the Yenching Auditorium.
Unless otherwise noted in the event description, CMES events are open to the public (no registration required), and off the record. Please note that events may be filmed and photographed by CMES for record-keeping and for use on the CMES website and publications.
LINK http://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/new-visions-and-strategies-israeli-palestinian-peace
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The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform
WHEN Thu., Sep. 17, 2015, 4:10 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Foyer, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Support/Social
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; Harvard Kennedy School Middle East Initiative
SPEAKER(S) Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Associate Professor of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School
Jason Brownlee, Associate Professor of Government and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas
Andrew Reynolds, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Moderator: Stephen Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
CONTACT INFO Maisie O'Brien maisie_obrien@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-4264
DETAILS Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East. The Arab Spring that resides in the popular imagination is one in which a wave of mass mobilization swept the broader Middle East, toppled dictators, and cleared the way for democracy. The reality is that few Arab countries have experienced anything of the sort. While Tunisia made progress towards some type of constitutionally entrenched participatory rule, the other countries that overthrew their rulers Egypt, Yemen, and Libya remain mired in authoritarianism and instability. Elsewhere in the Arab world uprisings were suppressed, subsided or never materialized.
The Arab Spring’s modest harvest cries out for explanation. Why did regime change take place in only four Arab countries and why has democratic change proved so elusive in the countries that made attempts? This book attempts to answer those questions. First, by accounting for the full range of variance: from the absence or failure of uprisings in such places as Algeria and Saudi Arabia at one end to Tunisia’s rocky but hopeful transition at the other. Second, by examining the deep historical and structure variables that determined the balance of power between incumbents and opposition.
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/event/arab-spring-pathways-repression-and-reform
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Through the Looking-Glass: Conspiracy Theories as an Alternative World of Global Health
Thursday, September 17
4:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building 4-237, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study
This Thursday afternoon talk, entitled, "Through the Looking-Glass: Conspiracy Theories as an Alternative World of Global Health," will feature Didier Fassin, from the Institute for Advanced Study, and will take place on the afternoon of 9/17/15.
Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series
The Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative (GHMHI), with support from SHASS Anthropology, began hosting a Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series on campus on topics related to global health and the medical humanities during the fall 2014 semester.
Refreshments will be served. We hope you will be able to join us!
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Anthropology Program, Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative
For more information, contact: Brittany Peters
bapeters@mit.edu
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New Visions and Strategies for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace
WHEN Thu., Sep. 17, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Conference on Intractable Conflicts, Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation; Middle East Seminar, Weatherhead Center for International and Foreign Affairs; Center for Middle Eastern Studies
SPEAKER(S) Hilik Bar, member of the Israeli Knesset and secretary general of the Labor Party
Husam Zomlot, ambassador-at-large, Palestine
Moderator: Gudrun Kramer, head of the Program Supporting Palestinian Refugees, German Association for International Cooperation
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Please note: this Middle East Seminar will take place at the Yenching Auditorium.
Unless otherwise noted in the event description, CMES events are open to the public (no registration required), and off the record. Please note that events may be filmed and photographed by CMES for record-keeping and for use on the CMES website and publications.
LINK http://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/new-visions-and-strategies-israeli-palestinian-peace
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The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform
WHEN Thu., Sep. 17, 2015, 4:10 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Foyer, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Support/Social
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; Harvard Kennedy School Middle East Initiative
SPEAKER(S) Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Associate Professor of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School
Jason Brownlee, Associate Professor of Government and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas
Andrew Reynolds, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Moderator: Stephen Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
CONTACT INFO Maisie O'Brien maisie_obrien@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-4264
DETAILS Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East. The Arab Spring that resides in the popular imagination is one in which a wave of mass mobilization swept the broader Middle East, toppled dictators, and cleared the way for democracy. The reality is that few Arab countries have experienced anything of the sort. While Tunisia made progress towards some type of constitutionally entrenched participatory rule, the other countries that overthrew their rulers Egypt, Yemen, and Libya remain mired in authoritarianism and instability. Elsewhere in the Arab world uprisings were suppressed, subsided or never materialized.
The Arab Spring’s modest harvest cries out for explanation. Why did regime change take place in only four Arab countries and why has democratic change proved so elusive in the countries that made attempts? This book attempts to answer those questions. First, by accounting for the full range of variance: from the absence or failure of uprisings in such places as Algeria and Saudi Arabia at one end to Tunisia’s rocky but hopeful transition at the other. Second, by examining the deep historical and structure variables that determined the balance of power between incumbents and opposition.
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/event/arab-spring-pathways-repression-and-reform
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Through the Looking-Glass: Conspiracy Theories as an Alternative World of Global Health
Thursday, September 17
4:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building 4-237, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study
This Thursday afternoon talk, entitled, "Through the Looking-Glass: Conspiracy Theories as an Alternative World of Global Health," will feature Didier Fassin, from the Institute for Advanced Study, and will take place on the afternoon of 9/17/15.
Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series
The Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative (GHMHI), with support from SHASS Anthropology, began hosting a Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series on campus on topics related to global health and the medical humanities during the fall 2014 semester.
Refreshments will be served. We hope you will be able to join us!
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Anthropology Program, Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative
For more information, contact: Brittany Peters
bapeters@mit.edu
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Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming
Thursday, September 17
4:45p–5:45p
MIT, Building 4-270, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: David Konisky, University of Indiana, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
How do Americans think about energy? Is the debate over fossil fuels, nuclear power, and renewable energy highly partisan and ideological? Are people's preferences for different energy sources idiosyncratic, or is there a common pattern that explains how people view energy across sources? How much does concern about climate change weigh on these opinions? David Konisky answers these questions and more in a discussion of his 2014 book, Cheap and Clean.
Reception to follow.
MITEI Seminar Series
Web site: http://mitei.mit.edu/calendar/cheap-and-clean-how-americans-think-about-energy-age-global-warming
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact: Rebecca Marshall-Howarth
4:45p–5:45p
MIT, Building 4-270, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: David Konisky, University of Indiana, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
How do Americans think about energy? Is the debate over fossil fuels, nuclear power, and renewable energy highly partisan and ideological? Are people's preferences for different energy sources idiosyncratic, or is there a common pattern that explains how people view energy across sources? How much does concern about climate change weigh on these opinions? David Konisky answers these questions and more in a discussion of his 2014 book, Cheap and Clean.
Reception to follow.
MITEI Seminar Series
Web site: http://mitei.mit.edu/calendar/cheap-and-clean-how-americans-think-about-energy-age-global-warming
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact: Rebecca Marshall-Howarth
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Races and Religions: Does Knowing Globally Help Us At Home?
WHEN Thu., Sep. 17, 2015, 5:15 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT CSWR, 617.495.4495
DETAILS This year's opening panel will take up an issue sadly very much in the news: race, racism, violence, and the possible connections between race and religions (with the latter playing a positive or negative role in social behavior) — and, as is appropriate to the Center, place the issue in a global perspective.
Our thesis, open to debate, is that how we know globally affects how we think locally. But does attention to cultures and religions around the world give us a fresh perspective on the problems facing society and religions here in the United States? Does looking at religious and social structures in East or South Asia or the Middle East, for example, help us to think differently about religious and social structures here? Does knowledge of Hinduism or Islam help us to see differently Christianity’s place in relation to race and religion in the U.S.? Will knowing more about religion, race, and society in Africa or East Asia, help us to be better able to speak intelligently and effectively when the next Ferguson or Staten Island or Charleston erupts somewhere in the U.S.?
Speakers: Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; and Victor and William Fung Director of the Asia Center; Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures and the Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program; Michelle Chaplin Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Theology, HDS; and Ayodeji Ogunnaike, PhD candidate in African Studies and Religion.
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Races and Religions: Does Knowing Globally Help Us At Home?
WHEN Thu., Sep. 17, 2015, 5:15 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT CSWR, 617.495.4495
DETAILS This year's opening panel will take up an issue sadly very much in the news: race, racism, violence, and the possible connections between race and religions (with the latter playing a positive or negative role in social behavior) — and, as is appropriate to the Center, place the issue in a global perspective.
Our thesis, open to debate, is that how we know globally affects how we think locally. But does attention to cultures and religions around the world give us a fresh perspective on the problems facing society and religions here in the United States? Does looking at religious and social structures in East or South Asia or the Middle East, for example, help us to think differently about religious and social structures here? Does knowledge of Hinduism or Islam help us to see differently Christianity’s place in relation to race and religion in the U.S.? Will knowing more about religion, race, and society in Africa or East Asia, help us to be better able to speak intelligently and effectively when the next Ferguson or Staten Island or Charleston erupts somewhere in the U.S.?
Speakers: Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; and Victor and William Fung Director of the Asia Center; Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures and the Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program; Michelle Chaplin Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Theology, HDS; and Ayodeji Ogunnaike, PhD candidate in African Studies and Religion.
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The 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
Thursday, September 17
Thursday, September 17
6:00 pm
Webcast at http://www.improbable.com/ig/2015/
Pre-ceremony concert —and the webcast —begin at 5:40 pm (US Eastern Time)
The ceremony proper begins at 6:00 pm
Webcast at http://www.improbable.com/ig/2015/
Pre-ceremony concert —and the webcast —begin at 5:40 pm (US Eastern Time)
The ceremony proper begins at 6:00 pm
The 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony will introduce ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners - Each has done something that makes people laugh then think.
Winners will travel to the ceremony, at their own expense, from around the world to receive their prize from a group of genuine, genuinely bemused Nobel Laureates, in Harvard's historic and largest theater. Additional info will appear in the Improbable Research blog: http://www.improbable.com/category/ig-nobel/
(twitter: #IgNobel)
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HackMIT Presents: PayPal & Affirm Cofounder, Max Levchin
Thursday, September 17
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
MIT, Building W20-208, Stratton Student Center, Lobdell Dining Hall, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/hackmit-presents-paypal-affirm-cofounder-max-levchin-tickets-18056502485
HackMIT is proud to welcome Max Levchin to headline Hack Week MIT. Max is a cofounder of PayPal, fmr Chairman of Yelp, Board Director of Yahoo!, Chairman and cofounder of Glow, CEO of Affirm, serial entreprenenur, angel investor and was named Innovator of the Year by MIT Technology Review in 2002.
This one hour fireside chat moderated by Richard Ni will cover a range of topics including the convergence of finance, data and security, healthcare, insurance and the disruption Silicon Valley is having on the largest industries in the world.
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Jane McGonigal discusses her new book "SuperBetter" with Scot Osterweil
Thursday, September 17
7:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
We're thrilled to join Harvard Book Store as they host Jane McGonigal, who will discuss her new book "SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient -- Powered by the Science of Games" with our own Scot Ostwerweil here at MIT.
SuperBetter will be on sale here and will feature a book signing!
In 2009 Jane McGonigal suffered a severe concussion. Unable to think clearly or work or even get out of bed, she became anxious and depressed, even suicidal. But rather than let herself sink further, she decided to get better by doing what she does best: she turned her recovery process into a resilience-building game. What started as a simple motivational exercise quickly became a set of rules for "post-traumatic growth" that she shared on her blog. These rules led to a digital game and a major research study with the National Institutes of Health. Today nearly half a million people have played SuperBetter to get stronger, happier, and healthier.
Web site: http://cmsw.mit.edu/event/jane-mcgonigal-discusses-her-new-book-super
better-with-scot-osterweil/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Harvard Book Store
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
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"AMIA Repetita" & Alan Sabrosky: Israel did 9/11 - Free UPandOUT film screening [2 false-flags, many similarities]
Thursday, September 17
doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor
Folks, we are having two very special guests at our Sept film screening:
Ellie Ommani*, coming up from NY, is co-founder of AIFC (https://www.facebook.com/AIFCIran) - American-Iranian Friendship Committee; she is a retired NY school teacher and life-long activist.
Karla Hansen, *coming in from IOWA, is the director/producer of Silent Screams: The Impact of US Drone Attacks; (http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?itemid=10272) she is a licensed social work and long-time social justice advocate. Please come
and help give Ellie and Karla a rousing welcome!
AMIA Repetita has critical importance /today/ - as USRael ramps up anti-Iran hysteria]
[shades of 9/11: plants on the ground & USRael immediately - before the dust settles - blaming Iran, destroying evidence, railroading an investigation...; days prior to the attacks, work crews are going in and out of the buildings; higher-ups who would normally be at these sites are diverted to other locations; witness testimony is ignored; cui bono? etc, etc ... ]
Backgound video http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16pkw0_amia-bombing-mou-between-iran-argentina-faces-challenges_news
Buenos Aires 1994: A terrorist attack at the AMIA Jewish community center: 85 dead (1 Jewish), hundreds injured. From day one--before a single piece of evidence is produced--the US and Israel blame Iran. Israel tried to sidetrack an Argentine investigation, using powerful Wall Street assets and influential pro-Israel lobbies (e.g., the Anti-Defamation League and AIPAC).
On January 27, 2013, Argentina announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran to establish a "truth commission" to investigate the AMIA bombing. /AMIA Repetita/ is an expose of this case. A case that to this day has Israel gunning for Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, to discredit Argentine/Iranian cooperation to get to the bottom of this unsolved case.
"Tel-Aviv and Washington immediately blamed Iran and Hezbollah, despite the fact that the attack had the unmistakable fingerprints of a false-flag operation. Fifteen years later, the AMIA bombing continues to serve as a pretext for an even more vicious smear and fear campaign against Iran, pandering in particular to Israel?s interests, including those in Latin America." ~Belen Fernandez, Voltairenet
"To my knowledge, there was never any real evidence [of Iranian responsibility]. They never came up with anything." ~ James Cheek, US Ambassador to Argentina at the time of the AMIA bombing
Adrian Salbuch [economist and globalization expert, international political analyst, researcher and consultant. Author of several books on geopolitics in Spanish and English (including The Coming World Government: Tragedy & Hope), he is also a conference speaker in Argentina and radio/TV commentator] - False Flag Attacks in Argentina: 1992 and 1994 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article162474.html)
"In the ensuing chaos amidst the rubble, tempers ran very high with local police when Israeli Army intelligence officers planted an Israeli flag in the rubble. Almost immediately, those same Israelis ??luckily?? found a piece of the alleged car-bomb ?? a white Renault ??Trafic?? van ?? that ??luckily?? just happened to have the manufacturer??s serial number on it. This was reminiscent of other highly unlikely but ??lucky?? finds, such as the FBI??s locating one alleged suicide bomber intact passport in the rubble of the World Trade Center just after 9/11!"
...This ??evidence?? was finally rejected by the Court when it became so flagrantly obvious that it had been planted at the scene of the crime. They then came up with several other pieces of ??the car-bomb van??, which, when sent to the local Renault plant for verification, turned out to belong to two different vehicles, one of which apparently didn??t have a fuel pump installed, so it could have hardly gone anywhere!"
...The Argentine Courts have spent 15 years searching for proof of an ??Iranian ?? Syrian ?? Hezbollah Connection??, which they have never found, for the simple but powerful reason that such a link does not exist. However, both terror attacks fall quite neatly into place in a much more logical way when you insert them within the rationale, not of a non-existent ??Iranian Connection??, but rather of a very concrete ??Israeli Connection/??.
...similar to 9/11, although [Zionists] have shown the technical capability to carry out false flag attacks with (almost) technical perfection ...they still are
extremely sloppy in that they have left their fingerprints all over the place when perpetrating these attacks which have been revealed by inconsistencies that have proven impossible to explain away."
"The bombed building housed then and now not just the AMIA Mutual Association, but also the DAIA - Argentine Delegation of Israeli Associations the powerful local Jewish lobby working for Israel. After more than 21 years, this has become Argentina's most corruption-riddled case, where obscene meddling by Israel's Mossad, and America's CIA and FBI included such pranks as planting false evidence of a nonexistent car bomb, censoring other much more likely leads, and paying kickbacks to false witnesses in order to falsely incriminate Hezbollah, either through Syria at first, or Iran since 2006."
No legitimate historian gives any credence to the USRaeli version of events.
Israel Did 9/11 (Israeli Mossad)
Dr. Alan Sabrosky, in an interview on Press TV, lays out the case of Israeli involvement in 9/11 and US military awareness of it.
"I am also absolutely certain as a strategic analyst that 9/11 itself, from which all else flows, was a classic Mossad-orchestrated operation. But Mossad did not do it alone." ~Dr. Alan Sabrosky
"[T]he US have been waging a 3-decade war for domination of the Middle East." ~Israeli propagandist Jeffrey Goldberg in an inadvertent admission.
http://rule19.org/videos
Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!
*free film & free door prizes
****[donations are encouraged]
*feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed
Editorial Comment: The editor does not endorse these conclusions but includes this event as the discussion of these issues are useful. I have been following the events in Argentina from my great distance and have found the controversy there to be important, whatever the outcome.
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Friday, September 18
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Hacking Eating Tracking - Symposium + Hackathon on Quantification of Human Eating Behavior
September 18-20
Cambridge, MA
http://www.hackingeatingtracking.org
Currently accepting hacker applications and pre-registration for attendance: http://www.hackingeatingtracking.org/hackathon/
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PARKing Day, Cambridge
Friday, September 18
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
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Cambridge Charette on Homelessness
Friday, September 18
10:00 am – 12 noon: Community Recommendations
YWCA, Hannum Hall, Central Square, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge
The City of Cambridge Department of Human Service Programs, in consultation with the Cambridge Homeless Continuum of Care (CoC) and other City departments, has partnered with the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) to facilitate a community planning process on homelessness. Please join us September 15-18 for a unique community planning experience.
CSH has developed a Charrette model that will enable our community to engage in a focused, time-limited process that will result in a Strategic Action Plan to address homelessness in Cambridge. In January 2015, the City Council’s Human Services and Veterans Committee held a hearing to discuss the city’s efforts and planning around homelessness. The need for an updated planning process was described at that time. This planning effort around homelessness will help inform the citywide planning process.
