Energy (and Other) Events is a weekly mailing list published most Sundays covering events around the Cambridge, MA and greater Boston area that catch the editor's eye.
Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com is the web version.
If you wish to subscribe or unsubscribe to Energy (and Other) Events email gmoke@world.std.com
What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html
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Full event information follows the Index and notices of my latest writings.
Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com is the web version.
If you wish to subscribe or unsubscribe to Energy (and Other) Events email gmoke@world.std.com
What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html
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Full event information follows the Index and notices of my latest writings.
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Monday, October 5
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8am From Opioids to Alcohol: Designing an Effective Response to Addiction
9am HUBweek: Four Global Health Threats, Four Global Health Opportunities
12pm MASS Seminar - Joan Alexander (NWRA)
12pm 3D Mapping of Alzheimer’s Pathology: A New Frontier
12pm Financial Trading in Electricity Markets – Who Benefits and How?
12:15pm Memex takes Manhattan: Vannevar Bush's other History of the Future
1pm Solve Convocation, Open Sessions, and Reception
4:15pm Sustainable Development in a Carbon-Constrained World
5:30pm Anita Hill
6pm How does the environment affect our health?
6pm The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
7pm The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
7pm Art. Science. Learning.
7pm POVERTY, INC.
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Tuesday, October 6
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8am Crowds & Climate Conference
12pm Kristen Soltis Anderson - The Selfie Vote: Can Republicans Win Millennials in 2016?
12pm State of the Podcast, 2015: How the podcasting revolution happened, and where it could go
12pm The Refugee Crisis in Europe: The Challenges of Policy, Politics, and Logistics
12:30pm The European Refugee and Migrant Crisis
1pm Singing as a Spiritual Practice with Casper ter Kuile
2:30pm A Networked Market for Information
3pm Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series: Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Impacts of air-sea and boundary layer fluxes on the intensity and structure of TCs
3pm Synthesis on National Water Use : Spatial Patterns and Controls
5pm Solve: Fuel Roundtable
5:30pm EnergyBar! HUBweek Edition
6pm The Rita E. Hauser Forum for the Arts: David Grossman, "Facts of Life and Death"
6pm e4Dev: Learnings for "Energy-as-a-Service" Business Models with Examples from the Health Sector
6pm Driving Ourselves Happy
6pm Intro to the Boston Media Ecosystem with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism
6pm BASG Oct 6: Clean Energy & Renewables
6pm #TechHubTuesday Demo Night - October 2015
6:30pm FIRST MEETING: the role of business on climate change
6:30pm Soil: The Skin of the Earth
7pm World Hunger: 10 Myths
7:30pm Media Storytelling
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Wednesday, October 7
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10am Libraries: the Next Generation: Drawing on our past, and creating new resources for our future
12pm The Rise of Geekpolitik: How Cyber Impacts Geopolitics and International Security
4pm BigData@CSAIL Lecture Series: Accelerating the Discovery of Insights from Data
4pm HUBweek: Coping with Climate Change: How Will Boston Adapt?
5pm Harvard Innovation Lab Startup Showcase and Celebration
5pm Solve: Learn Roundtable
5pm Harvard Innovation Lab Startup Showcase and Celebration
5:30pm Transit Tools Technology Public Test Workshop
6pm Boston: Breaking Into the Startup Ecosystem
6pm Soap Box - Re: Making Life - Breaking the "SynBio Barrier"
6:30pm Science by the Pint @ Aeronaut: Convergent Evolution
7pm Dispatches From The Front Lines of Climate Justice
7pm Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age
7pm The Highs and Lows of Medical Marijuana: Marijuana's effects on physiology, health, and society
7:40pm Wednesday Night Journalism Movie Series
7:45pm US Conference of Mayors' Community Development & Housing Committee Town Hall
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Thursday, October 8
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10am Undersea Research and the Future of Science
11am Green Transportation Celebration
12pm Report from the front line
12pm HUBweek event: Inside Kendall Square - MIT Media Lab - Robots, Drones, Open AG and more
1pm Jaron Lanier: The Digital Economy Since "Who Owns the Future?"
1:30pm Dissolve Unconference: A Summit at MIT on Inequality
3pm What's the Buzz on Urban Bees?
4pm Synthetic Biology: Science, Policy, and Ethics
4pm Taking the Stand: Live Conversation with Nazi-Era Witness
4pm Sony After the Hack: Lessons in Leadership
4pm Synthetic Biology: Science, Policy, and Ethics
5pm Hard Choices
5pm From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future by Studying the Past
6pm The Healing Arts of Music and Medicine
6pm Climate Protection Action Committee
7pm On Beauty: Emily Eveleth and David Tester
7pm Fall Generator Dinner: IDEAS Global Challenge
7pm pre-HONK!
7:30pm Boston Area Solar Energy Association Forum: Off + On: The Climate Movement and the Road Through Paris
8pm Carbon Pricing: The Solution to the Climate Crisis
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Friday, October 9
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Honkfest!
12pm Disruptive Energy Markets
1pm The Future of Privacy and Security in a Big Data World
1pm Lessons from Boston: Using Technology to Improve City Services
2pm 15 Years — and a Boat.
5pm #Tech4Democracy Showcase and Challenge
5:30pm 2015 Beantown Throwdown
6pm Harvard Community Garden Pot Luck, Talk, and Movie
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Saturday, October 10
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Soil Saturday: A Celebration of Reversing Global Warming with Soil
9am Biomimicry & Boston Green Harbor Tour
12pm Engineering + Entrepreneurship: Making Robotics Fly
12pm Innovating the Commonwealth's Food Economy
12pm HONK! in Davis Square
1pm A Pop-Up Makerspace: The Future of Learning Laboratory
2pm Film Screening: Sneak Preview of Nova's "Making North America"
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Sunday, October 11
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12pm The HONK! Parade
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Monday, October 12
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11am "ASK" & Energy Necklace Solar Lanterns at Opening Our Doors
7pm Science and Cooking: Science and Emotions: Delicious or Disgusting?
7pm Quite a Sight! Gene Therapy to Treat Blindness
7pm Answering the Call: An Interfaith Gathering for Climate Action
7pm Science Monday
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Tuesday, October 13
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7:30am The Future of Transportation in the Commonwealth
8am Boston TechBreakfast
12pm Kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade
3pm Is the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus a Useful Framework?
4pm Opioids for the Masses: Welfare Tradeoffs in the Regulation of Narcotic Pain Medications
4:45pm Recovery of Uranium from Seawater: Technologies, Economics, and Prospects
7pm Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Zero Emissions to Revering Global Warming
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/01/1426515/-Zero-Emissions-Economy-to-Reversing-Global-Warming
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Monday, October 5
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From Opioids to Alcohol: Designing an Effective Response to Addiction
Monday, October 5
8:00 am to 11:00 am
Wyndham Hotel, 5 Blossom Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.massgeneral.org/hubweek/Calendar/
In response to the epidemic of substance use disorders, clinicians, researchers, policy leaders, and community members convene in a highly interactive and hopeful discussion. Structured as a mini-hackathon, small groups will use case studies—and the latest neuroscience—to take a fresh look at building prevention, treatment and recovery management approaches that work.
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HUBweek: Four Global Health Threats, Four Global Health Opportunities
Monday, October 5
9am - 1:30pm
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
RSVP at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b8gBM6lI9MKxGzr
Join faculty from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for a wide-ranging discussion examining four major global health threats that are challenging the lives and health of people in the US and globally. Learn what new research and public policy solutions can begin to solve these threats on a large scale for millions of people.
Panel discussions will focus on: 1) Old and New Pandemics, ranging from AIDS, TB, and malaria to new threats including ebola , obesity and diabetes; 2) Social and Environmental Threats, ranging from air and water pollution to violence and war; 3) Poverty and Humanitarian Crises and their effects on health; and 4) Failing Health Systems as we seek to get more and better health care for the money we spend, both here in the US and internationally.
Please visit this page again for more information. Registration for attendance will be required. Register here.
Draft Agenda
9:00-9:15 AM Welcome
David Hunter
9:15-10:15 AM Old and New Pandemics: Developing tools to reverse killer diseases
Dyann Wirth (Moderator), Flaminia Catteruccia, Sarah Fortune, Marc Lipsitch, Richard Marlink
10:15-11:15 AM Harmful Physical and Social Environments: Preventing Pollution, promoting healthy communities
Francesca Dominici (Moderator), Aaron Bernstein, David Christiani, Ichiro Kawachi, Eric Rimm
11:15-11:30 AM Break
11:30 AM-12:30 PM Poverty and Humanitarian Crises: Advancing health as a human right
Michael VanRooyen (Moderator), Theresa Betancourt, Jacqueline Bhabha, Jennifer Leaning
12:30-1:30 PM Failing Health Systems: Leading change, changing leaders
Ashish Jha (Moderator), Katherine Baicker, Peter Berman, Margaret Kruk
Visit the HUBWeek homepage for a comprehensive list of events.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/hubweek-four-global-health-threats-four-global-health-opportunities#sthash.Mu3A4YmW.dpuf
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MASS Seminar - Joan Alexander (NWRA)
Monday, October 5
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Joan Alexander (NWRA)
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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Monday, October 5
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8am From Opioids to Alcohol: Designing an Effective Response to Addiction
9am HUBweek: Four Global Health Threats, Four Global Health Opportunities
12pm MASS Seminar - Joan Alexander (NWRA)
12pm 3D Mapping of Alzheimer’s Pathology: A New Frontier
12pm Financial Trading in Electricity Markets – Who Benefits and How?
12:15pm Memex takes Manhattan: Vannevar Bush's other History of the Future
1pm Solve Convocation, Open Sessions, and Reception
4:15pm Sustainable Development in a Carbon-Constrained World
5:30pm Anita Hill
6pm How does the environment affect our health?
6pm The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
7pm The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
7pm Art. Science. Learning.
7pm POVERTY, INC.
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Tuesday, October 6
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8am Crowds & Climate Conference
12pm Kristen Soltis Anderson - The Selfie Vote: Can Republicans Win Millennials in 2016?
12pm State of the Podcast, 2015: How the podcasting revolution happened, and where it could go
12pm The Refugee Crisis in Europe: The Challenges of Policy, Politics, and Logistics
12:30pm The European Refugee and Migrant Crisis
1pm Singing as a Spiritual Practice with Casper ter Kuile
2:30pm A Networked Market for Information
3pm Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series: Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Impacts of air-sea and boundary layer fluxes on the intensity and structure of TCs
3pm Synthesis on National Water Use : Spatial Patterns and Controls
5pm Solve: Fuel Roundtable
5:30pm EnergyBar! HUBweek Edition
6pm The Rita E. Hauser Forum for the Arts: David Grossman, "Facts of Life and Death"
6pm e4Dev: Learnings for "Energy-as-a-Service" Business Models with Examples from the Health Sector
6pm Driving Ourselves Happy
6pm Intro to the Boston Media Ecosystem with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism
6pm BASG Oct 6: Clean Energy & Renewables
6pm #TechHubTuesday Demo Night - October 2015
6:30pm FIRST MEETING: the role of business on climate change
6:30pm Soil: The Skin of the Earth
7pm World Hunger: 10 Myths
7:30pm Media Storytelling
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Wednesday, October 7
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10am Libraries: the Next Generation: Drawing on our past, and creating new resources for our future
12pm The Rise of Geekpolitik: How Cyber Impacts Geopolitics and International Security
4pm BigData@CSAIL Lecture Series: Accelerating the Discovery of Insights from Data
4pm HUBweek: Coping with Climate Change: How Will Boston Adapt?
5pm Harvard Innovation Lab Startup Showcase and Celebration
5pm Solve: Learn Roundtable
5pm Harvard Innovation Lab Startup Showcase and Celebration
5:30pm Transit Tools Technology Public Test Workshop
6pm Boston: Breaking Into the Startup Ecosystem
6pm Soap Box - Re: Making Life - Breaking the "SynBio Barrier"
6:30pm Science by the Pint @ Aeronaut: Convergent Evolution
7pm Dispatches From The Front Lines of Climate Justice
7pm Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age
7pm The Highs and Lows of Medical Marijuana: Marijuana's effects on physiology, health, and society
7:40pm Wednesday Night Journalism Movie Series
7:45pm US Conference of Mayors' Community Development & Housing Committee Town Hall
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Thursday, October 8
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10am Undersea Research and the Future of Science
11am Green Transportation Celebration
12pm Report from the front line
12pm HUBweek event: Inside Kendall Square - MIT Media Lab - Robots, Drones, Open AG and more
1pm Jaron Lanier: The Digital Economy Since "Who Owns the Future?"
1:30pm Dissolve Unconference: A Summit at MIT on Inequality
3pm What's the Buzz on Urban Bees?
4pm Synthetic Biology: Science, Policy, and Ethics
4pm Taking the Stand: Live Conversation with Nazi-Era Witness
4pm Sony After the Hack: Lessons in Leadership
4pm Synthetic Biology: Science, Policy, and Ethics
5pm Hard Choices
5pm From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future by Studying the Past
6pm The Healing Arts of Music and Medicine
6pm Climate Protection Action Committee
7pm On Beauty: Emily Eveleth and David Tester
7pm Fall Generator Dinner: IDEAS Global Challenge
7pm pre-HONK!
7:30pm Boston Area Solar Energy Association Forum: Off + On: The Climate Movement and the Road Through Paris
8pm Carbon Pricing: The Solution to the Climate Crisis
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Friday, October 9
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Honkfest!
12pm Disruptive Energy Markets
1pm The Future of Privacy and Security in a Big Data World
1pm Lessons from Boston: Using Technology to Improve City Services
2pm 15 Years — and a Boat.
5pm #Tech4Democracy Showcase and Challenge
5:30pm 2015 Beantown Throwdown
6pm Harvard Community Garden Pot Luck, Talk, and Movie
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Saturday, October 10
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Soil Saturday: A Celebration of Reversing Global Warming with Soil
9am Biomimicry & Boston Green Harbor Tour
12pm Engineering + Entrepreneurship: Making Robotics Fly
12pm Innovating the Commonwealth's Food Economy
12pm HONK! in Davis Square
1pm A Pop-Up Makerspace: The Future of Learning Laboratory
2pm Film Screening: Sneak Preview of Nova's "Making North America"
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Sunday, October 11
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12pm The HONK! Parade
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Monday, October 12
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11am "ASK" & Energy Necklace Solar Lanterns at Opening Our Doors
7pm Science and Cooking: Science and Emotions: Delicious or Disgusting?
7pm Quite a Sight! Gene Therapy to Treat Blindness
7pm Answering the Call: An Interfaith Gathering for Climate Action
7pm Science Monday
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Tuesday, October 13
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7:30am The Future of Transportation in the Commonwealth
8am Boston TechBreakfast
12pm Kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade
3pm Is the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus a Useful Framework?
4pm Opioids for the Masses: Welfare Tradeoffs in the Regulation of Narcotic Pain Medications
4:45pm Recovery of Uranium from Seawater: Technologies, Economics, and Prospects
7pm Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
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*******************************************
My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Zero Emissions to Revering Global Warming
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/01/1426515/-Zero-Emissions-Economy-to-Reversing-Global-Warming
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Monday, October 5
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From Opioids to Alcohol: Designing an Effective Response to Addiction
Monday, October 5
8:00 am to 11:00 am
Wyndham Hotel, 5 Blossom Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.massgeneral.org/hubweek/Calendar/
In response to the epidemic of substance use disorders, clinicians, researchers, policy leaders, and community members convene in a highly interactive and hopeful discussion. Structured as a mini-hackathon, small groups will use case studies—and the latest neuroscience—to take a fresh look at building prevention, treatment and recovery management approaches that work.
-------------------------------
HUBweek: Four Global Health Threats, Four Global Health Opportunities
Monday, October 5
9am - 1:30pm
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
RSVP at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b8gBM6lI9MKxGzr
Join faculty from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for a wide-ranging discussion examining four major global health threats that are challenging the lives and health of people in the US and globally. Learn what new research and public policy solutions can begin to solve these threats on a large scale for millions of people.
Panel discussions will focus on: 1) Old and New Pandemics, ranging from AIDS, TB, and malaria to new threats including ebola , obesity and diabetes; 2) Social and Environmental Threats, ranging from air and water pollution to violence and war; 3) Poverty and Humanitarian Crises and their effects on health; and 4) Failing Health Systems as we seek to get more and better health care for the money we spend, both here in the US and internationally.
Please visit this page again for more information. Registration for attendance will be required. Register here.
Draft Agenda
9:00-9:15 AM Welcome
David Hunter
9:15-10:15 AM Old and New Pandemics: Developing tools to reverse killer diseases
Dyann Wirth (Moderator), Flaminia Catteruccia, Sarah Fortune, Marc Lipsitch, Richard Marlink
10:15-11:15 AM Harmful Physical and Social Environments: Preventing Pollution, promoting healthy communities
Francesca Dominici (Moderator), Aaron Bernstein, David Christiani, Ichiro Kawachi, Eric Rimm
11:15-11:30 AM Break
11:30 AM-12:30 PM Poverty and Humanitarian Crises: Advancing health as a human right
Michael VanRooyen (Moderator), Theresa Betancourt, Jacqueline Bhabha, Jennifer Leaning
12:30-1:30 PM Failing Health Systems: Leading change, changing leaders
Ashish Jha (Moderator), Katherine Baicker, Peter Berman, Margaret Kruk
Visit the HUBWeek homepage for a comprehensive list of events.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/hubweek-four-global-health-threats-four-global-health-opportunities#sthash.Mu3A4YmW.dpuf
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MASS Seminar - Joan Alexander (NWRA)
Monday, October 5
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Joan Alexander (NWRA)
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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3D Mapping of Alzheimer’s Pathology: A New Frontier
Monday, October 5
Monday, October 5
12pm
MIT, Building 46-3189, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Rebecca Canter, Tsai Lab
ABSTRACT: Decades of molecular research have resulted in the identification of many molecular mechanisms underlying Alzheimer’s disease (AD), yet no efficacious treatments are available. The progressive, neurodegenerative processes that underlie the key symptom of impaired cognition are ultimately fatal, however a link between molecular dysfunction and cognitive decline remains elusive. To date, technologies for studying AD have had either molecular specificity or brain-wide spatial resolution, but have been unable to integrate multiple layers of observation without prohibitive expense. In this talk, I will describe our efforts to map neurodegenerative-like molecular pathology in whole mouse brain using novel large-tissue processing techniques. I will present preliminary data to show the power of these tools in Alzheimer’s research at the brain-wide and microcircuit scales, and suggest the conclusions we can draw from this type of information. From our data and others, it is clear that emerging technologies for brain-wide investigation will improve experimental resolve, leading to a more nuanced understanding of the disease and its multifaceted etiology.
ABSTRACT: Decades of molecular research have resulted in the identification of many molecular mechanisms underlying Alzheimer’s disease (AD), yet no efficacious treatments are available. The progressive, neurodegenerative processes that underlie the key symptom of impaired cognition are ultimately fatal, however a link between molecular dysfunction and cognitive decline remains elusive. To date, technologies for studying AD have had either molecular specificity or brain-wide spatial resolution, but have been unable to integrate multiple layers of observation without prohibitive expense. In this talk, I will describe our efforts to map neurodegenerative-like molecular pathology in whole mouse brain using novel large-tissue processing techniques. I will present preliminary data to show the power of these tools in Alzheimer’s research at the brain-wide and microcircuit scales, and suggest the conclusions we can draw from this type of information. From our data and others, it is clear that emerging technologies for brain-wide investigation will improve experimental resolve, leading to a more nuanced understanding of the disease and its multifaceted etiology.
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Financial Trading in Electricity Markets – Who Benefits and How?
Monday, October 5
12pm - 1:30pm
Harvard Kennedy School, Fainsod Room, Littauer Building, Room 324, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Harry Singh, Vice President, Goldman Sachs
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.
HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
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Memex takes Manhattan: Vannevar Bush's other History of the Future
Monday, October 5
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Michael Aaron Dennis, U.S. Naval War College
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
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Solve Convocation, Open Sessions, and Reception
Monday, October 5
1:00 to 6:30 pm
MIT, Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1741236
A Call to Solve Hard Problems
Welcome by L. Rafael Reif, President, MIT and Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher, MIT Technology Review; Keynote by Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University
Solve Roundtable: CURE - Accelerating Innovation in Healthcare
Introduction by Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Institute Professor, MIT; Nobel Laureate
The CURE roundtable will undertake the challenge of how to leverage innovations in healthcare delivery and medical research to make care affordable and universally available. To deliver on this challenge, CURE seeks to impact near-term productivity improvement and longer-term radical innovation as a path to transform everything from fundamental research to delivery of patient services at all points of care. CURE will focus on five areas of research and healthcare innovation, tackling issues that include cancer, brain disorders, mitigating the risk of infectious disease, leveraging IT, and more.
Solve Roundtable: MAKE - Internet Access for All: A Civic Responsibility or a Corporate Opportunity
Introduction by Dr. Rodney Brooks, Professor Emeritus, MIT; Founder and Chairman, Rethink Robotics
The MAKE roundtable addresses the issues of basic infrastructure, the future of work, and new foundations for innovation in the digital economy. MAKE invites members of the greater Boston community who seek to better understand the social and economic factors that foster prosperity. Explore ways to reconcile the economic goals of more jobs, more automation, and greater efficiency. How will we create modern cities, using less energy and producing less waste? How can we make the tools required to usher in a new era of entrepreneurship? How can we spark a new era of business innovation that enables all who work to benefit equitably from the value they create?
These events are hosted in conjunction with HUBweek and as part of Solve, which will hold its inaugural meeting on the MIT campus October 5-8, 2015. Solve aims to inspire extraordinary people to work together to solve the world’s greatest challenges in the context of four content pillars- Learn, Cure, Fuel, and Make- with a common purpose: to make the world a better place. For more information about Solve, please visit solve.mit.edu.
This is a free event, please register at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1741236
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Sustainable Development in a Carbon-Constrained World
Monday, October 5
4:15PM
Harvard, S010 Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Han Seung-Soo, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Disaster Risk Reduction and Water; former Prime Minister of South Korea, will lead a discussion on global sustainability. This event is sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Korea Institute.
Asia Center/Korea Institute Special Event
http://asiaevents.harvard.edu/event/global-sustainability
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Tuesday, October 6
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Crowds & Climate Conference
Tuesday, October 6
8:00 am - 7:30 pm
MIT, W20-202, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP: http://climatecolab.org/conference2015/register
Cost: $0-$50
The MIT Climate CoLab (www.climatecolab.org) is an online community of over 40,000 people, where experts and non-experts work together to develop proposals for how to address climate change.
Join us at Crowds & Climate, the Climate CoLab's event on the MIT campus, where we bring together leaders from businesses, non-profit organizations, governments and communities around the world to advance an online global problem-solving effort to more effectively tackle climate change.
We will celebrate the innovative proposals that emerged from the 2015 Climate CoLab contests. These winners will present how their work tackles specific climate change challenges and will engage with leaders in the field to help accelerate their ideas. Presentations will be followed by a highly interactive workshop, where you can meet and contribute to these winners yourself, as well as engage in conversations with other attendees about how the world's experts and citizens can work together to solve the complex, complicated problem of climate change.
Sessions will be followed by Solve's roundtable panel on fuel, where world-class thought leaders will discuss the future of energy, food and water.
Attendees are also invited to join the Solve opening session on Monday afternoon, as well as the other events that are a part of HUBweek, a week-long city-wide festival celebrating ideas and innovation in the Boston area.
Student scholarships are available.
Web site: http://climatecolab.org/conference2015
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0-$50
Tickets: http://climatecolab.org/conference2015/register
Sponsor(s): Climate CoLab, Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Energy Initiative, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Sustainability@Sloan
For more information, contact: Richard Hill
conference@climatecolab.org
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Kristen Soltis Anderson - The Selfie Vote: Can Republicans Win Millennials in 2016?
Tuesday, October 6
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Co-Sponsored by the Institute of Politics. Kristen Soltis Anderson is co-founder of Echelon Insights, an opinion research, data analysis and digital intelligence firm. She is author of The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America
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State of the Podcast, 2015: How the podcasting revolution happened, and where it could go
Tuesday, October 6
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East B, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2015/10/podcast#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2015/10/podcast at 12:00 pm
In September 2002 the Berkman Center helped launch the RSS 2.0 spec, paving the way for the subscription-based audio downloading services that make podcasts work.
In the 13 years since, podcasts have become the default news and entertainment option of choice for millions, launching audio producing careers, companies, and an entire industry, and upending traditional media models.
Join us for a discussion with pioneering figures in the field of podcasting and Internet audio to talk about how podcasting emerged, and what trends could be determining its future.
Stay tuned to this page for more information on panelists, location, and how to RSVP!
This event is part of Boston's Hubweek.
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The Refugee Crisis in Europe: The Challenges of Policy, Politics, and Logistics
Tuesday, October 6
12:00-1:30 PM
Harvard, Ash Center Foyer, Suite 200 North, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
A panel discussion moderated by Arn Howitt, PCL Faculty Co-Director and Executive Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and featuring:
Muriel Rouyer, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
Bartel Van De Walle, Visiting Scholar, Program on Crisis Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; and Associate Professor, Department of Information Management, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University (The Netherlands)
Tina Comes, Visiting Scholar, Program on Crisis Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; and Associate Professor, Centre for Integrated Emergency Management, Department for ICT, University of Agder (Norway)
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About EnergyBar: EnergyBar is a monthly event devoted to helping people in clean technology meet and discuss innovations in energy technology. Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.
Join us on Tuesday (10/6) as we celebrate HUBweek and host an Innovation Village Stroll, which will lead into a special HUBweek Edition of EnergyBar!
The Innovation Village Stroll will begin at 4:00pm, and lead into our monthly EnergyBar where entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.
Light appetizers and drinks will be served starting at 4:00 pm
Science by the Pint @ Aeronaut: Convergent Evolution
Wednesday, October 7
The Highs and Lows of Medical Marijuana: Marijuana's effects on physiology, health, and society
Wednesday, October 7
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
US Conference of Mayors' Community Development & Housing Committee Town Hall
Wednesday, October 7
Free and open to the public; no ticket required.
Biomimicry New England's Green Harbor Walk will begin at the New England Aquarium at 9am. The tour will be led by BNE cofounder Anamarija Frankic and will include: a presentation on the Aquariums commitment to biomimicry, examination of some local marine residents, a discussion about Biomimicry LivingLabs, a water taxi trip to Charlestown (Spaulding building), learning about urban harbor adaptations to sea level rise and storm surge events. The walk will end at 11:30 at a Water Taxi and the Spaulding building stop in Charlestown.
What do you think nature would do to improve conditions in urban harbors?
Financial Trading in Electricity Markets – Who Benefits and How?