The initial phase of planning has been led by a local Steering Committee comprised of a diverse group of stakeholders, working in concert with CSH consultants and City staff from the Department of Human Service Programs. Using input from the public received at two community meetings held in June, the Steering Committee identified six issue areas to be addressed during Charrette Week: Serving Frequent Users of Emergency Services; Service Navigation and Systems Coordination; The “Housing First” Service Model; Services and Policies to Prevent Homelessness; Increasing Housing Supply for People Experiencing Homelessness; and Strategies for Increasing Investment.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, September 15 and 16, each issue area will have a dedicated fishbowl-style session, a facilitated dialogue between community members and local and national experts. CSH will present their recommendations to the community on the morning of Friday, September 18, followed by a final round of feedback from the community. Mayor David Maher and City Manager Richard C. Rossi will provide opening remarks to Charrette participants on Tuesday, September 15. City Councilor Marc McGovern, Chair of the City Council’s Human Services and Veterans Committee, will provide opening comments on Wednesday, September 16. Please see times and locations below.
“We are thrilled to have this opportunity to engage the community in strategizing how to most effectively address the critical issues facing individuals and families experiencing homelessness, as well as the community as a whole,” said Ellen Semonoff, Assistant City Manager for Human Services.
The public is warmly invited to attend these meetings, which will address the root causes and propose actionable solutions to the multiple facets of homelessness in Cambridge. You can come for as much or as little as you like—whether for just one session or all three days. Community members with firsthand experience with homelessness are especially encouraged to attend. Please help us make this an experience that will truly impact homelessness in Cambridge.
To see Charrette updates or learn more, visit cambridgecharrette.yolasite.com and follow us on twitter @CambMACoC.
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Dissolve: A Modest Proposal to Rethink Global Health
Friday, September 18
10:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building E25-401, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study
This event will feature Didier Fassin, from the Institute for Advanced Study, who will present an original talk entitled, "Dissolve: A Modest Proposal to Rethink Global Health."
We hope you will be able to join us!
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Anthropology Program, IMES
For more information, contact: Brittany Peters
bapeters@mit.edu
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Dissolve: A Modest Proposal to Rethink Global Health
Friday, September 18
10:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building E25-401, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
This event will feature Didier Fassin, from the Institute for Advanced Study, who will present an original talk entitled, "Dissolve: A Modest Proposal to Rethink Global Health."
Coffee and pastries will be served. We hope you will be able to join us!
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Anthropology Program, IMES
For more information, contact: Brittany Peters
bapeters@mit.edu
10:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building E25-401, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
This event will feature Didier Fassin, from the Institute for Advanced Study, who will present an original talk entitled, "Dissolve: A Modest Proposal to Rethink Global Health."
Coffee and pastries will be served. We hope you will be able to join us!
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Anthropology Program, IMES
For more information, contact: Brittany Peters
bapeters@mit.edu
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Freecycle at the Smith Center
Friday, September 18
11 am–2 pm
Smith Center (formerly Holyoke Center), 75 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge
Bring any and all surplus furniture, supplies, and equipment to the Harvard Information Center in the Smith Campus Center Arcade.b Clothing, computers, books, kitchen goods, toys, baby supplies, tools, hardware and any-thing else reusable is welcome here. Whether or not you donate, you are welcome to take anything you want for free. These Freecycles save money, reduce Harvard’s waste, and conserve the embodied natural resources and energy in manufactured goods.
Donations welcome after 10 am.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/freecycle-smith-center-3#sthash.EfYrffXd.dpuf
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Corporate Sustainability and Human Rights: Policy Changes
WHEN Fri., Sep. 18, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Weil Town Hall, 1st Floor Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Ethics, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Dante Pesce, CEO, VINCULAR Center for Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development
CONTACT INFO Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
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The role of fire in our climate system: perspectives on different forcings, biomes, and timescales
Friday, September 18
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, 100F Pierce Hall, 29 OXford Street, Cambridge
Brendan Rogers
Freecycle at the Smith Center
Friday, September 18
11 am–2 pm
Smith Center (formerly Holyoke Center), 75 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge
Bring any and all surplus furniture, supplies, and equipment to the Harvard Information Center in the Smith Campus Center Arcade.b Clothing, computers, books, kitchen goods, toys, baby supplies, tools, hardware and any-thing else reusable is welcome here. Whether or not you donate, you are welcome to take anything you want for free. These Freecycles save money, reduce Harvard’s waste, and conserve the embodied natural resources and energy in manufactured goods.
Donations welcome after 10 am.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/freecycle-smith-center-3#sthash.EfYrffXd.dpuf
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Corporate Sustainability and Human Rights: Policy Changes
WHEN Fri., Sep. 18, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Weil Town Hall, 1st Floor Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Ethics, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Dante Pesce, CEO, VINCULAR Center for Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development
CONTACT INFO Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
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The role of fire in our climate system: perspectives on different forcings, biomes, and timescales
Friday, September 18
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, 100F Pierce Hall, 29 OXford Street, Cambridge
Brendan Rogers
About Brendan Rogers: I'm broadly interested in how terrestrial ecosystems are impacted by climate change in terms of their functioning, species compositions, and fluxes of energy, carbon, and water, and how these responses will feedback to the climate system. Much of my work has focused on disturbance regimes, particularly fire, as these are mechanisms by which ecosystems change abruptly. I use a combination of fieldwork, remote sensing, ecosystem models, and climate models.
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
Contact Name: Christoph Keller
ckeller@seas.harvard.edu
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ckeller@seas.harvard.edu
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Askwith Forum: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren
WHEN Fri., Sep. 18, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Forum, Lecture
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Alumni, AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free. It is a ticketed event with limited seating for the general public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS Please note this is a ticketed event, with limited seating for the general public.
Speaker: The Honorable Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator for Massachusetts
Introduction: James E. Ryan, Dean and Charles William Eliot Professor, HGSE
HGSE kicks off a new season of Askwith Forums with a talk by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. A professor at Harvard Law School for nearly 20 years, Warren is a noted legal scholar and expert in bankruptcy and commercial law. A member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Warren has focused on critical issues in education including college affordability and student debt.
Ticket information:
All ticket holders must be seated no later than 11:50 a.m., as ticketed seats will be released at that time.
HGSE Community: Student ticket lottery information has been distributed by the Office of Student Affairs; staff information by Human Resources; and faculty information by the Dean's Office.
Facebook: For a chance to win a ticket, “Like” us on www.facebook.com/harvardeducation and watch for the post with instructions about how to enter the ticket raffle.
General Public: Limited seating will be available on a first come, first seated basis.
***The queue for all Askwith Hall seating will start at 11:15 a.m. Out of respect for the academic and classroom environment, we request that you do not arrive prior to 11:15 a.m. Doors will open at 11:30 a.m.
Additional seating will be available in satellite spaces on campus once Askwith Hall fills to capacity.
This forum will be streamed live at http://www.gse.harvard.edu/.
WHEN Fri., Sep. 18, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Forum, Lecture
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Alumni, AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free. It is a ticketed event with limited seating for the general public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS Please note this is a ticketed event, with limited seating for the general public.
Speaker: The Honorable Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator for Massachusetts
Introduction: James E. Ryan, Dean and Charles William Eliot Professor, HGSE
HGSE kicks off a new season of Askwith Forums with a talk by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. A professor at Harvard Law School for nearly 20 years, Warren is a noted legal scholar and expert in bankruptcy and commercial law. A member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Warren has focused on critical issues in education including college affordability and student debt.
Ticket information:
All ticket holders must be seated no later than 11:50 a.m., as ticketed seats will be released at that time.
HGSE Community: Student ticket lottery information has been distributed by the Office of Student Affairs; staff information by Human Resources; and faculty information by the Dean's Office.
Facebook: For a chance to win a ticket, “Like” us on www.facebook.com/harvardeducation and watch for the post with instructions about how to enter the ticket raffle.
General Public: Limited seating will be available on a first come, first seated basis.
***The queue for all Askwith Hall seating will start at 11:15 a.m. Out of respect for the academic and classroom environment, we request that you do not arrive prior to 11:15 a.m. Doors will open at 11:30 a.m.
Additional seating will be available in satellite spaces on campus once Askwith Hall fills to capacity.
This forum will be streamed live at http://www.gse.harvard.edu/.
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IACS Seminar: Using Big Data to Uncover New Empirical Laws in Economics & Finance
WHEN Fri., Sep. 18, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin Bldg. G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Information Technology, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute for Applied Computational Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) H. Eugene Stanley, Boston University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO iacs-info@seas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Today economic and financial data are readily available to academic researchers. For example, every trade of every stock is recorded. By analyzing these data, our group has uncovered new empirical laws that are stark odds with the well-known predictions of economic theory. This talk will focus on what our current research has unearthed and the possible implications for banking and financial policy.
LINK https://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/83581
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Women in Biotech
WHEN Fri., Sep. 18, 2015, 1 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS Why are women underrepresented as leaders in the biotech industry? It’s a perplexing issue requiring comprehensive examination. Bringing together scientists, industry and venture capital leaders, and academics, this symposium will explore and offer new solutions which may help close the divide between the large number of women who pursue advanced degrees in related scientific fields and their lack of representation in leadership positions in biotech firms.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-women-in-biotech-symposium
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Historic Trees and Historicizing Tree-Rings
Friday, September 18
2:30pm
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Jared Farmer
IACS Seminar: Using Big Data to Uncover New Empirical Laws in Economics & Finance
WHEN Fri., Sep. 18, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin Bldg. G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Information Technology, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute for Applied Computational Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) H. Eugene Stanley, Boston University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO iacs-info@seas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Today economic and financial data are readily available to academic researchers. For example, every trade of every stock is recorded. By analyzing these data, our group has uncovered new empirical laws that are stark odds with the well-known predictions of economic theory. This talk will focus on what our current research has unearthed and the possible implications for banking and financial policy.
LINK https://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/83581
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Women in Biotech
WHEN Fri., Sep. 18, 2015, 1 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS Why are women underrepresented as leaders in the biotech industry? It’s a perplexing issue requiring comprehensive examination. Bringing together scientists, industry and venture capital leaders, and academics, this symposium will explore and offer new solutions which may help close the divide between the large number of women who pursue advanced degrees in related scientific fields and their lack of representation in leadership positions in biotech firms.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-women-in-biotech-symposium
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Historic Trees and Historicizing Tree-Rings
Friday, September 18
2:30pm
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Jared Farmer
Around 1900, curators at the American Museum of Natural History mounted a historical chronology onto the cross-section of a multi-millennial giant sequoia. Over the next few decades, this curatorial convention -- tree rings bisected by a timeline -- spread to many science museums and nature parks. The majority have since been
deaccessioned, but in Paris, London, Boston, and New York, museumgoers today can still see representations of linear time across circular rings. Although the cross-sections themselves retain the power to impress, these megafloral installations, much like megafaunal dioramas, are decidedly old-fashioned in today's museum world. They're so old-fashioned it is hard to appreciate how novel they were in the early twentieth century. Giving speech to historic trees was an established tradition, but speaking historically with tree-rings was not.A historicized cross-section installed in a science museum represented a significant departure from the previous century's analogues: historic trees in situ and arboreal relics in history halls. By investigating what came before and after, we can better understand the changing relationship between Americans and memory objects, and Americans and their trees.
deaccessioned, but in Paris, London, Boston, and New York, museumgoers today can still see representations of linear time across circular rings. Although the cross-sections themselves retain the power to impress, these megafloral installations, much like megafaunal dioramas, are decidedly old-fashioned in today's museum world. They're so old-fashioned it is hard to appreciate how novel they were in the early twentieth century. Giving speech to historic trees was an established tradition, but speaking historically with tree-rings was not.A historicized cross-section installed in a science museum represented a significant departure from the previous century's analogues: historic trees in situ and arboreal relics in history halls. By investigating what came before and after, we can better understand the changing relationship between Americans and memory objects, and Americans and their trees.
Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
Web site: https://history.mit.edu/lectures-and-seminars/seminar-environmental-and-agricultural-history
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): History Office
For more information, contact: Margo Collett
253-4965
history-info@mit.edu
Web site: https://history.mit.edu/lectures-and-seminars/seminar-environmental-and-agricultural-history
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): History Office
For more information, contact: Margo Collett
253-4965
history-info@mit.edu
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Black Liveness Matters: Tracing the Sounding Subject
WHEN Fri., Sep. 18, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Faculty Club Library, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
SPEAKER(S) George E. Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, & director of the Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS George and Joyce Wein Lectures (2 of 2)
9/17 - Karel Capek Meets Blind Tom
9/18 - Composition as Ethnography
A Q+A and reception will follow each lecture.
The George and Joyce Wein Lecture Series in African and African American Music brings an artist or scholar to Harvard to speak on issues pertaining to African, African American, and African Diasporic music. Established by George Wein, the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, in honor of his late wife, Joyce, and cosponsored with the Department of African and African American Studies, the series consists of one lecture and a master class or performance on two consecutive days.
LINK http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events-lectures/events/september-18-2015-400pm/george-e-lewis-george-and-joyce-wein-lectures-2-2
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Move Over, Mice: How the fusion of systems biology with "Organs-on-Chips" may humanize drug development
Friday, September 18
4:00-6:00PM
MIT, Building 56-614
Socializing & Refreshments 4:00-4:25 pm
Talks 4:30-5:00 pm
Socializing 5:00-5:30
Linda Griffith; Professor, Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Socializing & Refreshments 4:00-4:25 pm
Talks 4:30-5:00 pm
Socializing 5:00-5:30
Linda Griffith; Professor, Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
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Conversations about Synthetic Biology
Friday, September 18
Friday, September 18
5:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
LabCentral, 700 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversations-about-synthetic-biology-tickets-18191507288
The emerging field of synthetic biology builds biotechnologies to meet societal challenges in areas like healthcare, energy and the environment. By making biology easier to engineer, the field also connects to human values around science and technology. This Conversations about Synthetic Biology event will bring diverse community members together with synthetic biologists to share knowledge, hopes and concerns about synthetic biology. We’d greatly welcome your views and perspectives.
The evening will have informal time for members of the public to mingle with synthetic biologists from Synberc, and learn about synthetic biology through some materials from The Museum of Science, Boston that we’ll have on hand. A few individuals with different perspectives about the field will speak briefly and then the discussion will open up to consider personal responses and ways to continue the conversation, if desired. The conversation will be co-moderated by Natalie Kuldell of MIT and David Sittenfeld of The Museum of Science, Boston.
If you want to learn more about synthetic biology, two videos from Grist and TechNyou are great places to start. You can also learn more at Synberc, The Wilson Center, and syntheticbiology.org.
Space for this special event is limited, so register soon!
The emerging field of synthetic biology builds biotechnologies to meet societal challenges in areas like healthcare, energy and the environment. By making biology easier to engineer, the field also connects to human values around science and technology. This Conversations about Synthetic Biology event will bring diverse community members together with synthetic biologists to share knowledge, hopes and concerns about synthetic biology. We’d greatly welcome your views and perspectives.
The evening will have informal time for members of the public to mingle with synthetic biologists from Synberc, and learn about synthetic biology through some materials from The Museum of Science, Boston that we’ll have on hand. A few individuals with different perspectives about the field will speak briefly and then the discussion will open up to consider personal responses and ways to continue the conversation, if desired. The conversation will be co-moderated by Natalie Kuldell of MIT and David Sittenfeld of The Museum of Science, Boston.
If you want to learn more about synthetic biology, two videos from Grist and TechNyou are great places to start. You can also learn more at Synberc, The Wilson Center, and syntheticbiology.org.
Space for this special event is limited, so register soon!
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The Future Society at Harvard Kennedy School Presents: Paypal & Affirm Cofounder Max Levchin
Friday, September 18
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-society-at-harvard-kennedy-school-presents-paypal-affirm-cofounder-max-levchin-tickets-18235735576
The Harvard College Future Society is proud to welcome Silicon Valley Luminary and Serial Entrepreneur, Max Levchin to campus for a series of events including this Fireside Chat.
Max is a cofounder of PayPal, former Chairman of Yelp, Board Director of Yahoo!, Chairman and cofounder of Glow, CEO of Affirm, serial entreprenenur, angel investor and was named Innovator of the Year by MIT Technology Review.
This one hour fireside chat will cover a range of topics including the convergence of finance, data and security, healthcare, insurance and the disruption Silicon Valley is having on the largest industries in the world.
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Saturday, September 19
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EV Day
Saturday, September 19
8:30 to 10:30 am
Larz Anderson Auto Museum, 15 Newton Street, Brookline
The historic Larz Anderson Auto Museum just outside Boston will be the site of EV Day, to be held during 2015 National Drive Electric Week.
EV Day will be similar to other themed lawn events held on the museum grounds where attendees and owners will have the opportunity to show their vehicles and see a wide range of conversions and new production models available on the market. Open to any 2-4 wheel conversion, custom build or modern factory built plug-in electric vehicle. Owners and sponsors from OEMs like Tesla, BMW, Chevrolet and Nissan are also encouraged to display side by side for comparison and competition.
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Somerville Garden Club Annual Plant Sale
9 to 1 pm
Davis Square, Somerville
Great stuff, at good prices, and lots of advice. Plus books, pots, etc. Always fun, better every year.
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The 2015 Ig Nobel Informal Lectures
Saturday, September 19
1:00p–3:30p
MIT, Building 10-250, 222 Memorial Drive (halfway down the Infinite Corridor at 77 Mass Ave), Cambridge
Speaker: The 2015 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
A half-afternoon of improbably funny, informative, and brief public lectures in which the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize winners attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it!
On the preceding Thursday evening, ten prizes are awarded to people who have done remarkable things, some of them admirable, some perhaps otherwise. On Saturday, we invite the winners to MIT and give them five minutes to describe and/or defend their work, then respond to insightful questions from the audience. Here's your chance to chat with an Ig Nobel Laureate.
Please join us!
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/bookstore/www/events/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): The MIT Press Bookstore, the Annals of Improbable Research
For more information, contact: The MIT Press Bookstore
253-5249
books@mit.edu
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The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
Saturday, September 19
2:00PM
Haller Hall, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Deborah Cramer, Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Each year, red knot sandpipers travel an incredible 19,000 miles, from the tip of South America to nesting grounds in the Arctic—and back again—eating millions of tiny horseshoe crab eggs along the way. Newly listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, the red knot is the twenty-first century’s “canary in the coal mine.” Join Deborah Cramer, author of The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey, in a discussion of what is at stake for the red knot sandpiper and the millions of other shorebirds threatened by the effects of climate change. This event is a lecture and book signing. This event is free with museum admission.
http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/narrow-edge-tiny-bird-ancient-crab-and-epic-journey?utm_source=August%2026%2C%202015%20E-news&utm_campaign=Enews%20August%2026%2C%202015&utm_medium=email
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Sustainability and Environmental Management / Sustainability: Panel / HEEC Mixer
Saturday, September 19
4:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard, Maxwell-Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainability-and-environmental-management-sustainability-panel-heec-mixer-tickets-18432666602
Spread the word -- September 19 from 4:00-10:00 p.m. SEM will host a Panel followed by our SEM Mixer co-hosted by SEM and the Harvard Extension Environmental Club (HEEC).