Monday, October 5
12pm - 1:30pm
Harvard Kennedy School, Fainsod Room, Littauer Building, Room 324, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Harry Singh, Vice President, Goldman Sachs
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.
HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
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Memex takes Manhattan: Vannevar Bush's other History of the Future
Monday, October 5
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Michael Aaron Dennis, U.S. Naval War College
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
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Solve Convocation, Open Sessions, and Reception
Monday, October 5
1:00 to 6:30 pm
MIT, Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1741236
A Call to Solve Hard Problems
Welcome by L. Rafael Reif, President, MIT and Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher, MIT Technology Review; Keynote by Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University
Solve Roundtable: CURE - Accelerating Innovation in Healthcare
Introduction by Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Institute Professor, MIT; Nobel Laureate
The CURE roundtable will undertake the challenge of how to leverage innovations in healthcare delivery and medical research to make care affordable and universally available. To deliver on this challenge, CURE seeks to impact near-term productivity improvement and longer-term radical innovation as a path to transform everything from fundamental research to delivery of patient services at all points of care. CURE will focus on five areas of research and healthcare innovation, tackling issues that include cancer, brain disorders, mitigating the risk of infectious disease, leveraging IT, and more.
Solve Roundtable: MAKE - Internet Access for All: A Civic Responsibility or a Corporate Opportunity
Introduction by Dr. Rodney Brooks, Professor Emeritus, MIT; Founder and Chairman, Rethink Robotics
The MAKE roundtable addresses the issues of basic infrastructure, the future of work, and new foundations for innovation in the digital economy. MAKE invites members of the greater Boston community who seek to better understand the social and economic factors that foster prosperity. Explore ways to reconcile the economic goals of more jobs, more automation, and greater efficiency. How will we create modern cities, using less energy and producing less waste? How can we make the tools required to usher in a new era of entrepreneurship? How can we spark a new era of business innovation that enables all who work to benefit equitably from the value they create?
These events are hosted in conjunction with HUBweek and as part of Solve, which will hold its inaugural meeting on the MIT campus October 5-8, 2015. Solve aims to inspire extraordinary people to work together to solve the world’s greatest challenges in the context of four content pillars- Learn, Cure, Fuel, and Make- with a common purpose: to make the world a better place. For more information about Solve, please visit solve.mit.edu.
This is a free event, please register at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1741236
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Sustainable Development in a Carbon-Constrained World
Monday, October 5
4:15PM
Harvard, S010 Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Han Seung-Soo, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Disaster Risk Reduction and Water; former Prime Minister of South Korea, will lead a discussion on global sustainability. This event is sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Korea Institute.
Asia Center/Korea Institute Special Event
http://asiaevents.harvard.edu/event/global-sustainability
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Anita Hill
Monday, October 5
5:30pm
Lesley University, Marran Theater, 34 Mellen Street, Cambridge
Attorney and educator Anita Hill, a champion of workplace equity who was a central, historic figure who rose to national prominence during the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, speaks in a free lecture at Lesley University
Phone Number: 617-349-8514
Lesley University, Marran Theater, 34 Mellen Street, Cambridge
Attorney and educator Anita Hill, a champion of workplace equity who was a central, historic figure who rose to national prominence during the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, speaks in a free lecture at Lesley University
Phone Number: 617-349-8514
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How does the environment affect our health?
Monday, October 5
6 pm
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
John D. Spengler, Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment and Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Joseph Allen, Program Leader, Healthy Buildings, Center for Health and the Global Environment and Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Julia Africa, Program Leader, Nature, Health, & the Built Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The world is becoming increasingly urban. Factors such as overcrowding, air pollution, excessive noise, and lack of access to nature contribute to the emotional and physical stress of urban life. As cities continue to grow, there is a pressing need to design buildings, neighborhoods, and common spaces to foster a vital connection with nature and promote human health and the health of the planet. The speakers will share current research about environmental impacts on health and discuss new technologies, initiatives, and policies designed to promote human well-being.
Panel Discussion. Free and open to the public.
Presented in collaboration with the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/how-does-environment-affect-our-health#sthash.hXqJLHIz.dpuf
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, October 5
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
Andrea Wulf reveals in her new book, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, the extraordinary life of the visionary German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and how he created the way we understand nature today. Though almost forgotten today, his name lingers everywhere from the Humboldt Current to the Humboldt penguin. Humboldt was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. Wulf traces Humboldt’s influences through the great minds he inspired in revolution, evolution, ecology, conservation, art and literature. In The Invention of Nature, Wulf brings this lost hero to science and the forgotten father of environmentalism back to life. This event is free for members, $20 for non-members. There will be a reception at 5:30pm. Sponsored by The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
arbweb@arnarb.harvard.edu
617-524-1718
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The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
Monday, October 5
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/eileen_pollack/
Harvard Book Store and WAM: Women, Action & the Media welcome EILEEN POLLACK, author of the bestselling book Breaking and Entering, for a discussion of her latest book, The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club.
In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set out to find the answer. A successful fiction writer, Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and ’70s dreaming of a career as a theoretical astrophysicist. Denied the chance to take advanced courses in science and math, she nonetheless made her way to Yale. There, despite finding herself far behind the men in her classes, she went on to graduate summa cum laude, with honors, as one of the university’s first two women to earn a bachelor of science degree in physics. And yet, isolated, lacking in confidence, starved for encouragement, she abandoned her ambition to become a physicist.
Years later, spurred by the suggestion that innate differences in scientific and mathematical aptitude might account for the dearth of tenured female faculty at Summer’s institution, Pollack thought back on her own experiences and wondered what, if anything, had changed in the intervening decades.
Based on six years interviewing her former teachers and classmates, as well as dozens of other women who had dropped out before completing their degrees in science or found their careers less rewarding than they had hoped, The Only Woman in the Room is a bracingly honest, no-holds-barred examination of the social, interpersonal, and institutional barriers confronting women—and minorities—in the STEM fields. This frankly personal and informed book reflects on women’s experiences in a way that simple data can’t, documenting not only the more blatant bias of another era but all the subtle disincentives women in the sciences still face.
The Only Woman in the Room shows us the struggles women in the sciences have been hesitant to admit, and provides hope for changing attitudes and behaviors in ways that could bring far more women into fields in which even today they remain seriously underrepresented.
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Art. Science. Learning.
WHEN Mon., Oct. 5, 2015, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Avenue, Boston,
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Classes/Workshops, Education, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and Harvard Ed Portal
COST Free; registration required
DETAILS What happens when we bring art and science together in the classroom: their approaches, their values, the learning potentials inherent in both? What is it like for a student to combine approaches drawn from the arts and sciences either in a classroom activity or in their individual work? What is it like for an instructor to develop learning experiences that are similarly cross-cutting and interdisciplinary? The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and the Harvard Ed Portal hosts an evening of interactive demonstrations and discussion exploring the remarkable power of art and science brought together in the classroom. Come explore and experience a multimedia happening that spans the perspectives of instructors, students, artists and scientists.
LINK http://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-science-learning-tickets-18523386949
How does the environment affect our health?
Monday, October 5
6 pm
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
John D. Spengler, Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment and Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Joseph Allen, Program Leader, Healthy Buildings, Center for Health and the Global Environment and Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Julia Africa, Program Leader, Nature, Health, & the Built Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The world is becoming increasingly urban. Factors such as overcrowding, air pollution, excessive noise, and lack of access to nature contribute to the emotional and physical stress of urban life. As cities continue to grow, there is a pressing need to design buildings, neighborhoods, and common spaces to foster a vital connection with nature and promote human health and the health of the planet. The speakers will share current research about environmental impacts on health and discuss new technologies, initiatives, and policies designed to promote human well-being.
Panel Discussion. Free and open to the public.
Presented in collaboration with the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/how-does-environment-affect-our-health#sthash.hXqJLHIz.dpuf
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, October 5
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
Andrea Wulf reveals in her new book, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, the extraordinary life of the visionary German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and how he created the way we understand nature today. Though almost forgotten today, his name lingers everywhere from the Humboldt Current to the Humboldt penguin. Humboldt was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. Wulf traces Humboldt’s influences through the great minds he inspired in revolution, evolution, ecology, conservation, art and literature. In The Invention of Nature, Wulf brings this lost hero to science and the forgotten father of environmentalism back to life. This event is free for members, $20 for non-members. There will be a reception at 5:30pm. Sponsored by The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
arbweb@arnarb.harvard.edu
617-524-1718
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The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
Monday, October 5
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/eileen_pollack/
Harvard Book Store and WAM: Women, Action & the Media welcome EILEEN POLLACK, author of the bestselling book Breaking and Entering, for a discussion of her latest book, The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club.
In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set out to find the answer. A successful fiction writer, Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and ’70s dreaming of a career as a theoretical astrophysicist. Denied the chance to take advanced courses in science and math, she nonetheless made her way to Yale. There, despite finding herself far behind the men in her classes, she went on to graduate summa cum laude, with honors, as one of the university’s first two women to earn a bachelor of science degree in physics. And yet, isolated, lacking in confidence, starved for encouragement, she abandoned her ambition to become a physicist.
Years later, spurred by the suggestion that innate differences in scientific and mathematical aptitude might account for the dearth of tenured female faculty at Summer’s institution, Pollack thought back on her own experiences and wondered what, if anything, had changed in the intervening decades.
Based on six years interviewing her former teachers and classmates, as well as dozens of other women who had dropped out before completing their degrees in science or found their careers less rewarding than they had hoped, The Only Woman in the Room is a bracingly honest, no-holds-barred examination of the social, interpersonal, and institutional barriers confronting women—and minorities—in the STEM fields. This frankly personal and informed book reflects on women’s experiences in a way that simple data can’t, documenting not only the more blatant bias of another era but all the subtle disincentives women in the sciences still face.
The Only Woman in the Room shows us the struggles women in the sciences have been hesitant to admit, and provides hope for changing attitudes and behaviors in ways that could bring far more women into fields in which even today they remain seriously underrepresented.
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Art. Science. Learning.
WHEN Mon., Oct. 5, 2015, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Avenue, Boston,
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Classes/Workshops, Education, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and Harvard Ed Portal
COST Free; registration required
DETAILS What happens when we bring art and science together in the classroom: their approaches, their values, the learning potentials inherent in both? What is it like for a student to combine approaches drawn from the arts and sciences either in a classroom activity or in their individual work? What is it like for an instructor to develop learning experiences that are similarly cross-cutting and interdisciplinary? The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and the Harvard Ed Portal hosts an evening of interactive demonstrations and discussion exploring the remarkable power of art and science brought together in the classroom. Come explore and experience a multimedia happening that spans the perspectives of instructors, students, artists and scientists.
LINK http://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-science-learning-tickets-18523386949
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POVERTY, INC.
Monday, October 5
Monday, October 5
7:00 PM
Harvard Business School, Aldrich Hall, Room 107, Allston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poverty-inc-harvard-business-school-aldrich-107-tickets-18785264231
Harvard Business School proudly presents the award-winning documentary film, POVERTY, INC., on Monday, October 5th at 7 pm at Aldrich 107. There will be a Q & A session after the screening with Co-Producer, Mark Weber.
Watch the film trailer: https://vimeo.com/109863354
Share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook using the hashtag #PovertyINC
WEBSITE
http://povertyinc.org/
Harvard Business School proudly presents the award-winning documentary film, POVERTY, INC., on Monday, October 5th at 7 pm at Aldrich 107. There will be a Q & A session after the screening with Co-Producer, Mark Weber.
Watch the film trailer: https://vimeo.com/109863354
Share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook using the hashtag #PovertyINC
WEBSITE
http://povertyinc.org/
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Tuesday, October 6
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Crowds & Climate Conference
Tuesday, October 6
8:00 am - 7:30 pm
MIT, W20-202, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP: http://climatecolab.org/conference2015/register
Cost: $0-$50
The MIT Climate CoLab (www.climatecolab.org) is an online community of over 40,000 people, where experts and non-experts work together to develop proposals for how to address climate change.
Join us at Crowds & Climate, the Climate CoLab's event on the MIT campus, where we bring together leaders from businesses, non-profit organizations, governments and communities around the world to advance an online global problem-solving effort to more effectively tackle climate change.
We will celebrate the innovative proposals that emerged from the 2015 Climate CoLab contests. These winners will present how their work tackles specific climate change challenges and will engage with leaders in the field to help accelerate their ideas. Presentations will be followed by a highly interactive workshop, where you can meet and contribute to these winners yourself, as well as engage in conversations with other attendees about how the world's experts and citizens can work together to solve the complex, complicated problem of climate change.
Sessions will be followed by Solve's roundtable panel on fuel, where world-class thought leaders will discuss the future of energy, food and water.
Attendees are also invited to join the Solve opening session on Monday afternoon, as well as the other events that are a part of HUBweek, a week-long city-wide festival celebrating ideas and innovation in the Boston area.
Student scholarships are available.
Web site: http://climatecolab.org/conference2015
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0-$50
Tickets: http://climatecolab.org/conference2015/register
Sponsor(s): Climate CoLab, Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Energy Initiative, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Sustainability@Sloan
For more information, contact: Richard Hill
conference@climatecolab.org
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Kristen Soltis Anderson - The Selfie Vote: Can Republicans Win Millennials in 2016?
Tuesday, October 6
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Co-Sponsored by the Institute of Politics. Kristen Soltis Anderson is co-founder of Echelon Insights, an opinion research, data analysis and digital intelligence firm. She is author of The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America
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State of the Podcast, 2015: How the podcasting revolution happened, and where it could go
Tuesday, October 6
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East B, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2015/10/podcast#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2015/10/podcast at 12:00 pm
In September 2002 the Berkman Center helped launch the RSS 2.0 spec, paving the way for the subscription-based audio downloading services that make podcasts work.
In the 13 years since, podcasts have become the default news and entertainment option of choice for millions, launching audio producing careers, companies, and an entire industry, and upending traditional media models.
Join us for a discussion with pioneering figures in the field of podcasting and Internet audio to talk about how podcasting emerged, and what trends could be determining its future.
Stay tuned to this page for more information on panelists, location, and how to RSVP!
This event is part of Boston's Hubweek.
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The Refugee Crisis in Europe: The Challenges of Policy, Politics, and Logistics
Tuesday, October 6
12:00-1:30 PM
Harvard, Ash Center Foyer, Suite 200 North, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
A panel discussion moderated by Arn Howitt, PCL Faculty Co-Director and Executive Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and featuring:
Muriel Rouyer, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
Bartel Van De Walle, Visiting Scholar, Program on Crisis Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; and Associate Professor, Department of Information Management, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University (The Netherlands)
Tina Comes, Visiting Scholar, Program on Crisis Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; and Associate Professor, Centre for Integrated Emergency Management, Department for ICT, University of Agder (Norway)
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The European Refugee and Migrant Crisis
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE The Leadership Studio, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 10th Floor Kresge Building, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
SPEAKER(S) EXPERT PARTICIPANTS
Simon Henshaw, principal deputy assistant aecretary at the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. State Department
Jennifer Leaning, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Jacqueline Bhabha, director of research, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University
Karl Kaiser, director of the Program on Transatlantic Relations of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
MODERATOR
Aaron Schachter, assignment editor, PRI’s The World
CONTACT INFO RSVP to ATTEND- theforum@hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS
THE EUROPEAN REFUGEE AND MIGRANT CRISIS
Presented in Collaboration with PRI’s The World & WGBH
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
12:30-1:30pm ET
The Leadership Studio, 10th Floor Kresge Building, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston
Please RSVP to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu
Staggering numbers of refugees and migrants are flooding into Europe, fleeing war and political instability and seeking safe haven and economic opportunity. They are risking their lives on perilous journeys into an uncertain future. Who are they refugees and migrants, and what forces are driving them from their homes? What will it take to meet their urgent and immediate needs for food and shelter, and what will be the long-term economic impact of the migration on the cities and countries where the displaced ultimately settle? To understand this crisis, and accompanying public health challenges, this Forum brings together experts in human rights, international relations, and humanitarian response.
ASK THE EXPERT PARTICIPANTS
Email questions to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu.
PARTICIPATE DURING THE LIVE WEBCAST
Join the live comments, which will be featured on The Forum’s THE EUROPEAN REFUGEE AND MIGRANT CRISIS web page.
We'll also be live-Tweeting from @ForumHSPH. Tweet your questions and comments using the hashtag #forumrefugee
LINK https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/the-european-refugee-and-migrant-crisis/
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE The Leadership Studio, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 10th Floor Kresge Building, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
SPEAKER(S) EXPERT PARTICIPANTS
Simon Henshaw, principal deputy assistant aecretary at the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. State Department
Jennifer Leaning, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Jacqueline Bhabha, director of research, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University
Karl Kaiser, director of the Program on Transatlantic Relations of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
MODERATOR
Aaron Schachter, assignment editor, PRI’s The World
CONTACT INFO RSVP to ATTEND- theforum@hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS
THE EUROPEAN REFUGEE AND MIGRANT CRISIS
Presented in Collaboration with PRI’s The World & WGBH
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
12:30-1:30pm ET
The Leadership Studio, 10th Floor Kresge Building, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston
Please RSVP to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu
Staggering numbers of refugees and migrants are flooding into Europe, fleeing war and political instability and seeking safe haven and economic opportunity. They are risking their lives on perilous journeys into an uncertain future. Who are they refugees and migrants, and what forces are driving them from their homes? What will it take to meet their urgent and immediate needs for food and shelter, and what will be the long-term economic impact of the migration on the cities and countries where the displaced ultimately settle? To understand this crisis, and accompanying public health challenges, this Forum brings together experts in human rights, international relations, and humanitarian response.
ASK THE EXPERT PARTICIPANTS
Email questions to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu.
PARTICIPATE DURING THE LIVE WEBCAST
Join the live comments, which will be featured on The Forum’s THE EUROPEAN REFUGEE AND MIGRANT CRISIS web page.
We'll also be live-Tweeting from @ForumHSPH. Tweet your questions and comments using the hashtag #forumrefugee
LINK https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/the-european-refugee-and-migrant-crisis/
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Singing as a Spiritual Practice with Casper ter Kuile
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 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 Casper ter Kuile is a fourth year joint degree MDiv and Master of Public Policy student. Working toward UU ordination, Casper's work is at the intersection of the sacred and the secular, particularly the growing number of millennial non-religious communities.
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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A Networked Market for Information
Tuesday, October 6
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Nageeb Ali (Penn State)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series: Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Impacts of air-sea and boundary layer fluxes on the intensity and structure of TCs
Tuesday, October 6
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Professor of Meteorology, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, Penn State, University
Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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Synthesis on National Water Use : Spatial Patterns and Controls
Tuesday, October 6
3:00 to 4:00 pm
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
A. Sankarasubramanian, Professor, North Carolina State University, (Tufts PhD)
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Solve: Fuel Roundtable
Tuesday, October 06, 2015
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E15, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://solve.mit.edu/MITregistration
SOLVE
Solve is a cross-disciplinary leadership program led by MIT to convene the change agents who are addressing the world's most pressing challenges in healthcare, energy, the environment, education, food & water, civil infrastructure and the economy. Solve takes a pragmatic and collaborate approach that brings urgency to these difficult problems, examines essential questions and drives consensus to discover what we know and need to know in order to set a course to a solution. Through a process of continual evaluation and re-calibration, the program seeks to drive substantial and positive action to solve these real-world problems.
Solve will convene its inaugural meeting October 5-8 on the MIT Campus, inviting 350 business, research, philanthropic, and policy leaders who share MIT's commitment to addressing these global issues. Solve will take place during Boston's HUBweek, as city-wide festival that celebrates the innovation, creative arts, and culture of the city. Ticketholders may join the public sessions of Solve.
Web site: solve.mit.edu/MITregistration
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0
Tickets: online
Sponsor(s): Technology Review, Office of the President, HUBweek
For more information, contact: Solve
solve@mit.edu
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Singing as a Spiritual Practice with Casper ter Kuile
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 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 Casper ter Kuile is a fourth year joint degree MDiv and Master of Public Policy student. Working toward UU ordination, Casper's work is at the intersection of the sacred and the secular, particularly the growing number of millennial non-religious communities.
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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A Networked Market for Information
Tuesday, October 6
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Nageeb Ali (Penn State)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series: Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Impacts of air-sea and boundary layer fluxes on the intensity and structure of TCs
Tuesday, October 6
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Professor of Meteorology, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, Penn State, University
Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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Synthesis on National Water Use : Spatial Patterns and Controls
Tuesday, October 6
3:00 to 4:00 pm
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
A. Sankarasubramanian, Professor, North Carolina State University, (Tufts PhD)
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Solve: Fuel Roundtable
Tuesday, October 06, 2015
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E15, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://solve.mit.edu/MITregistration
SOLVE
Solve is a cross-disciplinary leadership program led by MIT to convene the change agents who are addressing the world's most pressing challenges in healthcare, energy, the environment, education, food & water, civil infrastructure and the economy. Solve takes a pragmatic and collaborate approach that brings urgency to these difficult problems, examines essential questions and drives consensus to discover what we know and need to know in order to set a course to a solution. Through a process of continual evaluation and re-calibration, the program seeks to drive substantial and positive action to solve these real-world problems.
Solve will convene its inaugural meeting October 5-8 on the MIT Campus, inviting 350 business, research, philanthropic, and policy leaders who share MIT's commitment to addressing these global issues. Solve will take place during Boston's HUBweek, as city-wide festival that celebrates the innovation, creative arts, and culture of the city. Ticketholders may join the public sessions of Solve.
Web site: solve.mit.edu/MITregistration
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0
Tickets: online
Sponsor(s): Technology Review, Office of the President, HUBweek
For more information, contact: Solve
solve@mit.edu
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EnergyBar! HUBweek Edition
Tuesday, October 6
5:30pm - 8:30pm
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
Tuesday, October 6
5:30pm - 8:30pm
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/energybar-hubweek-edition-registration-15734102123
About EnergyBar: EnergyBar is a monthly event devoted to helping people in clean technology meet and discuss innovations in energy technology. Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.
Join us on Tuesday (10/6) as we celebrate HUBweek and host an Innovation Village Stroll, which will lead into a special HUBweek Edition of EnergyBar!
The Innovation Village Stroll will begin at 4:00pm, and lead into our monthly EnergyBar where entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.
Light appetizers and drinks will be served starting at 4:00 pm
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The Rita E. Hauser Forum for the Arts: David Grossman, "Facts of Life and Death"
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Gym, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) David Grossman
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Arrangements for the appearance of David Grossman made through Greater Talent Network, Inc., NYC.
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/writing-jerusalem
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e4Dev: Learnings for "Energy-as-a-Service" Business Models with Examples from the Health Sector
Tuesday, October 6
6:00pm-7:00pm
MIT, Building E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Anjali Sastry, MIT Sloan School of Management
The Rita E. Hauser Forum for the Arts: David Grossman, "Facts of Life and Death"
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Gym, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) David Grossman
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Arrangements for the appearance of David Grossman made through Greater Talent Network, Inc., NYC.
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/writing-jerusalem
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e4Dev: Learnings for "Energy-as-a-Service" Business Models with Examples from the Health Sector
Tuesday, October 6
6:00pm-7:00pm
MIT, Building E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Anjali Sastry, MIT Sloan School of Management
Anjali Sastry is Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. Drawing on organizational behavior and system dynamics, her work applies management approaches to low-resource healthcare. Her GlobalHealth Lab has conducted 70+ projects with front-line enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia; a related stream of work examines innovative frontier-market business models (see http://groundwork.mit.edu ). With Kara Penn, she distilled practical insights for all sorts of project teams in “Fail Better: Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner” (HBS Press, 2014; seewww.failbetternow.com). Recent press coverage includes Economic Times; for Mint, Business Standard, Forbes, and others, please see http://failbetternow.com/press/.
Anjali is also a lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is a Member of the Board of Directors of Management Sciences for Health and of the Medical Advisory Board of Wonderwork. Her first book, “Parenting Your Child with Autism: Practical Solutions, Strategies, and Advice for Helping Your Family,” combines her personal experience, study of the research evidence, and management expertise in a practical guide for parents (2012, New Harbinger Publications; with Blaise Aguirre).
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Driving Ourselves Happy
Tuesday, October 6
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Russell Museum, 2 North Grove Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/driving-ourselves-happy-tickets-17456696449
Nancy Etcoff, PhD, cognitive researcher, looks at the science of happiness and beauty, how we work to achieve it and its surprising effect on our bodies. She is instructor of "The Science of Happiness" at Harvard Medical School, the director of the Program in Aesthetics and Well Being at Massachusetts General Hospital, and author of Survival of the Prettiest.
This program is part of the Perspectives in Healing: Women in Medicine Series
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Anjali is also a lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is a Member of the Board of Directors of Management Sciences for Health and of the Medical Advisory Board of Wonderwork. Her first book, “Parenting Your Child with Autism: Practical Solutions, Strategies, and Advice for Helping Your Family,” combines her personal experience, study of the research evidence, and management expertise in a practical guide for parents (2012, New Harbinger Publications; with Blaise Aguirre).
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Driving Ourselves Happy
Tuesday, October 6
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Russell Museum, 2 North Grove Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/driving-ourselves-happy-tickets-17456696449
Nancy Etcoff, PhD, cognitive researcher, looks at the science of happiness and beauty, how we work to achieve it and its surprising effect on our bodies. She is instructor of "The Science of Happiness" at Harvard Medical School, the director of the Program in Aesthetics and Well Being at Massachusetts General Hospital, and author of Survival of the Prettiest.
This program is part of the Perspectives in Healing: Women in Medicine Series
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Intro to the Boston Media Ecosystem with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism
Tuesday, October 6
Tuesday, October 6
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-the-boston-media-ecosystem-with-the-boston-institute-for-nonprofit-journalism-tickets-18798463711
Even some active participants in the local media don’t realize how many strong and healthy outlets remain in Massachusetts, and particularly around Greater Boston. The BINJ network alone, for example, has more than 30 partners, from regional outlets like Boston Magazine and DigBoston, to the 13 papers in the Gazette network, to non-English voices like El Planeta.
In this two-hour crash course, facilitators lay out the entire ecosystem on a constellation of marker boards, detailing not just the landscape of independent and community outlets, but also breaking down the influence and ownership hierarchy of mainstream and commercial enterprises, from the Wicked Local network, to the Springfield Republican’s statewide MassLive operation, to the king-making Boston Globe and local NPR affiliates.
FACILITATORS: Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas, both of BINJ, have a combined 40+ years of media experience, having written for publications ranging from The Nation, to Esquire, to BuzzFeed. Jason is an award-winning media studies professor who most recently taught at Lesley University, while Chris has lectured extensively at colleges around New England as well as at Columbia Journalism School.
Even some active participants in the local media don’t realize how many strong and healthy outlets remain in Massachusetts, and particularly around Greater Boston. The BINJ network alone, for example, has more than 30 partners, from regional outlets like Boston Magazine and DigBoston, to the 13 papers in the Gazette network, to non-English voices like El Planeta.
In this two-hour crash course, facilitators lay out the entire ecosystem on a constellation of marker boards, detailing not just the landscape of independent and community outlets, but also breaking down the influence and ownership hierarchy of mainstream and commercial enterprises, from the Wicked Local network, to the Springfield Republican’s statewide MassLive operation, to the king-making Boston Globe and local NPR affiliates.
FACILITATORS: Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas, both of BINJ, have a combined 40+ years of media experience, having written for publications ranging from The Nation, to Esquire, to BuzzFeed. Jason is an award-winning media studies professor who most recently taught at Lesley University, while Chris has lectured extensively at colleges around New England as well as at Columbia Journalism School.
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BASG Oct 6: Clean Energy & Renewables
Tuesday, October 6
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe - 5th Floor, One Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/basg-oct-6-clean-energy-renewables-tickets-18571587117
$10 - $12
The Boston Area Sustainability Group (BASG) is excited to continue our fall event series with a focus on clean energy and renewables. Interest and investment in this industry continues to grow globally and there are numerous initiatives in the US and our own back yard to explore together. With our guest speakers, we will discuss where the different types of renewable energy are in their evolution, outstanding barriers to scaling implementation and adoption, the regulatory environment, the innovative approaches of companies and organizations leading the way to a cleaner future, and what we can each do as consumers and professionals.
Speakers:
Tom Kinneman, VP & Chief Operating Office, North Shore InnoVentures
NSIV is a non-profit, public/private partnership, focused on turning breakthrough technologies into thriving businesses. As part of the senior leadership team, Tom’s responsibilities include establishing and managing facilities for the Cleantech InnoVenture Center and the Biotech Innoventure Center. He is also an advisor for selected portfolio companies.
Mark Vasu, Executive Vice President, Greentown Labs
As Executive Vice President, Mark Vasu leads and supports revenue-generating activities that sustain and grow Greentown Labs. This includes managing corporate sponsors, partnerships and overseeing the member pipeline. He leads the effort to build the brand, visibility and partnerships. He also consults to and supports a national network of cleantech incubators, helping to build the ecosystem given Greentown Labs’ position as the nation’s largest clean tech incubator.
Prior to Greentown Labs, Mark was the founder of perCent Inc., a software company focused on reducing personal energy use and spending. He also founded and led CMV Marketing, a marketing and sustainable strategy-consulting firm for social-purpose companies and high-performing social enterprises.
He served in marketing and business development leadership roles for three high growth social enterprises: City Year, ChildrenFirst (acquired by Bright Horizons), and Jumpstart.
Mark was on the founding steering committee, co-chair, and ran the Boston Cleanweb Hackathon (2012, 2013, 2014). He has served on the Board of uAspire, a Boston based education non-profit from 2007 – 2015. Mark holds a BA Economics from Duke University.
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#TechHubTuesday Demo Night - October 2015
Tuesday, October 6
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
The Bell In Hand Tavern, 45 Union Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/techhubtuesday-demo-night-october-2015-tickets-16129832764
Demo Night is a chance to see what the top startups are working on, these are the people that are changing the future of business & tech!
Join #TechHubTuesday at TechHub to experience great demos from the exciting tech entrepreneur community. Follow the # all day to see other demos taking place in Bengaluru and then London.
Each startup has 5 minutes to demo their product in front of a live audience, it's not a pitch but an opportunity for each startup to explain (and show) what they have been working on. After each demo there is live Q&A with the audience. The idea is to foster innovation and iteration. It's not about slamming the presenter!
Afterwards, stick around for a beer and networking
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FIRST MEETING: the role of business on climate change
Tuesday, October 6
6:30 PM
Needs a location
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Climate-Action-Business-Association-Meetup/events/224772405/
Firstly, we are using this meetup to garner support and find the right audience to have these discussions. Also, we will be polling our members to find a good time that works for everyone! Lastly, look for our guest speakers, who will share a quick success story from a climate action or sustainability project.
More at http://cabaus.org
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Soil: The Skin of the Earth
Tuesday, October 6
6:30 PM
Belmont Media Center, 9 Lexington Street, Belmont
Andrew Kurtz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Earth and Environment, Boston University.
2015 is the International Year of Soil, and soil expert Professor Kurtz is sharing his expertise with the public. We take soil for granted, but it is the indispensable "skin" of the Earth, a vital component of the global ecosystem, and it needs some respect. Dr. Kurtz explains how soils evolve, diversify and enable plant and animal life. And why there is increasing concern today about threats to soil, the "pedosphere".
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World Hunger: 10 Myths
Tuesday, October 6
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store, Small Planet Institute, and Food First welcome bestselling author of Diet for a Small Planet Francis Moore Lappé for a discussion of World Hunger: 10 Myths, co-authored by Joseph Collins.
From best-selling authors Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins comes the 21st century’s definitive book on world hunger. Driven by the question, "Why hunger despite an abundance of food?" Lappé and Collins refute the myths that prevent us from addressing the root causes of hunger across the globe. World Hunger: Ten Myths draws on extensive new research to offer fresh, often startling, insights about tough questions—from climate change and population growth to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the role of U.S. foreign aid, and more.
Brimming with little-known but life-changing examples of solutions to hunger worldwide, this myth-busting book argues that sustainable agriculture can feed the world, that we can end nutritional deprivation affecting one-quarter of the world’s people, and that most in the Global North have more in common with hungry people than they thought. For novices and scholars alike, World Hunger: Ten Myths will inspire a whole new generation of hunger-fighters.
“World Hunger addresses problems of enormous human significance with valuable and often surprising information, much insight, sound common sense, and fundamental decency. It should become not only a book for study, but a guide to action.”—Noam Chomsky
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Media Storytelling
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by HUBweek and Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
DETAILS Join Boston’s best chroniclers of innovation for an evening of unforgettable storytelling at historic Faneuil Hall.
This signature HUBweek event will feature the city’s best journalists, authors and innovators offering a behind-the-scenes look at stories that originated in Boston and reverberated around the world.
From best-selling author Ben Mezrich’s gripping tale of the Harvard undergrad who went on to help found Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, to Tom Ashbrook’s amazing story of dancing in the living room of legendary MIT scientist Marvin Minsky, this is a rare chance to hear the stories-behind-the-stories about Boston’s most renowned innovators.
Hosted by author Steve Almond, this intimate HUBweek event features Ashbrook, the host of the nationally syndicated radio program On Point, and Mezrich, the best-selling author of The Accidental Billionaires, the book on which the film The Social Network was based, as well as the head of MIT’s Media Lab – the incomparable Joi Ito – Kara Miller, host and executive editor of the nationally syndicated radio show Innovation Hub, the award-winning Boston Globe technology columnist Hiawatha Bray, and Laurie Penny, feminist, journalist and author writing on social justice, pop culture, gender & digital politics.
LINK http://hubweek.org/events/media-storytelling-at-faneuil-hall
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Wednesday, October 7
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Libraries: the Next Generation: Drawing on our past, and creating new resources for our future
Wednesday October 7
10:00am-11:30am
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West B, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2015/10/libraries#RSVP
In 2013, the Berkman Center helped to launch the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. This online portal delivers incredible resources and artifacts from all over America to the fingertips of students, teachers, scholars, and the public at large. Meanwhile at Harvard and many universities across America, libraries of all kinds are negotiating the opportunities of the digital with enterprise, ingenuity, and experimentation.
Join us for an exploration of how libraries are drawing on their past, and using technology to create new resources for scholarship and education.
Stay tuned to this page for more information on panelists and how to RSVP.
This event is part of Boston's Hubweek.
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The Rise of Geekpolitik: How Cyber Impacts Geopolitics and International Security
Wednesday, October 7
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Chris Bronk, University of Houston's College of Technology
Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar
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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BigData@CSAIL Lecture Series: Accelerating the Discovery of Insights from Data
Wednesday, October 7
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 32-G449, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Laura Haas, IBM
Event Abstract: Today, businesses and scientists alike struggle to get to the value in their data. Their challenges include finding and gaining access to the data they need, wrangling the data into a form they can use, and setting up the systems and software to be used all before even tackling the analysis. With no coordination, multiple groups may re-do the heavy lifting to ready the data for use, or struggle to figure out what data is already available. Further, the skills required to get from raw data to insight span a broad range from systems to data management, optimization, statistics, algorithms, story-telling and visualization. Rarely can you find such multi-disciplinary expertise in one team it is typically scattered across multiple business units or departments.
The IBM Research Accelerated Discovery Lab is a unique, collaborative environment specifically designed to facilitate complex analytic projects by tackling these challenges. One of the key elements of the Lab is the notion of a data lake, accessed through an easy-to-use, collaborative tool called LabBook, which, together with new practices such as datastorming, helps bridge the gaps between experts from different disciplines. We will highlight some successful applications of these technologies, from diverse fields such as medical research, food safety, social media analytics and predictive equipment maintenance.
BigData@CSAIL Lecture Series
The goal of the MIT Big Data Initiative is to identify and develop new technologies needed to solve next generation data challenges that will require the ability to scale well beyond what today's computing platforms, algorithms, and methods can provide. We want to enable people to leverage Big Data by developing systems and platforms that are reusable and scalable across multiple application domains.
Web site: http://bit.ly/1USOx49
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): CSAIL Alliance Program
For more information, contact: Jessica Gibson
617- 324-7302
industry@csail.mit.edu
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HUBweek: Coping with Climate Change: How Will Boston Adapt?
Wednesday, October 7
4–6 pm
Harvard, Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://environment.harvard.edu/hubweek
We know climate change is rapidly altering our environment with a momentum that is now imposed on future generations. But we have the tools to make it better.
Join a panel of industry leaders, and local experts to examine the disruptive technologies, renewable energies, and broad political policies that are potential pathways for effective action and meaningful solutions that can help mitigate the impact of climate change. Look at the obstacles to change, including the challenge to communicate the science behind climate change and the impact of climate change beyond politics to view the problem from a risk perspective. See examples of working collaborations between universities, public and private sectors, and NGO’s, who are together, playing a critical role in the discovery of theoretical and actionable solutions to climate change through research, the implementation of educational programs, and community engagement.
This is a free event.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/hubweek-managing-impact-climate-change#sthash.wsD98Wds.dpuf
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Harvard Innovation Lab Startup Showcase and Celebration
WHEN Wed., Oct. 7, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Information Technology, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Innovation Lab
DETAILS Harvard Innovation Lab, a resource for fostering vibrant, sustainable, disruptive, and global ventures, will host an Open House and Startup Showcase. Successful ventures incubated at the Innovation Lab will return to demonstrate their product, and discuss their work. The greater Boston community is invited to learn about the latest trends launching into the tech industry, the resources needed for moving an idea into market, the balance of investing in research and development, and the importance of mentoring. Join entrepreneurs and innovators for lively Open House focused on sharing big ideas, and fostering new ones.
LINK https://i-lab.harvard.edu/calendar-event/hub-week-open-house-and-showcase
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Solve: Learn Roundtable
Wednesday, October 7
Time: 5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E40, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://solve.mit.edu/MITregistration
SOLVE
Solve is a cross-disciplinary leadership program led by MIT to convene the change agents who are addressing the world's most pressing challenges in healthcare, energy, the environment, education, food & water, civil infrastructure and the economy. Solve takes a pragmatic and collaborate approach that brings urgency to these difficult problems, examines essential questions and drives consensus to discover what we know and need to know in order to set a course to a solution. Through a process of continual evaluation and re-calibration, the program seeks to drive substantial and positive action to solve these real-world problems.
Solve will convene its inaugural meeting October 5-8 on the MIT Campus, inviting 350 business, research, philanthropic, and policy leaders who share MIT's commitment to addressing these global issues. Solve will take place during Boston's HUBweek, as city-wide festival that celebrates the innovation, creative arts, and culture of the city. Ticketholders may join the public sessions of Solve.
Web site: solve.mit.edu/MITregistration
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0
Tickets: online
Sponsor(s): Office of the President, Technology Review, HUBweek
For more information, contact: Solve
solve@mit.edu
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Harvard Innovation Lab Startup Showcase and Celebration
WHEN Wed., Oct. 7, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Information Technology, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Innovation Lab
DETAILS Harvard Innovation Lab, a resource for fostering vibrant, sustainable, disruptive, and global ventures, will host an Open House and Startup Showcase. Successful ventures incubated at the Innovation Lab will return to demonstrate their product, and discuss their work. The greater Boston community is invited to learn about the latest trends launching into the tech industry, the resources needed for moving an idea into market, the balance of investing in research and development, and the importance of mentoring. Join entrepreneurs and innovators for lively Open House focused on sharing big ideas, and fostering new ones.
LINK https://i-lab.harvard.edu/calendar-event/hub-week-open-house-and-showcase
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BASG Oct 6: Clean Energy & Renewables
Tuesday, October 6
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe - 5th Floor, One Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/basg-oct-6-clean-energy-renewables-tickets-18571587117
$10 - $12
The Boston Area Sustainability Group (BASG) is excited to continue our fall event series with a focus on clean energy and renewables. Interest and investment in this industry continues to grow globally and there are numerous initiatives in the US and our own back yard to explore together. With our guest speakers, we will discuss where the different types of renewable energy are in their evolution, outstanding barriers to scaling implementation and adoption, the regulatory environment, the innovative approaches of companies and organizations leading the way to a cleaner future, and what we can each do as consumers and professionals.
Speakers:
Tom Kinneman, VP & Chief Operating Office, North Shore InnoVentures
NSIV is a non-profit, public/private partnership, focused on turning breakthrough technologies into thriving businesses. As part of the senior leadership team, Tom’s responsibilities include establishing and managing facilities for the Cleantech InnoVenture Center and the Biotech Innoventure Center. He is also an advisor for selected portfolio companies.
Mark Vasu, Executive Vice President, Greentown Labs
As Executive Vice President, Mark Vasu leads and supports revenue-generating activities that sustain and grow Greentown Labs. This includes managing corporate sponsors, partnerships and overseeing the member pipeline. He leads the effort to build the brand, visibility and partnerships. He also consults to and supports a national network of cleantech incubators, helping to build the ecosystem given Greentown Labs’ position as the nation’s largest clean tech incubator.
Prior to Greentown Labs, Mark was the founder of perCent Inc., a software company focused on reducing personal energy use and spending. He also founded and led CMV Marketing, a marketing and sustainable strategy-consulting firm for social-purpose companies and high-performing social enterprises.
He served in marketing and business development leadership roles for three high growth social enterprises: City Year, ChildrenFirst (acquired by Bright Horizons), and Jumpstart.
Mark was on the founding steering committee, co-chair, and ran the Boston Cleanweb Hackathon (2012, 2013, 2014). He has served on the Board of uAspire, a Boston based education non-profit from 2007 – 2015. Mark holds a BA Economics from Duke University.
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#TechHubTuesday Demo Night - October 2015
Tuesday, October 6
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
The Bell In Hand Tavern, 45 Union Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/techhubtuesday-demo-night-october-2015-tickets-16129832764
Demo Night is a chance to see what the top startups are working on, these are the people that are changing the future of business & tech!
Join #TechHubTuesday at TechHub to experience great demos from the exciting tech entrepreneur community. Follow the # all day to see other demos taking place in Bengaluru and then London.
Each startup has 5 minutes to demo their product in front of a live audience, it's not a pitch but an opportunity for each startup to explain (and show) what they have been working on. After each demo there is live Q&A with the audience. The idea is to foster innovation and iteration. It's not about slamming the presenter!
Afterwards, stick around for a beer and networking
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FIRST MEETING: the role of business on climate change
Tuesday, October 6
6:30 PM
Needs a location
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Climate-Action-Business-Association-Meetup/events/224772405/
Firstly, we are using this meetup to garner support and find the right audience to have these discussions. Also, we will be polling our members to find a good time that works for everyone! Lastly, look for our guest speakers, who will share a quick success story from a climate action or sustainability project.
More at http://cabaus.org
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Soil: The Skin of the Earth
Tuesday, October 6
6:30 PM
Belmont Media Center, 9 Lexington Street, Belmont
Andrew Kurtz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Earth and Environment, Boston University.
2015 is the International Year of Soil, and soil expert Professor Kurtz is sharing his expertise with the public. We take soil for granted, but it is the indispensable "skin" of the Earth, a vital component of the global ecosystem, and it needs some respect. Dr. Kurtz explains how soils evolve, diversify and enable plant and animal life. And why there is increasing concern today about threats to soil, the "pedosphere".
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World Hunger: 10 Myths
Tuesday, October 6
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store, Small Planet Institute, and Food First welcome bestselling author of Diet for a Small Planet Francis Moore Lappé for a discussion of World Hunger: 10 Myths, co-authored by Joseph Collins.
From best-selling authors Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins comes the 21st century’s definitive book on world hunger. Driven by the question, "Why hunger despite an abundance of food?" Lappé and Collins refute the myths that prevent us from addressing the root causes of hunger across the globe. World Hunger: Ten Myths draws on extensive new research to offer fresh, often startling, insights about tough questions—from climate change and population growth to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the role of U.S. foreign aid, and more.
Brimming with little-known but life-changing examples of solutions to hunger worldwide, this myth-busting book argues that sustainable agriculture can feed the world, that we can end nutritional deprivation affecting one-quarter of the world’s people, and that most in the Global North have more in common with hungry people than they thought. For novices and scholars alike, World Hunger: Ten Myths will inspire a whole new generation of hunger-fighters.
“World Hunger addresses problems of enormous human significance with valuable and often surprising information, much insight, sound common sense, and fundamental decency. It should become not only a book for study, but a guide to action.”—Noam Chomsky
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Media Storytelling
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by HUBweek and Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
DETAILS Join Boston’s best chroniclers of innovation for an evening of unforgettable storytelling at historic Faneuil Hall.
This signature HUBweek event will feature the city’s best journalists, authors and innovators offering a behind-the-scenes look at stories that originated in Boston and reverberated around the world.
From best-selling author Ben Mezrich’s gripping tale of the Harvard undergrad who went on to help found Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, to Tom Ashbrook’s amazing story of dancing in the living room of legendary MIT scientist Marvin Minsky, this is a rare chance to hear the stories-behind-the-stories about Boston’s most renowned innovators.
Hosted by author Steve Almond, this intimate HUBweek event features Ashbrook, the host of the nationally syndicated radio program On Point, and Mezrich, the best-selling author of The Accidental Billionaires, the book on which the film The Social Network was based, as well as the head of MIT’s Media Lab – the incomparable Joi Ito – Kara Miller, host and executive editor of the nationally syndicated radio show Innovation Hub, the award-winning Boston Globe technology columnist Hiawatha Bray, and Laurie Penny, feminist, journalist and author writing on social justice, pop culture, gender & digital politics.
LINK http://hubweek.org/events/media-storytelling-at-faneuil-hall
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Wednesday, October 7
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Libraries: the Next Generation: Drawing on our past, and creating new resources for our future
Wednesday October 7
10:00am-11:30am
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West B, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2015/10/libraries#RSVP
In 2013, the Berkman Center helped to launch the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. This online portal delivers incredible resources and artifacts from all over America to the fingertips of students, teachers, scholars, and the public at large. Meanwhile at Harvard and many universities across America, libraries of all kinds are negotiating the opportunities of the digital with enterprise, ingenuity, and experimentation.
Join us for an exploration of how libraries are drawing on their past, and using technology to create new resources for scholarship and education.
Stay tuned to this page for more information on panelists and how to RSVP.
This event is part of Boston's Hubweek.
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The Rise of Geekpolitik: How Cyber Impacts Geopolitics and International Security
Wednesday, October 7
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Chris Bronk, University of Houston's College of Technology
Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar
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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BigData@CSAIL Lecture Series: Accelerating the Discovery of Insights from Data
Wednesday, October 7
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 32-G449, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Laura Haas, IBM
Event Abstract: Today, businesses and scientists alike struggle to get to the value in their data. Their challenges include finding and gaining access to the data they need, wrangling the data into a form they can use, and setting up the systems and software to be used all before even tackling the analysis. With no coordination, multiple groups may re-do the heavy lifting to ready the data for use, or struggle to figure out what data is already available. Further, the skills required to get from raw data to insight span a broad range from systems to data management, optimization, statistics, algorithms, story-telling and visualization. Rarely can you find such multi-disciplinary expertise in one team it is typically scattered across multiple business units or departments.
The IBM Research Accelerated Discovery Lab is a unique, collaborative environment specifically designed to facilitate complex analytic projects by tackling these challenges. One of the key elements of the Lab is the notion of a data lake, accessed through an easy-to-use, collaborative tool called LabBook, which, together with new practices such as datastorming, helps bridge the gaps between experts from different disciplines. We will highlight some successful applications of these technologies, from diverse fields such as medical research, food safety, social media analytics and predictive equipment maintenance.
BigData@CSAIL Lecture Series
The goal of the MIT Big Data Initiative is to identify and develop new technologies needed to solve next generation data challenges that will require the ability to scale well beyond what today's computing platforms, algorithms, and methods can provide. We want to enable people to leverage Big Data by developing systems and platforms that are reusable and scalable across multiple application domains.
Web site: http://bit.ly/1USOx49
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): CSAIL Alliance Program
For more information, contact: Jessica Gibson
617- 324-7302
industry@csail.mit.edu
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HUBweek: Coping with Climate Change: How Will Boston Adapt?
Wednesday, October 7
4–6 pm
Harvard, Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://environment.harvard.edu/hubweek
We know climate change is rapidly altering our environment with a momentum that is now imposed on future generations. But we have the tools to make it better.
Join a panel of industry leaders, and local experts to examine the disruptive technologies, renewable energies, and broad political policies that are potential pathways for effective action and meaningful solutions that can help mitigate the impact of climate change. Look at the obstacles to change, including the challenge to communicate the science behind climate change and the impact of climate change beyond politics to view the problem from a risk perspective. See examples of working collaborations between universities, public and private sectors, and NGO’s, who are together, playing a critical role in the discovery of theoretical and actionable solutions to climate change through research, the implementation of educational programs, and community engagement.
This is a free event.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/hubweek-managing-impact-climate-change#sthash.wsD98Wds.dpuf
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Harvard Innovation Lab Startup Showcase and Celebration
WHEN Wed., Oct. 7, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Information Technology, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Innovation Lab
DETAILS Harvard Innovation Lab, a resource for fostering vibrant, sustainable, disruptive, and global ventures, will host an Open House and Startup Showcase. Successful ventures incubated at the Innovation Lab will return to demonstrate their product, and discuss their work. The greater Boston community is invited to learn about the latest trends launching into the tech industry, the resources needed for moving an idea into market, the balance of investing in research and development, and the importance of mentoring. Join entrepreneurs and innovators for lively Open House focused on sharing big ideas, and fostering new ones.
LINK https://i-lab.harvard.edu/calendar-event/hub-week-open-house-and-showcase
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Solve: Learn Roundtable
Wednesday, October 7
Time: 5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E40, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://solve.mit.edu/MITregistration
SOLVE
Solve is a cross-disciplinary leadership program led by MIT to convene the change agents who are addressing the world's most pressing challenges in healthcare, energy, the environment, education, food & water, civil infrastructure and the economy. Solve takes a pragmatic and collaborate approach that brings urgency to these difficult problems, examines essential questions and drives consensus to discover what we know and need to know in order to set a course to a solution. Through a process of continual evaluation and re-calibration, the program seeks to drive substantial and positive action to solve these real-world problems.
Solve will convene its inaugural meeting October 5-8 on the MIT Campus, inviting 350 business, research, philanthropic, and policy leaders who share MIT's commitment to addressing these global issues. Solve will take place during Boston's HUBweek, as city-wide festival that celebrates the innovation, creative arts, and culture of the city. Ticketholders may join the public sessions of Solve.
Web site: solve.mit.edu/MITregistration
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0
Tickets: online
Sponsor(s): Office of the President, Technology Review, HUBweek
For more information, contact: Solve
solve@mit.edu
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Harvard Innovation Lab Startup Showcase and Celebration
WHEN Wed., Oct. 7, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Information Technology, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Innovation Lab
DETAILS Harvard Innovation Lab, a resource for fostering vibrant, sustainable, disruptive, and global ventures, will host an Open House and Startup Showcase. Successful ventures incubated at the Innovation Lab will return to demonstrate their product, and discuss their work. The greater Boston community is invited to learn about the latest trends launching into the tech industry, the resources needed for moving an idea into market, the balance of investing in research and development, and the importance of mentoring. Join entrepreneurs and innovators for lively Open House focused on sharing big ideas, and fostering new ones.
LINK https://i-lab.harvard.edu/calendar-event/hub-week-open-house-and-showcase
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Transit Tools Technology Public Test Workshop
Wednesday, October 7
Wednesday, October 7
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
Roxbury Innovation Center, 2300 Washington Street, 2nd floor, Roxbury
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/transit-tools-technology-public-test-workshop-tickets-18804870875
What if you could share your ideas about how to improve public transportation?
Researchers from MIT’s Mobility Futures Collaborative and the Changing Places Lab are designing interactive public transit planning programs and need the community’s advice.
We need YOUR HELP!
Test your ideas with interactive LEGO and mapping tools & HAVE FUN!
Explore if Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) could lead to a better connected Boston.
Join us on either of these dates and times:
Launch Event
Wed. Oct. 7 5:30 PM
Community Workshops
Thu. Oct. 8 2:00 - 4:00PM
Fri. Oct. 9 4:00 - 6:00PM
Sat. Oct. 10 10:00AM - noon 1:00PM - 3:00PM 4:00 - 6:00PM
Drop-in Exhibits
Sun. Oct. 11 through Wed. Oct. 14 11:30AM - 6:30PM
IMPORTANT: You must RSVP so we know how many people will participate in which workshop and provide enough refreshments. Limited seating per session.
REGISTER at www.tinyurl.com/BRTtools
Refreshments will be provided.
What if you could share your ideas about how to improve public transportation?
Researchers from MIT’s Mobility Futures Collaborative and the Changing Places Lab are designing interactive public transit planning programs and need the community’s advice.
We need YOUR HELP!
Test your ideas with interactive LEGO and mapping tools & HAVE FUN!
Explore if Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) could lead to a better connected Boston.
Join us on either of these dates and times:
Launch Event
Wed. Oct. 7 5:30 PM
Community Workshops
Thu. Oct. 8 2:00 - 4:00PM
Fri. Oct. 9 4:00 - 6:00PM
Sat. Oct. 10 10:00AM - noon 1:00PM - 3:00PM 4:00 - 6:00PM
Drop-in Exhibits
Sun. Oct. 11 through Wed. Oct. 14 11:30AM - 6:30PM
IMPORTANT: You must RSVP so we know how many people will participate in which workshop and provide enough refreshments. Limited seating per session.