You will learn more about the Sustainability program at Harvard Extension and enjoy the mixer with autumn fun in mind. And of course with no cost to you! SEM will provide all food and beverages. BYOB
Catch up with old and make new SEM friends, mingle with fellow students, alumni and faculty, discuss sustainability courses and careers, and / or just enjoy food and beverages!
So we can estimate our food and beverage needs, and people can identify whom they might wish to mix with, please register and get your ticket to go!
And check out the roster and responses of who's attending, and download the information for reference at:
http://tinyurl.com/SEM-Mixer-Attendee-List
We hope to see you there! - The Harvard Extension Environmental Club
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Don't Look Away: An evening with Jay Critchley, Conceptual Public Artist, Performer, Provocateur ... Trickster!
Saturday, September 19
6 to 9 pm
Mobius Center for Experimental Art, 55 Norfolk Street, Central Square, Cambridge
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Sunday, September 20
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Swapfest
Sunday, September 20
9:00a–2:00p
MIT, N4, Albany Streeet Garage and Lots, Cambridge
Cost: $6 Buyers admission from 9AM to 2PM. $4 with MIT/ Harvard Student ID
MIT's monthly Hi Tech, Computer, Electronics and Ham Radio Fleamarket.
Buy Sell or Swap all things nerdly.
Held the third Sunday of each month April thru October.
Rain or Shine covered space is available for all sellers.
In the Albany St Garage and adjacent lot.
On Albany St between Mass Ave and Main St, Cambridge.
$6 Buyers admission from 9AM to 2PM.
$4 with MIT/ Harvard Student ID
Sellers call 617 253 3776 for more information.
Web site: www.swapfest.us
Open to: the general public
Cost: $6
This event occurs on the 3rd Sunday of every month through October 18, 2015.
Sponsor(s): MIT Radio Society, MIT UHF Repeater Assn. , MIT Electronics Research Society
For more information, contact: Mitchell Berger
617-253-3776
w1mx-officers@mit.edu
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Boston Local Food Festival
Sunday, September 20
11am to 5pm
Rose Kennedy Greenway, near Aquarium T stop, Boston
More information at http://bostonlocalfoodfestival.com/
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Don't Look Away: Closing Reception with public dialogue at 3:30 pm
Sunday, September 20
12 to 5 pm
Mobius Center for Experimental Art, 55 Norfolk Street, Central Square, Cambridge
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SciStreet Hackathon
Sunday, September 20
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
MIT Museum (2nd Floor Classroom), 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/scistreet-hackathon-tickets-18424800073
Create hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) activities and demonstrations for Science on the Street!
Thanks to the MIT Graduate Student Council, ComMIT and SciStreet are hosting a SciStreet Hackathon to bring together students in teams to create interesting and interactive hands-on activities and demonstrations for public audiences on STEAM topics and themes.
The top 5 teams will get $100 in funding to design the hands-on activity or demonstration, and will then be able to present them to the public as part of the SciStreet team.
Science on the Street (SciStreet) is a mobile program out of the Cambridge Science Festival to make STEAM accessible, engaging, and fun for all. SciStreet goes out into community events, fairs, cultural festivals, after school programs, parks, and other "non-science" spaces to engage audiences with the STEAM in their lives. The CSF created SciStreet to particularly reach people who don't opt-in to science experiences.
Founded last year, Communicating Science @ MIT (ComMIT) is a student society promoting communication in science, engineering, and mathematics. ComMIT events help students convey their work and enthusiasm to the public – whether through writing, visual media, art, or teaching. Check out commit.mit.edu for info on upcoming events and more information about Boston area science outreach opportunities.
Join thousands of voices in song as Revels waves goodbye to summer and welcomes in the fall at this FREE family-friendly Autumnal Equinox celebration taking place in Harvard Square and along the Charles River in Cambridge. Enjoy pre-show festivities, a puppet-filled parade and communal singing with The Revels Chorus and guest soloists, including David Coffin and Stan Strickland.
TIMELINE:
5:00 pm Family Fun in Harvard Square (Cambridge, MA)
5:45 pm Parade to the river
6:00 pm The singing begins!
WHERE:
Festivities begin in Harvard Square's Winthrop Park. Join us for the Parade to the river! The singing takes place by the Weeks Footbridge at the corner of Memorial Drive and DeWolfe Street.
The Harvard Extension Environmental Club (HEEC) presents a roundtable discussion with mountaineer, environmental health scientist, and author Arlene Blum. Arlene Blum is a leadership and intercultural trainer and author of Annapurna: A Woman's Place, named one of the 100 best adventure books of all time by National Geographic and one of the Fortune's "75 books that teach you everything you need to know about business." Space is limited so reserve your tickets here today. Tickets cost $10 and include a buffet-style dinner. We will be discussing Arlene's book, Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life. It is not a requirement to read it to attend but it is recommended. There will also be a free raffle to win Annapurna: A Woman's Place. This event will be live-streamed for distance students. If you are interested in this option, please email for further information.
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/harvardec/home
heecpr@gmail.com
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-09-20-220000-2015-09-21-010000/book-discussion-and-dinner-arlene-blum#sthash.wqA0LPUB.dpuf
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Monday, September 21
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Webinar - The Technology-Based Transformation of the Media Industry
Monday, September 21
12:00p–1:00p
Webinar at http://sdm.mit.edu/the-technology-based-transformation-of-the-media-industry/
Speaker: Irving Wladawsky-Berger, PhD, Visiting Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
Just about every industry has been transformed by the relentless advances of digital technologies that have taken place over the past 20 years. But, like few others, the media industry continues to be severely disrupted by the digital revolution. Everything seems to be changing at once, from the way content is produced, delivered, and consumed, to the sources of revenue and profits. Globalization, deregulation, technological innovation, and the convergence of previously separate industries such as entertainment, communications, and consumer electronics has led to a highly turbulent media landscape.
This talk will explore some of the major changes taking place in the media industry, with particular emphasis on the major negative, as well as positive, impacts of these changes. The presentation will examine the similarly transformative changes that are taking place in other industries and will map out the innovations and cultural changes required to help companies not only survive but thrive amid such major technology-based transformations.
A Q&A will follow the presentation. We invite you to join us.
The MIT System Design & Management Program's Systems Thikning Webinar Series
This series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges.
Web site: http://sdm.mit.edu/the-technology-based-transformation-of-the-media-industry/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and open to all
Tickets: Virtual -- see link above.
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design & Management
For more information, contact: Lois Slavin
lslavin@mit.edu
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MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture and Building Technology Group Lecture Series.
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Building Technology Program
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu
Film Screening: The Day After Peace
Monday, September 21
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
Hostelling International Boston, 19 Stuart Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-screening-the-day-after-peace-tickets-18418365828
In recognition of The International Day of Peace HI-Boston will be showing "The Day After Peace". This documentary follows Jeffery Gilley who's vision for "peace day" has now been reconized by the UN on September 21st- now known as the international day of peace. Join us for dinner and discussion after this 30 minute film screening!
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Tuesday, September 22
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Jonathan Capehart - Civil Rights, Partisan Values and the Media
Tuesday, September 22
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Jonathan Capehart is a member of The Washington Post editorial board and writes about politics and social issues for the PostPartisan blog. He is also an MSNBC contributor, appearing regularly on Hardball and other dayside programs.
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Public hearing on GMO labeling
Tuesday, September 22
1pm
Massachusetts State House, Gardner Auditorium, Boston
http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=H9UkQdhrHFsERwQKu%2BQSbs6o%2Bbwp%2FDKO
On September 22, 2015 at 1pm in Gardner Auditorium at the Massachusetts State House, the Agriculture Committee will hear arguments for and against transparency in GMO food labeling. This is an absolutely critical opportunity to make your voice heard and to sent a strong message to state legislators:
We need to know what we?re eating and we need the Massachusetts legislature to pass mandatory GMO labeling THIS SESSION!
The Massachusetts GMO labeling bill (H.3242) is the most popular bill in the State House, with over 75% of the legislature signed on as cosponsors. We could soon join with Connecticut, Maine and Vermont in setting the standard for national mandatory GMO labeling. But if it?s going to come up for a vote this session, we need to turn out with undeniable energy and make this a priority for legislators this year. With 30 new GMO crops in the pipeline and Monsanto working to pass the federal DARK Act, we don't have time to waste.
Please help us fill up the hearing room (which seats 600) with GMO labeling supporters. Click here for more info
http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AkwYb5GR%2BAOi1OJskg0Yk86o%2Bbwp%2FDKO
and to sign up to attend the public hearing. We are also collecting testimony to present to the committee. www.marighttoknow.org/publichearing
"The DARK ACT passing the House shines a big, bright light on our opposition and the lengths they will go to to keep us in the DARK about what we are eating. This bright light on who controls our government and who our elected officials are actually representing will galvanize the grassroots. We did not lose today. We gained strength and momentum and now more people will be shaken from their complacency to stand and fight with us."
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Peter Mucha (UNC)
A prominent method for studying various networks across different disciplines is the algorithmic detection of tightly connected groups of nodes, known as communities. Recently, there has been increased interest in networks with multiple types of relationships, that change in time, or that network together multiple kinds of networks. We demonstrate that appropriate handling of such "multilayer" networks in identifying communities provides a variety of new insights. Examples discussed in this talk include online social networks, features of pathogenic E.coli, and political data including recent results about international relations networks. No previous knowledge about networks will be assumed.
The Future Society at Harvard Kennedy School Presents: Paypal & Affirm Cofounder Max Levchin
Friday, September 18
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-society-at-harvard-kennedy-school-presents-paypal-affirm-cofounder-max-levchin-tickets-18235735576
The Harvard College Future Society is proud to welcome Silicon Valley Luminary and Serial Entrepreneur, Max Levchin to campus for a series of events including this Fireside Chat.
Max is a cofounder of PayPal, former Chairman of Yelp, Board Director of Yahoo!, Chairman and cofounder of Glow, CEO of Affirm, serial entreprenenur, angel investor and was named Innovator of the Year by MIT Technology Review.
This one hour fireside chat will cover a range of topics including the convergence of finance, data and security, healthcare, insurance and the disruption Silicon Valley is having on the largest industries in the world.
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Saturday, September 19
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EV Day
Saturday, September 19
8:30 to 10:30 am
Larz Anderson Auto Museum, 15 Newton Street, Brookline
The historic Larz Anderson Auto Museum just outside Boston will be the site of EV Day, to be held during 2015 National Drive Electric Week.
EV Day will be similar to other themed lawn events held on the museum grounds where attendees and owners will have the opportunity to show their vehicles and see a wide range of conversions and new production models available on the market. Open to any 2-4 wheel conversion, custom build or modern factory built plug-in electric vehicle. Owners and sponsors from OEMs like Tesla, BMW, Chevrolet and Nissan are also encouraged to display side by side for comparison and competition.
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Somerville Garden Club Annual Plant Sale
9 to 1 pm
Davis Square, Somerville
Great stuff, at good prices, and lots of advice. Plus books, pots, etc. Always fun, better every year.
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The 2015 Ig Nobel Informal Lectures
Saturday, September 19
1:00p–3:30p
MIT, Building 10-250, 222 Memorial Drive (halfway down the Infinite Corridor at 77 Mass Ave), Cambridge
Speaker: The 2015 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
A half-afternoon of improbably funny, informative, and brief public lectures in which the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize winners attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it!
On the preceding Thursday evening, ten prizes are awarded to people who have done remarkable things, some of them admirable, some perhaps otherwise. On Saturday, we invite the winners to MIT and give them five minutes to describe and/or defend their work, then respond to insightful questions from the audience. Here's your chance to chat with an Ig Nobel Laureate.
Please join us!
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/bookstore/www/events/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): The MIT Press Bookstore, the Annals of Improbable Research
For more information, contact: The MIT Press Bookstore
253-5249
books@mit.edu
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The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
Saturday, September 19
2:00PM
Haller Hall, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Deborah Cramer, Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Each year, red knot sandpipers travel an incredible 19,000 miles, from the tip of South America to nesting grounds in the Arctic—and back again—eating millions of tiny horseshoe crab eggs along the way. Newly listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, the red knot is the twenty-first century’s “canary in the coal mine.” Join Deborah Cramer, author of The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey, in a discussion of what is at stake for the red knot sandpiper and the millions of other shorebirds threatened by the effects of climate change. This event is a lecture and book signing. This event is free with museum admission.
http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/narrow-edge-tiny-bird-ancient-crab-and-epic-journey?utm_source=August%2026%2C%202015%20E-news&utm_campaign=Enews%20August%2026%2C%202015&utm_medium=email
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Sustainability and Environmental Management / Sustainability: Panel / HEEC Mixer
Saturday, September 19
4:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard, Maxwell-Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainability-and-environmental-management-sustainability-panel-heec-mixer-tickets-18432666602
Spread the word -- September 19 from 4:00-10:00 p.m. SEM will host a Panel followed by our SEM Mixer co-hosted by SEM and the Harvard Extension Environmental Club (HEEC).
You will learn more about the Sustainability program at Harvard Extension and enjoy the mixer with autumn fun in mind. And of course with no cost to you! SEM will provide all food and beverages. BYOB
Catch up with old and make new SEM friends, mingle with fellow students, alumni and faculty, discuss sustainability courses and careers, and / or just enjoy food and beverages!
So we can estimate our food and beverage needs, and people can identify whom they might wish to mix with, please register and get your ticket to go!
And check out the roster and responses of who's attending, and download the information for reference at:
http://tinyurl.com/SEM-Mixer-Attendee-List
We hope to see you there! - The Harvard Extension Environmental Club
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Don't Look Away: An evening with Jay Critchley, Conceptual Public Artist, Performer, Provocateur ... Trickster!
Saturday, September 19
6 to 9 pm
Mobius Center for Experimental Art, 55 Norfolk Street, Central Square, Cambridge
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Sunday, September 20
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Swapfest
Sunday, September 20
9:00a–2:00p
MIT, N4, Albany Streeet Garage and Lots, Cambridge
Cost: $6 Buyers admission from 9AM to 2PM. $4 with MIT/ Harvard Student ID
MIT's monthly Hi Tech, Computer, Electronics and Ham Radio Fleamarket.
Buy Sell or Swap all things nerdly.
Held the third Sunday of each month April thru October.
Rain or Shine covered space is available for all sellers.
In the Albany St Garage and adjacent lot.
On Albany St between Mass Ave and Main St, Cambridge.
$6 Buyers admission from 9AM to 2PM.
$4 with MIT/ Harvard Student ID
Sellers call 617 253 3776 for more information.
Web site: www.swapfest.us
Open to: the general public
Cost: $6
This event occurs on the 3rd Sunday of every month through October 18, 2015.
Sponsor(s): MIT Radio Society, MIT UHF Repeater Assn. , MIT Electronics Research Society
For more information, contact: Mitchell Berger
617-253-3776
w1mx-officers@mit.edu
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Boston Local Food Festival
Sunday, September 20
11am to 5pm
Rose Kennedy Greenway, near Aquarium T stop, Boston
More information at http://bostonlocalfoodfestival.com/
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Don't Look Away: Closing Reception with public dialogue at 3:30 pm
Sunday, September 20
12 to 5 pm
Mobius Center for Experimental Art, 55 Norfolk Street, Central Square, Cambridge
The Role of Imagination and Art in Confronting Climate Change with John Pitkin
1:30-2:15 pm
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SciStreet Hackathon
Sunday, September 20
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
MIT Museum (2nd Floor Classroom), 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/scistreet-hackathon-tickets-18424800073
Create hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) activities and demonstrations for Science on the Street!
Thanks to the MIT Graduate Student Council, ComMIT and SciStreet are hosting a SciStreet Hackathon to bring together students in teams to create interesting and interactive hands-on activities and demonstrations for public audiences on STEAM topics and themes.
The top 5 teams will get $100 in funding to design the hands-on activity or demonstration, and will then be able to present them to the public as part of the SciStreet team.
Science on the Street (SciStreet) is a mobile program out of the Cambridge Science Festival to make STEAM accessible, engaging, and fun for all. SciStreet goes out into community events, fairs, cultural festivals, after school programs, parks, and other "non-science" spaces to engage audiences with the STEAM in their lives. The CSF created SciStreet to particularly reach people who don't opt-in to science experiences.
Founded last year, Communicating Science @ MIT (ComMIT) is a student society promoting communication in science, engineering, and mathematics. ComMIT events help students convey their work and enthusiasm to the public – whether through writing, visual media, art, or teaching. Check out commit.mit.edu for info on upcoming events and more information about Boston area science outreach opportunities.
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12th Annual Revels RiverSing
Sunday, September 20
Sunday, September 20
5:00 – 7:30 pm
Harvard Square to Weeks Footbridge, Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Join thousands of voices in song as Revels waves goodbye to summer and welcomes in the fall at this FREE family-friendly Autumnal Equinox celebration taking place in Harvard Square and along the Charles River in Cambridge. Enjoy pre-show festivities, a puppet-filled parade and communal singing with The Revels Chorus and guest soloists, including David Coffin and Stan Strickland.
TIMELINE:
5:00 pm Family Fun in Harvard Square (Cambridge, MA)
5:45 pm Parade to the river
6:00 pm The singing begins!
WHERE:
Festivities begin in Harvard Square's Winthrop Park. Join us for the Parade to the river! The singing takes place by the Weeks Footbridge at the corner of Memorial Drive and DeWolfe Street.