REGISTER at www.tinyurl.com/BRTtools
Refreshments will be provided.
Editorial Comment: Interactive LEGO is a model of a neighborhood which can be transformed with different models of buildings and as the neighborhood changes a display will show the changes in traffic patterns and other information. I've seen videos of this tool and it is transformative. I'd like to see it expanded and included in a version of Buckminster Fuller's World Game. Note the different dates for other workshops.
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Boston: Breaking Into the Startup Ecosystem
Boston is at the center of the global innovation and technology ecosystem. With our world-class colleges and universities, supportive leadership, density and diversity, there is no better place to launch a career in the tech field.
Come network and meet our incredible panelists who will be giving attendees tips on how to navigate the Boston startup scene.
Moderator:
Devin Cole, Director of Business Development, Workbar
Panelists:
David Chang, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Harvard Business School
Meredith Sandiford, Executive Director, The Capital Network & Greenhorn Connec
Allan Telio, VP & Boston Director, Startup Institute
And special thanks to Workbar Cambridge for hosting us!
Wednesday, October 7
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-breaking-into-the-startup-ecosystem-tickets-18692985222
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-breaking-into-the-startup-ecosystem-tickets-18692985222
Come network and meet our incredible panelists who will be giving attendees tips on how to navigate the Boston startup scene.
Moderator:
Devin Cole, Director of Business Development, Workbar
Panelists:
David Chang, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Harvard Business School
Meredith Sandiford, Executive Director, The Capital Network & Greenhorn Connec
Allan Telio, VP & Boston Director, Startup Institute
And special thanks to Workbar Cambridge for hosting us!
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Soap Box - Re: Making Life - Breaking the "SynBio Barrier"
Wednesday, October 7
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Pamela Silver, Peter Carr
Join us on Wednesday evenings this October for a series of discussions about synthetic biology. Add your voice to the conversation while meeting new people and learning about state-of-the-art science and technology!
Free.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu
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Soap Box - Re: Making Life - Breaking the "SynBio Barrier"
Wednesday, October 7
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Pamela Silver, Peter Carr
Join us on Wednesday evenings this October for a series of discussions about synthetic biology. Add your voice to the conversation while meeting new people and learning about state-of-the-art science and technology!
Free.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu
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Science by the Pint @ Aeronaut: Convergent Evolution
Wednesday, October 7
6:30pm
Aeronaut Brewing Company, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville
Please RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/907072242680754/
Note: Aeronaut does not serve food, but allows you to bring in food from outside vendors.
Dr. Janet Browne and Dr. Andrew Berry
Janet and Andrew presented with SBTP at the Burren March 2015, and are back by popular demand! Join us at Aeronaut Brewery for a debate: to whom should we attribute the theory of evolution, Charles Darwin or Alfred Russel Wallace? Two historians of science (and long-time friends) will present their perspectives on the contributions of each naturalist, including comical and fascinating anecdotes on each man’s historic travels to collect specimens from the New World for analysis.
Prof Janet Browne has studied Darwin’s life and writings in depth. Prof. Andrew Berry studies historical and modern methods of evolutionary biology, and has studied the works of Alfred Russel Wallace.
Please RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/907072242680754/
Note: Aeronaut does not serve food, but allows you to bring in food from outside vendors.
Dr. Janet Browne and Dr. Andrew Berry
Janet and Andrew presented with SBTP at the Burren March 2015, and are back by popular demand! Join us at Aeronaut Brewery for a debate: to whom should we attribute the theory of evolution, Charles Darwin or Alfred Russel Wallace? Two historians of science (and long-time friends) will present their perspectives on the contributions of each naturalist, including comical and fascinating anecdotes on each man’s historic travels to collect specimens from the New World for analysis.
Prof Janet Browne has studied Darwin’s life and writings in depth. Prof. Andrew Berry studies historical and modern methods of evolutionary biology, and has studied the works of Alfred Russel Wallace.
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Dispatches From The Front Lines of Climate Justice
Wednesday, October 7
7 pm
First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue
Journalist and author Wen Stephenson discusses his new book What We’re Fighting For Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice. Stephenson provides a candid look at some of the “new American radicals” who are risking everything to build a stronger climate justice movement. What motivates them? How can individual, local actions really affect a larger global movement?
Come and learn more or take part in the dialogue with others.
More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org/?p=2894
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Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age
Wednesday, October 7
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes editor of Boston University-based journal AGNI SVEN BIRKERTS for a discussion of his latest book, Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age.
In 1994, Sven Birkerts published The Gutenberg Elegies, his celebrated rallying cry to resist the oncoming digital advances, especially those that might affect the way we read literature and experience art—the very cultural activities that make us human.
After two decades of rampant change, Birkerts has allowed a degree of everyday digital technology into his life. He refuses to use a smartphone, but communicates via e-mail and spends some time reading online. In Changing the Subject, he examines the changes that he observes in himself and others—the distraction when reading on the screen; the loss of personal agency through reliance on GPS and one-stop information resources; an increasing acceptance of "hive" behaviors. "An unprecedented shift is underway," he argues, and "this transformation is dramatically accelerated and more psychologically formative than any previous technological innovation." He finds solace in engagement with art, particularly literature, and he brilliantly describes the countering energy available to us through acts of sustained attention, even as he worries that our increasingly mediated existences are not conducive to creativity.
It is impossible to read Changing the Subject without coming away with a renewed sense of what is lost by our wholesale acceptance of digital innovation and what is regained when we immerse ourselves in a good book.
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Dispatches From The Front Lines of Climate Justice
Wednesday, October 7
7 pm
First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue
Journalist and author Wen Stephenson discusses his new book What We’re Fighting For Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice. Stephenson provides a candid look at some of the “new American radicals” who are risking everything to build a stronger climate justice movement. What motivates them? How can individual, local actions really affect a larger global movement?
Come and learn more or take part in the dialogue with others.
More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org/?p=2894
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Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age
Wednesday, October 7
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes editor of Boston University-based journal AGNI SVEN BIRKERTS for a discussion of his latest book, Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age.
In 1994, Sven Birkerts published The Gutenberg Elegies, his celebrated rallying cry to resist the oncoming digital advances, especially those that might affect the way we read literature and experience art—the very cultural activities that make us human.
After two decades of rampant change, Birkerts has allowed a degree of everyday digital technology into his life. He refuses to use a smartphone, but communicates via e-mail and spends some time reading online. In Changing the Subject, he examines the changes that he observes in himself and others—the distraction when reading on the screen; the loss of personal agency through reliance on GPS and one-stop information resources; an increasing acceptance of "hive" behaviors. "An unprecedented shift is underway," he argues, and "this transformation is dramatically accelerated and more psychologically formative than any previous technological innovation." He finds solace in engagement with art, particularly literature, and he brilliantly describes the countering energy available to us through acts of sustained attention, even as he worries that our increasingly mediated existences are not conducive to creativity.
It is impossible to read Changing the Subject without coming away with a renewed sense of what is lost by our wholesale acceptance of digital innovation and what is regained when we immerse ourselves in a good book.
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The Highs and Lows of Medical Marijuana: Marijuana's effects on physiology, health, and society
Wednesday, October 7
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Wednesday Night Journalism Movie Series
WHEN Wed., Oct. 7, 2015, 7:40 – 9:40 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Hall 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) Christopher Borrelli, Nieman Fellow '16 and feature writer at the Chicago Tribune will present "Shattered Glass." A question and answer period will follow the film screening.
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO jerlick@fas.harvard.edu
WHEN Wed., Oct. 7, 2015, 7:40 – 9:40 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Hall 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) Christopher Borrelli, Nieman Fellow '16 and feature writer at the Chicago Tribune will present "Shattered Glass." A question and answer period will follow the film screening.
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO jerlick@fas.harvard.edu
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US Conference of Mayors' Community Development & Housing Committee Town Hall
Wednesday, October 7
7:45 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Roxbury Community College - Media Arts Center, 1234 Columbus Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-conference-of-mayors-community-development-housing-committee-town-hall-tickets-17971821201
The US Conference of Mayors’ Community Development and Housing Committee, chaired by Newton, MA Mayor Setti Warren, convenes in Boston for the launch of a new initiative to strengthen pathways to the middle class and beyond. Join a town hall discussion at Roxbury Community College, where mayors from across the country will talk about what is being done to connect people with the economic opportunities they and their families need to be financially independent as well as potential strategies and a framework for promoting the innovation economy in a way that provides access to economic growth for all.
This is a free event.
Confirmed speakers include:
Welcomes & Remarks
Panelists
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Thursday, October 8
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Undersea Research and the Future of Science
Thursday, October
10am - Noon
Harvard University
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harvardundersea-research-and-the-future-of-science-tickets-18501263778
***Due to the limited number of spots for this adventure, exact location will be shared with those who are accepted to join HUBweek and Ideas in Action on this adventure.***
Explore the underground laboratory of Dr. Peter Gurguis, and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. In his labyrinth of underwater discoveries, meet the creatures that sparked animators' imagination for Finding Nemo. Shed some light on modern oceanographic research and how the deep sea and its denizens play a critical role in supporting all life on Earth. Hear how renewable energy is finally becoming competitive with fossil-fuel sources. Finally, find out how discoveries in natural ecosystems are being used to treat and cure disease.
Though the deep sea represents the vast majority of our biosphere, we have literally seen less of our ocean floor than we’ve seen of the surface of Mars. Nonetheless, the deep sea is a critical part of our ecosystem, and the Girguis lab at Harvard University is committed to understanding how animals and microbes make a living in the deep sea. Their lab features some of the best-preserved deep sea specimens, a live high-definition video feed from the sea floor, one of the world’s few deep sea simulation facilities, and novel deep sea sensors developed in the lab. A visit to the lab will include all of these aspects, and ends with a visit to their underground research facility, which is currently under renovation. Notably, the Girguis lab is also working towards developing a “maker space” for ocean science instruments in this underground lair, and Professor Girguis is looking to get your thoughts on how to establish and operate such a space. A tour of the Girguis lab takes you down into the deep, dark sea…right here in your own town.
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The US Conference of Mayors’ Community Development and Housing Committee, chaired by Newton, MA Mayor Setti Warren, convenes in Boston for the launch of a new initiative to strengthen pathways to the middle class and beyond. Join a town hall discussion at Roxbury Community College, where mayors from across the country will talk about what is being done to connect people with the economic opportunities they and their families need to be financially independent as well as potential strategies and a framework for promoting the innovation economy in a way that provides access to economic growth for all.
This is a free event.
Confirmed speakers include:
Welcomes & Remarks
Mayor Marty Walsh (Boston, MA)
President Drew Faust (Harvard University)
President Valerie Roberson (Roxbury Community College)
Moderator: Brian McGrory (Boston Globe)Panelists
Mayor Greg Fischer (Louisville, KY)
Richard Reeves (The Brookings Institution)
President Valerie Roberson (Roxbury Community College)
Mayor Ashley Swearengin (Fresno, CA)
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Thursday, October 8
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Undersea Research and the Future of Science
Thursday, October
10am - Noon
Harvard University
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harvardundersea-research-and-the-future-of-science-tickets-18501263778
***Due to the limited number of spots for this adventure, exact location will be shared with those who are accepted to join HUBweek and Ideas in Action on this adventure.***
Explore the underground laboratory of Dr. Peter Gurguis, and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. In his labyrinth of underwater discoveries, meet the creatures that sparked animators' imagination for Finding Nemo. Shed some light on modern oceanographic research and how the deep sea and its denizens play a critical role in supporting all life on Earth. Hear how renewable energy is finally becoming competitive with fossil-fuel sources. Finally, find out how discoveries in natural ecosystems are being used to treat and cure disease.
Though the deep sea represents the vast majority of our biosphere, we have literally seen less of our ocean floor than we’ve seen of the surface of Mars. Nonetheless, the deep sea is a critical part of our ecosystem, and the Girguis lab at Harvard University is committed to understanding how animals and microbes make a living in the deep sea. Their lab features some of the best-preserved deep sea specimens, a live high-definition video feed from the sea floor, one of the world’s few deep sea simulation facilities, and novel deep sea sensors developed in the lab. A visit to the lab will include all of these aspects, and ends with a visit to their underground research facility, which is currently under renovation. Notably, the Girguis lab is also working towards developing a “maker space” for ocean science instruments in this underground lair, and Professor Girguis is looking to get your thoughts on how to establish and operate such a space. A tour of the Girguis lab takes you down into the deep, dark sea…right here in your own town.
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Green Transportation Celebration
WHEN Thu., Oct. 8, 2015, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE The Plaza, outside the Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Special Events, Support/Social, Sustainability, Wellness/Work Life
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Commuter Choice
DETAILS The second annual Green Transportation Celebration on the Plaza is fast approaching. New this year, take a glimpse into the future of sustainable transportation. CommuterChoice and their transportation partners will feature the many options for making your travel safer, healthier, and more efficient. The overall goal of this event is to raise awareness about the many sustainable transportation options Harvard offers, and free food and prizes will be available to participants. You will also be able to learn about programs such as Hubway, Zipcar, Shuttle Services and more.
LINK http://www.transportation.harvard.edu/green-transportation-celebration
WHEN Thu., Oct. 8, 2015, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE The Plaza, outside the Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Special Events, Support/Social, Sustainability, Wellness/Work Life
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Commuter Choice
DETAILS The second annual Green Transportation Celebration on the Plaza is fast approaching. New this year, take a glimpse into the future of sustainable transportation. CommuterChoice and their transportation partners will feature the many options for making your travel safer, healthier, and more efficient. The overall goal of this event is to raise awareness about the many sustainable transportation options Harvard offers, and free food and prizes will be available to participants. You will also be able to learn about programs such as Hubway, Zipcar, Shuttle Services and more.
LINK http://www.transportation.harvard.edu/green-transportation-celebration
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Report from the front line
Thursday, October 8
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Carolyn Kirk, Deputy Secretary, Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and former Mayor of Gloucester
Mayors and other municipal leaders in coastal communities are on the front lines of confronting the challenges posed by climate change, sea level rise, and extreme weather. In Gloucester, Massachusetts, a coastal city north of Boston, these challenges hit on almost every aspect of the community from adapting the economy to a sustainable fishery to advances in the city's emergency management response to ensuring that new development meets standards of resiliency. Not only does the municipality have to respond to our changing environment, but citizens do as well. Carolyn A. Kirk will share her experience as Mayor for seven years in Gloucester in confronting these challenges but also show how citizens were inspired to do their part as well.
Carolyn A. Kirk joined the Administration of Governor Charlie Baker and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito in January of 2015 and serves as the Deputy Secretary of the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development. In this position, Ms. Kirk leads operational management and shares policy responsibility for the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Mass. Office of Business Development and its ancillary agencies of Mass. Travel and Tourism, the Mass. Marketing Partnership, and the Mass. Office of International Trade and Investment. In addition, Ms. Kirk is responsible for economic planning and growth in the Maritime economic sector, oversees the MassWorks grant program, and provides direct support to the Lieutenant Governor's office on a number of initiatives.
Prior to her appointment with the Baker/Polito administration, in 2007 Ms. Kirk was the first woman popularly elected as Mayor of the City of Gloucester. She went on to win three subsequent general municipal elections and never lost a ward or a precinct in any of her contests and served as Mayor for seven years. Kirk's administration invested over $100million in infrastructure thus laying the groundwork for future economic growth.
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Report from the front line
Thursday, October 8
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Carolyn Kirk, Deputy Secretary, Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and former Mayor of Gloucester
Mayors and other municipal leaders in coastal communities are on the front lines of confronting the challenges posed by climate change, sea level rise, and extreme weather. In Gloucester, Massachusetts, a coastal city north of Boston, these challenges hit on almost every aspect of the community from adapting the economy to a sustainable fishery to advances in the city's emergency management response to ensuring that new development meets standards of resiliency. Not only does the municipality have to respond to our changing environment, but citizens do as well. Carolyn A. Kirk will share her experience as Mayor for seven years in Gloucester in confronting these challenges but also show how citizens were inspired to do their part as well.
Carolyn A. Kirk joined the Administration of Governor Charlie Baker and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito in January of 2015 and serves as the Deputy Secretary of the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development. In this position, Ms. Kirk leads operational management and shares policy responsibility for the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Mass. Office of Business Development and its ancillary agencies of Mass. Travel and Tourism, the Mass. Marketing Partnership, and the Mass. Office of International Trade and Investment. In addition, Ms. Kirk is responsible for economic planning and growth in the Maritime economic sector, oversees the MassWorks grant program, and provides direct support to the Lieutenant Governor's office on a number of initiatives.
Prior to her appointment with the Baker/Polito administration, in 2007 Ms. Kirk was the first woman popularly elected as Mayor of the City of Gloucester. She went on to win three subsequent general municipal elections and never lost a ward or a precinct in any of her contests and served as Mayor for seven years. Kirk's administration invested over $100million in infrastructure thus laying the groundwork for future economic growth.
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HUBweek event: Inside Kendall Square - MIT Media Lab - Robots, Drones, Open AG and more
Thursday, October 8
12:00p–5:00p
MIT Media Lab, E14-lobby, 75 Amherst Street (corner of Amherst and Ames), Cambridge
Get up close for a taste of the Lab's unique anti-disciplinary culture. Test drive, tour, and view technologies pioneered on the edges, from 3-D printed glass to indoor farming to polymers being used to expand brain tissue.
Web site: hubweek.org/inside-kendall-square
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Tickets: No tickets required
Sponsor(s): Office of the President, Technology Review, HUBweek
For more information, contact: Kathryn Liede
617-253-8280
kliede@mit.edu
12:00p–5:00p
MIT Media Lab, E14-lobby, 75 Amherst Street (corner of Amherst and Ames), Cambridge
Get up close for a taste of the Lab's unique anti-disciplinary culture. Test drive, tour, and view technologies pioneered on the edges, from 3-D printed glass to indoor farming to polymers being used to expand brain tissue.
Web site: hubweek.org/inside-kendall-square
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Tickets: No tickets required
Sponsor(s): Office of the President, Technology Review, HUBweek
For more information, contact: Kathryn Liede
617-253-8280
kliede@mit.edu
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Jaron Lanier: The Digital Economy Since "Who Owns the Future?"
WHEN Thu., Oct. 8, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Ethics, Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, writer, and musician. He coined the terms "vrtual reality" and "mixed reality." He is currently interdisciplinary scientist at Microsoft Research.
CONTACT INFO tim_bailey@hks.harvard.edu, 617.495.8209
DETAILS Jaron Lanier is currently interdisciplinary scientist at Microsoft Research. Both of his books (“Who Owns the Future?” and “You Are Not a Gadget”) have been international bestsellers and prominently hailed as among the most influential books of recent years. In this talk, Lanier will address the relationship between information technology and the digital economy, and his thesis on how recent economic events (including income inequality, insecurity for vast numbers of ordinary workers, and declining prospects for the young in the developed economies) are symptomatic of the misuse of information technology to create a surveillance/command economy instead of a genuine market economy.
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/jaron-lanier-speaker-series/
WHEN Thu., Oct. 8, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Ethics, Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, writer, and musician. He coined the terms "vrtual reality" and "mixed reality." He is currently interdisciplinary scientist at Microsoft Research.
CONTACT INFO tim_bailey@hks.harvard.edu, 617.495.8209
DETAILS Jaron Lanier is currently interdisciplinary scientist at Microsoft Research. Both of his books (“Who Owns the Future?” and “You Are Not a Gadget”) have been international bestsellers and prominently hailed as among the most influential books of recent years. In this talk, Lanier will address the relationship between information technology and the digital economy, and his thesis on how recent economic events (including income inequality, insecurity for vast numbers of ordinary workers, and declining prospects for the young in the developed economies) are symptomatic of the misuse of information technology to create a surveillance/command economy instead of a genuine market economy.
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/jaron-lanier-speaker-series/
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Dissolve Unconference: A Summit at MIT on Inequality
Thursday, October 8
1:30p–4:30p
MIT, Building 32, In SOLVE Pavilion, on lawn near Stata, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Join a discussion on inequality featuring faculty and students from MIT and Harvard. This unconference asks: How can we dissolve the structures of power that produce today's inequalities? Summit features 10-minute ignite sessions (talk/discussion) on central topics of our time: climate change; civic media; black lives matter; gender inequality; society and economy from anthropological and humanist perspectives; community activism and co-design; affordable DIY health solutions; and more. The final hour will focus on open discussion and networking, including art and light food. Cambridge-based Toscanini's owner Gus Rancatore will also unveil a new ice cream flavor called "This is what democracy tastes like." Speakers include anthropologists, media theorists, activists, and more. For more details, go to mitdissolve.com
Web site: mitdissolve.com
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): MIT Global Studies and Languages
For more information, contact: Ian Condry
617-452-2676
condry@mit.edu
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What's the Buzz on Urban Bees?
Thursday, October 8
3:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
Marriott Plaza in Kendall Square, 315 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/whats-the-buzz-on-urban-bees-registration-18447676497
Meet our city beekeepers, taste the local honey, build your own take-home bee hotel and find out how you can help foster ecological sustainability in your own back yard.
Hosted by The Urban Beekeeping Laboratory & Bee Sanctuary, this event is part of HUBweek's Inside Kendall Square, a moveable feast of events on Thursday, October 8 that invite the community to visit innovative labs and connect with thought leaders at iconic institutions. Visit hubweek.org to explore all the other activities and programs at HUBweek and in Kendall Square.
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Synthetic Biology: Science, Policy, and Ethics
Thursday, October 8
4:00 PM
Harvard Law School, Casperson Student Center, Harkness South Dining Room (205), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Synthetic biology, "which aims to apply standardized engineering techniques to biology and thereby create organisms or biological systems with novel or specialized functions to address countless needs,”* offers the potential for tremendous benefit, alongside a range of possible risks. How should these benefits and risks be balanced, from a scientific, ethical, and policy perspective? Please join us for a discussion of these issues with a leader in the field of synthetic biology and an expert in risk regulation and policy.
Panelists:
George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of PersonalGenomes.org
Adam Finkel, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Penn Program on Regulation
This event is free and open to the public.
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Dissolve Unconference: A Summit at MIT on Inequality
Thursday, October 8
1:30p–4:30p
MIT, Building 32, In SOLVE Pavilion, on lawn near Stata, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Join a discussion on inequality featuring faculty and students from MIT and Harvard. This unconference asks: How can we dissolve the structures of power that produce today's inequalities? Summit features 10-minute ignite sessions (talk/discussion) on central topics of our time: climate change; civic media; black lives matter; gender inequality; society and economy from anthropological and humanist perspectives; community activism and co-design; affordable DIY health solutions; and more. The final hour will focus on open discussion and networking, including art and light food. Cambridge-based Toscanini's owner Gus Rancatore will also unveil a new ice cream flavor called "This is what democracy tastes like." Speakers include anthropologists, media theorists, activists, and more. For more details, go to mitdissolve.com
Web site: mitdissolve.com
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): MIT Global Studies and Languages
For more information, contact: Ian Condry
617-452-2676
condry@mit.edu
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What's the Buzz on Urban Bees?
Thursday, October 8
3:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
Marriott Plaza in Kendall Square, 315 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/whats-the-buzz-on-urban-bees-registration-18447676497
Meet our city beekeepers, taste the local honey, build your own take-home bee hotel and find out how you can help foster ecological sustainability in your own back yard.
Hosted by The Urban Beekeeping Laboratory & Bee Sanctuary, this event is part of HUBweek's Inside Kendall Square, a moveable feast of events on Thursday, October 8 that invite the community to visit innovative labs and connect with thought leaders at iconic institutions. Visit hubweek.org to explore all the other activities and programs at HUBweek and in Kendall Square.
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Synthetic Biology: Science, Policy, and Ethics
Thursday, October 8
4:00 PM
Harvard Law School, Casperson Student Center, Harkness South Dining Room (205), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Synthetic biology, "which aims to apply standardized engineering techniques to biology and thereby create organisms or biological systems with novel or specialized functions to address countless needs,”* offers the potential for tremendous benefit, alongside a range of possible risks. How should these benefits and risks be balanced, from a scientific, ethical, and policy perspective? Please join us for a discussion of these issues with a leader in the field of synthetic biology and an expert in risk regulation and policy.
Panelists:
George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of PersonalGenomes.org
Adam Finkel, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Penn Program on Regulation
This event is free and open to the public.
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Taking the Stand: Live Conversation with Nazi-Era Witness
WHEN Thu., Oct. 8, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Emerson Hall 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Lecture, Religion, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Club of Austria, Laura and Lorenz Reibling Foundation
SPEAKER(S) Bernhard Rammerstorfer, Hermine Liska
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO harvardaustria@gmail.com
DETAILS Author and award-winning filmmaker Bernhard Rammerstorfer interviews Hermine Liska, survivor of the Nazi regime, as part of a national tour across the United States to introduce high school and college students to experiences of this oppressed generation. Born into a family of Jehovah‘s Witnesses, a religious group rejecting Nazi ideology, Liska was forced to take part in a Nazi reeducation program. Rammerstorfer has conducted several projects concerning survivors of the Nazi regime and hopes to provide a forum for interaction between its survivors and people interested in hearing first-hand accounts of life during World War II.
LINK www.takingthestand.net
WHEN Thu., Oct. 8, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Emerson Hall 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Lecture, Religion, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Club of Austria, Laura and Lorenz Reibling Foundation
SPEAKER(S) Bernhard Rammerstorfer, Hermine Liska
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO harvardaustria@gmail.com
DETAILS Author and award-winning filmmaker Bernhard Rammerstorfer interviews Hermine Liska, survivor of the Nazi regime, as part of a national tour across the United States to introduce high school and college students to experiences of this oppressed generation. Born into a family of Jehovah‘s Witnesses, a religious group rejecting Nazi ideology, Liska was forced to take part in a Nazi reeducation program. Rammerstorfer has conducted several projects concerning survivors of the Nazi regime and hopes to provide a forum for interaction between its survivors and people interested in hearing first-hand accounts of life during World War II.
LINK www.takingthestand.net
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Sony After the Hack: Lessons in Leadership
WHEN Thu., Oct. 8, 2015, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Memorial Church, One Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Information Technology, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Business Review
COST Free and open to the public; registration required
DETAILS Harvard Business Review Editor-in-Chief, Adi Ignatius, will host a conversation with Michael Lynton, CEO of Sony Entertainment about leadership and adaptation amidst disruption in the wake of one of the most prominent hacks in corporate history. Join a discussion that explores the unique opportunities presented during a crisis to strengthen and reevaluate organizational culture while examining the evolution and intersection of business technology, security, and privacy.
LINK https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sony-after-the-hack-lessons-in-leadership-tickets-18268635982
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Synthetic Biology: Science, Policy, and Ethics
WHEN Thu., Oct. 8, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Casperson Student Center, Harkness South Dining Room (205), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Law, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Law School
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Synthetic biology, "which aims to apply standardized engineering techniques to biology and thereby create organisms or biological systems with novel or specialized functions to address countless needs,”* offers the potential for tremendous benefit, alongside a range of possible risks. How should these benefits and risks be balanced, from a scientific, ethical, and policy perspective? Please join us for a discussion of these issues with a leader in the field of synthetic biology and an expert in risk regulation and policy.
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Sony After the Hack: Lessons in Leadership
WHEN Thu., Oct. 8, 2015, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Memorial Church, One Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Information Technology, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Business Review
COST Free and open to the public; registration required
DETAILS Harvard Business Review Editor-in-Chief, Adi Ignatius, will host a conversation with Michael Lynton, CEO of Sony Entertainment about leadership and adaptation amidst disruption in the wake of one of the most prominent hacks in corporate history. Join a discussion that explores the unique opportunities presented during a crisis to strengthen and reevaluate organizational culture while examining the evolution and intersection of business technology, security, and privacy.
LINK https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sony-after-the-hack-lessons-in-leadership-tickets-18268635982
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Synthetic Biology: Science, Policy, and Ethics
WHEN Thu., Oct. 8, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Casperson Student Center, Harkness South Dining Room (205), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Law, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Law School
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Synthetic biology, "which aims to apply standardized engineering techniques to biology and thereby create organisms or biological systems with novel or specialized functions to address countless needs,”* offers the potential for tremendous benefit, alongside a range of possible risks. How should these benefits and risks be balanced, from a scientific, ethical, and policy perspective? Please join us for a discussion of these issues with a leader in the field of synthetic biology and an expert in risk regulation and policy.
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Hard Choices
Thursday, October 8
Thursday, October 8
5:00pm
Harvard, Emerson Hall 210, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Harvard, Emerson Hall 210, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
A public lecture by Ruth Chang, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University
What makes a choice hard? Chang will examine four common explanations and find them wanting. She will propose a fifth. Her proposed explanation underwrites a novel view of rational agency relevant not only to individual but also to collective rational choice.
What makes a choice hard? Chang will examine four common explanations and find them wanting. She will propose a fifth. Her proposed explanation underwrites a novel view of rational agency relevant not only to individual but also to collective rational choice.
Free and open to the public; no ticket required.
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From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future by Studying the Past
Thursday, October 8
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 3-270, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
For thousands of years, humans have experienced cycles of empire building and retreat, from the neolithic settlers of Levant and the Indus Valley to the ancient Cahokia and Maya civilizations. What can new discoveries teach us about how to plan our next thousand years as a global civilization? Authors Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz will talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on current problems with urbanization, food security, and environmental change.
Charles C. Mann is the author, most recently, of 1493, a New York Times best-seller, and 1491, winner of the National Academies of Science's Keck award for best book of the year. His next project, The Wizard and the Prophet, is a book about the future that makes no predictions. An early version of the introductory chapter was a finalist for a National Magazine Award.
Annalee Newitz writes science nonfiction and science fiction. She's editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and founding editor of io9.com. She's the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, which was a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her work has appeared in publications from The New Yorker and Technology Review to 2600 and Lightspeed Magazine. Her next book is a novel about robots, pirates, and the future of property laws.
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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The Healing Arts of Music and Medicine
Thursday, October 8
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Russell Museum, 2 North Grove Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-healing-arts-of-music-and-medicine-tickets-17681066546
Lisa Wong, MD, is a Mass General Hospital pediatrician, president of Longwood Symphony and author of Scales to Scalpels about the healing power of music. Dr. Wong will be joined by Mass General’s music therapist and members of the Longwood Symphony who represent Boston hospitals.
This program is part of the Perspectives in Healing: Women in Medicine Series
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From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future by Studying the Past
Thursday, October 8
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 3-270, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
For thousands of years, humans have experienced cycles of empire building and retreat, from the neolithic settlers of Levant and the Indus Valley to the ancient Cahokia and Maya civilizations. What can new discoveries teach us about how to plan our next thousand years as a global civilization? Authors Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz will talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on current problems with urbanization, food security, and environmental change.
Charles C. Mann is the author, most recently, of 1493, a New York Times best-seller, and 1491, winner of the National Academies of Science's Keck award for best book of the year. His next project, The Wizard and the Prophet, is a book about the future that makes no predictions. An early version of the introductory chapter was a finalist for a National Magazine Award.
Annalee Newitz writes science nonfiction and science fiction. She's editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and founding editor of io9.com. She's the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, which was a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her work has appeared in publications from The New Yorker and Technology Review to 2600 and Lightspeed Magazine. Her next book is a novel about robots, pirates, and the future of property laws.
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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The Healing Arts of Music and Medicine
Thursday, October 8
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Russell Museum, 2 North Grove Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-healing-arts-of-music-and-medicine-tickets-17681066546
Lisa Wong, MD, is a Mass General Hospital pediatrician, president of Longwood Symphony and author of Scales to Scalpels about the healing power of music. Dr. Wong will be joined by Mass General’s music therapist and members of the Longwood Symphony who represent Boston hospitals.
This program is part of the Perspectives in Healing: Women in Medicine Series
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Climate Protection Action Committee
Thursday, October 8
6:00 pm
City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway, Cambridge
The October meeting will focus on follow ups to the September meeting with the City Manager and general committee business. The agenda for the meeting will be posted on the Community Development Department website: http://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/climateandenergy/climatechangeplanning/climateprotectionactioncommittee/olderagendasandminutes.aspx
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On Beauty: Emily Eveleth and David Tester
Thursday, October 8
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 415 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/on-beauty-emily-eveleth-and-david-tester-tickets-18448743689
Cultural construct or biological predisposition? Explore the concept of beauty with painter Emily Eveleth, and Senior Software Engineer at Google and Visiting Researcher at the Broad Institute, David Tester, in a spirited conversation on the ways in which beauty resonates, overlaps, influences and emerges in both worlds. Reception to follow.
Hosted by Catalyst Conversations, this event is part of HUBweek's Inside Kendall Square, a moveable feast of events on Thursday, October 8 that invite the community to visit innovative labs and connect with thought leaders at iconic institutions. Visit hubweek.org to explore all the other activities and programs at HUBweek and in Kendall Square.
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Fall Generator Dinner: IDEAS Global Challenge
Thursday, October 8
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 50-140, 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Working on a project to help underserved communities? Need funding?
Want to recruit new members for your IDEAS Global Challenge team?
Want to get involved, but don't yet have an idea?
Join us for dinner. Pitch an idea. Find a team.
This is one of the best venues to find a team to join, pitch your idea to woo and recruit teammates, or pitch your skills to get hired onto a team. With the first chance to submit a Scope Statement just a few weeks away (October 29, 2015), get started at this event!
Learn more about the IDEAS Global Challenge here: http://globalchallenge.mit.edu.
Web site: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-fall-generator-dinner-2015-tickets-17729165411?aff=mitcal
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free, but please RSVP
Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-fall-generator-dinner-2015-tickets-17729165411?aff=mitcal
Sponsor(s): IDEAS Global Challenge, MIT Public Service Center
For more information, contact: Keely Swan
globalchallenge@mit.edu
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pre-HONK!
Thursday, October 8
7pm – midnight
Union Square and Aeronaut, Somerville
Come out to Union Square in Somerville and get an early taste of the festival, before the festival! Get yourself ready for the weekend by checking out performances from a handful of HONK! bands who get into town early. Performances outside in Union Square Plaza and later at Aeronaut Brewing Company.
http://honkfest.org/2015-festival/schedule-2015/
On Beauty: Emily Eveleth and David Tester
Thursday, October 8
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 415 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/on-beauty-emily-eveleth-and-david-tester-tickets-18448743689
Cultural construct or biological predisposition? Explore the concept of beauty with painter Emily Eveleth, and Senior Software Engineer at Google and Visiting Researcher at the Broad Institute, David Tester, in a spirited conversation on the ways in which beauty resonates, overlaps, influences and emerges in both worlds. Reception to follow.
Hosted by Catalyst Conversations, this event is part of HUBweek's Inside Kendall Square, a moveable feast of events on Thursday, October 8 that invite the community to visit innovative labs and connect with thought leaders at iconic institutions. Visit hubweek.org to explore all the other activities and programs at HUBweek and in Kendall Square.
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Fall Generator Dinner: IDEAS Global Challenge
Thursday, October 8
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 50-140, 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Working on a project to help underserved communities? Need funding?
Want to recruit new members for your IDEAS Global Challenge team?
Want to get involved, but don't yet have an idea?
Join us for dinner. Pitch an idea. Find a team.
This is one of the best venues to find a team to join, pitch your idea to woo and recruit teammates, or pitch your skills to get hired onto a team. With the first chance to submit a Scope Statement just a few weeks away (October 29, 2015), get started at this event!
Learn more about the IDEAS Global Challenge here: http://globalchallenge.mit.edu.
Web site: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-fall-generator-dinner-2015-tickets-17729165411?aff=mitcal
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free, but please RSVP
Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-fall-generator-dinner-2015-tickets-17729165411?aff=mitcal
Sponsor(s): IDEAS Global Challenge, MIT Public Service Center
For more information, contact: Keely Swan
globalchallenge@mit.edu
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pre-HONK!
Thursday, October 8
7pm – midnight
Union Square and Aeronaut, Somerville
Come out to Union Square in Somerville and get an early taste of the festival, before the festival! Get yourself ready for the weekend by checking out performances from a handful of HONK! bands who get into town early. Performances outside in Union Square Plaza and later at Aeronaut Brewing Company.
http://honkfest.org/2015-festival/schedule-2015/
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Boston Area Solar Energy Association Forum: Off + On: The Climate Movement and the Road Through Paris
Thursday, October 8
Thursday, October 8
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; Presentation begins at 7:30 p.m
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist; 3 Church Street, Harvard Square
Oh! October is here already and our BASEA.org Forum is this Thursday, October 8th. Please plan to attend and invite a friend, as this will be a special 'movie night', with refreshments and conversation as always.
You know the maxim: Think Globally, Act Locally
There's been a lot of action locally, as the many who attended the Sep. 29th State House hearing can attest to - a packed room with a heavy presence of renewable energy advocates and our Mass Power Forward coalition partners. And today, the Boston Globe editors gave our movement a strong, supportive push, and a pushback against the narrow-minded approach floated by Governor Baker, who seems to blindly ingest the empty calories of the utilities' current advertising campaign, which blows smoke to suggest that solar is a burden.
But we know that big-picture thinking reveals solar energy to be a feast of benefits - and the Globe's editorial piece - "Save the Solar Incentives" - resoundingly calls this to the attention of its readership!
Friends, the iron is hot. Let's keep hammering* away with local action to forge a future of clean energy for Massachusetts citizens, towns and businesses.
And yes, 'Think Globally', like 350.org and our movie feature "Off + On: The Climate Movement and the Road Through Paris". Hard to believe, but November 2015 is almost here. The COP21, 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be held in Paris, from November 30 to December 11. It's been a long road: from Rio through Kyoto, Bali, Copenhagen and Cancun, Durban and Doha, Warsaw and Lima. Will Paris be the destination we seek - a triumphant homecoming and a point of departure toward a new direction for our global society?
The pope's encyclical, Laudato Si' - On Care For Our Common Home, released in June, clearly anticipates the Paris conference: "We know that technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels - especially coal, but also oil and, to a lesser degree, gas - needs to be progressively replaced without delay." The U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change declares that Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping "are committed to reaching an ambitious 2015 agreement", specifically referring to the Paris convocation.
350.org has a plan to bring all of us - civil society worldwide - together in a movement to deliver this message to Paris: "Keep fossil fuels in the ground - really, just stop digging and drilling - and start building renewable energy everywhere we can. Turn off the old kind of energy that's killing us, and turn on a renewable future. Do it now."
Come, watch, listen and discuss at the October 8th Forum of the Boston Area Solar Energy Association.
* Yes, you have a hammer - we all have hammers. Here, you will find the nails:
http://www.wheredoivotema.com
Go ahead and hit them!
Concentrate on your Representative, as the Senate's already passed a bill to lift net metering caps!
House Switchboard (617) 722-2000
You can ask your Rep. to urge Speaker DeLeo and Energy Chairman Golden to raise the net metering caps immediately. Finally, if you would, please report back to Sean at Vote Solar, who is graciously tracking our progress - email: sean@votesolar.org
Thank you!
You know the maxim: Think Globally, Act Locally
There's been a lot of action locally, as the many who attended the Sep. 29th State House hearing can attest to - a packed room with a heavy presence of renewable energy advocates and our Mass Power Forward coalition partners. And today, the Boston Globe editors gave our movement a strong, supportive push, and a pushback against the narrow-minded approach floated by Governor Baker, who seems to blindly ingest the empty calories of the utilities' current advertising campaign, which blows smoke to suggest that solar is a burden.
But we know that big-picture thinking reveals solar energy to be a feast of benefits - and the Globe's editorial piece - "Save the Solar Incentives" - resoundingly calls this to the attention of its readership!
Friends, the iron is hot. Let's keep hammering* away with local action to forge a future of clean energy for Massachusetts citizens, towns and businesses.
And yes, 'Think Globally', like 350.org and our movie feature "Off + On: The Climate Movement and the Road Through Paris". Hard to believe, but November 2015 is almost here. The COP21, 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be held in Paris, from November 30 to December 11. It's been a long road: from Rio through Kyoto, Bali, Copenhagen and Cancun, Durban and Doha, Warsaw and Lima. Will Paris be the destination we seek - a triumphant homecoming and a point of departure toward a new direction for our global society?
The pope's encyclical, Laudato Si' - On Care For Our Common Home, released in June, clearly anticipates the Paris conference: "We know that technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels - especially coal, but also oil and, to a lesser degree, gas - needs to be progressively replaced without delay." The U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change declares that Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping "are committed to reaching an ambitious 2015 agreement", specifically referring to the Paris convocation.
350.org has a plan to bring all of us - civil society worldwide - together in a movement to deliver this message to Paris: "Keep fossil fuels in the ground - really, just stop digging and drilling - and start building renewable energy everywhere we can. Turn off the old kind of energy that's killing us, and turn on a renewable future. Do it now."
Come, watch, listen and discuss at the October 8th Forum of the Boston Area Solar Energy Association.
* Yes, you have a hammer - we all have hammers. Here, you will find the nails:
http://www.wheredoivotema.com
Go ahead and hit them!
Concentrate on your Representative, as the Senate's already passed a bill to lift net metering caps!
House Switchboard (617) 722-2000
You can ask your Rep. to urge Speaker DeLeo and Energy Chairman Golden to raise the net metering caps immediately. Finally, if you would, please report back to Sean at Vote Solar, who is graciously tracking our progress - email: sean@votesolar.org
Thank you!
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Carbon Pricing: The Solution to the Climate Crisis
Thursday, October 8
8-10pm
Tufts, Pearson 104, 62 Talbot Avenue, Somerville
Climate change stops here. WE will be the generation to deal with this crisis, but instead of being defined by it, young people have the chance to come together to make our schools, cities and planet better for everyone on it. To solve the climate crisis, we need to fundamentally reshape our economy by replacing dirty fossil fuels with clean energy sources. Fossil fuels have driven economic development for two centuries, and their prices remained low because society was able to deflect their negative effects on health and the environment. But today the accumulation of emissions and climate-related disasters show that we are finally paying the price for polluting on a global scale. The best way to reduce our use of fossil fuels and ramp up clean and renewable energy is to make price truly reflective of cost. Carbon pricing does this by penalizing energy sources that harm society and the environment, leveling the playing field for energy sources that benefit us all. Campuses are moral, cultural and intellectual centers of our society with an incredible history of sparking and driving social change movements, and students are powerful messengers. Be a part of this new movement and help protect the one planet we have by attending this carbon pricing workshop!
Sponsored by KnowTomorrow, Citizen’s Engagement Lab, and Years of Living Dangerously.
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Friday, October 9
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Honkfest!
Friday, October 9 - Sunday, October 11
http://honkfest.org
HONK! in the Neighborhoods
4pm – 6pm, location(s) TBA
Bands visit schools and community groups for educational workshops around the city.
Day of Action
3pm – 6pm, location(s) TBA
Bands and political organizations team up for a day of action downtown.
Lantern Making Workshops
4pm – 6pm at Hodgkins Park near Davis Square
Kids, parents, neighbors, and friends are all invited to make homemade, DIY lanterns in preparation for the evening Lantern Parades around Davis Square.
Lantern Parades
7pm – 8pm, leaving from Hodgkins Park
Sidewalk processions around Davis Square accompanied by bike lights, paper lanterns, flashlights, and other forms of DIY lighting.
HONK! at Johnny D’s
8:30pm – 12:45am at Johnny D’s
Come hear some of your fellow HONK! musicians perform at Johnny D’s Night Club after the lantern parades. 17 Holland St, Davis Square, Somerville
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Friday, October 9
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Honkfest!
Friday, October 9 - Sunday, October 11
http://honkfest.org
HONK! in the Neighborhoods
4pm – 6pm, location(s) TBA
Bands visit schools and community groups for educational workshops around the city.
Day of Action
3pm – 6pm, location(s) TBA
Bands and political organizations team up for a day of action downtown.
Lantern Making Workshops
4pm – 6pm at Hodgkins Park near Davis Square
Kids, parents, neighbors, and friends are all invited to make homemade, DIY lanterns in preparation for the evening Lantern Parades around Davis Square.
Lantern Parades
7pm – 8pm, leaving from Hodgkins Park
Sidewalk processions around Davis Square accompanied by bike lights, paper lanterns, flashlights, and other forms of DIY lighting.
HONK! at Johnny D’s
8:30pm – 12:45am at Johnny D’s
Come hear some of your fellow HONK! musicians perform at Johnny D’s Night Club after the lantern parades. 17 Holland St, Davis Square, Somerville
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Disruptive Energy Markets
Friday, Oct 9
Friday, Oct 9
12:00PM - 1:00PM
MIT, Building E51-335, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Please join McKinsey & Company’s Director Scott Nyquist for a discussion on disruptive energy technologies and the drivers influencing their future. Scott will explore the recent histories of solar, wind, storage and unconventional drilling and why each has under or outperformed expectations.
Scott Nyquist is a Director in the Houston Office and a co-leader of the McKinsey Sustainability and Resource Productivity Network. Scott is also a leader in McKinsey's Energy Practice and has co-led McKinsey’s Global Energy and Materials Sector.
McKinsey’s Sustainability and Resource Productivity (SRP) network helps the world’s leading institutions make sustainability and resource productivity a core driver of economic performance. SRP’s mission is to be the best place to work for people with ambition to make a positive and lasting impact on both clients and environment.
MIT, Building E51-335, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Please join McKinsey & Company’s Director Scott Nyquist for a discussion on disruptive energy technologies and the drivers influencing their future. Scott will explore the recent histories of solar, wind, storage and unconventional drilling and why each has under or outperformed expectations.
Scott Nyquist is a Director in the Houston Office and a co-leader of the McKinsey Sustainability and Resource Productivity Network. Scott is also a leader in McKinsey's Energy Practice and has co-led McKinsey’s Global Energy and Materials Sector.
McKinsey’s Sustainability and Resource Productivity (SRP) network helps the world’s leading institutions make sustainability and resource productivity a core driver of economic performance. SRP’s mission is to be the best place to work for people with ambition to make a positive and lasting impact on both clients and environment.
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The Future of Privacy and Security in a Big Data World
WHEN Fri., Oct. 9, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 1 Oxford Street, Hall B, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by the Institute for Applied Computational Science, at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
COST Free; registration required
DETAILS Data is the exhaust of the information age. When we carry our cell phone, use apps on those phones, browse websites, send emails or texts, drive in our cars, or make purchases with a credit card, we send digital information about where we are, our associations, our interests, and our desires and needs to the corporations that serve us and the governments that monitor us. Because the information is digitized, it is relatively cheap to store, and can be analyzed by computers in great detail.
Join Harvard Berkman Fellow and renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier for a master seminar at Harvard’s Institute for Applied Computational Science on the corporate and government surveillance enabled by the vast amount of digital data available, the tension between privacy and security and the implications for government policy and reform, along with a discussion of the technological and mathematical solutions for reform.
LINK http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ebcody0586255628&llr=odyvocsab
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Lessons from Boston: Using Technology to Improve City Services
WHEN Fri., Oct. 9, 2015, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Nye ABC, 5th floor of the Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Education, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard Kennedy School
COST Free and open to the public; registration required
DETAILS The City of Boston has achieved remarkable performance improvements through its use of data. Using internal resources, as well as external partnerships, the city has used technology to improve city services and allow greater access for residents. Join the Harvard Kennedy School’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government to hear panelists explore the city’s approach to using data, its successes, and remaining challenges.
LINK http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/rappaport/events-and-news/upcoming-boston-101-and-other-events/lessons-from-boston-using-technology-to-improve-city-services
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15 Years — and a Boat.
Friday, October 9
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Joan Lorentz Park (Public Library Green), 420 Broadway, Cambridge
In the fall of 2000, Switzerland opened the world’s first ‘scientific consulate’ in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Come celebrate our 15th anniversary with us – together with the Canton of Basel-Stadt (a sister-state of Massachusetts!) and with a very special eye-catcher!
More at: http://www.swissnexboston.org/event/15years/#sthash.3UwBwo3x.dpuf
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#Tech4Democracy Showcase and Challenge
Friday, October 9
5:00-7:00pm
Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
The #Tech4Democracy Showcase and Challenge welcomes all civic tech start-ups and anyone interested in learning more about civic tech. Hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center
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The Future of Privacy and Security in a Big Data World
WHEN Fri., Oct. 9, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 1 Oxford Street, Hall B, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by the Institute for Applied Computational Science, at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
COST Free; registration required
DETAILS Data is the exhaust of the information age. When we carry our cell phone, use apps on those phones, browse websites, send emails or texts, drive in our cars, or make purchases with a credit card, we send digital information about where we are, our associations, our interests, and our desires and needs to the corporations that serve us and the governments that monitor us. Because the information is digitized, it is relatively cheap to store, and can be analyzed by computers in great detail.
Join Harvard Berkman Fellow and renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier for a master seminar at Harvard’s Institute for Applied Computational Science on the corporate and government surveillance enabled by the vast amount of digital data available, the tension between privacy and security and the implications for government policy and reform, along with a discussion of the technological and mathematical solutions for reform.
LINK http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ebcody0586255628&llr=odyvocsab
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Lessons from Boston: Using Technology to Improve City Services
WHEN Fri., Oct. 9, 2015, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Nye ABC, 5th floor of the Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Education, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard Kennedy School
COST Free and open to the public; registration required
DETAILS The City of Boston has achieved remarkable performance improvements through its use of data. Using internal resources, as well as external partnerships, the city has used technology to improve city services and allow greater access for residents. Join the Harvard Kennedy School’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government to hear panelists explore the city’s approach to using data, its successes, and remaining challenges.
LINK http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/rappaport/events-and-news/upcoming-boston-101-and-other-events/lessons-from-boston-using-technology-to-improve-city-services
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15 Years — and a Boat.
Friday, October 9
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Joan Lorentz Park (Public Library Green), 420 Broadway, Cambridge
In the fall of 2000, Switzerland opened the world’s first ‘scientific consulate’ in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Come celebrate our 15th anniversary with us – together with the Canton of Basel-Stadt (a sister-state of Massachusetts!) and with a very special eye-catcher!
More at: http://www.swissnexboston.org/event/15years/#sthash.3UwBwo3x.dpuf
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#Tech4Democracy Showcase and Challenge
Friday, October 9
5:00-7:00pm
Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
The #Tech4Democracy Showcase and Challenge welcomes all civic tech start-ups and anyone interested in learning more about civic tech. Hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center
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2015 Beantown Throwdown
Friday, October 9
Friday, October 9
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://mitefcamb.z2systems.com/np/clients/mitefcamb/eventRegistration.jsp?event=55&
Cost: $0 - $45
Entrepreneurship and innovation will be celebrated HUB-style as aspiring business moguls from Boston-metro’s top public and private educational institutions gather for the Beantown Throwdown. Now in its 3rd year, this student pitch competition will be part of HUBweek, a week-long city-wide festival celebrating ideas and innovation in the Boston area hosted by MIT, Harvard University, The Boston Globe, and Mass General Hospital.
FIRESIDE CHAT
The evening will begin at 6 PM with a fireside chat about startups and entrepreneurship led by Scott Kirsner, the Boston Globe’s Innovation Economy columnist and founder of Innovation Leader, along with:
Tom Coburn, CEO, Jebbit
Babson: PICCPerfect brings confidence into the lives of people living with chronic illness. The company’s first product is the stylish and sanitary PICCPerfect PICC line.
Winners will be determined by audience vote using play money to “invest” in the most exceptional ideas. More than 200 executives from public and private companies, angel and venture investors, members of the media, top service providers, students and others will be in attendance. In addition to market exposure, winning teams will receive a range of prizes to help launch and build their companies.
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://mitefcamb.z2systems.com/np/clients/mitefcamb/eventRegistration.jsp?event=55&
Cost: $0 - $45
Entrepreneurship and innovation will be celebrated HUB-style as aspiring business moguls from Boston-metro’s top public and private educational institutions gather for the Beantown Throwdown. Now in its 3rd year, this student pitch competition will be part of HUBweek, a week-long city-wide festival celebrating ideas and innovation in the Boston area hosted by MIT, Harvard University, The Boston Globe, and Mass General Hospital.
FIRESIDE CHAT
The evening will begin at 6 PM with a fireside chat about startups and entrepreneurship led by Scott Kirsner, the Boston Globe’s Innovation Economy columnist and founder of Innovation Leader, along with:
Tom Coburn, CEO, Jebbit
Dip Patel, Co-Founder & CEO, ecoVent (the first winning team from 2013)
Katie Rae, Managing Director, Project 11
THE TEAMSBabson: PICCPerfect brings confidence into the lives of people living with chronic illness. The company’s first product is the stylish and sanitary PICCPerfect PICC line.
Berklee: Bandpass puts control of the artist’s lighting and visual show in the hands of the audience.
Boston College: Cogitr is a mobile app that connects students and tutors.
Boston University: Sub It is a website service that facilitates subletting for university students.
Harvard: DoneGood is an app that makes it easy for you to find businesses you know you can feel good about supporting.
MIT: Intentiv Robotics’s Aerial Control System for drone cinematography allows videographers to execute complex aerial shots simply and intuitively.
Northeastern University: Knightly is a mobile safety network that keeps college students safe whenever and wherever by keeping them connected to their friends and campus police at the touch of a button.