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Book Discussion and Dinner with Arlene Blum
Sunday, September 20
6:00PM - 9:00PM
TBA
Cost: $10
Cost: $10
The Harvard Extension Environmental Club (HEEC) presents a roundtable discussion with mountaineer, environmental health scientist, and author Arlene Blum. Arlene Blum is a leadership and intercultural trainer and author of Annapurna: A Woman's Place, named one of the 100 best adventure books of all time by National Geographic and one of the Fortune's "75 books that teach you everything you need to know about business." Space is limited so reserve your tickets here today. Tickets cost $10 and include a buffet-style dinner. We will be discussing Arlene's book, Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life. It is not a requirement to read it to attend but it is recommended. There will also be a free raffle to win Annapurna: A Woman's Place. This event will be live-streamed for distance students. If you are interested in this option, please email for further information.
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/harvardec/home
heecpr@gmail.com
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-09-20-220000-2015-09-21-010000/book-discussion-and-dinner-arlene-blum#sthash.wqA0LPUB.dpuf
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Monday, September 21
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Webinar - The Technology-Based Transformation of the Media Industry
Monday, September 21
12:00p–1:00p
Webinar at http://sdm.mit.edu/the-technology-based-transformation-of-the-media-industry/
Speaker: Irving Wladawsky-Berger, PhD, Visiting Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
Just about every industry has been transformed by the relentless advances of digital technologies that have taken place over the past 20 years. But, like few others, the media industry continues to be severely disrupted by the digital revolution. Everything seems to be changing at once, from the way content is produced, delivered, and consumed, to the sources of revenue and profits. Globalization, deregulation, technological innovation, and the convergence of previously separate industries such as entertainment, communications, and consumer electronics has led to a highly turbulent media landscape.
This talk will explore some of the major changes taking place in the media industry, with particular emphasis on the major negative, as well as positive, impacts of these changes. The presentation will examine the similarly transformative changes that are taking place in other industries and will map out the innovations and cultural changes required to help companies not only survive but thrive amid such major technology-based transformations.
A Q&A will follow the presentation. We invite you to join us.
The MIT System Design & Management Program's Systems Thikning Webinar Series
This series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges.
Web site: http://sdm.mit.edu/the-technology-based-transformation-of-the-media-industry/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and open to all
Tickets: Virtual -- see link above.
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design & Management
For more information, contact: Lois Slavin
lslavin@mit.edu
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MASS Seminar - Howard Bluestein (Oklahoma)
Monday, September 21
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Howard Bluestein (Oklahoma)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Howard Bluestein (Oklahoma)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu
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Extending Locational Marginal Cost Pricing to Retail Electricity Markets and Distributed Generation
Monday, September 21
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Michael Caramanis, Professor, Boston University, will discuss "" as part of HKS's Energy Policy Seminar Series. This series is presented by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Lunch will be provided.
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Michael Caramanis, Professor, Boston University, will discuss "" as part of HKS's Energy Policy Seminar Series. This series is presented by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Lunch will be provided.
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693
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Meanwhile in Japan – Filming in the Nuclear Exclusion Zone
Monday, September 21
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 OXford Street, Cambridge
Thorsten Trimpop, Fellow, MIT Open Documentary Lab, Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Thorsten Trimpop is a filmmaker from Germany currently based in Cambridge, MA. He is completing work on his new documentary film, The New Normal, a human-scale portrait of a small town in Japan’s nuclear exclusion zone. His first feature film, The Irrational Remains, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2006 and won numerous awards. His work interweaves elements from fictional and documentary film traditions. He currently teaches filmmaking and film studies at Massachusetts College of Art and Boston University. At MIT he will be working on a digital storytelling project that touches on issues of empire, ecology, and the human obsession with beauty.
The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.
There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.
Thorsten Trimpop, Fellow, MIT Open Documentary Lab, Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Thorsten Trimpop is a filmmaker from Germany currently based in Cambridge, MA. He is completing work on his new documentary film, The New Normal, a human-scale portrait of a small town in Japan’s nuclear exclusion zone. His first feature film, The Irrational Remains, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2006 and won numerous awards. His work interweaves elements from fictional and documentary film traditions. He currently teaches filmmaking and film studies at Massachusetts College of Art and Boston University. At MIT he will be working on a digital storytelling project that touches on issues of empire, ecology, and the human obsession with beauty.
The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.
There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-09-21-161500-2015-09-21-180000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.hSwNTJ2b.dpuf
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Architecture Lecture: panel discussion on tech startups related to the built environment
Monday, September 21
12:30p–2:30p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Les Norford, moderator; Jaime Gagne, Principal Building Scientist - KGS Buildings; Sam Shames, Co-Founder - Wristify; David Quinn, Co-Founder - coUrbanize; David Warsinger, CTO - Coolify
12:30p–2:30p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Les Norford, moderator; Jaime Gagne, Principal Building Scientist - KGS Buildings; Sam Shames, Co-Founder - Wristify; David Quinn, Co-Founder - coUrbanize; David Warsinger, CTO - Coolify
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture and Building Technology Group Lecture Series.
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Building Technology Program
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu
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A Precinct Too Far: Assessing the Cost of Going to the Polling Place Using Boundary Discontinuities
Monday, September 21
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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A Precinct Too Far: Assessing the Cost of Going to the Polling Place Using Boundary Discontinuities
Monday, September 21
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Visualization for Everyone: Public, Social, and Collaborative
Monday, September 21
4:00pm to 5:15pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, Google
As data plays an ever larger role in society, there’s a critical need for tools to help people understand and reason about complex information. Our research seeks to make data visualization--originally a tool for experts--accessible to everyone. To succeed as a mass medium, visualization must be simple to use, easy to share, and suited to the kinds of data that people care about. We will discuss these challenges and projects which address them. First, we’ll present work that explores the collaborative dimension of visualization. Second, we’ll consider socially important forms of data such as text and images that don’t fit traditional visualization approaches. We present new techniques to provide insight into media from books to photographs. Finally, a radical level of simplicity in both authoring and consumption is required for visualization to succeed on a massive scale. We’ll illustrate solutions to these challenges with data sets ranging from wind flows to global cyberattacks. This approach to visualization points the way to a future where every citizen can fully participate in a data-driven society.
Speaker Bio: Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg are the leaders of Google's “Big Picture” data visualization research group, which invents new ways for people to understand and explore data. They are well known for their contributions to social and collaborative visualization, and the systems they’ve created are used daily by millions of people.
Before joining Google, the two founded Flowing Media, Inc., which focused on media and consumer-oriented projects. Prior to Flowing Media, they led IBM's Visual Communication Lab, where they created the ground-breaking public visualization platform Many Eyes, which introduced visualization to millions of users worldwide.
Viégas has been named by multiple publications as one of the most influential women in technology. Her visualizations of email and online conversations led the way for new social media interfaces. Wattenberg, as a director of R&D at Dow Jones, created some of the earliest visualizations for digital journalism. Viégas holds a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab; Wattenberg has a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley. Their academic work has won multiple “best paper” accolades, and they’ve received several top design and technology awards. Their visualization-based artwork has been exhibited worldwide, and is part of the permanent collection of Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu
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Can African Women Redefine Liberation for All?
Monday, September 21
4:15 pm
Radcliffe Center, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Mamphela Aletta Ramphele in the 2015–2016 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture
Transforming the relationship between men and women remains a global challenge. In Africa the challenge is of epic proportions: a life-and-death struggle that undermines the potential of the continent to take its rightful place at the table of the global community. African women, the pillars of their families and communities, have yet to effectively take on the role of liberating themselves and thereby liberate the men of Africa. What will it take?
This event is free and open to the public.
Mamphela Aletta Ramphele, BI '90, of South Africa, has been a student activist, a medical doctor, a community development activist, a researcher, a university executive, and a global public servant. She is now an active citizen in both the public and private sectors.
Ramphele is the author of several books and publications on socioeconomic issues in South Africa. She has received numerous national and international awards acknowledging her scholarship and had a leading role in spearheading projects for disadvantaged people in South Africa and elsewhere. She has served on many boards over the years.
In January 2013, Ramphele became the leader of Agang SA, a party for all South Africans which won two seats in the national election held in May 2014. Post election Ramphele retired from party politics to return to her role as an active citizen.
Alumna and former Radcliffe College trustee Maurine Pupkin Rothschild ’40 and her husband Robert Rothschild ’39 established the annual Rothschild Lecture at the Schlesinger Library in 1989. Distinguished speakers in the series have included Gail Collins, Angela Davis, Eve Ensler, Julio Frenk, Linda Greenhouse, Anita Hill, Samantha Power, Adrienne Rich, Amartya Sen, Reva Siegel, and Maxine Singer.
More at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-mamphela-ramphele-lecture
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Monday, September 21
4:00pm to 5:15pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, Google
As data plays an ever larger role in society, there’s a critical need for tools to help people understand and reason about complex information. Our research seeks to make data visualization--originally a tool for experts--accessible to everyone. To succeed as a mass medium, visualization must be simple to use, easy to share, and suited to the kinds of data that people care about. We will discuss these challenges and projects which address them. First, we’ll present work that explores the collaborative dimension of visualization. Second, we’ll consider socially important forms of data such as text and images that don’t fit traditional visualization approaches. We present new techniques to provide insight into media from books to photographs. Finally, a radical level of simplicity in both authoring and consumption is required for visualization to succeed on a massive scale. We’ll illustrate solutions to these challenges with data sets ranging from wind flows to global cyberattacks. This approach to visualization points the way to a future where every citizen can fully participate in a data-driven society.
Speaker Bio: Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg are the leaders of Google's “Big Picture” data visualization research group, which invents new ways for people to understand and explore data. They are well known for their contributions to social and collaborative visualization, and the systems they’ve created are used daily by millions of people.
Before joining Google, the two founded Flowing Media, Inc., which focused on media and consumer-oriented projects. Prior to Flowing Media, they led IBM's Visual Communication Lab, where they created the ground-breaking public visualization platform Many Eyes, which introduced visualization to millions of users worldwide.
Viégas has been named by multiple publications as one of the most influential women in technology. Her visualizations of email and online conversations led the way for new social media interfaces. Wattenberg, as a director of R&D at Dow Jones, created some of the earliest visualizations for digital journalism. Viégas holds a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab; Wattenberg has a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley. Their academic work has won multiple “best paper” accolades, and they’ve received several top design and technology awards. Their visualization-based artwork has been exhibited worldwide, and is part of the permanent collection of Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu
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Can African Women Redefine Liberation for All?
Monday, September 21
4:15 pm
Radcliffe Center, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Mamphela Aletta Ramphele in the 2015–2016 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture
Transforming the relationship between men and women remains a global challenge. In Africa the challenge is of epic proportions: a life-and-death struggle that undermines the potential of the continent to take its rightful place at the table of the global community. African women, the pillars of their families and communities, have yet to effectively take on the role of liberating themselves and thereby liberate the men of Africa. What will it take?
This event is free and open to the public.
Mamphela Aletta Ramphele, BI '90, of South Africa, has been a student activist, a medical doctor, a community development activist, a researcher, a university executive, and a global public servant. She is now an active citizen in both the public and private sectors.
Ramphele is the author of several books and publications on socioeconomic issues in South Africa. She has received numerous national and international awards acknowledging her scholarship and had a leading role in spearheading projects for disadvantaged people in South Africa and elsewhere. She has served on many boards over the years.
In January 2013, Ramphele became the leader of Agang SA, a party for all South Africans which won two seats in the national election held in May 2014. Post election Ramphele retired from party politics to return to her role as an active citizen.
Alumna and former Radcliffe College trustee Maurine Pupkin Rothschild ’40 and her husband Robert Rothschild ’39 established the annual Rothschild Lecture at the Schlesinger Library in 1989. Distinguished speakers in the series have included Gail Collins, Angela Davis, Eve Ensler, Julio Frenk, Linda Greenhouse, Anita Hill, Samantha Power, Adrienne Rich, Amartya Sen, Reva Siegel, and Maxine Singer.
More at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-mamphela-ramphele-lecture
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A New Russian Ideology: Forceful but Uncertain
Monday, September 21
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E53-482, 30 Wadsworth Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Maria Lipman, Political Analyst and Journalist; Editor-in-Chief, Pro et Contra, Carnegie Moscow Center
Focus On Russia
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program, Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Harlene Miller
617-258-6531
harlenem@mit.edu
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Ancient Eclipses, Roman Fish Tanks, and the Enigma of Global Sea Level Rise
Monday, September 21
6 pm
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Jerry Mitrovica, Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Conjecture about the causes, magnitude, and dramatic geographic variability of global sea level change over the past century has provoked contention within the scientific community and misinformation in the general public. Jerry Mitrovica will provide an overview of the many datasets, including archaeological evidence, geological observations, and satellite-based measurements that have confirmed both the anomalous nature of recent sea level change and its inexorable acceleration. He will demonstrate how the geographic variability in sea level can be used not only to estimate the average sea level change worldwide, but also to “fingerprint” the sources of this change.
Free and open to the public.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/ancient-eclipses-roman-fish-tanks-and-enigma-global-sea-level-rise#sthash.Wub2xSXs.dpuf
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The future of our cities – meet Thomas Geisel
Monday, September 21
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-our-cities-meet-thomas-geisel-tickets-18418804139
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Science and Cooking: The Science of Sugar
Monday, September 21
7pm
Harvard, Science Center C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Joanna Chang
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Monday, September 21
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E53-482, 30 Wadsworth Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Maria Lipman, Political Analyst and Journalist; Editor-in-Chief, Pro et Contra, Carnegie Moscow Center
Focus On Russia
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program, Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Harlene Miller
617-258-6531
harlenem@mit.edu
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Ancient Eclipses, Roman Fish Tanks, and the Enigma of Global Sea Level Rise
Monday, September 21
6 pm
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Jerry Mitrovica, Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Conjecture about the causes, magnitude, and dramatic geographic variability of global sea level change over the past century has provoked contention within the scientific community and misinformation in the general public. Jerry Mitrovica will provide an overview of the many datasets, including archaeological evidence, geological observations, and satellite-based measurements that have confirmed both the anomalous nature of recent sea level change and its inexorable acceleration. He will demonstrate how the geographic variability in sea level can be used not only to estimate the average sea level change worldwide, but also to “fingerprint” the sources of this change.
Free and open to the public.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/ancient-eclipses-roman-fish-tanks-and-enigma-global-sea-level-rise#sthash.Wub2xSXs.dpuf
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The future of our cities – meet Thomas Geisel
Monday, September 21
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-our-cities-meet-thomas-geisel-tickets-18418804139
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Science and Cooking: The Science of Sugar
Monday, September 21
7pm
Harvard, Science Center C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Joanna Chang
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Film Screening: The Day After Peace
Monday, September 21
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
Hostelling International Boston, 19 Stuart Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-screening-the-day-after-peace-tickets-18418365828
In recognition of The International Day of Peace HI-Boston will be showing "The Day After Peace". This documentary follows Jeffery Gilley who's vision for "peace day" has now been reconized by the UN on September 21st- now known as the international day of peace. Join us for dinner and discussion after this 30 minute film screening!
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Tuesday, September 22
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Jonathan Capehart - Civil Rights, Partisan Values and the Media
Tuesday, September 22
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Jonathan Capehart is a member of The Washington Post editorial board and writes about politics and social issues for the PostPartisan blog. He is also an MSNBC contributor, appearing regularly on Hardball and other dayside programs.
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Public hearing on GMO labeling
Tuesday, September 22
1pm
Massachusetts State House, Gardner Auditorium, Boston
http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=H9UkQdhrHFsERwQKu%2BQSbs6o%2Bbwp%2FDKO
On September 22, 2015 at 1pm in Gardner Auditorium at the Massachusetts State House, the Agriculture Committee will hear arguments for and against transparency in GMO food labeling. This is an absolutely critical opportunity to make your voice heard and to sent a strong message to state legislators:
We need to know what we?re eating and we need the Massachusetts legislature to pass mandatory GMO labeling THIS SESSION!
The Massachusetts GMO labeling bill (H.3242
Please help us fill up the hearing room (which seats 600) with GMO labeling supporters. Click here for more info
http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AkwYb5GR%2BAOi1OJskg0Yk86o%2Bbwp%2FDKO
and to sign up to attend the public hearing. We are also collecting testimony to present to the committee. www.marighttoknow.org/publichearing
"The DARK ACT passing the House shines a big, bright light on our opposition and the lengths they will go to to keep us in the DARK about what we are eating. This bright light on who controls our government and who our elected officials are actually representing will galvanize the grassroots. We did not lose today. We gained strength and momentum and now more people will be shaken from their complacency to stand and fight with us."
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Adapting to Extreme Events: Household Response to Floods in Urban Areas
Tuesday, September 22
3:00 to 4:00 pm unless listed otherwise
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Maura Allaire, Post-doctoral Researcher, Columbia University, (Tufts BS)
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
Tuesday, September 22
3:00 to 4:00 pm unless listed otherwise
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Maura Allaire, Post-doctoral Researcher, Columbia University, (Tufts BS)
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Communities in Networks
Tuesday, September 22
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Harvard, Lyman 425, 17A Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Lyman 425, 17A Oxford Street, Cambridge
Peter Mucha (UNC)
A prominent method for studying various networks across different disciplines is the algorithmic detection of tightly connected groups of nodes, known as communities. Recently, there has been increased interest in networks with multiple types of relationships, that change in time, or that network together multiple kinds of networks. We demonstrate that appropriate handling of such "multilayer" networks in identifying communities provides a variety of new insights. Examples discussed in this talk include online social networks, features of pathogenic E.coli, and political data including recent results about international relations networks. No previous knowledge about networks will be assumed.