UMass Lowell: Hive Labs is dedicated to the improvement and evolution of higher and secondary education through state of the art classroom management and collaboration technology.
Wentworth: BARS provides high quality therapy devices at an affordable cost.
HOW DOES IT WORK?Winners will be determined by audience vote using play money to “invest” in the most exceptional ideas. More than 200 executives from public and private companies, angel and venture investors, members of the media, top service providers, students and others will be in attendance. In addition to market exposure, winning teams will receive a range of prizes to help launch and build their companies.
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Harvard Community Garden Pot Luck, Talk, and Movie
Friday, October 9
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Harvard Community Garden, 27 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
http://garden.harvard.edu
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-food-potluck-with-guest-speaker-john-lee-of-allandale-farm-an-outdoor-screening-of-inhabit-a-tickets-18801752548
LOCAL FOOD POTLUCK FEATURING GUEST SPEAKER JOHN LEE OF ALLANDALE FARM + AN AFTER-DARK DOCUMENTARY SCREENING OF "INHABIT: A PERMACULTURE PERSPECTIVE"
6:00-6:30 p.m.
Bring a locally flavored dish* to share at our "local" food potluck, featuring a talk from guest speaker John Lee of Allandale Farm, Boston's last working farm.
Afterwards, we'll watch the documentary INHABIT: A Permaculture Perspective among the raised bed of vegetables and flowers under the starlit night sky.
http://inhabitfilm.com
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Saturday, October 10
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Soil Saturday: A Celebration of Reversing Global Warming with Soil
Saturday, October 10
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/559598744189515/
Dear Friends,
Please join us in recognizing Saturday, October 10th, 2015, as Soil Saturday: A Celebration of Reversing Global Warming with Soil. Activities planned for the day will promote soil as our ecological ally, a key “second front” in the climate movement.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the worst consequences of global warming can be prevented only by a significant and rapid drawdown of carbon from the atmosphere. Reducing -- or even eliminating -- emissions from fossil fuel combustion will not stop the warming. To secure a livable climate, both emission reductions and atmospheric carbon drawdown are crucial. The best way to achieve drawdown is through photosynthesis and the rebuilding of the world’s soils - the largest reservoir of terrestrial carbon.
On Soil Saturday, soil advocates are encouraged to promote this message. This can be done by hosting events, writing blog posts, tweeting, or posting photos of “Soil4Climate” signs made and displayed in creative ways. Any post, picture, or illustration emphasizing the role of soil should be posted with appropriate tags (see suggestions below).
In 2007, the climate movement launched a successful campaign to encourage propagation of the number “350”, the highest concentration (in parts per million) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere considered “safe”. “350” photos from around the world flooded social media. To complement this effort and create a movement leading to dialogue and policy that will reverse global warming (and not just slow it down), awareness of soil as a climate solution must grow.
We invite -- and need! -- your participation. Together, we can elevate soil to its rightful place in the climate narrative. Please do what you can.
Cool regards,
Soil4Climate
#Soil4Climate. #SoilSaturday #SoilCarbon #ClimateSolutions#RegenerativeAg
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Harvard Community Garden Pot Luck, Talk, and Movie
Friday, October 9
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Harvard Community Garden, 27 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
http://garden.harvard.edu
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-food-potluck-with-guest-speaker-john-lee-of-allandale-farm-an-outdoor-screening-of-inhabit-a-tickets-18801752548
LOCAL FOOD POTLUCK FEATURING GUEST SPEAKER JOHN LEE OF ALLANDALE FARM + AN AFTER-DARK DOCUMENTARY SCREENING OF "INHABIT: A PERMACULTURE PERSPECTIVE"
6:00-6:30 p.m.
Bring a locally flavored dish* to share at our "local" food potluck, featuring a talk from guest speaker John Lee of Allandale Farm, Boston's last working farm.
Afterwards, we'll watch the documentary INHABIT: A Permaculture Perspective among the raised bed of vegetables and flowers under the starlit night sky.
http://inhabitfilm.com
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Saturday, October 10
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Soil Saturday: A Celebration of Reversing Global Warming with Soil
Saturday, October 10
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/559598744189515/
Dear Friends,
Please join us in recognizing Saturday, October 10th, 2015, as Soil Saturday: A Celebration of Reversing Global Warming with Soil. Activities planned for the day will promote soil as our ecological ally, a key “second front” in the climate movement.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the worst consequences of global warming can be prevented only by a significant and rapid drawdown of carbon from the atmosphere. Reducing -- or even eliminating -- emissions from fossil fuel combustion will not stop the warming. To secure a livable climate, both emission reductions and atmospheric carbon drawdown are crucial. The best way to achieve drawdown is through photosynthesis and the rebuilding of the world’s soils - the largest reservoir of terrestrial carbon.
On Soil Saturday, soil advocates are encouraged to promote this message. This can be done by hosting events, writing blog posts, tweeting, or posting photos of “Soil4Climate” signs made and displayed in creative ways. Any post, picture, or illustration emphasizing the role of soil should be posted with appropriate tags (see suggestions below).
In 2007, the climate movement launched a successful campaign to encourage propagation of the number “350”, the highest concentration (in parts per million) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere considered “safe”. “350” photos from around the world flooded social media. To complement this effort and create a movement leading to dialogue and policy that will reverse global warming (and not just slow it down), awareness of soil as a climate solution must grow.
We invite -- and need! -- your participation. Together, we can elevate soil to its rightful place in the climate narrative. Please do what you can.
Cool regards,
Soil4Climate
#Soil4Climate. #SoilSaturday #SoilCarbon #ClimateSolutions#RegenerativeAg
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Biomimicry & Boston Green Harbor Tour
Saturday, October 10
Saturday, October 10
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM (EDT)
New England Aquarium, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/biomimicry-boston-green-harbor-tour-tickets-17076192351
Cost: $22.09 -$37.92
Cost: $22.09 -$37.92
Biomimicry New England's Green Harbor Walk will begin at the New England Aquarium at 9am. The tour will be led by BNE cofounder Anamarija Frankic and will include: a presentation on the Aquariums commitment to biomimicry, examination of some local marine residents, a discussion about Biomimicry LivingLabs, a water taxi trip to Charlestown (Spaulding building), learning about urban harbor adaptations to sea level rise and storm surge events. The walk will end at 11:30 at a Water Taxi and the Spaulding building stop in Charlestown.
What do you think nature would do to improve conditions in urban harbors?
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Engineering + Entrepreneurship: Making Robotics Fly
WHEN Sat., Oct. 10, 2015, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Stadium, 79 N Harvard St, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Exhibitions, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Business School and Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science, co-hosted by Xfund
COST Free and open to the public; RSVP required
DETAILS Robots and drones are part of daily life in more ways than most of us realize, provoking emotions ranging from fear to fascination. What are their practical applications? Ubiquitous use of robotics is poised to transform the way we live, work and play during the next 20 years much as the Internet did in last 20 years. This event is meant to entertain, educate, and demystify by showcasing a range of robotics, with an emphasis on unmanned aerial vehicles. The Harvard Business School and Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will place this emerging field in the perspective of engineering and entrepreneurship and the role that Boston can play in the emerging robotics ecosystem. This event is co-hosted by Xfund.
LINK makingroboticsfly.com
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Engineering + Entrepreneurship: Making Robotics Fly
WHEN Sat., Oct. 10, 2015, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Stadium, 79 N Harvard St, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Exhibitions, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Business School and Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science, co-hosted by Xfund
COST Free and open to the public; RSVP required
DETAILS Robots and drones are part of daily life in more ways than most of us realize, provoking emotions ranging from fear to fascination. What are their practical applications? Ubiquitous use of robotics is poised to transform the way we live, work and play during the next 20 years much as the Internet did in last 20 years. This event is meant to entertain, educate, and demystify by showcasing a range of robotics, with an emphasis on unmanned aerial vehicles. The Harvard Business School and Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will place this emerging field in the perspective of engineering and entrepreneurship and the role that Boston can play in the emerging robotics ecosystem. This event is co-hosted by Xfund.
LINK makingroboticsfly.com
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Innovating the Commonwealth's Food Economy
Saturday, October 10
Saturday, October 10
12:00 PM to 4:00 PM (EDT)
Commonwealth Kitchen, 196 Quincy Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovating-the-commonwealths-food-economy-tickets-18854884467
Join sponsors HUB Week, Fresh Truck and CommonWealth Kitchen for Innovating the Commonwealth's Food Economy on Saturday, October 10 from 12-4pm. This family-friendly celebration of local food showcasing amazing entrepreneurs and innovative organizations who are disrupting and re-imagining our regional food economy!
Join sponsors HUB Week, Fresh Truck and CommonWealth Kitchen for Innovating the Commonwealth's Food Economy on Saturday, October 10 from 12-4pm. This family-friendly celebration of local food showcasing amazing entrepreneurs and innovative organizations who are disrupting and re-imagining our regional food economy!
Work alongside amazing chefs as we pickle, can, and preserve the harvest in CommonWealth Kitchen’s state-of-the-art facilities;
Play with your food, as we craft sweet and savory hand pies using the freshest local ingredients;
Sample delicious local fare fresh from the farm, field, and sea, and hot out of the oven or off the grill;
Meet some of the visionary farmers, processors, distributors, educators, and community partners working to strengthen our regional food system;
Enjoy a family-friendly event with fun kids’ activities
And most importantly, come and meet your neighbors, make new friends, and enjoy a wonderful community feast!
Visit www.commonwealthkitchen.org for more information.
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HONK! in Davis Square
Saturday, October 10
12pm – 9pm
all around Davis Square
More than 20 activist street bands from around the world perform all day, outdoors, for free at venues around Davis Square. Opening ceremonies begin at noon. Band performances from 1pm – 9pm.
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A Pop-Up Makerspace: The Future of Learning Laboratory
WHEN Sat., Oct. 10, 2015, 1 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Avenue, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Graduate School of Education, Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge Public Schools, and Harvard Ed Portal
DETAILS At the makerspace, new technologies intersect with familiar tools and materials to open up new possibilities for creating, making, and learning — combining high-tech and low-tech for exciting explorations in art, science, and engineering. Join us for a lively and playful afternoon of hands-on workshops, interactive activities, and participatory demonstrations that explore learning through making.
Designed primarily for families, people of all ages are welcome to attend the event. At our pop-up makerspace, you'll have opportunities to:
design your own stories and games with the Scratch programming language
tinker with electronics and crafts to create musical instruments
collaborate and create with others who love to make
ASL interpreters will be available at the event.
LINK https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-pop-up-makerspace-the-future-of-learning-laboratory-tickets-18439092823
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Film Screening: Sneak Preview of Nova's "Making North America"
WHEN Sat., Oct. 10, 2015, 2 – 2:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Haller Hall, enter at 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Film, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History
Presented in collaboration with NOVA, produced for PBS by WGBH Boston
COST Free with museum admission
TICKET INFO http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/sneak-preview-novas-making-north-america
CONTACT INFO 617.495.3045
DETAILS Attend a preview of the new NOVA-WGBH series, Making North America, an eye-opening adventure through our continent’s three-billion-year geological history. Filled with panoramic vistas and immersive animation, Making North America explores the colossal geological forces at work beneath our feet that have shaped this continent.
Complimentary event parking available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/sneak-preview-novas-making-north-america
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Sunday, October 11
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The HONK! Parade
Sunday, October 11
12pm – 2pm
down Mass. Avenue from Davis Square to Harvard Square
Parade from Davis Square down Mass Ave to Harvard Square to “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet”, featuring HONK! bands and community groups, from Davis Square to Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest celebration.
HONK! in Harvard Square & All Band Concert
2pm – 6pm all around Harvard Square
The all band concert will be held on the Main Stage of Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest. In addition, some bands will play sets on smaller stages around Harvard Square throughout the afternoon.
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Opportunity:
Bread & Puppet needs your help on Sunday, October 11th, to make the theater's contingent of the 2015 Honk! Festival Parade big, bold, exciting, entertaining, and compelling!
Bread & Puppet is looking for 50 plus volunteers to join them on that Sunday morning at 11 am at Day Street and Hebert Street in Davis Square, Somerville, to carry banners, wave flags, operate puppets, wear masks and costumes, help operate a giant puppet sailboat, and otherwise create the kind of spectacular participatory processional theater for which Bread & Puppet is so well known and loved.
So mark your calendars! No experience is necessary to jump on board!
Please contact John Bell directly at john.bell.puppeteer@gmail.com if you are interested in being part of this joyous performance of engaged community puppet theater. Also please feel free to contact John if you have any questions as we
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Monday, October 12
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"ASK" & Energy Necklace Solar Lanterns at Opening Our Doors
Monday, October 12
11:00 AM to 4:00 PM (EDT)
Evans Way Park, Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Shattuck Visitor Center, 125 Fenway, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ask-energy-necklace-solar-lanterns-at-opening-our-doors-tickets-18781373594
Be part of the Energy Necklace on the Emerald Necklace!! Make your own solar-powered lantern (nothing technical required, just artsty fun). Take one home or help make a community solar powered string of lights.
AND - ASK! Put your burning climate change questions to our friendly and outgoing scientistswho are 50% performer/100% scientist. Memeory Card game and plenty of info to get you ready to start answering your friends' climate queries. All ages, free. Sponsored by the Transatlantic Climate Bridge and produced by Energy Necklace Project. Hosts: Fenway Alliance, Opening Our Doors & Emerald Necklace Conservancy.Questions: EnergyNecklace@gmail.com
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Science and Cooking: Science and Emotions: Delicious or Disgusting?
Monday, October 12
7 pm
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Andoni Aduriz, (@mugaritz), Mugaritz
*Ramon Perisé, Mugaritz
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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HONK! in Davis Square
Saturday, October 10
12pm – 9pm
all around Davis Square
More than 20 activist street bands from around the world perform all day, outdoors, for free at venues around Davis Square. Opening ceremonies begin at noon. Band performances from 1pm – 9pm.
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A Pop-Up Makerspace: The Future of Learning Laboratory
WHEN Sat., Oct. 10, 2015, 1 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Avenue, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Graduate School of Education, Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge Public Schools, and Harvard Ed Portal
DETAILS At the makerspace, new technologies intersect with familiar tools and materials to open up new possibilities for creating, making, and learning — combining high-tech and low-tech for exciting explorations in art, science, and engineering. Join us for a lively and playful afternoon of hands-on workshops, interactive activities, and participatory demonstrations that explore learning through making.
Designed primarily for families, people of all ages are welcome to attend the event. At our pop-up makerspace, you'll have opportunities to:
design your own stories and games with the Scratch programming language
tinker with electronics and crafts to create musical instruments
collaborate and create with others who love to make
ASL interpreters will be available at the event.
LINK https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-pop-up-makerspace-the-future-of-learning-laboratory-tickets-18439092823
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Film Screening: Sneak Preview of Nova's "Making North America"
WHEN Sat., Oct. 10, 2015, 2 – 2:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Haller Hall, enter at 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Film, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History
Presented in collaboration with NOVA, produced for PBS by WGBH Boston
COST Free with museum admission
TICKET INFO http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/sneak-preview-novas-making-north-america
CONTACT INFO 617.495.3045
DETAILS Attend a preview of the new NOVA-WGBH series, Making North America, an eye-opening adventure through our continent’s three-billion-year geological history. Filled with panoramic vistas and immersive animation, Making North America explores the colossal geological forces at work beneath our feet that have shaped this continent.
Complimentary event parking available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/sneak-preview-novas-making-north-america
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Sunday, October 11
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The HONK! Parade
Sunday, October 11
12pm – 2pm
down Mass. Avenue from Davis Square to Harvard Square
Parade from Davis Square down Mass Ave to Harvard Square to “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet”, featuring HONK! bands and community groups, from Davis Square to Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest celebration.
HONK! in Harvard Square & All Band Concert
2pm – 6pm all around Harvard Square
The all band concert will be held on the Main Stage of Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest. In addition, some bands will play sets on smaller stages around Harvard Square throughout the afternoon.
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Opportunity:
Bread & Puppet needs your help on Sunday, October 11th, to make the theater's contingent of the 2015 Honk! Festival Parade big, bold, exciting, entertaining, and compelling!
Bread & Puppet is looking for 50 plus volunteers to join them on that Sunday morning at 11 am at Day Street and Hebert Street in Davis Square, Somerville, to carry banners, wave flags, operate puppets, wear masks and costumes, help operate a giant puppet sailboat, and otherwise create the kind of spectacular participatory processional theater for which Bread & Puppet is so well known and loved.
So mark your calendars! No experience is necessary to jump on board!
Please contact John Bell directly at john.bell.puppeteer@gmail.com if you are interested in being part of this joyous performance of engaged community puppet theater. Also please feel free to contact John if you have any questions as we
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Monday, October 12
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"ASK" & Energy Necklace Solar Lanterns at Opening Our Doors
Monday, October 12
11:00 AM to 4:00 PM (EDT)
Evans Way Park, Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Shattuck Visitor Center, 125 Fenway, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ask-energy-necklace-solar-lanterns-at-opening-our-doors-tickets-18781373594
Be part of the Energy Necklace on the Emerald Necklace!! Make your own solar-powered lantern (nothing technical required, just artsty fun). Take one home or help make a community solar powered string of lights.
AND - ASK! Put your burning climate change questions to our friendly and outgoing scientistswho are 50% performer/100% scientist. Memeory Card game and plenty of info to get you ready to start answering your friends' climate queries. All ages, free. Sponsored by the Transatlantic Climate Bridge and produced by Energy Necklace Project. Hosts: Fenway Alliance, Opening Our Doors & Emerald Necklace Conservancy.Questions: EnergyNecklace@gmail.com
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Science and Cooking: Science and Emotions: Delicious or Disgusting?
Monday, October 12
7 pm
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Andoni Aduriz, (@mugaritz), Mugaritz
*Ramon Perisé, Mugaritz
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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Quite a Sight! Gene Therapy to Treat Blindness
Monday, October 12
7 pm
7 pm
The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu
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Answering the Call: An Interfaith Gathering for Climate Action
Monday, October12
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Temple Beth Elohim, 10 Bethel Road, Wellesley
Temple Beth Elohim, 10 Bethel Road, Wellesley
RSVP at www.tbewellesley.org/climate
“Climate change is a problem that can no longer be left to future generations.” - Pope Francis, speaking at the White House, September 23, 2015.
Inspired by the message of Pope Francis in his encyclical letter, Laudato Sí: On Care for Our Common Home, people of many faiths will join together in shared appreciation for creation and with shared determination to take action to protect it. The event kicks-off an interfaith coalition to “answer the call” to act on climate change, and to ensure a clean and equitable energy future in Massachusetts. This event is part service, part forum, and part rally. People will gather to learn what Pope Francis is telling us about the connection between faith, social justice, and climate change; what the call to action on climate means to people of faith in Massachusetts, and what the practical response looks like in our communities; and what we can accomplish together as people of faith that we cannot accomplish alone!
Speakers include: Father Bryan Hehir, The Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard Kennedy School and the Secretary for Health Care and Social Services in the Archdiocese of Boston; Rabbi Joel Sisenwine, Senior Rabbi, Temple Beth Elohim, Wellesley; Imam Ismail Fenni, Imam at the Islamic Society of Boston in Cambridge; Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman, Assistant Rabbi for Engagement at Temple Sinai; Father Robert VerEecke, Pastor, St. Ignatius of Loyola in Chestnut Hill; Jesuit Artist-in-Residence at Boston College; Director of Boston Liturgical Ensemble; Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Episcopal priest and Missioner for Creation Care in the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts; Mariama White-Hammond, Minister-in-Training, Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain; Rev. Fred Small, Minister of First Parish in Cambridge (UU) and founder of the Creation Coalition; and Rabbi Rachel Saphire, Associate Rabbi at Temple Beth Elohim.
To be part of this special interfaith event please RSVP at www.tbewellesley.org/climate.
Originally conceived of as a small interfaith gathering by members of the Wellesley Village Church, UCC, the event has now grown to include 39 Boston area congregations and faith organizations that have signed on as sponsors and supporters.
Contact Name: Phyllis Theermann
Phyllis@theermann.com
Harvard Book Store welcomes MIT professor and award-winning author DAVID A. MINDELL for a discussion of his book Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy.
In Our Robots, Ourselves, David Mindell offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of robotics today, debunking commonly held myths and exploring the rapidly changing relationships between humans and machines.
Drawing on firsthand experience, extensive interviews, and the latest research from MIT and elsewhere, Mindell takes us to extreme environments—high atmosphere, deep ocean, and outer space—to reveal where the most advanced robotics already exist. In these environments, scientists use robots to discover new information about ancient civilizations, to map some of the world’s largest geological features, and even to “commute” to Mars to conduct daily experiments. But these tools of air, sea, and space also forecast the dangers, ethical quandaries, and unintended consequences of a future in which robotics and automation suffuse our everyday lives.
Mindell argues that the stark lines we’ve drawn between human and not human, manual and automated, aren’t helpful for understanding our relationship with robotics. Brilliantly researched and accessibly written, Our Robots, Ourselves clarifies misconceptions about the autonomous robot, offering instead a hopeful message about what he calls “rich human presence” at the center of the technological landscape we are now creating.
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Upcoming Events
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Contact Name: Jenifer Lee
jeniferlee@fas.harvard.edu
Website: http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/min-79-women-founders
In this talk, I will present a system for stitching together these snapshots and reconstructing urban mobility at a very fine-grained level. The system, which we call the Space-Time Engine, provides an interactive dashboard and a querying engine for answering questions such as: what is the crowding at a train station? where're packages held up and how can their delivery be sped up? how can the available supply of transport capacity be better used to address daily demand as well as the demand on exceptional days (such as rallies and severe weather events). I will describe the STE's capabilities for operational and planning purposes, and as a learning system.
Speaker Bio: Balaji Prabhakar is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Urban Engines. His research interests are in Cloud Computing, Internet Algorithms and, recently, in Societal Networks, especially Transportation Networks. He has been awarded the Alfred Sloan Fellowship, the Erlang Prize, the Rollo Davidson Prize, and the IEEE Innovation in Social Infrastructure Award. He is an IEEE Fellow and serves on the Future Urban Mobility Initiative of the World Economic Forum.
Computer Science Colloquium Series
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu
For over 40 years, drugs like LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in "magic" mushrooms) were classified as the most dangerous, Schedule I substances, with no accepted medical use. They were impossible to secure for research, but recently, that began to change. These and other psychedelic compounds are capturing attention again — not as part of a trippy counter-culture, but as an exciting new frontier in medicine.
Can we unlock their powerful potential to help patients gripped by depression, struggling with terminal cancer, or craving another cigarette? Hear from the researchers exploring groundbreaking treatments for addiction, PTSD, and end-of-life anxiety.
With an introduction by Mark J. Plotkin, PhD, ethnobotanist; founder and president of The Amazon Conservation Team; and author of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice and Medicine Quest.
This program is free thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute.
Program Speakers
Charles S. Grob, MD, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine and director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center | Matthew W. Johnson, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Stephen Ross, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and child & adolescent psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the Dual Diagnosis Training Unit, and the Opioid Overdose Prevention Program at Bellevue Hospital Center, and director of the NYU Psychedelic Research Group
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Saturday, October 17
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12th Annual Energy Symposium at Harvard Business School - "Managing through Volatility"
Saturday, October 17
7:30 AM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Business School, Spangler Hall, 117 Western Avenue, Allston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/12th-annual-energy-symposium-at-harvard-business-school-managing-through-volatility-tickets-18198714846
Cost: $25 - $110
The Energy & Environment Club at Harvard Business School would like to invite you to the 12th Annual Energy Symposium at Harvard Business School. Come join leading professionals and students from around the world in a high-intensity atmosphere of engagement as we collectively wrestle with the energy challenges of the future. On the boundary between conventional energy solutions such as oil and gas, and newer topics such as renewables and clean technology, the 12th Annual Energy Symposium will bring collective understanding as we build a brighter and cleaner future by leveraging the power of today’s energy experts. Join us on the Harvard Business School campus on Saturday, October 17th, as some of the industry’s leading executives, policy makers, and students engage in a vibrant discussion on the future of energy.
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Passive House Massachusetts Symposium
Saturday, October 17
9:00AM to 5:00PM (Eastern)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://passivehouseboston.givezooks.com/events/passive-house-new-england-symposium
$20 - $90
Passive House Massachusetts is hosting a Symposium connecting Architects, Builders, Engineers, Home/Building Owners, Policymakers, Real Estate Professionals, Students and the general public. The mission is to further educate through lectures by and discussions with esteemed professionals local to Massachusetts. Vendors will also be attending the event showcasing products and services regarding Passive Homes.
The Early Bird rates will be available until 9/1. Regular rates, $75 for members and $90 for non-members, will be available until 10/1. After 10/1, both members and non-member will need to purchase a ticket at the event for $100. Student tickets will be $35 at the event.
If you would like to sign up to be a member, please visit:
https://passivehouseboston.givezooks.com/events/passive-house-new-england-membership
Coffee and Lunch is included with the purchase of a ticket.
If you or your organization would like to sponsor or volunteer in exchange for complimentary admission to this event please email projects@zeroenergy.com.
Keynote Speaker:
Matthew A. Beaton, Secretary, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs in Massachusetts
Featured Speakers:
Ian Finlayson, Manager of Buildings and Climate Programs, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources
John Dalzell, Senior Architect, Boston Redevelopment Authority
Marc Rosenbaum, Director of Engineering, South Mountain Company
Katrin Klingenberg, Cofounder/Executive Director, PHIUS
Breakout Session:
In the afternoon, we will have about 10 tables, each with a dedicated topic and moderator, for participants to speak in small groups about the challenges and opportunities of Passive House.
Editorial Comment: This is a great opportunity for those interested in energy efficient building and buildings.
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Sunday, October 18
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SWAPFEST
Sunday, October 18
9:00a–2:00p
MIT, N4, Albany Street Garage and Lots, Cambridge
Cost: $6
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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Monday, October 19
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MASS Seminar - Ulrike Lohman (ETH)
Monday, October 19
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Ulrike Lohman (ETH)
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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The Western Energy Imbalance Market
Monday, October 19
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Keith Casey, Vice President, Market and Infrastructure Development, California ISO
HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series
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The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS and Race
Monday, October 19
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Myles Jackson, Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of the History of Science; Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
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After Fukushima: Making Nuclear Energy Safer
Monday, October 19
4:00PM
MIT, Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
MIT Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics
Allison Macfarlane, George Washington University; former Chair, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
MIT’s 2015 Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics. This event is free and open to the public.
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Green Exchange: Let's Talk About Water
Harvard Extension Environmental Club
Monday, October 19
This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.
“Climate change is a problem that can no longer be left to future generations.” - Pope Francis, speaking at the White House, September 23, 2015.
Inspired by the message of Pope Francis in his encyclical letter, Laudato Sí: On Care for Our Common Home, people of many faiths will join together in shared appreciation for creation and with shared determination to take action to protect it. The event kicks-off an interfaith coalition to “answer the call” to act on climate change, and to ensure a clean and equitable energy future in Massachusetts. This event is part service, part forum, and part rally. People will gather to learn what Pope Francis is telling us about the connection between faith, social justice, and climate change; what the call to action on climate means to people of faith in Massachusetts, and what the practical response looks like in our communities; and what we can accomplish together as people of faith that we cannot accomplish alone!
Speakers include: Father Bryan Hehir, The Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard Kennedy School and the Secretary for Health Care and Social Services in the Archdiocese of Boston; Rabbi Joel Sisenwine, Senior Rabbi, Temple Beth Elohim, Wellesley; Imam Ismail Fenni, Imam at the Islamic Society of Boston in Cambridge; Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman, Assistant Rabbi for Engagement at Temple Sinai; Father Robert VerEecke, Pastor, St. Ignatius of Loyola in Chestnut Hill; Jesuit Artist-in-Residence at Boston College; Director of Boston Liturgical Ensemble; Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Episcopal priest and Missioner for Creation Care in the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts; Mariama White-Hammond, Minister-in-Training, Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain; Rev. Fred Small, Minister of First Parish in Cambridge (UU) and founder of the Creation Coalition; and Rabbi Rachel Saphire, Associate Rabbi at Temple Beth Elohim.
To be part of this special interfaith event please RSVP at www.tbewellesley.org/climate.
Originally conceived of as a small interfaith gathering by members of the Wellesley Village Church, UCC, the event has now grown to include 39 Boston area congregations and faith organizations that have signed on as sponsors and supporters.
Contact Name: Phyllis Theermann
Phyllis@theermann.com
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Science Monday
Monday, October 12
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Ames Street Deli, 73 Ames Street Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-monday-tickets-18749207384
Have you ever wished for a re-do of your middle school science fair? So have we! Gather your friends and come to Ames Street Deli on October 12 to compete in a test of knoweledge (a science quiz!) and a test of skill (a science project!). Also, there will be delicoius cocktails, and real live scientists to judge your work!
Our theme this Monday is Science in the Movies. Please bring a team of 2 - 6. Registration is free.
We look forward to seeing you!
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Tuesday, October 13
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The Future of Transportation in the Commonwealth
Tuesday, October 13
7:30 AM to 9:30 AM (EDT)
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Center, 10 Winter Place, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-transportation-in-the-commonwealth-tickets-18652252389
The State House News Service and MASSterList will host a conversation about one of the commonwealth’s most vital public policy issues: improving the quality and availability of public transportation and road infrastructure in the Commonwealth. Beyond the short-term strategy to shore up the system, what’s the vision five, ten, and twenty years down the road?
Panelists: Stephanie Pollack, Secretary of Transportation, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Charlie Chieppo, principal at Chieppo Strategies; and Rick Dimino, President and CEO of A Better City.
Moderator: The event will be moderated by George Donnelly, publisher of MASSterList and State House News Service contributor.
Networking until 8 a.m. - panel will begin at 8:05. The conversation will be formatted by moderator questions and free-flowing conversation, leaving 20 minutes at the end for audience questions. The event will be covered by the State House News Service; other media will be welcome to attend and cover.
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Boston TechBreakfast
Tuesday, October 13
8:00am - 10:00am
Microsoft New England R&D Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215002742/
Twitter: @techbreakfast
Description: Based on the popular TechBreakfast format, the Boston TechBreakfast is a "show and tell" format event where up to five different technologists will demo their technologies from a wide range of industries ranging from software to hardware, IT to Biotech, robotics to space tech. The event is "triple agnostic". We don't care if the technology is from a start up, a large company, a university, a government agency, or someone's hobby. We are also agnostic as to the industry of the tech - it could be IT, biotech, robotics, aerospace, materials sciences, anything tech and innovative is cool. And we're also region agnostic - even if you're not from where we're hosting, we want to see you and your technology!
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Kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade
Tuesday, October 13
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Doctorow#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Doctorow at 12:00 pm
with science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger, Cory Doctorow in discussion with Jonathan Zittrain
Cory Doctorow wants to kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade and as an EFF Special Advisor, he's working with them to do just that.
From the Electronic Frontiers Foundation:
Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies attempt to control what you can and can't do with the media and hardware you've purchased. Corporations claim that DRM is necessary to fight copyright infringement online and keep consumers safe from viruses. But there's no evidence that DRM helps fight either of those. Instead DRM helps big business stifle innovation and competition by making it easy to quash "unauthorized" uses of media and technology.
DRM has proliferated thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA), which sought to outlaw any attempt to bypass DRM.
Fans shouldn't be treated like criminals, and companies shouldn't get an automatic veto over user choice and innovation. EFF has led the effort to free the iPhone and other smartphones, is working to uncover and explain the restrictions around new hardware and software, has fought for the right to make copies of DVDs, and sued Sony-BMG for their "rootkit" CD copy-protection scheme.
About Cory
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the YA graphic novel IN REAL LIFE, the nonfiction business book INFORMATION DOESN’T WANT TO BE FREE< and young adult novels like HOMELAND, PIRATE CINEMA and LITTLE BROTHER and novels for adults like RAPTURE OF THE NERDS and MAKERS. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles.
About Jonathan
Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
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Is the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus a Useful Framework?
Tuesday, October 13
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
Peter Rogers, Professor, Harvard University
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Opioids for the Masses: Welfare Tradeoffs in the Regulation of Narcotic Pain Medications
Tuesday, October 13
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Angela Kilby (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
Science Monday
Monday, October 12
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Ames Street Deli, 73 Ames Street Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-monday-tickets-18749207384
Have you ever wished for a re-do of your middle school science fair? So have we! Gather your friends and come to Ames Street Deli on October 12 to compete in a test of knoweledge (a science quiz!) and a test of skill (a science project!). Also, there will be delicoius cocktails, and real live scientists to judge your work!
Our theme this Monday is Science in the Movies. Please bring a team of 2 - 6. Registration is free.
We look forward to seeing you!
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Tuesday, October 13
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The Future of Transportation in the Commonwealth
Tuesday, October 13
7:30 AM to 9:30 AM (EDT)
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Center, 10 Winter Place, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-transportation-in-the-commonwealth-tickets-18652252389
The State House News Service and MASSterList will host a conversation about one of the commonwealth’s most vital public policy issues: improving the quality and availability of public transportation and road infrastructure in the Commonwealth. Beyond the short-term strategy to shore up the system, what’s the vision five, ten, and twenty years down the road?
Panelists: Stephanie Pollack, Secretary of Transportation, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Charlie Chieppo, principal at Chieppo Strategies; and Rick Dimino, President and CEO of A Better City.
Moderator: The event will be moderated by George Donnelly, publisher of MASSterList and State House News Service contributor.
Networking until 8 a.m. - panel will begin at 8:05. The conversation will be formatted by moderator questions and free-flowing conversation, leaving 20 minutes at the end for audience questions. The event will be covered by the State House News Service; other media will be welcome to attend and cover.
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Boston TechBreakfast
Tuesday, October 13
8:00am - 10:00am
Microsoft New England R&D Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215002742/
Twitter: @techbreakfast
Description: Based on the popular TechBreakfast format, the Boston TechBreakfast is a "show and tell" format event where up to five different technologists will demo their technologies from a wide range of industries ranging from software to hardware, IT to Biotech, robotics to space tech. The event is "triple agnostic". We don't care if the technology is from a start up, a large company, a university, a government agency, or someone's hobby. We are also agnostic as to the industry of the tech - it could be IT, biotech, robotics, aerospace, materials sciences, anything tech and innovative is cool. And we're also region agnostic - even if you're not from where we're hosting, we want to see you and your technology!
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Kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade
Tuesday, October 13
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Doctorow#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Doctorow at 12:00 pm
with science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger, Cory Doctorow in discussion with Jonathan Zittrain
Cory Doctorow wants to kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade and as an EFF Special Advisor, he's working with them to do just that.
From the Electronic Frontiers Foundation:
Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies attempt to control what you can and can't do with the media and hardware you've purchased. Corporations claim that DRM is necessary to fight copyright infringement online and keep consumers safe from viruses. But there's no evidence that DRM helps fight either of those. Instead DRM helps big business stifle innovation and competition by making it easy to quash "unauthorized" uses of media and technology.
DRM has proliferated thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA), which sought to outlaw any attempt to bypass DRM.
Fans shouldn't be treated like criminals, and companies shouldn't get an automatic veto over user choice and innovation. EFF has led the effort to free the iPhone and other smartphones, is working to uncover and explain the restrictions around new hardware and software, has fought for the right to make copies of DVDs, and sued Sony-BMG for their "rootkit" CD copy-protection scheme.
About Cory
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the YA graphic novel IN REAL LIFE, the nonfiction business book INFORMATION DOESN’T WANT TO BE FREE< and young adult novels like HOMELAND, PIRATE CINEMA and LITTLE BROTHER and novels for adults like RAPTURE OF THE NERDS and MAKERS. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles.
About Jonathan
Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
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Is the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus a Useful Framework?
Tuesday, October 13
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
Peter Rogers, Professor, Harvard University
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Opioids for the Masses: Welfare Tradeoffs in the Regulation of Narcotic Pain Medications
Tuesday, October 13
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Angela Kilby (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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Recovery of Uranium from Seawater: Technologies, Economics, and Prospects
Tuesday, October 13
4:45p–6:30p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Erich Schneider, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program, University of Texas at Austin
Seawater contains more than 4 billion metric tons of dissolved uranium. This resource, if it proves to be recoverable at a reasonable cost, could provide an essentially unlimited source of supply and serve as an economic "backstop" to the uranium price. In his talk, Schneider will review progress toward practical, large-scale recovery of seawater uranium by U.S. laboratories and universities. Notable achievements include polymeric adsorbents containing amidoxime ligands developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory which have demonstrated marked improvements in uranium uptake over previous technologies. A key component of this novel technology lies in the unique high surface-area polyethylene fibers that considerably increase the surface area and thus the grafting yield of functional groups without compromising its mechanical properties. The talk will also address novel maritime deployment strategies which offer the potential to greatly reduce the cost and energy use associated with deploying the adsorbents at sea. Cost analyses guide the technology development and highlight parameters, such as capacity, recyclability, and stability, which have the largest impact on the cost of extraction of uranium from seawater.
Reception to follow.
MITEI Seminar Series
Sponsored by IHS
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact: Rebecca Marshall-Howarth
4:45p–6:30p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Erich Schneider, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program, University of Texas at Austin
Seawater contains more than 4 billion metric tons of dissolved uranium. This resource, if it proves to be recoverable at a reasonable cost, could provide an essentially unlimited source of supply and serve as an economic "backstop" to the uranium price. In his talk, Schneider will review progress toward practical, large-scale recovery of seawater uranium by U.S. laboratories and universities. Notable achievements include polymeric adsorbents containing amidoxime ligands developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory which have demonstrated marked improvements in uranium uptake over previous technologies. A key component of this novel technology lies in the unique high surface-area polyethylene fibers that considerably increase the surface area and thus the grafting yield of functional groups without compromising its mechanical properties. The talk will also address novel maritime deployment strategies which offer the potential to greatly reduce the cost and energy use associated with deploying the adsorbents at sea. Cost analyses guide the technology development and highlight parameters, such as capacity, recyclability, and stability, which have the largest impact on the cost of extraction of uranium from seawater.
Reception to follow.
MITEI Seminar Series
Sponsored by IHS
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact: Rebecca Marshall-Howarth
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Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
Tuesday, October 13
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Tuesday, October 13
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes MIT professor and award-winning author DAVID A. MINDELL for a discussion of his book Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy.
In Our Robots, Ourselves, David Mindell offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of robotics today, debunking commonly held myths and exploring the rapidly changing relationships between humans and machines.
Drawing on firsthand experience, extensive interviews, and the latest research from MIT and elsewhere, Mindell takes us to extreme environments—high atmosphere, deep ocean, and outer space—to reveal where the most advanced robotics already exist. In these environments, scientists use robots to discover new information about ancient civilizations, to map some of the world’s largest geological features, and even to “commute” to Mars to conduct daily experiments. But these tools of air, sea, and space also forecast the dangers, ethical quandaries, and unintended consequences of a future in which robotics and automation suffuse our everyday lives.
Mindell argues that the stark lines we’ve drawn between human and not human, manual and automated, aren’t helpful for understanding our relationship with robotics. Brilliantly researched and accessibly written, Our Robots, Ourselves clarifies misconceptions about the autonomous robot, offering instead a hopeful message about what he calls “rich human presence” at the center of the technological landscape we are now creating.
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Upcoming Events
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Wednesday, October 14
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2015 MIT Material Day
Wednesday, October 14
8:00a–5:00p
MIT, Building W16, 48 Massachusetts Avenuw (Rear), Cambridge
RSVP at http://mpc-www.mit.edu/registration
Web site: http://ilp.mit.edu/conference.jsp?confid=130&tabname=overview
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Office of Corporate Relations/ILP
For more information, contact: Kwan Lee
617-253-0406
kwanhlee@mit.edu
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MAPC 2015 Clean Energy Forum: Advancing Community Energy Planning
Wednesday October 14
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
New England Room, Federal Reserve Plaza, 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebfos1qg20be44cb&oseq=&c=b77caa50-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4&ch=b78312f0-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4
How can municipal officials best reap the benefits of clean energy for their communities? How can businesses, NGOs and others support these efforts?
Generating energy and cost savings in municipal buildings is a must, and new tools in building energy monitoring are now ready for deployment. Increasingly, municipalities can also help residents and businesses directly access energy, GHG and cost savings of clean energy projects, too.
Join MAPC's Clean Energy Forum to explore these topics in detail and learn how municipalities can successfully implement them.
The forum will bring together energy experts from municipalities, state government, non-profits and the private sector for lively panels and interactive discussion.
Panel 1: Leveraging Building Energy Data
Moderator: Patrick Roche, MAPC
Eric Friedman, MA Department of Energy Resources
Jillian Wilson-Martin, Town of Natick
James Siegel, Eversource
Panel 2: Planning for Clean Energy beyond the Municipal Sector
Moderator: Cameron Peterson, MAPC
Andrew Savitz, City of Newton
Paul Gromer, Peregrine Energy Group
Galen Nelson, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
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Whose Lives Matter: A Conversation with Rinku Sen about the Black Lives Matter Movement and Beyond
Wednesday, October 14
11:30a–1:00p
MIT, Building 50, 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Rinku Sen
Lunchtime Presentation and Discussion with buffet lunch with Rinku Sen, President and Executive Director of Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation.
Web site: http://diversity.mit.edu/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Political Science, ICEO
For more information, contact: Weiner, Tobie
617-253-3649
iguanatw@mit.edu
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Why Starting a Car Company Was a Good Idea
Wednesday, October 14
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Marc Tarpenning, Tesla Motors
Becoming a sustainable society requires change to nearly every product and process we use. Big companies and governments are unlikely to get us there. This talk explains the how and why of Tesla Motors founding, and follows its growth to the release of their first car, the Tesla Roadster.
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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The Current National Security Challenges of Israel
Wednesday, October 14
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Efraim Inbar, Bar-Ilan University
Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar
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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Wednesday, October 14
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2015 MIT Material Day
Wednesday, October 14
8:00a–5:00p
MIT, Building W16, 48 Massachusetts Avenuw (Rear), Cambridge
RSVP at http://mpc-www.mit.edu/registration
Web site: http://ilp.mit.edu/conference.jsp?confid=130&tabname=overview
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Office of Corporate Relations/ILP
For more information, contact: Kwan Lee
617-253-0406
kwanhlee@mit.edu
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MAPC 2015 Clean Energy Forum: Advancing Community Energy Planning
Wednesday October 14
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
New England Room, Federal Reserve Plaza, 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebfos1qg20be44cb&oseq=&c=b77caa50-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4&ch=b78312f0-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4
How can municipal officials best reap the benefits of clean energy for their communities? How can businesses, NGOs and others support these efforts?
Generating energy and cost savings in municipal buildings is a must, and new tools in building energy monitoring are now ready for deployment. Increasingly, municipalities can also help residents and businesses directly access energy, GHG and cost savings of clean energy projects, too.
Join MAPC's Clean Energy Forum to explore these topics in detail and learn how municipalities can successfully implement them.
The forum will bring together energy experts from municipalities, state government, non-profits and the private sector for lively panels and interactive discussion.
Panel 1: Leveraging Building Energy Data
Moderator: Patrick Roche, MAPC
Eric Friedman, MA Department of Energy Resources
Jillian Wilson-Martin, Town of Natick
James Siegel, Eversource
Panel 2: Planning for Clean Energy beyond the Municipal Sector
Moderator: Cameron Peterson, MAPC
Andrew Savitz, City of Newton
Paul Gromer, Peregrine Energy Group
Galen Nelson, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
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Whose Lives Matter: A Conversation with Rinku Sen about the Black Lives Matter Movement and Beyond
Wednesday, October 14
11:30a–1:00p
MIT, Building 50, 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Rinku Sen
Lunchtime Presentation and Discussion with buffet lunch with Rinku Sen, President and Executive Director of Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation.
Web site: http://diversity.mit.edu/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Political Science, ICEO
For more information, contact: Weiner, Tobie
617-253-3649
iguanatw@mit.edu
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Why Starting a Car Company Was a Good Idea
Wednesday, October 14
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Marc Tarpenning, Tesla Motors
Becoming a sustainable society requires change to nearly every product and process we use. Big companies and governments are unlikely to get us there. This talk explains the how and why of Tesla Motors founding, and follows its growth to the release of their first car, the Tesla Roadster.
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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The Current National Security Challenges of Israel
Wednesday, October 14
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Efraim Inbar, Bar-Ilan University
Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar
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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China in the World Economy: The New Normal
WHEN Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, 12:30 – 1:50 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, S020, Belfer Case Study Room, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Edwin Lim, China Economic Research and Advisory Programme; former CEO of the China International Capital Corporation (CICC); former economist for The World Bank; former director of The World Bank’s China office
WHEN Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, 12:30 – 1:50 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, S020, Belfer Case Study Room, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Edwin Lim, China Economic Research and Advisory Programme; former CEO of the China International Capital Corporation (CICC); former economist for The World Bank; former director of The World Bank’s China office
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Predicting Rainfall Change Under Global Warming: New Challenge for Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics
Wednesday, October 14
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Harvard, Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Shang-Ping Xie, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego
Harvard, Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Shang-Ping Xie, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego
Reception to follow in the Interactive Lounge, Geology Museum, 4th floor.
EPS Climate Seminar
EPS Climate Seminar
Contact Name: Jenifer Lee
jeniferlee@fas.harvard.edu
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Fall Lecture Series: Retired General Don Riley Discusses US Water Policy – Its Development Over Time and Main Challenges Now and in the Future
Wednesday, October 14
4:30 pm
General Riley will start with a short background of Federal water policy development with its concomitant challenges, including how the US Army managed to have such a large role in managing our nation’s water resources. General Riley will then bring everyone up to date on three of the more progressive directions in which US national policy makers have been moving over the past several years to improve their management of water resources: integrated water resources management, flood risk management, and adaptation to climate change. He will then be open to questions on those and other aspects of Federal water resources policy and management.
US Army Maj. General (Ret.) Don Riley is presently the Senior VP for Dawson & Associates. General Riley was the Deputy Commanding General & Deputy Chief of Engineers for the US Army Corps of Engineers, which made him second in command of an organization of 37,000 people with a budget of $40 billion a year. General Riley is an engineer, and a graduate of West Point (B. Sc.), the University of California, Berkeley (M. Sc.), and the US Army School of Advanced Military Studies (MMAS). In his 37 years with the Corps, General Riley managed work personally in the US and abroad – he led the Army Corps’ Hurricane Katrina response and recovery operations and he ensured sufficient basing, equipment, and movement of troops in Afghanistan, including consideration of a long-term water management strategy for Afghanistan.
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Dertouzos Lecture: "The Land Sharks are on the Squawk Box"
Wednesday, October 14
4:30p–5:45p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Michael Stonebraker
Abstract:This Turing Award talk intermixes a bicycle ride across America during the summer of 1988 with the design, construction and commercialization of Postgres during the late 80s and early 90s. Striking parallels are observed, leading to a discussion of what it takes to build a new DBMS. Also, indicated are the roles that perseverance and serendipity played in both endeavors.
Biography: Dr. Stonebraker has been a pioneer of data base research and technology for more than a quarter of a century. He was the main architect of the INGRES relational DBMS, and the object-relational DBMS, POSTGRES. These prototypes were developed at the University of California at Berkeley where Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer Science for twenty five years. More recently at M.I.T. he was a co-architect of the Aurora/Borealis stream processing engine, the C-Store column-oriented DBMS, the H-Store transaction processing engine, the SciDB array DBMS, and the Data Tamer data curation system. Presently he serves as Chief Technology Officer of Paradigm4 and Tamr, Inc.
Web site: https://calendar.csail.mit.edu/events/159756
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): CSAIL
For more information, contact: Laura Moses
617-253-0145
lmoses@csail.mit.edu
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Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Lecture: Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in Networks and Information Diffusion Processes
WHEN Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center C Lecture Hall, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Department of Economics
SPEAKER(S) Matthew Jackson, Stanford University
CONTACT INFO eunverz@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/departmental_seminars
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Fall Lecture Series: Retired General Don Riley Discusses US Water Policy – Its Development Over Time and Main Challenges Now and in the Future
Wednesday, October 14
4:30 pm
General Riley will start with a short background of Federal water policy development with its concomitant challenges, including how the US Army managed to have such a large role in managing our nation’s water resources. General Riley will then bring everyone up to date on three of the more progressive directions in which US national policy makers have been moving over the past several years to improve their management of water resources: integrated water resources management, flood risk management, and adaptation to climate change. He will then be open to questions on those and other aspects of Federal water resources policy and management.
US Army Maj. General (Ret.) Don Riley is presently the Senior VP for Dawson & Associates. General Riley was the Deputy Commanding General & Deputy Chief of Engineers for the US Army Corps of Engineers, which made him second in command of an organization of 37,000 people with a budget of $40 billion a year. General Riley is an engineer, and a graduate of West Point (B. Sc.), the University of California, Berkeley (M. Sc.), and the US Army School of Advanced Military Studies (MMAS). In his 37 years with the Corps, General Riley managed work personally in the US and abroad – he led the Army Corps’ Hurricane Katrina response and recovery operations and he ensured sufficient basing, equipment, and movement of troops in Afghanistan, including consideration of a long-term water management strategy for Afghanistan.
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Dertouzos Lecture: "The Land Sharks are on the Squawk Box"
Wednesday, October 14
4:30p–5:45p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Michael Stonebraker
Abstract:This Turing Award talk intermixes a bicycle ride across America during the summer of 1988 with the design, construction and commercialization of Postgres during the late 80s and early 90s. Striking parallels are observed, leading to a discussion of what it takes to build a new DBMS. Also, indicated are the roles that perseverance and serendipity played in both endeavors.
Biography: Dr. Stonebraker has been a pioneer of data base research and technology for more than a quarter of a century. He was the main architect of the INGRES relational DBMS, and the object-relational DBMS, POSTGRES. These prototypes were developed at the University of California at Berkeley where Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer Science for twenty five years. More recently at M.I.T. he was a co-architect of the Aurora/Borealis stream processing engine, the C-Store column-oriented DBMS, the H-Store transaction processing engine, the SciDB array DBMS, and the Data Tamer data curation system. Presently he serves as Chief Technology Officer of Paradigm4 and Tamr, Inc.
Web site: https://calendar.csail.mit.edu/events/159756
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): CSAIL
For more information, contact: Laura Moses
617-253-0145
lmoses@csail.mit.edu
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Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Lecture: Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in Networks and Information Diffusion Processes
WHEN Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center C Lecture Hall, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Department of Economics
SPEAKER(S) Matthew Jackson, Stanford University
CONTACT INFO eunverz@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/departmental_seminars
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Transforming Boston: From Basket Case to Innovation Hub
Wednesday, October 14
5:30p–8:30p
MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
This four-part series will examine the politics, planning, and development in the city from the end of WWII to the present and explore how Boston went from an economic basket case to the innovation hub of America.
Each program begins with a reception at 5:30 pm and is followed by the panel discussion at 6:00 pm. There is a $10 per person fee to attend each program (no charge for MHS Fellows and Members). Register online at www.masshist.org/events or by calling 617-646-0578.
Program 1: Wednesday, October 14
Turning the City Around, 1945 -- 1970
Location: MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
With Lizabeth Cohen, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Frank Del Vecchio, retired attorney; Mel King, community organizer; David Fixler, EYP; and moderator Tunney Lee, MIT.
The series is made possible with help from underwriter, The Architectural Heritage Foundation (AHF), and contributors, The Boston Area Research Initiative and The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.
Web site: www.masshist.org/events
Open to: the general public
Cost: $10
Tickets: www.masshist.org/events
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: 617-646-0578
5:30p–8:30p
MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
This four-part series will examine the politics, planning, and development in the city from the end of WWII to the present and explore how Boston went from an economic basket case to the innovation hub of America.
Each program begins with a reception at 5:30 pm and is followed by the panel discussion at 6:00 pm. There is a $10 per person fee to attend each program (no charge for MHS Fellows and Members). Register online at www.masshist.org/events or by calling 617-646-0578.
Program 1: Wednesday, October 14
Turning the City Around, 1945 -- 1970
Location: MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
With Lizabeth Cohen, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Frank Del Vecchio, retired attorney; Mel King, community organizer; David Fixler, EYP; and moderator Tunney Lee, MIT.
The series is made possible with help from underwriter, The Architectural Heritage Foundation (AHF), and contributors, The Boston Area Research Initiative and The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.
Web site: www.masshist.org/events
Open to: the general public
Cost: $10
Tickets: www.masshist.org/events
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: 617-646-0578
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Ancient Mesopotamian Music
WHEN Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Visit website for location: www.semiticmuseum.fas.havard.edu
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Semitic Museum
SPEAKER(S) Richard Dumbrill, professor emeritus, Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
Irving Finkel, assistant keeper, The British Museum
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.4631
DETAILS Some of the earliest known examples of musical notation have been found in the region of modern-day Syria and Iraq and date back almost four thousand years. These early compositions—recorded in cuneiform script on clay tablets—have become better understood in recent years. This program will trace the history of early musical composition and discuss advances in the theory of its interpretation. The speakers will demonstrate the sound of this music using reconstructed instruments and show how these were built and played in the Bronze Age.