Widely Applied Mathematics Seminar
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HBeeS Honey Tasting
Tuesday, September 22
3:30–5 pm
Harvard Business School, Batten Hall, Hive 201, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
Learn more about the honeybees of Batten Hives, brought to you by Harvard Business School Operations and the Student Sustainability Associates. Hear from honeybee experts, Best Bees and sample delicious, local raw honey.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/hbees-honey-tasting#sthash.ZgvCD6DO.dpuf
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The Social Physics of Wellbeing
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
HBeeS Honey Tasting
Tuesday, September 22
3:30–5 pm
Harvard Business School, Batten Hall, Hive 201, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
Learn more about the honeybees of Batten Hives, brought to you by Harvard Business School Operations and the Student Sustainability Associates. Hear from honeybee experts, Best Bees and sample delicious, local raw honey.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/hbees-honey-tasting#sthash.ZgvCD6DO.dpuf
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The Social Physics of Wellbeing
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
4:00pm - 5:30pm
MIT, Building E14-633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Alex "Sandy" Pentland
For the last decade, Sandy Pentland's research has investigated what can be learned from continuous monitoring of human behavior. What has emerged is a very different picture of healthy and unhealthy human life, one that acknowledges the primacy of social relationships over internal state, and is more rooted in ethology, field biology and evolution than than in medicine or cell biology. This view of the human condition has allowed us to not only monitor human wellbeing from currently available information sources, but to predict impending problems and to re-establish healthy behavior patterns.
Biography: Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland helped to create and direct the Media Lab, where he directs the Human Dynamics research group and leads the Connection Science initiative. One of the most-cited scientists in the world, Forbes recently declared him one of the "7 most powerful data scientists in the world" along with Google founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the United States. He is a founding member of advisory boards for Google, AT&T, Nissan, and the UN Secretary General, and a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded more than a dozen companies including social enterprises such as the Data Transparency Lab, the Harvard-ODI-MIT DataPop Alliance, and the Institute for Data-Driven Design. Pentland and his students pioneered computational social science, organizational engineering, wearable computing (Google Glass), image understanding, and modern biometrics. His most recent books are Social Physics (Penguin Press, 2014) and Honest Signals (MIT Press, 2008). He received his BS in computer science from the University of Michigan, and his PhD in computer science, psychology, and AI from MIT. Pentland is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a leader within the World Economic Forum, and has received numerous awards and prizes including the McKinsey Award from Harvard Business Review, the 40th Anniversary of the Internet from DARPA, and the Brandeis Award for work in privacy.
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Discussion & Signing with Harvard Alum Evan Thomas: "Being Nixon: A Man Divided"
WHEN Tue., Sep. 22, 2015, 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Coop
SPEAKER(S) Evan Thomas
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Karen Porter
DETAILS "Being Nixon: A Man Divided"
Everyone thinks they know Richard Nixon. His “Tricky Dick,” persona has come to define his perception. Evan Thomas, former editor at large of Newsweek and bestselling author of "Ike's Bluff" and "Sea of Thunder," disposes of this cartoonish version of Nixon and creates a three-dimensional portrait of a complex man filled with both light and darkness.
LINK www.thecoop.com
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An engaging reading and discussion with WILLIAM POWERS on new book: 'NEW SLOW CITY'
Tuesday, September 22
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Trident Booksellers, 338 Newbury Street, Boston
William Powers, author of the "green living" bestseller Twelve by Twelve, reading from his new book, New Slow City, followed by a discussion and signing. COSPONSORS include: Slow Food USA and World Policy Institute. After spending a season living off the grid in a twelve-by-twelve-foot cabin in North Carolina, Powers takes his sustainable, "slow" living approach to one of the busiest cities in the world: New York. Eschewing the burdensome culture of "Total Work," chucking 80% of his belongings and scaling down to a 20-hour workweek, Powers and his wife explore the viability of living simply in a demanding urban environment — an inspiration to those who are trying to make city life more people- and planet-friendly.
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Charles Murray
Tuesday, September 22
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard, Science Center Auditorium B, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Charles Murray is a political scientist, author, and libertarian. He first came to national attention in 1984 with the publication of Losing Ground, which has been credited as the intellectual foundation for the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. His most recent book, By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission (Crown Forum, 2015) urges Americans to stem governmental overreach and use America's unique civil society to put government back in its place.
11:20 am - 12:20 pm Dialogue II: How is Massachusetts Building Climate Change Resilience?
A dynamic dialogue with Massachusetts Thought Leaders who will share and reflect on current issues pertaining to how Massachusetts is preparing for building resilience in a changing climate.
Conversation Leaders:
Massachusetts State Senator James B. Eldridge, Vice Chair, Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change (Moderator)
Brian Swett, Chief of Environment and Energy, City of Boston
John Kassel, President, Conservation Law Foundation
Matthew Patsky, CEO, Trillium Asset Management
Anamarija Frankić, Ph.D., Director, Green Harbor Projects, Faculty at UMass Boston and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Split, Croatia.
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Closing Remarks
State Representative Frank I. Smizik, Chair, House Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm Networking
Future of Solar Design
SEBANE (Solar Energy Business Association of New England)
Monday, September 28
On Monday, September 28, SEBANE will be hosting a discussion on the future of solar design. The event will feature two speakers who stand ready to help as your organization faces new code requirements and an increasing need for high quality performance monitoring for all PV systems - from residential scale to multi-MW scale projects. In addition, David O'Connor of ML Strategies will provide a briefing on the state of play of solar legislation in Massachusetts.
Speakers will include:
Bob Anderson, Tigo,
Stephen Condon, Director of Sales East, Solar Data Systems, Inc.
David O'Connor, Senior Vice President for Energy & Clean Technology, ML Strategies
MIT, Building E14-633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Alex "Sandy" Pentland
For the last decade, Sandy Pentland's research has investigated what can be learned from continuous monitoring of human behavior. What has emerged is a very different picture of healthy and unhealthy human life, one that acknowledges the primacy of social relationships over internal state, and is more rooted in ethology, field biology and evolution than than in medicine or cell biology. This view of the human condition has allowed us to not only monitor human wellbeing from currently available information sources, but to predict impending problems and to re-establish healthy behavior patterns.
Biography: Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland helped to create and direct the Media Lab, where he directs the Human Dynamics research group and leads the Connection Science initiative. One of the most-cited scientists in the world, Forbes recently declared him one of the "7 most powerful data scientists in the world" along with Google founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the United States. He is a founding member of advisory boards for Google, AT&T, Nissan, and the UN Secretary General, and a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded more than a dozen companies including social enterprises such as the Data Transparency Lab, the Harvard-ODI-MIT DataPop Alliance, and the Institute for Data-Driven Design. Pentland and his students pioneered computational social science, organizational engineering, wearable computing (Google Glass), image understanding, and modern biometrics. His most recent books are Social Physics (Penguin Press, 2014) and Honest Signals (MIT Press, 2008). He received his BS in computer science from the University of Michigan, and his PhD in computer science, psychology, and AI from MIT. Pentland is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a leader within the World Economic Forum, and has received numerous awards and prizes including the McKinsey Award from Harvard Business Review, the 40th Anniversary of the Internet from DARPA, and the Brandeis Award for work in privacy.
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Discussion & Signing with Harvard Alum Evan Thomas: "Being Nixon: A Man Divided"
WHEN Tue., Sep. 22, 2015, 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Coop
SPEAKER(S) Evan Thomas
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Karen Porter
DETAILS "Being Nixon: A Man Divided"
Everyone thinks they know Richard Nixon. His “Tricky Dick,” persona has come to define his perception. Evan Thomas, former editor at large of Newsweek and bestselling author of "Ike's Bluff" and "Sea of Thunder," disposes of this cartoonish version of Nixon and creates a three-dimensional portrait of a complex man filled with both light and darkness.
LINK www.thecoop.com
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An engaging reading and discussion with WILLIAM POWERS on new book: 'NEW SLOW CITY'
Tuesday, September 22
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Trident Booksellers, 338 Newbury Street, Boston
William Powers, author of the "green living" bestseller Twelve by Twelve, reading from his new book, New Slow City, followed by a discussion and signing. COSPONSORS include: Slow Food USA and World Policy Institute. After spending a season living off the grid in a twelve-by-twelve-foot cabin in North Carolina, Powers takes his sustainable, "slow" living approach to one of the busiest cities in the world: New York. Eschewing the burdensome culture of "Total Work," chucking 80% of his belongings and scaling down to a 20-hour workweek, Powers and his wife explore the viability of living simply in a demanding urban environment — an inspiration to those who are trying to make city life more people- and planet-friendly.
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Charles Murray
Tuesday, September 22
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard, Science Center Auditorium B, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Charles Murray is a political scientist, author, and libertarian. He first came to national attention in 1984 with the publication of Losing Ground, which has been credited as the intellectual foundation for the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. His most recent book, By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission (Crown Forum, 2015) urges Americans to stem governmental overreach and use America's unique civil society to put government back in its place.
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Wednesday, September 23
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Wednesday, September 23
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Obama's Clean Power Plan: The Legal Path Forward
Wednesday, September 23
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, Belfer Building, 5th floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor of Law and Director, Environmental Law Program
Harvard, Bell Hall, Belfer Building, 5th floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor of Law and Director, Environmental Law Program
HKS Business & Government Seminar Series
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Inventing a Smarter Future: Intelligence Everywhere
Wednesday, September 23
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Michael Mayberry, Intel
MTL Seminar Series
Refreshments at 11:30 am
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie Dinardo
253-9328
valeried@mit.edu
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Lethal Force and National Security: A Case Study at the Intersection of Policy, Law, and Technological Change
Wednesday, September 23
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Robert Chesney
Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar Series
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/ssp/seminars/index.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
617-253-7529
elinah@mit.edu
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What Now? The Iran Nuclear Deal
Wednesday, September 23
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 4-270, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: Lisbeth Gronlund Union of Concerned Scientists; John Tirman Executive Director; MIT Center for International Studies
This discussion will examine the strengths and weaknesses of the agreements and the security implications of Congress's decision to support or reject the deal. This event will prove to be informative and provocative. Refreshments will be provided. Please join us!
Web site: radius.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT, MIT Chapter of Global Zero, MIT Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Patricia-Maria Weinmann
617-253-0108
weinmann@mit.edu
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authors@mit with César Hidalgo: Why Information Grows
Wednesday, September 23
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building 2-105, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: César Hidalgo
Please join us as we celebrate a compelling new book from MIT associate professor César Hidalgo, leader of the Macro Connections group at the MIT Media Lab. In "Why Information Grows" Hidalgo draws on physics, complexity science, and network theory, to offer a fascinating portrait of the processes of information and economic growth.
"Why Information Grows" is published by Basic Books, 2015.
Open to the public and wheelchair accessible.
authors@mit
authors@mit is a lecture series cosponsored by MIT Libraries and The MIT Press Bookstore.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/bookstore/www/events/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): The MIT Press Bookstore, MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: The MIT Press Bookstore
253-5249
books@mit.edu
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Emerging Technologies that Test Ethical Boundaries
Wednesday, September 23
6:00 PM
Akamai Technologies, 150 Broadway (aka 8 Kendall Center), Cambridge
Join us on Wednesday, September 23 as Mark Chodnowsky from Alstrom (GE) discusses the ethical implications of new technology in intelligence work. A wide range of tools are becoming (or will become) accessible to CI analysts in the next decade, and those tools will provide unprecedented data collection and analysis capability. In addition, changing individual and societal expectations will influence legal and ethical boundaries. Businesses and the CI community must be vigilant so that these new technologies are used effectively, yet within the evolving legal and ethical boundaries. Mark will highlight some of these new tools, issues, and challenges.
Mark Chodnowsky is currently leading the CI program at Alstom Power. Previously he was SVP at Fuld & Co. where he led three practice areas – IT, Manufacturing, and Consumer Goods. As a consultant for nearly 25 years, he has conducted and managed over 500 research projects and 50 war game exercises for numerous leading multinational corporations. Mark has pioneered several analytical frameworks including competitor strategy mapping and was the originator of the B-School war game championships. He has a BE from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Wednesday, September 23
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes ANNIE JACOBSEN, author of Area 51 and Operation Paperclip, for a discussion of her latest book, The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency.
No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present.
This is the book on DARPA--a compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results.
"Filled with the intrigue and high stakes of a spy novel, Jacobsen's history of DARPA is as much a fascinating testament to human ingenuity as it is a paean to endless industrial warfare and the bureaucracy of the military-industrial complex."—Kirkus Reviews
"A fascinating and unsettling portrait of the secretive U.S. government agency....Jacobsen walks a fine line in telling the story of the agency and its innovations without coming across as a cheerleader or a critic, or letting the narrative devolve into a salacious tell-all. Jacobsen's ability to objectively tell the story of DARPA, not to mention its murky past, is truly remarkable, making for a terrifically well-crafted treatise on the agency most Americans know next to nothing about." —Publishers Weekly
Featured event books will be for sale at the event for 20% off. Thank you for supporting this author series with your purchases.
General Info (617) 661-1515
info@harvard.com
Inventing a Smarter Future: Intelligence Everywhere
Wednesday, September 23
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Michael Mayberry, Intel
MTL Seminar Series
Refreshments at 11:30 am
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie Dinardo
253-9328
valeried@mit.edu
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Lethal Force and National Security: A Case Study at the Intersection of Policy, Law, and Technological Change
Wednesday, September 23
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Robert Chesney
Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar Series
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/ssp/seminars/index.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
617-253-7529
elinah@mit.edu
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What Now? The Iran Nuclear Deal
Wednesday, September 23
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 4-270, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: Lisbeth Gronlund Union of Concerned Scientists; John Tirman Executive Director; MIT Center for International Studies
This discussion will examine the strengths and weaknesses of the agreements and the security implications of Congress's decision to support or reject the deal. This event will prove to be informative and provocative. Refreshments will be provided. Please join us!
Web site: radius.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT, MIT Chapter of Global Zero, MIT Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Patricia-Maria Weinmann
617-253-0108
weinmann@mit.edu
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authors@mit with César Hidalgo: Why Information Grows
Wednesday, September 23
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building 2-105, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: César Hidalgo
Please join us as we celebrate a compelling new book from MIT associate professor César Hidalgo, leader of the Macro Connections group at the MIT Media Lab. In "Why Information Grows" Hidalgo draws on physics, complexity science, and network theory, to offer a fascinating portrait of the processes of information and economic growth.
"Why Information Grows" is published by Basic Books, 2015.
Open to the public and wheelchair accessible.
authors@mit
authors@mit is a lecture series cosponsored by MIT Libraries and The MIT Press Bookstore.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/bookstore/www/events/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): The MIT Press Bookstore, MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: The MIT Press Bookstore
253-5249
books@mit.edu
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Emerging Technologies that Test Ethical Boundaries
Wednesday, September 23
6:00 PM
Akamai Technologies, 150 Broadway (aka 8 Kendall Center), Cambridge
Join us on Wednesday, September 23 as Mark Chodnowsky from Alstrom (GE) discusses the ethical implications of new technology in intelligence work. A wide range of tools are becoming (or will become) accessible to CI analysts in the next decade, and those tools will provide unprecedented data collection and analysis capability. In addition, changing individual and societal expectations will influence legal and ethical boundaries. Businesses and the CI community must be vigilant so that these new technologies are used effectively, yet within the evolving legal and ethical boundaries. Mark will highlight some of these new tools, issues, and challenges.
Mark Chodnowsky is currently leading the CI program at Alstom Power. Previously he was SVP at Fuld & Co. where he led three practice areas – IT, Manufacturing, and Consumer Goods. As a consultant for nearly 25 years, he has conducted and managed over 500 research projects and 50 war game exercises for numerous leading multinational corporations. Mark has pioneered several analytical frameworks including competitor strategy mapping and was the originator of the B-School war game championships. He has a BE from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Wednesday, September 23
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes ANNIE JACOBSEN, author of Area 51 and Operation Paperclip, for a discussion of her latest book, The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency.
No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present.
This is the book on DARPA--a compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results.
"Filled with the intrigue and high stakes of a spy novel, Jacobsen's history of DARPA is as much a fascinating testament to human ingenuity as it is a paean to endless industrial warfare and the bureaucracy of the military-industrial complex."—Kirkus Reviews
"A fascinating and unsettling portrait of the secretive U.S. government agency....Jacobsen walks a fine line in telling the story of the agency and its innovations without coming across as a cheerleader or a critic, or letting the narrative devolve into a salacious tell-all. Jacobsen's ability to objectively tell the story of DARPA, not to mention its murky past, is truly remarkable, making for a terrifically well-crafted treatise on the agency most Americans know next to nothing about." —Publishers Weekly
Featured event books will be for sale at the event for 20% off. Thank you for supporting this author series with your purchases.
General Info (617) 661-1515
info@harvard.com
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Quantum Analytical: Seeing and Hearing the Chemistry of Art
Wednesday, September 23
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Armenise Auditorium
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Armenise Auditorium
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Thursday, September 24
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Thursday, September 24
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Disruptive Ideas: Public Intellectuals and their Arguments for Action on Climate Change
Thursday, September 24
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Matthew Nisbet, Northeastern
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U.S. Department of Energy 2015 Quadrennial Technology Review
Thursday, September 24
5:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E14-6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Lynn Orr, Under Secretary for Science and Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
The United States is in the midst of an energy revolution. Over the last decade, the United States has slashed net petroleum imports, dramatically increased shale gas production, scaled up wind and solar power, and cut the growth in electricity consumption to nearly zero through widespread efficiency measures. Technology is helping to drive this revolution, enabled by years to decades of research and development that underpin these advances in the energy system. The U.S. Department of Energy's 2015 Quadrennial Technology Review examines the status of the science and technology that are the foundation of our energy system, together with the research, development, demonstration, and deployment opportunities to advance them. This analysis is particularly instructive in the run up to the international climate negotiations taking place later this year at the 21st Conference of Parties, as technological advances will be crucial to achieving global greenhouse gas emissions reductions. During his presentation, Dr. Orr will provide an overview of the highlights of the report and will discuss examples of promising research and development opportunities that can help the nation achieve a low-carbon economy.
Reception to follow.
Web site: http://mitei.mit.edu/calendar/presentation-us-dept-energy-2015-quadrennial-technology-review
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Rebecca Marshall-Howarth
Thursday, September 24
5:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E14-6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Lynn Orr, Under Secretary for Science and Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
The United States is in the midst of an energy revolution. Over the last decade, the United States has slashed net petroleum imports, dramatically increased shale gas production, scaled up wind and solar power, and cut the growth in electricity consumption to nearly zero through widespread efficiency measures. Technology is helping to drive this revolution, enabled by years to decades of research and development that underpin these advances in the energy system. The U.S. Department of Energy's 2015 Quadrennial Technology Review examines the status of the science and technology that are the foundation of our energy system, together with the research, development, demonstration, and deployment opportunities to advance them. This analysis is particularly instructive in the run up to the international climate negotiations taking place later this year at the 21st Conference of Parties, as technological advances will be crucial to achieving global greenhouse gas emissions reductions. During his presentation, Dr. Orr will provide an overview of the highlights of the report and will discuss examples of promising research and development opportunities that can help the nation achieve a low-carbon economy.
Reception to follow.
Web site: http://mitei.mit.edu/calendar/presentation-us-dept-energy-2015-quadrennial-technology-review
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Rebecca Marshall-Howarth
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Jim Crow and the Legacy of Segregation Outside of the South
Thursday, September 24
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 3-270, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Police shootings and the Black Lives Matter campaign have shone a spotlight on how different the everyday experiences are of white Americans and Americans of color. While much attention has been paid to these seemingly daily occurrences, the historical forces that led to our current situation have been less discussed: Is the de facto segregation that exists in many Northern cities a result of the lack of forced integration of the type that took place in the South? And is the mass incarceration of and police brutality inflicted on black Americans a result of these same forces?
Melissa Nobles is the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at MIT. She is also a collaborator and advisory board member of Northeastern Law School's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice clinic.
Tracey Meares is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Before coming to Yale, she was the Max Pam Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago; she was the first African-American woman granted tenure at both institutions' law schools. She's worked extensively with the federal government, and since December 2014 she has a been a member of President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/jim-crow.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT Communications Forum
For more information, contact:
Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 3-270, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Police shootings and the Black Lives Matter campaign have shone a spotlight on how different the everyday experiences are of white Americans and Americans of color. While much attention has been paid to these seemingly daily occurrences, the historical forces that led to our current situation have been less discussed: Is the de facto segregation that exists in many Northern cities a result of the lack of forced integration of the type that took place in the South? And is the mass incarceration of and police brutality inflicted on black Americans a result of these same forces?
Melissa Nobles is the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at MIT. She is also a collaborator and advisory board member of Northeastern Law School's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice clinic.
Tracey Meares is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Before coming to Yale, she was the Max Pam Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago; she was the first African-American woman granted tenure at both institutions' law schools. She's worked extensively with the federal government, and since December 2014 she has a been a member of President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/jim-crow.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT Communications Forum
For more information, contact:
Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
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Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium
WHEN Thu., Sep. 24, 2015, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Braun Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion
SPONSOR Religions and the Practice of Peace Initiative
CONTACT Liz Lee-Hood
DETAILS A monthly series of dinner talks organized by HDS's Religions and the Practice of Peace Initiative. More details about each talk will be included here at the start of the fall semester. A brief reception will follow the formal program.
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Microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures
Thursday, September 24
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Derek Diedricksen, Microshelters
If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you'll love this gorgeous collection of creative and inspiring ideas for tiny houses, cabins, forts, studios, and other microshelters. Created by a wide array of builders and designers around the United States and beyond, these 59 unique and innovative structures show you the limits of what is possible. Each is displayed in full-color photographs accompanied by commentary by the author. In addition, Diedricksen includes six sets of building plans by leading designers to help you get started on a microshelter of your own. You'll also find guidelines on building with recycled and salvaged materials, plus techniques for making your small space comfortable and easy to inhabit.
Derek "Deek" Diedricksen is the author of Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, a tiny housing and micro-design concept book. Diedricksen hosts the YouTube channel RelaxshacksDOTcom and has hosted, built, and designed for the HGTV series Extreme Small Spaces and Tiny House Builders, as well as for the DIY Network. His work has been featured on the cover of the New York Times Home and Garden section and in the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Seattle Times, China’s Bund Pictoral, the Wall Street Journal, Make magazine, and ApartmentTherapy.com; on NPR, CBS, PBS, and ABC; and on the homepage of Yahoo.com. Diedricksen lives in Stoughton, Massachusetts.
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World Premiere Performance: The Hidden Code
Thursday, September 24
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Museum of Science, Charles Hayden Planetarium, 1 Science Park, Boston
Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky, performer, composer, and multimedia artist; National Geographic Emerging Explorer; and author, Imaginary App, Rhythm Science, and Book of Ice
Imagine a visual odyssey through the cosmos, driven by lush musical compositions and inspired by complex themes of astronomy, engineering, biology, and psychology. Join us for the world premiere of the newest work by Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky. Commissioned by Dartmouth College's Neukom Institute for Computational Science, Miller composed The Hidden Code based on conversations with several of Dartmouth's leading researchers.
This premiere performance features live appearances by Miller as well as Dartmouth theoretical physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander; Dartmouth physicist and author Marcelo Gleiser who will read his original poetry; and stunning original visuals created by the Charles Hayden Planetarium staff.
Savor this synthesis of emerging science, poetry, and melody with immersive visions overhead as The Hidden Code pushes art into science. Science into music. Music into art.
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Friday, September 25
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The New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable presents: Grid Modernization Plans for Massachusetts Utilities; and Jump Ball: Competing New England Electric Winter Reliability Program Proposals
Friday, September 25
9 am to 12:30 pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston
The general admission fee for this Roundtable is $65 (A discounted fee of $35 is available for government & non-profit employees, students, retirees, and low-income individuals).
Panel I: Grid Modernization Plans for Massachusetts Utilities
Our first panel will examine the forthcoming Grid Modernization plans to be filed at the Massachusetts DPU in August by Eversource, National Grid, and Unitil. The utilities' plans will likely cover a wide range of grid modernization actions and activities, including the integration of distributed resources, advanced metering functionality, grid modernization demonstration projects, and cost recovery for grid modernization investments, and will be presented by the following speakers:
Camilo Serna, VP of Strategic Planning & Policy, Eversource
Peter Zschokke, Director of Regulatory Strategy, National Grid
Justin Eisfeller, Director of Energy Measurement & Control, Unitil
Next, we will hear comments about the filed plans from the following key stakeholders, before opening the discussion to all six panelists and the audience:
Rebecca Tepper, Deputy Chief, Energy & Environment, MA AGO
Janet Gail Besser, VP, Policy & Government Affairs, NECEC
Daniel Sosland, President, Acadia Center
Panel II: Jump Ball: Competing New England Electric Winter Reliability Program Proposals
Our second panel focuses on the future of ISO New England's Winter Reliability Program for 2016-2018. On July 15, under the "jump ball" provision of the Participant's Agreement, ISO New England and NEPOOL jointly submitted competing proposals for FERC to resolve. The primary difference between the two proposals relates to the types of resources that are eligible to receive compensation under the winter reliability program. NEPOOL's proposal is based on the design of last winter's program, and includes three main components: (1) compensation for certain oil inventory that remains in New England following the end of each winter period; (2) compensation for LNG contract volumes; and (3) a supplemental demand response program.
The ISO's proposal shares the first two design features of NEPOOL's proposal, but additionally would provide compensation for any generator that is supplied by on-site fuel. Therefore, the ISO's proposal would eliminate the demand response component, and provide compensation not only for fuel, oil and LNG, but also for nuclear, hydro, biomass, and coal-fired resources. Andrew Gillespie, Principal Analyst for Market Development at ISO New England, will present ISO-New England's proposal, and Jeff Bentz, Director of Analysis at NESCOE, will present
the competing NEPOOL proposal.
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Societal Impact through Computing Research
Friday, September 25
9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/societal-impact-through-computing-research-tickets-18001651424
Cost: $25.00
The Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) presents "Societal Impact through Computing Research” on Friday, September 25, 2015 at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science, in Maxwell Dworkin at 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge. Speakers will address topics at the intersection of computer science and areas of intense societal importance, such as healthcare, privacy, security, economic fair division, and government.
Ben Adida, lead Engineering at Clever, former CRCS Postdoctoral Fellow
Yochai Benkler, Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School
Krzysztof Gajos, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University
Isaac Kohane, Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Ariel Procaccia, Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, former CRCS Postdoctoral Fellow
Jessie Tenenbaum, Associate Director of Bioinformatics at Duke Translational Medicine Institute
Jim Waldo, Harvard Chief Technology Officer, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Harvard University
Christopher S. Yoo, Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science at University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium
WHEN Thu., Sep. 24, 2015, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Braun Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion
SPONSOR Religions and the Practice of Peace Initiative
CONTACT Liz Lee-Hood
DETAILS A monthly series of dinner talks organized by HDS's Religions and the Practice of Peace Initiative. More details about each talk will be included here at the start of the fall semester. A brief reception will follow the formal program.
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Microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures
Thursday, September 24
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Derek Diedricksen, Microshelters
If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you'll love this gorgeous collection of creative and inspiring ideas for tiny houses, cabins, forts, studios, and other microshelters. Created by a wide array of builders and designers around the United States and beyond, these 59 unique and innovative structures show you the limits of what is possible. Each is displayed in full-color photographs accompanied by commentary by the author. In addition, Diedricksen includes six sets of building plans by leading designers to help you get started on a microshelter of your own. You'll also find guidelines on building with recycled and salvaged materials, plus techniques for making your small space comfortable and easy to inhabit.
Derek "Deek" Diedricksen is the author of Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, a tiny housing and micro-design concept book. Diedricksen hosts the YouTube channel RelaxshacksDOTcom and has hosted, built, and designed for the HGTV series Extreme Small Spaces and Tiny House Builders, as well as for the DIY Network. His work has been featured on the cover of the New York Times Home and Garden section and in the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Seattle Times, China’s Bund Pictoral, the Wall Street Journal, Make magazine, and ApartmentTherapy.com; on NPR, CBS, PBS, and ABC; and on the homepage of Yahoo.com. Diedricksen lives in Stoughton, Massachusetts.
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World Premiere Performance: The Hidden Code
Thursday, September 24
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Museum of Science, Charles Hayden Planetarium, 1 Science Park, Boston
Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky, performer, composer, and multimedia artist; National Geographic Emerging Explorer; and author, Imaginary App, Rhythm Science, and Book of Ice
Imagine a visual odyssey through the cosmos, driven by lush musical compositions and inspired by complex themes of astronomy, engineering, biology, and psychology. Join us for the world premiere of the newest work by Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky. Commissioned by Dartmouth College's Neukom Institute for Computational Science, Miller composed The Hidden Code based on conversations with several of Dartmouth's leading researchers.
This premiere performance features live appearances by Miller as well as Dartmouth theoretical physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander; Dartmouth physicist and author Marcelo Gleiser who will read his original poetry; and stunning original visuals created by the Charles Hayden Planetarium staff.
Savor this synthesis of emerging science, poetry, and melody with immersive visions overhead as The Hidden Code pushes art into science. Science into music. Music into art.
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Friday, September 25
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The New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable presents: Grid Modernization Plans for Massachusetts Utilities; and Jump Ball: Competing New England Electric Winter Reliability Program Proposals
Friday, September 25
9 am to 12:30 pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston
The general admission fee for this Roundtable is $65 (A discounted fee of $35 is available for government & non-profit employees, students, retirees, and low-income individuals).
Panel I: Grid Modernization Plans for Massachusetts Utilities
Our first panel will examine the forthcoming Grid Modernization plans to be filed at the Massachusetts DPU in August by Eversource, National Grid, and Unitil. The utilities' plans will likely cover a wide range of grid modernization actions and activities, including the integration of distributed resources, advanced metering functionality, grid modernization demonstration projects, and cost recovery for grid modernization investments, and will be presented by the following speakers:
Camilo Serna, VP of Strategic Planning & Policy, Eversource
Peter Zschokke, Director of Regulatory Strategy, National Grid
Justin Eisfeller, Director of Energy Measurement & Control, Unitil
Next, we will hear comments about the filed plans from the following key stakeholders, before opening the discussion to all six panelists and the audience:
Rebecca Tepper, Deputy Chief, Energy & Environment, MA AGO
Janet Gail Besser, VP, Policy & Government Affairs, NECEC
Daniel Sosland, President, Acadia Center
Panel II: Jump Ball: Competing New England Electric Winter Reliability Program Proposals
Our second panel focuses on the future of ISO New England's Winter Reliability Program for 2016-2018. On July 15, under the "jump ball" provision of the Participant's Agreement, ISO New England and NEPOOL jointly submitted competing proposals for FERC to resolve. The primary difference between the two proposals relates to the types of resources that are eligible to receive compensation under the winter reliability program. NEPOOL's proposal is based on the design of last winter's program, and includes three main components: (1) compensation for certain oil inventory that remains in New England following the end of each winter period; (2) compensation for LNG contract volumes; and (3) a supplemental demand response program.
The ISO's proposal shares the first two design features of NEPOOL's proposal, but additionally would provide compensation for any generator that is supplied by on-site fuel. Therefore, the ISO's proposal would eliminate the demand response component, and provide compensation not only for fuel, oil and LNG, but also for nuclear, hydro, biomass, and coal-fired resources. Andrew Gillespie, Principal Analyst for Market Development at ISO New England, will present ISO-New England's proposal, and Jeff Bentz, Director of Analysis at NESCOE, will present
the competing NEPOOL proposal.
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Societal Impact through Computing Research
Friday, September 25
9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/societal-impact-through-computing-research-tickets-18001651424
Cost: $25.00
The Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) presents "Societal Impact through Computing Research” on Friday, September 25, 2015 at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science, in Maxwell Dworkin at 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge. Speakers will address topics at the intersection of computer science and areas of intense societal importance, such as healthcare, privacy, security, economic fair division, and government.
Ben Adida, lead Engineering at Clever, former CRCS Postdoctoral Fellow
Yochai Benkler, Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School
Krzysztof Gajos, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University
Isaac Kohane, Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Ariel Procaccia, Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, former CRCS Postdoctoral Fellow
Jessie Tenenbaum, Associate Director of Bioinformatics at Duke Translational Medicine Institute
Jim Waldo, Harvard Chief Technology Officer, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Harvard University
Christopher S. Yoo, Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science at University of Pennsylvania Law School
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4th Annual Massachusetts Sustainable Economy Conference
Wednesday, September 25
Wednesday, September 25
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Massachusetts State House, Great Hall, 24 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annual-ma-sustainable-economy-conference-how-resilient-is-ma-addressing-climate-change-tickets-6890085431
How Resilient is Massachusetts?
Addressing Climate Change
The actions of Massachusetts in building resilience to the consequences of climate change will shape our ability to adapt and prosper now and in the long term.
Across the United States extreme weather and other climate impacts are affecting communities and businesses. To contribute to climate change resilience, the 4th Annual Massachusetts Sustainable Economy Conference brings together multi-sector leaders to explore both short term tactics and long-term strategies.
Network with and learn from Massachusetts' diverse, multi-sector stakeholders in this exclusive dialogue that looks at current issues, emerging solutions and markets that can contribute to Massachusetts' climate change resilience.
Agenda
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Opening Remarks
Crystal Johnson, Founder and Senior Environmental Planner and Strategist, ISES
10:15 am – 11:15 am
Dialogue I: Energy System Resilience in a Changing Climate
What new strategies, technologies, companies and jobs are contributing to Massachusetts achieving its nation-leading energy goals? Is energy resilience possible? By when and with what technologies and practices? Join diverse multi-sector energy leaders in this critical discussion. This dialogue provides an understanding of key issues concerning the Massachusetts energy sector.
Conversation Leaders:
Massachusetts State Senator Benjamin B. Downing, Chair, Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy (Moderator)
Steven Clark, Undersecretary of Energy, MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Alicia Barton, CEO, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC)
Michael Jacobs, Senior Energy Analyst, Climate & Energy Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
Howard Herzog, Senior Research Engineer, Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program, MIT Energy Initiative
Massachusetts State House, Great Hall, 24 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annual-ma-sustainable-economy-conference-how-resilient-is-ma-addressing-climate-change-tickets-6890085431
How Resilient is Massachusetts?
Addressing Climate Change
The actions of Massachusetts in building resilience to the consequences of climate change will shape our ability to adapt and prosper now and in the long term.
Across the United States extreme weather and other climate impacts are affecting communities and businesses. To contribute to climate change resilience, the 4th Annual Massachusetts Sustainable Economy Conference brings together multi-sector leaders to explore both short term tactics and long-term strategies.
Network with and learn from Massachusetts' diverse, multi-sector stakeholders in this exclusive dialogue that looks at current issues, emerging solutions and markets that can contribute to Massachusetts' climate change resilience.
Agenda
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Opening Remarks
Crystal Johnson, Founder and Senior Environmental Planner and Strategist, ISES
10:15 am – 11:15 am
Dialogue I: Energy System Resilience in a Changing Climate
What new strategies, technologies, companies and jobs are contributing to Massachusetts achieving its nation-leading energy goals? Is energy resilience possible? By when and with what technologies and practices? Join diverse multi-sector energy leaders in this critical discussion. This dialogue provides an understanding of key issues concerning the Massachusetts energy sector.
Conversation Leaders:
Massachusetts State Senator Benjamin B. Downing, Chair, Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy (Moderator)
Steven Clark, Undersecretary of Energy, MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Alicia Barton, CEO, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC)
Michael Jacobs, Senior Energy Analyst, Climate & Energy Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
Howard Herzog, Senior Research Engineer, Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program, MIT Energy Initiative
11:20 am - 12:20 pm Dialogue II: How is Massachusetts Building Climate Change Resilience?
A dynamic dialogue with Massachusetts Thought Leaders who will share and reflect on current issues pertaining to how Massachusetts is preparing for building resilience in a changing climate.
Conversation Leaders:
Massachusetts State Senator James B. Eldridge, Vice Chair, Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change (Moderator)
Brian Swett, Chief of Environment and Energy, City of Boston
John Kassel, President, Conservation Law Foundation
Matthew Patsky, CEO, Trillium Asset Management
Anamarija Frankić, Ph.D., Director, Green Harbor Projects, Faculty at UMass Boston and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Split, Croatia.
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Closing Remarks
State Representative Frank I. Smizik, Chair, House Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm Networking
More information at http://sustainableeconomyconference.com
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Health in the Era of Sustainable Development
WHEN Fri., Sep. 25, 2015, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Kresge G2, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Chan School Office of the Dean
SPEAKER(S) K. Srinath Reddy, president, Public Health Foundation of India
DETAILS A light lunch will be served.
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/deans-office/milton-j-rosenau-lectures/
WHEN Fri., Sep. 25, 2015, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Kresge G2, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Chan School Office of the Dean
SPEAKER(S) K. Srinath Reddy, president, Public Health Foundation of India
DETAILS A light lunch will be served.
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/deans-office/milton-j-rosenau-lectures/
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Taking Back What We Already Own: A Forum On Social Ownership
Friday, September 25
6:30-9 PM (doors open at 6)
Encuentro 5, 9A Hamilton Place (near Park Street Station T Stop), Boston
Featuring
Marjorie Kelly, Senior Fellow, The Democracy Collaborative, Author of Owning our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution and The Divine Right of Capital
with Nancy Goldner, Co-Chair, Hub Public Bank
and Julie Matthaei, Co-Coordinator of Boston Area
Solidarity Economy Network (BASEN)
Break Out groups and time for discussion
Sponsored by Hub Public Banking, BASEN, Boston Chapter, Democratic Socialists of America, the Democracy Collaborative, Massachusetts Global Action, Alliance for Democracy
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Saturday, September 26
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The Beantown Jazz Festival
Saturday, September 26
noon to 6 p.m.
Columbus Avenue between Massachusetts Avenue and Burke Street, Boston
Boston's biggest block party takes place on Saturday, September 26, from noon to 6 p.m. on Columbus Avenue between Massachusetts Avenue and Burke Street in Boston's South End. The outdoor performances, which have drawn as many as 80,000 music fans, are open to the public free of charge. Check berklee.edu/beantownjazz for updates and a full schedule of events.
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MA Pirate Party Freedom Rally
Saturday, September 26
12:10am - 8:00pm
Boston Common, Between Park Street, Tremont Street, Boylston Street, And Beacon Street, Boston
Bigger and better every year, we've grown from a table to an encampment, all we need is you to keep the party rolling along.
We’re there every year because it’s a great time and a good opportunity to meet activists (aka future pirates!)
We will be tabling at the 26th Freedom Rally on September 26th and 27th. It will be on Boston Common and both days are currently scheduled from noon to 8pm. This is our sixth year at Freedom Rally and fifth year tabling at it. We hope you will help us make it a success.
What is the Freedom Rally? An opportunity for activists interested in ending the war on drugs and extending civil liberties to meet other likeminded individuals. You can also attend interesting lectures and presentations given by vendors and activists.
This is an opportunity for us specifically to meet more people at our table and tell them about the Pirate Party. We can share ongoing revelations about the US government’s mass. surveillance, in the name of “homeland security” and what citizens can do to stay connected and anonymous, since these post 9/11 powers have been used mostly to spy on drug enthusiasts, not on terrorists. We teach folks about how the internet and social media make excellent tools for getting out the word about the safety and efficacy of cannabis, since the commercial media has shown us they are dead set against legalization. We teach people about the racist origins of the war on hemp, and how useful and free it is: Easy to grow, easy to share, and how big government and big business despise a market they can’t get a big cut from. And if you have technology related hemp education teachings to share, we especially welcome you!
Before or after your shift you can enjoy the rally, which will feature live music and speakers, as well as alternative religion, philosophies, and politics, and a great variety of vendors selling nifty stuff you can’t find anywhere else. We really want to take full advantage of this opportunity to network and recruit new Pirates. Plus cannabis reform is a very critical civil liberties issue.
We encourage you to dress in your favorite pirate gear, be loud and show your support for the Internet, civil liberties and Chelsea Manning.
Please, invite your friends and family and help us find more Pirates to join us! If you are unable to table, please help in other ways, such as spreading the word about the Rally as well as our presence there.
We are in the same spot every year and we don't expect that to change: We can be found under a blue awning with pirate flags flying, right behind the central most Boston Common parking kiosk.
We need supporters to help from noon to 6pm as well as during setup on Saturday and take down on Sunday. You don’t have to table all day. An hour or two is great, though we would never turn you away if you want to help longer. Generally, it’s a mellow time to get to know your fellow Pirates as well as meet non-Pirates. Thanks!
To volunteer send us a message at the Massachusetts Pirate Party Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/masspirates
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What The Fluff?!! - 10th Annual Fluff Festival
Saturday, September 26
3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Union Square, Somerville
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Sunday, September 27
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Taking Back What We Already Own: A Forum On Social Ownership
Friday, September 25
6:30-9 PM (doors open at 6)
Encuentro 5, 9A Hamilton Place (near Park Street Station T Stop), Boston
Featuring
Marjorie Kelly, Senior Fellow, The Democracy Collaborative, Author of Owning our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution and The Divine Right of Capital
with Nancy Goldner, Co-Chair, Hub Public Bank
and Julie Matthaei, Co-Coordinator of Boston Area
Solidarity Economy Network (BASEN)
Break Out groups and time for discussion
Sponsored by Hub Public Banking, BASEN, Boston Chapter, Democratic Socialists of America, the Democracy Collaborative, Massachusetts Global Action, Alliance for Democracy
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Saturday, September 26
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The Beantown Jazz Festival
Saturday, September 26
noon to 6 p.m.
Columbus Avenue between Massachusetts Avenue and Burke Street, Boston
Boston's biggest block party takes place on Saturday, September 26, from noon to 6 p.m. on Columbus Avenue between Massachusetts Avenue and Burke Street in Boston's South End. The outdoor performances, which have drawn as many as 80,000 music fans, are open to the public free of charge. Check berklee.edu/beantownjazz for updates and a full schedule of events.
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MA Pirate Party Freedom Rally
Saturday, September 26
12:10am - 8:00pm
Boston Common, Between Park Street, Tremont Street, Boylston Street, And Beacon Street, Boston
Bigger and better every year, we've grown from a table to an encampment, all we need is you to keep the party rolling along.
We’re there every year because it’s a great time and a good opportunity to meet activists (aka future pirates!)
We will be tabling at the 26th Freedom Rally on September 26th and 27th. It will be on Boston Common and both days are currently scheduled from noon to 8pm. This is our sixth year at Freedom Rally and fifth year tabling at it. We hope you will help us make it a success.
What is the Freedom Rally? An opportunity for activists interested in ending the war on drugs and extending civil liberties to meet other likeminded individuals. You can also attend interesting lectures and presentations given by vendors and activists.
This is an opportunity for us specifically to meet more people at our table and tell them about the Pirate Party. We can share ongoing revelations about the US government’s mass. surveillance, in the name of “homeland security” and what citizens can do to stay connected and anonymous, since these post 9/11 powers have been used mostly to spy on drug enthusiasts, not on terrorists. We teach folks about how the internet and social media make excellent tools for getting out the word about the safety and efficacy of cannabis, since the commercial media has shown us they are dead set against legalization. We teach people about the racist origins of the war on hemp, and how useful and free it is: Easy to grow, easy to share, and how big government and big business despise a market they can’t get a big cut from. And if you have technology related hemp education teachings to share, we especially welcome you!
Before or after your shift you can enjoy the rally, which will feature live music and speakers, as well as alternative religion, philosophies, and politics, and a great variety of vendors selling nifty stuff you can’t find anywhere else. We really want to take full advantage of this opportunity to network and recruit new Pirates. Plus cannabis reform is a very critical civil liberties issue.
We encourage you to dress in your favorite pirate gear, be loud and show your support for the Internet, civil liberties and Chelsea Manning.
Please, invite your friends and family and help us find more Pirates to join us! If you are unable to table, please help in other ways, such as spreading the word about the Rally as well as our presence there.
We are in the same spot every year and we don't expect that to change: We can be found under a blue awning with pirate flags flying, right behind the central most Boston Common parking kiosk.
We need supporters to help from noon to 6pm as well as during setup on Saturday and take down on Sunday. You don’t have to table all day. An hour or two is great, though we would never turn you away if you want to help longer. Generally, it’s a mellow time to get to know your fellow Pirates as well as meet non-Pirates. Thanks!
To volunteer send us a message at the Massachusetts Pirate Party Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/masspirates
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What The Fluff?!! - 10th Annual Fluff Festival
Saturday, September 26
3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Union Square, Somerville
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Sunday, September 27
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Urban Agricultural Fair
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TEDxSomerville 2015: REINVENT
Sunday, September 27
12:00 PM to 4:30 PM (EDT)
Tufts University Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedxsomerville-2015-reinvent-tickets-18177620753
Cost: $43.19 - $80.12
TEDxSomerville brings together innovators, artists, entrepreneurs, educators, designers, humans with extraordinary ideas that are reinventing the future of our city, and our day-to-day lives. For one day, we will share the brilliant ideas that these remarkable people are bringing to life in an event for the entire community.
TEDxSomerville 2015 REINVENT
The event will take place on September 27 at Tufts University’s Aidekman Arts Center, Cohen Auditorium. After an afternoon featuring some of Somerville’s most inspiring speakers, we’ll celebrate at Assembly Row with a Slumbrew after-party!
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Lunar Eclipse Viewing
Sunday, September 27
9:30 – 11:30 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
When the Moon passes into Earth's shadow it glows red with an ethereal beauty, lit by the combined sunrises and sunsets of our world. Tonight's eclipse will be a record-breaker, with the Moon at its closest to Earth and largest in our sky. This is also your last chance to see a total eclipse of the Moon until 2018, so don't miss out! Join us on the roof to look through binoculars and telescopes at this marvelous sight. (This event is weather dependent. Call 617-495-7461 to check for cancellation. No webcast.)
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Monday, September 28
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Sunday, September 27
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Loring Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain
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TEDxSomerville 2015: REINVENT
Sunday, September 27
12:00 PM to 4:30 PM (EDT)
Tufts University Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedxsomerville-2015-reinvent-tickets-18177620753
Cost: $43.19 - $80.12
TEDxSomerville brings together innovators, artists, entrepreneurs, educators, designers, humans with extraordinary ideas that are reinventing the future of our city, and our day-to-day lives. For one day, we will share the brilliant ideas that these remarkable people are bringing to life in an event for the entire community.
TEDxSomerville 2015 REINVENT
The event will take place on September 27 at Tufts University’s Aidekman Arts Center, Cohen Auditorium. After an afternoon featuring some of Somerville’s most inspiring speakers, we’ll celebrate at Assembly Row with a Slumbrew after-party!
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Lunar Eclipse Viewing
Sunday, September 27
9:30 – 11:30 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
When the Moon passes into Earth's shadow it glows red with an ethereal beauty, lit by the combined sunrises and sunsets of our world. Tonight's eclipse will be a record-breaker, with the Moon at its closest to Earth and largest in our sky. This is also your last chance to see a total eclipse of the Moon until 2018, so don't miss out! Join us on the roof to look through binoculars and telescopes at this marvelous sight. (This event is weather dependent. Call 617-495-7461 to check for cancellation. No webcast.)
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Monday, September 28
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Future of Solar Design
SEBANE (Solar Energy Business Association of New England)
Monday, September 28
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM (EDT)
ML Strategies, 1 Financial Center #41, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/future-of-solar-design-tickets-18398360993
Cost: $26.62 - $52.24
On Monday, September 28, SEBANE will be hosting a discussion on the future of solar design. The event will feature two speakers who stand ready to help as your organization faces new code requirements and an increasing need for high quality performance monitoring for all PV systems - from residential scale to multi-MW scale projects. In addition, David O'Connor of ML Strategies will provide a briefing on the state of play of solar legislation in Massachusetts.
Speakers will include:
Bob Anderson, Tigo,
Stephen Condon, Director of Sales East, Solar Data Systems, Inc.
David O'Connor, Senior Vice President for Energy & Clean Technology, ML Strategies
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Learning By Doing in Renewable Energy: Evidence from US Wind and Solar Farms
Monday, September 28
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Richard McDowell (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Richard McDowell (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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From Troubled Teens to Tsarnaev: Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and Law
WHEN Mon., Sep. 28, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Petrie-Flom Center and the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital.
SPEAKER(S) Judith G. Edersheim, co-founder and co-director of the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital; assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; and attending psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital
Judge Nancy Gertner (ret.), senior lecturer on law, Harvard Law School; faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital
Robert Kinscherff, faculty in the doctoral program in clinical psychology and associate vice president for community engagement at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology; and senior associate at the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice; faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital
Leah Somerville, assistant professor of psychology, Harvard University; faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital
Moderator: I. Glenn Cohen, professor of law, Harvard Law School, and faculty director, Petrie-Flom Center
CONTACT INFO chutchisonjones@law.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join us after the panel discussion for the 2015 Petrie-Flom Center Open House!
The neuroscience of adolescent brain development has had increasing impact on American jurisprudence. The U.S. Supreme Court relied on this neuroscience in Roper v. Simmons (2005) in barring execution for capital crimes committed as a juvenile and in Miller v. Alabama (2012) in holding that mandatory life without possibility of parole for juveniles is also unconstitutional. This panel will examine the implications of developmental neuroscience for law in specific domains including death penalty mitigation for young adults over age 18 such as the Tsarnaev case, a developmentally informed view of Miranda and Competence to Stand Trial for juveniles, trial of youth as adults, and conditions of confinement in juvenile and adult incarceration. The panel will also discuss the promises and perils for constitutional jurisprudence, legal and public policy reform, and trial practice of relying upon a complex body of science as it emerges.
LINK http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/new-event-from-troubled-teens-to-tsarnaev
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Tuesday, September 29
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Peter Hamby - Digital Media on the Campaign Trail
Tuesday, September 29
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Peter Hamby is Head of News at Snapchat, and a political contributor for CNN. Hamby is known as an early adopter of social media platforms, and as a Spring 2013 fellow at the Shorenstein Center, he authored “Did Twitter Kill…
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The Geopolitical Implications of the U.S. Shale Revolution for Japan and China
Tuesday, September 29
12:30 - 2pm
Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Jane Nakano, Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, will moderate the discussion. This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/event/jane-nakano-center-strategic-and-international-studies-csis-geopolitical-implications
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From Troubled Teens to Tsarnaev: Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and Law
WHEN Mon., Sep. 28, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Petrie-Flom Center and the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital.
SPEAKER(S) Judith G. Edersheim, co-founder and co-director of the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital; assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; and attending psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital
Judge Nancy Gertner (ret.), senior lecturer on law, Harvard Law School; faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital
Robert Kinscherff, faculty in the doctoral program in clinical psychology and associate vice president for community engagement at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology; and senior associate at the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice; faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital
Leah Somerville, assistant professor of psychology, Harvard University; faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital
Moderator: I. Glenn Cohen, professor of law, Harvard Law School, and faculty director, Petrie-Flom Center
CONTACT INFO chutchisonjones@law.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join us after the panel discussion for the 2015 Petrie-Flom Center Open House!
The neuroscience of adolescent brain development has had increasing impact on American jurisprudence. The U.S. Supreme Court relied on this neuroscience in Roper v. Simmons (2005) in barring execution for capital crimes committed as a juvenile and in Miller v. Alabama (2012) in holding that mandatory life without possibility of parole for juveniles is also unconstitutional. This panel will examine the implications of developmental neuroscience for law in specific domains including death penalty mitigation for young adults over age 18 such as the Tsarnaev case, a developmentally informed view of Miranda and Competence to Stand Trial for juveniles, trial of youth as adults, and conditions of confinement in juvenile and adult incarceration. The panel will also discuss the promises and perils for constitutional jurisprudence, legal and public policy reform, and trial practice of relying upon a complex body of science as it emerges.
LINK http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/new-event-from-troubled-teens-to-tsarnaev
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Tuesday, September 29
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Peter Hamby - Digital Media on the Campaign Trail
Tuesday, September 29
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Peter Hamby is Head of News at Snapchat, and a political contributor for CNN. Hamby is known as an early adopter of social media platforms, and as a Spring 2013 fellow at the Shorenstein Center, he authored “Did Twitter Kill…
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The Geopolitical Implications of the U.S. Shale Revolution for Japan and China
Tuesday, September 29
12:30 - 2pm
Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Jane Nakano, Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, will moderate the discussion. This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/event/jane-nakano-center-strategic-and-international-studies-csis-geopolitical-implications
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Local Integrated Catchment Modelling (ICM) Work: Coming Full-Circle
Tuesday, September 29
3:00 to 4:00 pm unless listed otherwise
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Ana Fernandes, MWH Global, (Tufts BS/MS) (The first WSSS student!)
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
Tuesday, September 29
3:00 to 4:00 pm unless listed otherwise
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Ana Fernandes, MWH Global, (Tufts BS/MS) (The first WSSS student!)
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Materials Lab Workshop: Light
WHEN Tue., Sep. 29, 2015, 3 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Classes/Workshops
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Art Museums
SPEAKER(S) Francesca Bewer
COST $15
CONTACT INFO 617.495.9400
DETAILS Francesca Bewer, research curator for conservation and technical studies, along with guest experts, will lead this exploration of light in art. The workshop will combine close looking at select objects in the collections with hands-on experimentation in the museums’ Materials Lab, a space designed to encourage the investigation of materials and techniques used in works of art.
The event will be held in the Materials Lab, Lower Level.
$15 materials fee. Registration is required and payment must be made in advance. Please email am_visitorservices@harvard.edu or stop by the museums’ admissions desk to register. Space is limited to 12 participants. Minimum age of 14.
LINK http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/materials-lab-workshop-light-2
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Cash, Corn, and Coffins: Mobility, Remittances and Social Protection in Zimbabwe
Tuesday, September 29
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Loren Landau, TUFTS University
A session of the Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Phiona Lovett
253-3848
phiona@mit.edu
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An Evening with Rebecca Skloot
WHEN Tue., Sep. 29, 2015, 5 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Rebecca Skloot, author of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute
Paula A. Johnson, executive director, Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology; chief, Division of Women’s Health Brigham and Women’s Hospital; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; professor of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS Rebecca Skloot, author of the award-winning book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," will be speaking about her book and her path to writing it. The event will conclude with a panel discussion, moderated by health care pioneer Paula A. Johnson '80, MD '84, MPH '85, about the intersection of biomedical science, research ethics, poverty, and race. Register online.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-rebecca-skloot-lecture
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Materials Lab Workshop: Light
WHEN Tue., Sep. 29, 2015, 3 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Classes/Workshops
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Art Museums
SPEAKER(S) Francesca Bewer
COST $15
CONTACT INFO 617.495.9400
DETAILS Francesca Bewer, research curator for conservation and technical studies, along with guest experts, will lead this exploration of light in art. The workshop will combine close looking at select objects in the collections with hands-on experimentation in the museums’ Materials Lab, a space designed to encourage the investigation of materials and techniques used in works of art.
The event will be held in the Materials Lab, Lower Level.
$15 materials fee. Registration is required and payment must be made in advance. Please email am_visitorservices@harvard.edu or stop by the museums’ admissions desk to register. Space is limited to 12 participants. Minimum age of 14.
LINK http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/materials-lab-workshop-light-2
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Cash, Corn, and Coffins: Mobility, Remittances and Social Protection in Zimbabwe
Tuesday, September 29
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Loren Landau, TUFTS University
A session of the Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Phiona Lovett
253-3848
phiona@mit.edu
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An Evening with Rebecca Skloot
WHEN Tue., Sep. 29, 2015, 5 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Rebecca Skloot, author of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute
Paula A. Johnson, executive director, Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology; chief, Division of Women’s Health Brigham and Women’s Hospital; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; professor of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS Rebecca Skloot, author of the award-winning book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," will be speaking about her book and her path to writing it. The event will conclude with a panel discussion, moderated by health care pioneer Paula A. Johnson '80, MD '84, MPH '85, about the intersection of biomedical science, research ethics, poverty, and race. Register online.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-rebecca-skloot-lecture
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Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science
WHEN Tue., Sep. 29, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Complimentary parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History
SPEAKER(S) Brian D. Farrell, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.3045
DETAILS Can the reconciliation of the arts and sciences inform our understanding of nature and our place in it? Drawing on neurobiological, paleontological, and genetics research, philosophical studies of music and other arts, and our current understanding of the influence of nature on human health, Brian Farrell will suggest an evolutionary framework for integrating these fields, offering new perspectives on human culture and humanity’s role in fostering a productive and sustainable future.
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/biology-culture-bridging-art-and-science
WHEN Tue., Sep. 29, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Complimentary parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History
SPEAKER(S) Brian D. Farrell, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.3045
DETAILS Can the reconciliation of the arts and sciences inform our understanding of nature and our place in it? Drawing on neurobiological, paleontological, and genetics research, philosophical studies of music and other arts, and our current understanding of the influence of nature on human health, Brian Farrell will suggest an evolutionary framework for integrating these fields, offering new perspectives on human culture and humanity’s role in fostering a productive and sustainable future.
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/biology-culture-bridging-art-and-science
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Boston Green Drinks - September Happy Hour
Tuesday, September 29
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Scholars, 25 School Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-green-drinks-september-happy-hour-tickets-18262697219
Join the conversation with sustainability professionals and hobbyists. Enjoy a drink and build your connection with our green community!
Job hunting?
This month's Green Drinks is co-hosted by Next Step Living. They will have staff on hand to discuss career opportunities in sustainable residential buildings.
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The Himalaya: Global Change in the Land of Primulas and Rhododendrons
Tuesday, September, 29
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Hunnewell Building, The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 125 Arborway, Boston
RSVP at https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1446&DayPlannerDate=9/29/2015
Kamal Bawa, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts at Boston, and President of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore will discuss “The Himalaya: Global Change in the Land of Primulas and Rhododendrons”. The Eastern Himalaya—land of Gods, of ancient mountain kingdoms, of icy peaks and alpine meadows—is like no other place on Earth. The life and landscapes of the region are as diverse, spectacular and fragile as the mountains themselves. Even today, these mountains hold many mysteries: unnamed species, primeval cultures and the promise of magical cures to heal all of humanity. But development superimposed on global change will have an incalculable impact on this area. Dr. Kamal Bawa will discuss the role and limitations of science in addressing the pressing issues arising out of interaction between nature and society in the Himalaya, and suggest ways to move forward in resolving critical issues. Dr. Bawa is a newly elected Fellow of the Royal Society. His book, Himalaya: Mountains of Life, will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free but registration is required.
arbweb@arnarb.harvard.edu
617-524-1718
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-09-29-230000-2015-09-30-003000/himalaya-global-change-land-primulas-and-rhododendrons#sthash.Gz2nPBxG.dpuf
Boston Green Drinks - September Happy Hour
Tuesday, September 29
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Scholars, 25 School Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-green-drinks-september-happy-hour-tickets-18262697219
Join the conversation with sustainability professionals and hobbyists. Enjoy a drink and build your connection with our green community!
Job hunting?
This month's Green Drinks is co-hosted by Next Step Living. They will have staff on hand to discuss career opportunities in sustainable residential buildings.
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The Himalaya: Global Change in the Land of Primulas and Rhododendrons
Tuesday, September, 29
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Hunnewell Building, The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 125 Arborway, Boston
RSVP at https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1446&DayPlannerDate=9/29/2015
Kamal Bawa, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts at Boston, and President of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore will discuss “The Himalaya: Global Change in the Land of Primulas and Rhododendrons”. The Eastern Himalaya—land of Gods, of ancient mountain kingdoms, of icy peaks and alpine meadows—is like no other place on Earth. The life and landscapes of the region are as diverse, spectacular and fragile as the mountains themselves. Even today, these mountains hold many mysteries: unnamed species, primeval cultures and the promise of magical cures to heal all of humanity. But development superimposed on global change will have an incalculable impact on this area. Dr. Kamal Bawa will discuss the role and limitations of science in addressing the pressing issues arising out of interaction between nature and society in the Himalaya, and suggest ways to move forward in resolving critical issues. Dr. Bawa is a newly elected Fellow of the Royal Society. His book, Himalaya: Mountains of Life, will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free but registration is required.
arbweb@arnarb.harvard.edu
617-524-1718
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-09-29-230000-2015-09-30-003000/himalaya-global-change-land-primulas-and-rhododendrons#sthash.Gz2nPBxG.dpuf
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Greetings!
We are looking for volunteers for the 6th Annual Boston Local Food Festival held on the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway on September 20, 2015.
We seek enthusiastic and responsible people who would love to contribute, join the local food movement, meet new folks, and have a lot of fun!
If you are interested please fill out the Volunteering form at http://bostonlocalfoodfestival.com/participate/volunteer-for-the-festival/
To learn more about volunteer positions, see http://bostonlocalfoodfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Volunteer-Application-Position-Descriptions.pdf
If you have any questions, please contact alex@sbnmass.org
We hope to see you at the Boston Local Food Festival on Sept 20th!
Best,
Maddie Phadke
Local Food Program Director
Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts
(Ph): 617-395-0250
Cell: 978 697 4317
www.sbnmass.org
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Marc Rosenbaum, a long-time energy efficiency practitioner and engineer, is teaching a 10 week in-depth course for professionals who are serious about transformative energy upgrades to residential and commercial buildings. He'll cover the pertinent building science, techniques for superinsulating foundations, walls, windows, and roofs, appropriate mechanical systems. There will be a weekly in-depth case study as well. Please join him, and pass this on to anyone who might benefit. Here's the link:
https://www.heatspring.com/courses/deep-energy-retrofits
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Keeping A Promise for Solar Teaching in Indonesia (from Richard Komp)
Last May, after I spent a month teaching groups of students in in Sumatra, Indonesia. I promised them I would come back for a second set of courses next Spring. Since then the part-Indonesian woman who had financed the project has had a slight reversal of fortune (the stock market has not been kind to her lately). While the costs of the course and materials and my stay in Indonesia are still covered, I will have to arrange for the cost of my own travel arrangements. In the next trip I will be teaching in a school run by a Christian family where most of the students are Muslims and staying at a Buddhist monastery, where I will also be giving seminars. All these people expect me back.
I will be traveling directly from Managua, Nicaragua to, and inside, Indonesia, then back to here in Maine. This is a distance longer than a round the world trip I have the trip from Managua to Los Angeles covered by frequent flier miles but still have the rest of the travel to pay for. While air fare in Indonesia is cheap (and with a questionable safety record), I have some long distance flights on airlines like Singapore Air. While they have five classes of accommodations in their two stories Airbus 380, I travel downstairs in “steerage”, the lowest class. I also have to get back from Los Angeles to Maine; so I calculate I will need about $2600 from Skyheat Associates to cover all the expenses.
I am asking for your help!
Please think of donating money to a special Skyheat program to cover all these expenses. Skyheat doesn’t have any arrangements for paying by credit card, and PayPal won’t deal with me (a long old story) so you will have to send checks to Skyheat at the address below. Skyheat Associates is a 501(c)(3) Public Charity (IRS # 31-1021520) and all your donations will be tax exempt. You can go to our www.mainesolar.org website and read my report on the first Indonesial trip on the International work page. Please feel free to pass this request on to anybody you think might be interested.
Thank your for your help,
Rich
Richard Komp PhD, Director
Skyheat Associates
PO Box 184, Harrington ME 04643
207-497-2204, cell 207-450-1141
www.mainesolar.org, sunwatt@juno.com
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Internship at Trustees Boston
If you (or know any students who) want to make an impact connecting the community to green space, gardening and local food in Boston, we have an internship ready to hire! Trustees – Boston is filling two internship positions for this fall: Communications & Social Media and Event Management.
We have a great lineup of programming coming this fall including our Fall Festival & Plant Sale, the Great Pumpkin Float, the Children’s Harvest Festival (at the Boston Children’s Museum) and a Holiday Lantern Walk (and more!). With support from Programming Managers, these interns will play an integral role both in making them happen as well as ensuring a wide cross-section of the Boston community has access to these great opportunities to get to know the importance of urban greenspace!
Please direct any questions to Ashley Hampson at ahampson@ttor.org or 617-542-7696 ext. 2112.
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Intern with Biodiversity for a Livable Climate!
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (BLC) is a nonprofit based in the Cambridge, MA area. Our mission is to mobilize the biosphere to restore ecosystems and reverse global warming.
Education, public information campaigns, organizing, scientific investigation, collaboration with like-minded organizations, research and policy development are all elements of our strategy.
Background: Soils are the largest terrestrial carbon sink on the planet. Restoring the complex ecology of soils is the only way to safely and quickly remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the ground, where it’s desperately needed to regenerate the health of billions of acres of degraded lands. Restoring carbon to soils and regenerating ecosystems are how we can restore a healthy hydrologic cycle and cool local and planetary climates safely, naturally, and in time to ensure a livable climate now and in the future.
Our Work: immediate plans include
Organizing the First International Biodiversity, Soil Carbon and Climate Week, October 31-November 9, 2014, and a kick-off conference in the Boston area, “Mobilizing the Biosphere to Reverse Global Warming: A Biodiversity, Water, Soil Carbon and Climate Conference – and Call to Action” to expand the mainstream climate conversation to include the power of biology, and to help initiate intensive worldwide efforts to return atmospheric carbon to the soils.
Coordination of a global fund to directly assist local farmers and herders in learning and applying carbon farming approaches that not only benefit the climate, but improve the health and productivity of the land and the people who depend on it.
Collaboration with individuals and organizations on addressing eco-restoration and the regeneration of water and carbon cycles; such projects may include application of practices such as Holistic Management for restoration of billions of acres of degraded grasslands, reforestation of exploited forest areas, and restoring ocean food chains.
Please contact Helen D. Silver, helen.silver@bio4climate.org for further information.
781-316-1710
Bio4climate.org
SharedHarvestCSA.com
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Climate Stories Project
http://www.climatestoriesproject.org
What's your Climate Story?
Climate Stories Project is a forum that gives a voice to the emotional and personal impacts that climate change is having on our lives. Often, we only discuss climate change from the impersonal perspective of science or the contentious realm of politics. Today, more and more of us are feeling the effects of climate change on an personal level. Climate Stories Project allows people from around the world to share their stories and to engage with climate change in a personal, direct way.
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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info@bnid.org if you have any questions!
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei@wellesley.edu
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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area: http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events: http://events.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://mitenergyclub.org/calendar
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Mass Climate Action: http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Microsoft NERD Center: http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
Cambridge Community Calendar: https://www.cctvcambridge.org/calendar
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: https://www.facebook.com/nerdniteboston
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Greetings!
We are looking for volunteers for the 6th Annual Boston Local Food Festival held on the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway on September 20, 2015.
We seek enthusiastic and responsible people who would love to contribute, join the local food movement, meet new folks, and have a lot of fun!
If you are interested please fill out the Volunteering form at http://bostonlocalfoodfestival.com/participate/volunteer-for-the-festival/
To learn more about volunteer positions, see http://bostonlocalfoodfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Volunteer-Application-Position-Descriptions.pdf
If you have any questions, please contact alex@sbnmass.org
We hope to see you at the Boston Local Food Festival on Sept 20th!
Best,
Maddie Phadke
Local Food Program Director
Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts
(Ph): 617-395-0250
Cell: 978 697 4317
www.sbnmass.org
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Marc Rosenbaum, a long-time energy efficiency practitioner and engineer, is teaching a 10 week in-depth course for professionals who are serious about transformative energy upgrades to residential and commercial buildings. He'll cover the pertinent building science, techniques for superinsulating foundations, walls, windows, and roofs, appropriate mechanical systems. There will be a weekly in-depth case study as well. Please join him, and pass this on to anyone who might benefit. Here's the link:
https://www.heatspring.com/courses/deep-energy-retrofits
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Keeping A Promise for Solar Teaching in Indonesia (from Richard Komp)
Last May, after I spent a month teaching groups of students in in Sumatra, Indonesia. I promised them I would come back for a second set of courses next Spring. Since then the part-Indonesian woman who had financed the project has had a slight reversal of fortune (the stock market has not been kind to her lately). While the costs of the course and materials and my stay in Indonesia are still covered, I will have to arrange for the cost of my own travel arrangements. In the next trip I will be teaching in a school run by a Christian family where most of the students are Muslims and staying at a Buddhist monastery, where I will also be giving seminars. All these people expect me back.
I will be traveling directly from Managua, Nicaragua to, and inside, Indonesia, then back to here in Maine. This is a distance longer than a round the world trip I have the trip from Managua to Los Angeles covered by frequent flier miles but still have the rest of the travel to pay for. While air fare in Indonesia is cheap (and with a questionable safety record), I have some long distance flights on airlines like Singapore Air. While they have five classes of accommodations in their two stories Airbus 380, I travel downstairs in “steerage”, the lowest class. I also have to get back from Los Angeles to Maine; so I calculate I will need about $2600 from Skyheat Associates to cover all the expenses.
I am asking for your help!
Please think of donating money to a special Skyheat program to cover all these expenses. Skyheat doesn’t have any arrangements for paying by credit card, and PayPal won’t deal with me (a long old story) so you will have to send checks to Skyheat at the address below. Skyheat Associates is a 501(c)(3) Public Charity (IRS # 31-1021520) and all your donations will be tax exempt. You can go to our www.mainesolar.org website and read my report on the first Indonesial trip on the International work page. Please feel free to pass this request on to anybody you think might be interested.
Thank your for your help,
Rich
Richard Komp PhD, Director
Skyheat Associates
PO Box 184, Harrington ME 04643
207-497-2204, cell 207-450-1141
www.mainesolar.org, sunwatt@juno.com
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Internship at Trustees Boston
If you (or know any students who) want to make an impact connecting the community to green space, gardening and local food in Boston, we have an internship ready to hire! Trustees – Boston is filling two internship positions for this fall: Communications & Social Media and Event Management.
We have a great lineup of programming coming this fall including our Fall Festival & Plant Sale, the Great Pumpkin Float, the Children’s Harvest Festival (at the Boston Children’s Museum) and a Holiday Lantern Walk (and more!). With support from Programming Managers, these interns will play an integral role both in making them happen as well as ensuring a wide cross-section of the Boston community has access to these great opportunities to get to know the importance of urban greenspace!
Please direct any questions to Ashley Hampson at ahampson@ttor.org or 617-542-7696 ext. 2112.
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Intern with Biodiversity for a Livable Climate!
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (BLC) is a nonprofit based in the Cambridge, MA area. Our mission is to mobilize the biosphere to restore ecosystems and reverse global warming.
Education, public information campaigns, organizing, scientific investigation, collaboration with like-minded organizations, research and policy development are all elements of our strategy.
Background: Soils are the largest terrestrial carbon sink on the planet. Restoring the complex ecology of soils is the only way to safely and quickly remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the ground, where it’s desperately needed to regenerate the health of billions of acres of degraded lands. Restoring carbon to soils and regenerating ecosystems are how we can restore a healthy hydrologic cycle and cool local and planetary climates safely, naturally, and in time to ensure a livable climate now and in the future.
Our Work: immediate plans include
Organizing the First International Biodiversity, Soil Carbon and Climate Week, October 31-November 9, 2014, and a kick-off conference in the Boston area, “Mobilizing the Biosphere to Reverse Global Warming: A Biodiversity, Water, Soil Carbon and Climate Conference – and Call to Action” to expand the mainstream climate conversation to include the power of biology, and to help initiate intensive worldwide efforts to return atmospheric carbon to the soils.
Coordination of a global fund to directly assist local farmers and herders in learning and applying carbon farming approaches that not only benefit the climate, but improve the health and productivity of the land and the people who depend on it.
Collaboration with individuals and organizations on addressing eco-restoration and the regeneration of water and carbon cycles; such projects may include application of practices such as Holistic Management for restoration of billions of acres of degraded grasslands, reforestation of exploited forest areas, and restoring ocean food chains.
Please contact Helen D. Silver, helen.silver@bio4climate.org for further information.
781-316-1710
Bio4climate.org
SharedHarvestCSA.com
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Climate Stories Project
http://www.climatestoriesproject.org
What's your Climate Story?
Climate Stories Project is a forum that gives a voice to the emotional and personal impacts that climate change is having on our lives. Often, we only discuss climate change from the impersonal perspective of science or the contentious realm of politics. Today, more and more of us are feeling the effects of climate change on an personal level. Climate Stories Project allows people from around the world to share their stories and to engage with climate change in a personal, direct way.
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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info@bnid.org if you have any questions!
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei@wellesley.edu
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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area: http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events: http://events.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://mitenergyclub.org/calendar
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Mass Climate Action: http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Microsoft NERD Center: http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
Cambridge Community Calendar: https://www.cctvcambridge.org/calendar
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: https://www.facebook.com/nerdniteboston
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