LINK www.semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu
WHEN Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Visit website for location: www.semiticmuseum.fas.havard.edu
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Semitic Museum
SPEAKER(S) Richard Dumbrill, professor emeritus, Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
Irving Finkel, assistant keeper, The British Museum
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.4631
DETAILS Some of the earliest known examples of musical notation have been found in the region of modern-day Syria and Iraq and date back almost four thousand years. These early compositions—recorded in cuneiform script on clay tablets—have become better understood in recent years. This program will trace the history of early musical composition and discuss advances in the theory of its interpretation. The speakers will demonstrate the sound of this music using reconstructed instruments and show how these were built and played in the Bronze Age.
LINK www.semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu
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Soap Box - Re: Making Life - Customizing Nature
Wednesday, October 14
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Kristala Jones Prather, Ron Weiss
Join us on Wednesday evenings this October for a four-part series about synthetic biology. Add your voice to the discussions while meeting new people and learning about state-of-the-art science and technology!
Free.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu
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Soap Box - Re: Making Life - Customizing Nature
Wednesday, October 14
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Kristala Jones Prather, Ron Weiss
Join us on Wednesday evenings this October for a four-part series about synthetic biology. Add your voice to the discussions while meeting new people and learning about state-of-the-art science and technology!
Free.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu
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Mass Innovation Nights 79
Wednesday, October 14
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
Are you ready for the second annual all Women Founders Mass Innovation Nights – MIN #79? We have 12 truly incredible products that will showcase just for you. Held at District Hall in Boston on October 14th and sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank & Babson’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, MIN #79 will be co-located with Innovation Women’s Women Entrepreneurs Evening – an event featuring Boston’s top organizations that support women entrepreneurs. Both MIN #79 & the Women Entrepreneurs Evening are part of the week long WEBOS (Women’s Entrepreneurship Boston). What a great night and week it will be!
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
Are you ready for the second annual all Women Founders Mass Innovation Nights – MIN #79? We have 12 truly incredible products that will showcase just for you. Held at District Hall in Boston on October 14th and sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank & Babson’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, MIN #79 will be co-located with Innovation Women’s Women Entrepreneurs Evening – an event featuring Boston’s top organizations that support women entrepreneurs. Both MIN #79 & the Women Entrepreneurs Evening are part of the week long WEBOS (Women’s Entrepreneurship Boston). What a great night and week it will be!
Website: http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/min-79-women-founders
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Wednesday, October 14
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes DANIEL J. LEVITIN, bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music, for a discussion of his new-to-paperback book The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload.
Readers of Daniel J. Levitin’s two previous New York Times bestsellers have come to know and trust his unique ability to translate cutting edge neuroscience into an informative and entertaining narrative. Now Levitin turns his attention to an issue that affects everyone in the digital age: organization. It’s the reason that some people are more adept than others at managing today’s hyper-flow of data. The Organized Mind explains the science behind their success and—with chapters targeted specifically to business readers—shows how all of us can make small but crucial changes to regain mastery over our lives.
"[An] impressively wide-ranging and thoughtful work. . . . The Organized Mind is an organized book, but it also rewards dipping in at any point, for there are fascinating facts and examples throughout." —The Wall Street Journal
"From how not to lose your keys to how to decide when the risks of surgery are worth it, Levitin focuses on smart ways to process the constant flow of information the brain must deal with." —The Washington Post
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Tricks of the Light: How nanoscale materials shape the world we see
Wednesday, October 14
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Marianne Williamson: On Consciousness, Spirituality, and Politics in America
WHEN Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, 7 – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR Office of Student Life
CONTACT studentlife@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS Internationally acclaimed spiritual leader, Marianne Williamson, will share her insight on the creation of a beloved community through the use of political and ethical externalization.
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Wednesday, October 14
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes DANIEL J. LEVITIN, bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music, for a discussion of his new-to-paperback book The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload.
Readers of Daniel J. Levitin’s two previous New York Times bestsellers have come to know and trust his unique ability to translate cutting edge neuroscience into an informative and entertaining narrative. Now Levitin turns his attention to an issue that affects everyone in the digital age: organization. It’s the reason that some people are more adept than others at managing today’s hyper-flow of data. The Organized Mind explains the science behind their success and—with chapters targeted specifically to business readers—shows how all of us can make small but crucial changes to regain mastery over our lives.
"[An] impressively wide-ranging and thoughtful work. . . . The Organized Mind is an organized book, but it also rewards dipping in at any point, for there are fascinating facts and examples throughout." —The Wall Street Journal
"From how not to lose your keys to how to decide when the risks of surgery are worth it, Levitin focuses on smart ways to process the constant flow of information the brain must deal with." —The Washington Post
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Tricks of the Light: How nanoscale materials shape the world we see
Wednesday, October 14
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Marianne Williamson: On Consciousness, Spirituality, and Politics in America
WHEN Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, 7 – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR Office of Student Life
CONTACT studentlife@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS Internationally acclaimed spiritual leader, Marianne Williamson, will share her insight on the creation of a beloved community through the use of political and ethical externalization.
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Cambridge Candidates Night on Energy and Environment, 2015
Wednesday, October 14
Wednesday, October 14
7:00pm
Cambridge YMCA, 820 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
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Thursday, October 15
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Designing Durable Climate and Energy Policy: Lessons from the Clean Air Act
Thursday, October 15
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, Belfer Building, 5th floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Joseph Aldy, Associate Professor of Public Policy at HKS; Faculty Chair, Regulatory Policy Program
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/rpp/seminars
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Towards a more sustainable and equitable Metro Boston: The HUD regional planning grant
Thursday, October 15
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Eric Hove, Regional Plan Implementation Assistant Director, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) works with dozens of municipalities and non-profits to advance smart growth and preservation in Greater Boston. In the summer of 2014, MAPC and the Metro Boston Consortium for Sustainable Communities wrapped up work on the $4 million Regional Planning Grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Consortium included 170 organizations and municipalities and was governed by an elected and representative steering committee. The grant allowed MAPC and the Consortium to advance MetroFuture, a long-term regional plan, through local planning efforts, state and regional policy work, development of tools and data, and capacity building for local residents and leaders. This work is now turning into on-the-ground change, as the plans and recommendations are implemented.
Eric Hove is the Assistant Director of the Regional Plan Implementation department at MAPC. Mr. Hove works closely with a number of MAPC's divisions and external partners on a variety of projects. Under the HUD-funded Sustainable Communities program, he managed project solicitation and selection processes, helps develop and manage state and local policy and planning projects, and is responsible for evaluating, documenting, and disseminating best practices internally and throughout the region. Prior to joining MAPC, Mr. Hove served as the Assistant Director for Land Use Policy at the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA). While at EEA, he helped establish and implement a wide range of smart growth policies and programs throughout the Commonwealth. He also worked at the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission in their Environmental and Land Use section. Mr. Hove holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and English from Oberlin College and a master's degree in regional planning from UMass-Amherst. He is a member of the American Planning Association.
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Cambridge YMCA, 820 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
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Thursday, October 15
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Designing Durable Climate and Energy Policy: Lessons from the Clean Air Act
Thursday, October 15
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, Belfer Building, 5th floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Joseph Aldy, Associate Professor of Public Policy at HKS; Faculty Chair, Regulatory Policy Program
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/rpp/seminars
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Towards a more sustainable and equitable Metro Boston: The HUD regional planning grant
Thursday, October 15
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Eric Hove, Regional Plan Implementation Assistant Director, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) works with dozens of municipalities and non-profits to advance smart growth and preservation in Greater Boston. In the summer of 2014, MAPC and the Metro Boston Consortium for Sustainable Communities wrapped up work on the $4 million Regional Planning Grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Consortium included 170 organizations and municipalities and was governed by an elected and representative steering committee. The grant allowed MAPC and the Consortium to advance MetroFuture, a long-term regional plan, through local planning efforts, state and regional policy work, development of tools and data, and capacity building for local residents and leaders. This work is now turning into on-the-ground change, as the plans and recommendations are implemented.
Eric Hove is the Assistant Director of the Regional Plan Implementation department at MAPC. Mr. Hove works closely with a number of MAPC's divisions and external partners on a variety of projects. Under the HUD-funded Sustainable Communities program, he managed project solicitation and selection processes, helps develop and manage state and local policy and planning projects, and is responsible for evaluating, documenting, and disseminating best practices internally and throughout the region. Prior to joining MAPC, Mr. Hove served as the Assistant Director for Land Use Policy at the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA). While at EEA, he helped establish and implement a wide range of smart growth policies and programs throughout the Commonwealth. He also worked at the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission in their Environmental and Land Use section. Mr. Hove holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and English from Oberlin College and a master's degree in regional planning from UMass-Amherst. He is a member of the American Planning Association.
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A Big Data System for Things That Move
Thursday, October 15
Thursday, October 15
4:00pm to 5:15pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University
The world consists of many interesting things that move: people go to work, home, school, and shop in public transit buses and trains or in cars and taxis; goods move on these networks and by trucks or by air each day; and food items travel a very large distance to meet their eater. Thus, massive movement processes are underway in the world every day and it is critical to ensure their safe, timely and efficient operation. Towards this end, low-cost sensing and acquisition of the movement data is being achieved: from GPS devices, RFID and barcode scanners, to smart commuter cards and smartphones, snapshots of the movement process are becoming available.
The world consists of many interesting things that move: people go to work, home, school, and shop in public transit buses and trains or in cars and taxis; goods move on these networks and by trucks or by air each day; and food items travel a very large distance to meet their eater. Thus, massive movement processes are underway in the world every day and it is critical to ensure their safe, timely and efficient operation. Towards this end, low-cost sensing and acquisition of the movement data is being achieved: from GPS devices, RFID and barcode scanners, to smart commuter cards and smartphones, snapshots of the movement process are becoming available.
In this talk, I will present a system for stitching together these snapshots and reconstructing urban mobility at a very fine-grained level. The system, which we call the Space-Time Engine, provides an interactive dashboard and a querying engine for answering questions such as: what is the crowding at a train station? where're packages held up and how can their delivery be sped up? how can the available supply of transport capacity be better used to address daily demand as well as the demand on exceptional days (such as rallies and severe weather events). I will describe the STE's capabilities for operational and planning purposes, and as a learning system.
Speaker Bio: Balaji Prabhakar is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Urban Engines. His research interests are in Cloud Computing, Internet Algorithms and, recently, in Societal Networks, especially Transportation Networks. He has been awarded the Alfred Sloan Fellowship, the Erlang Prize, the Rollo Davidson Prize, and the IEEE Innovation in Social Infrastructure Award. He is an IEEE Fellow and serves on the Future Urban Mobility Initiative of the World Economic Forum.
Computer Science Colloquium Series
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu
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The Conditions Inside Syria: A View from the Field
WHEN Thu., Oct. 15, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The CMES Middle East Forum, WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar
SPEAKER(S) Ammar Kourany, safety and liaison manager, Save the Children, Syria; and,
Abdulkarim Ekzayez, health program manager, Save the Children, Syria
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS 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/title-tba-0
WHEN Thu., Oct. 15, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The CMES Middle East Forum, WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar
SPEAKER(S) Ammar Kourany, safety and liaison manager, Save the Children, Syria; and,
Abdulkarim Ekzayez, health program manager, Save the Children, Syria
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS 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/title-tba-0
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Air, Earth, and Water: Elements of Health and the Urban Environment
Thursday, October 15
4:00-6:00 pm
Thursday, October 15
4:00-6:00 pm
BU, Questrom 426/428, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Hosted by Graham Wilson, Professor, Political Science and Director, Initiative on Cities; and Katharine Lusk, Executive Director, Initiative on Cities
The urban environment – from the air we breathe and water we drink to the soil beneath our feet – is crucial for metropolitan universities like BU. Faculty across the University are studying cities from an inter- and multi-disciplinary approach, evaluating complex challenges from the perspective of law, environment, engineering, management, cultural studies, medicine, public health, and communications. Find out how your surroundings are evolving and what this means for you.
Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/research/research-on-tap-air-earth-and-water-elements-of-health-and-the-urban-environment/ to help us best plan this event.
Hosted by Graham Wilson, Professor, Political Science and Director, Initiative on Cities; and Katharine Lusk, Executive Director, Initiative on Cities
The urban environment – from the air we breathe and water we drink to the soil beneath our feet – is crucial for metropolitan universities like BU. Faculty across the University are studying cities from an inter- and multi-disciplinary approach, evaluating complex challenges from the perspective of law, environment, engineering, management, cultural studies, medicine, public health, and communications. Find out how your surroundings are evolving and what this means for you.
Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/research/research-on-tap-air-earth-and-water-elements-of-health-and-the-urban-environment/ to help us best plan this event.
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The Adventures of Ms. Meta: Celebrating the Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming
Thursday, October 15
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
The importance of female superheroes in Western culture cannot be ignored. From Wonder Woman in the 1940s to Captain Marvel in the 2010s, the inspiration and cultural impact these representations of heroism provide fans regardless of gender are undeniable. While there is a wealth of research examining the representation of the female superhero and how this speaks to perceptions of femininity across the past eighty years, its focus is often the prevalence of stereotypical over authentic depictions, and the harmful effects of this on society.
Sarah Zaidan's research combines the platforms of video games with the artistic styles and narrative themes of comics and historical fact, culminating in an original game that celebrates the power of the female superhero, and her cultural importance. The game tells the story of Ms. Meta, a contemporary superhero created by the player. As she journeys through time to stop her nemesis' plans, she will encounter characters drawn from the stories of women and fans from each era, opportunities to challenge preconceived notions of female superheroes, and the ability to change the course of history. The gameplay will be grounded in problem-solving and collaboration, and will incorporate player choices to create ownership and personal relevance.
Dr. Sarah Zaidan is a game designer, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity, gender and civic awareness.
Web site: http://cmsw.mit.edu/event/sarah-zaidan-female-superhero-through-digital-gaming/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
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IoT Takes to the Road: Getting Smarter in Transportation
Thursday, October 15
6:00p–8:30p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/
Cost: $0 - $20
Speaker: Ken Wood, Executive Vice President, Product Management, Descartes Systems;Dennis Groseclose, CEO, TransVoyant;Andy Souders, Senior Vice President, Products and Strategy, Savi;Marc Held, Founder and CEO, Weft
The US population and our need for stuff is growing. Yet our transportation systems- roads, transport capacity, and personnel are not meeting the needs of our growing and diverse needs.
Capacity is shrinking just as our demand is growing. Shorter driver hours, environmental and city ordinances shorten delivery hours and ecommerce sales keep growing.
At the same time highway safety issues, as well as risks and threats keep growing.
Government solutions are slow. So industry needs to adjust to the new realities of shrinking capacity and increasing cost and risks.
The transportation market has responded to this challenge with diverse technologies from Telematics, mobility, asset tracking, IoT and integrated cargo and fleet management systems. Trucks and trains are already loaded with technologies that continue to be enhanced to improve on time, safety and cost metrics.
Join us for this informative session from some of the most innovative companies in the transportation sector.
This session will discuss the options and technologies today - IoT, GPS, RFID +Sensors, Streaming data, Location-based systems, visualization, optimization and analytics, that are used to enhance transportation.
Speakers:
Ken Wood, Executive Vice President, Product Management, Descartes Systems
Dennis Groseclose, CEO, TransVoyant
Andy Souders, Senior Vice President, Products and Strategy, Savi
Marc Held, Founder and CEO, Weft
Moderator:
Ann Grackin, CEO of ChainLink Research
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free for Students and MITEF Members; $20 non-members
Tickets: http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/
Sponsor(s): MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge
For more information, contact: Amy Goggins
617-253-3937
agoggins@mit.edu
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RPP Colloquium/IPP Lecture: Making Peace with Islam: Islamic Approaches to Peacemaking
WHEN Thu., Oct. 15, 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, Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program at Harvard
CONTACT Liz Lee-Hood
DETAILS Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium Dinner Series
Inaugural Lecture of the Islamic and the Practice of Peace Lecture Series
Space is limited. RSVP as soon as possible at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cwPfjRncGqnICXz
Dr. Nathan C. Funk is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada. He is the co-author of Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East, and Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precept and Practice.
Examining Islamic peace teachings and paradigms within a larger comparative context, Dr. Funk will explore both the distinctiveness of Islamic approaches to peacemaking and ways in which Islamic experiences of conflict and peace mirror those of other communities. Particular attention will be given to keynote themes emphasized by Muslim peacebuilders, and to examples of various ways in which Islamic precepts have been applied to support restorative justice, nonviolent social justice advocacy, and interfaith understanding.
Launch of a new lecture series on Islam and the Practice of Peace sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program and RPP.
Launched by HDS Dean David N. Hempton in 2014, this monthly public series convenes a cross-disciplinary RPP Working Group of faculty, experts, graduate students, and alumni from across Harvard’s Schools and the local area to explore topics and cases in religions and the practice of peace. A diverse array of scholars, leaders, and religious peacebuilders are invited to present and engage with the RPP Working Group and general audience. A light dinner is served and a brief reception follows the program.
Join RPP’s mailing list and visit the RPP Initiative at http://hds.harvard.edu/faculty-research/programs-and-centers/religions-and-the-practice-of-peace
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2015 Carlson Lecture - "Watching Water: Nature's Field Guide to Weather and Climate"
Thursday, October 15
6:15p–8:00p
New England Aquarium, Simons IMAX Theatre, Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=106143&view=Detail
Speaker: Bjorn Stevens - Director of the Atmosphere in the Earth System Department at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, and professor at the University of Hamburg
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2015/john_carlson_lecture
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE (register via event website)
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Lorenz Center
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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HEET Fundraising Gala
Thursday, October 15
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Carrie Nation Restaurant, 11 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heet-fundraising-gala-tickets-18401437194
Cost: $53.49 - as much as you wish to donate
HEET 's 2015 Fundraiser
Honoring Senator Markey & Mothers Out Front (Downtown Boston & Jamaica Plain groups)
HEET has mapped and made public more natural gas leaks than any other organization in the country. Through these maps, HEET has made visible and local the danger, damage and waste of these leaks, including the irreparable harm to the climate.
In a letter to FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), the Mass. House of Representatives named HEET’s work as one of the three reasons they didn’t want the proposed Kinder-Morgan pipeline.
HEET’s maps and analysis earned a front-page story in the Boston Globe, as well as stories in over 60 other news outlets. HEET has also, for years, installed solar and efficiency measures in hundreds of homes and nonprofits around Greater Boston.
Come to HEET’s Gala. Have some drinks and meet some new friends while supporting a scrappy local nonprofit fighting to preserve our children’s planet.
HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team) is a Cambridge-based nonprofit that reduces greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency and renewables. HEET has won an EPA Regional Environmental Merit Award, Cambridge GoGreen Award and others.
Honorees
US Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) is a national leader on energy and environmental issues and a passionate voice for the families and businesses of Massachusetts. He has fought global warming through landmark legislation and climate change initiatives. In 2013, Markey commissioned a federal study “America Pays for Gas Leaks” which shows consumers paid over $20 billion dollars from 2000 to 2011 for gas that was lost through leaking pipes.
Mothers Out Front is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and movement of mothers, grandmothers and caregivers using their collective energy and voice to convince elected officials and business leaders to push for a swift and complete transition away from fossil fuels, to clean energy. Their goal is to pressure political, business, and economic institutions to align their priorities and actions with the reality of climate change and its impacts.
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MakeSpeak
Thursday, October 15
7pm
MIT Student Center, Lobdell Room, Building W20-208, 2nd floor, 84 Massachusetts Avenue. Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/makespeak-tickets-17975809129
7 takes on craft, 7 presentations, 7 minutes. This is a free public lecture choreographed by the Commonwealth of Craft. Seating is limited. Reserve your space now!
Join the contemporary craft community for seven fast-paced presentations by artisans who think outside the box:
Arthur Hash, jeweler, 3-D print artist
Brian Chan, maker of everything
Jiyoung Chung, fibers
Laurin Macios, Mass Poetry
Ayr Muir, Clover Food Lab
Bart Niswonger, furniture maker and artisan cattle rancher
John Rowse, Community Boatbuilding
Sponsored by ArtScope Magazine and Boston Beer
The Adventures of Ms. Meta: Celebrating the Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming
Thursday, October 15
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
The importance of female superheroes in Western culture cannot be ignored. From Wonder Woman in the 1940s to Captain Marvel in the 2010s, the inspiration and cultural impact these representations of heroism provide fans regardless of gender are undeniable. While there is a wealth of research examining the representation of the female superhero and how this speaks to perceptions of femininity across the past eighty years, its focus is often the prevalence of stereotypical over authentic depictions, and the harmful effects of this on society.
Sarah Zaidan's research combines the platforms of video games with the artistic styles and narrative themes of comics and historical fact, culminating in an original game that celebrates the power of the female superhero, and her cultural importance. The game tells the story of Ms. Meta, a contemporary superhero created by the player. As she journeys through time to stop her nemesis' plans, she will encounter characters drawn from the stories of women and fans from each era, opportunities to challenge preconceived notions of female superheroes, and the ability to change the course of history. The gameplay will be grounded in problem-solving and collaboration, and will incorporate player choices to create ownership and personal relevance.
Dr. Sarah Zaidan is a game designer, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity, gender and civic awareness.
Web site: http://cmsw.mit.edu/event/sarah-zaidan-female-superhero-through-digital-gaming/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
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IoT Takes to the Road: Getting Smarter in Transportation
Thursday, October 15
6:00p–8:30p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/
Cost: $0 - $20
Speaker: Ken Wood, Executive Vice President, Product Management, Descartes Systems;Dennis Groseclose, CEO, TransVoyant;Andy Souders, Senior Vice President, Products and Strategy, Savi;Marc Held, Founder and CEO, Weft
The US population and our need for stuff is growing. Yet our transportation systems- roads, transport capacity, and personnel are not meeting the needs of our growing and diverse needs.
Capacity is shrinking just as our demand is growing. Shorter driver hours, environmental and city ordinances shorten delivery hours and ecommerce sales keep growing.
At the same time highway safety issues, as well as risks and threats keep growing.
Government solutions are slow. So industry needs to adjust to the new realities of shrinking capacity and increasing cost and risks.
The transportation market has responded to this challenge with diverse technologies from Telematics, mobility, asset tracking, IoT and integrated cargo and fleet management systems. Trucks and trains are already loaded with technologies that continue to be enhanced to improve on time, safety and cost metrics.
Join us for this informative session from some of the most innovative companies in the transportation sector.
This session will discuss the options and technologies today - IoT, GPS, RFID +Sensors, Streaming data, Location-based systems, visualization, optimization and analytics, that are used to enhance transportation.
Speakers:
Ken Wood, Executive Vice President, Product Management, Descartes Systems
Dennis Groseclose, CEO, TransVoyant
Andy Souders, Senior Vice President, Products and Strategy, Savi
Marc Held, Founder and CEO, Weft
Moderator:
Ann Grackin, CEO of ChainLink Research
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free for Students and MITEF Members; $20 non-members
Tickets: http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/
Sponsor(s): MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge
For more information, contact: Amy Goggins
617-253-3937
agoggins@mit.edu
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RPP Colloquium/IPP Lecture: Making Peace with Islam: Islamic Approaches to Peacemaking
WHEN Thu., Oct. 15, 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, Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program at Harvard
CONTACT Liz Lee-Hood
DETAILS Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium Dinner Series
Inaugural Lecture of the Islamic and the Practice of Peace Lecture Series
Space is limited. RSVP as soon as possible at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cwPfjRncGqnICXz
Dr. Nathan C. Funk is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada. He is the co-author of Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East, and Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precept and Practice.
Examining Islamic peace teachings and paradigms within a larger comparative context, Dr. Funk will explore both the distinctiveness of Islamic approaches to peacemaking and ways in which Islamic experiences of conflict and peace mirror those of other communities. Particular attention will be given to keynote themes emphasized by Muslim peacebuilders, and to examples of various ways in which Islamic precepts have been applied to support restorative justice, nonviolent social justice advocacy, and interfaith understanding.
Launch of a new lecture series on Islam and the Practice of Peace sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program and RPP.
Launched by HDS Dean David N. Hempton in 2014, this monthly public series convenes a cross-disciplinary RPP Working Group of faculty, experts, graduate students, and alumni from across Harvard’s Schools and the local area to explore topics and cases in religions and the practice of peace. A diverse array of scholars, leaders, and religious peacebuilders are invited to present and engage with the RPP Working Group and general audience. A light dinner is served and a brief reception follows the program.
Join RPP’s mailing list and visit the RPP Initiative at http://hds.harvard.edu/faculty-research/programs-and-centers/religions-and-the-practice-of-peace
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2015 Carlson Lecture - "Watching Water: Nature's Field Guide to Weather and Climate"
Thursday, October 15
6:15p–8:00p
New England Aquarium, Simons IMAX Theatre, Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=106143&view=Detail
Speaker: Bjorn Stevens - Director of the Atmosphere in the Earth System Department at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, and professor at the University of Hamburg
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2015/john_carlson_lecture
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE (register via event website)
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Lorenz Center
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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HEET Fundraising Gala
Thursday, October 15
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Carrie Nation Restaurant, 11 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heet-fundraising-gala-tickets-18401437194
Cost: $53.49 - as much as you wish to donate
HEET 's 2015 Fundraiser
Honoring Senator Markey & Mothers Out Front (Downtown Boston & Jamaica Plain groups)
HEET has mapped and made public more natural gas leaks than any other organization in the country. Through these maps, HEET has made visible and local the danger, damage and waste of these leaks, including the irreparable harm to the climate.
In a letter to FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), the Mass. House of Representatives named HEET’s work as one of the three reasons they didn’t want the proposed Kinder-Morgan pipeline.
HEET’s maps and analysis earned a front-page story in the Boston Globe, as well as stories in over 60 other news outlets. HEET has also, for years, installed solar and efficiency measures in hundreds of homes and nonprofits around Greater Boston.
Come to HEET’s Gala. Have some drinks and meet some new friends while supporting a scrappy local nonprofit fighting to preserve our children’s planet.
HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team) is a Cambridge-based nonprofit that reduces greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency and renewables. HEET has won an EPA Regional Environmental Merit Award, Cambridge GoGreen Award and others.
Honorees
US Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) is a national leader on energy and environmental issues and a passionate voice for the families and businesses of Massachusetts. He has fought global warming through landmark legislation and climate change initiatives. In 2013, Markey commissioned a federal study “America Pays for Gas Leaks” which shows consumers paid over $20 billion dollars from 2000 to 2011 for gas that was lost through leaking pipes.
Mothers Out Front is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and movement of mothers, grandmothers and caregivers using their collective energy and voice to convince elected officials and business leaders to push for a swift and complete transition away from fossil fuels, to clean energy. Their goal is to pressure political, business, and economic institutions to align their priorities and actions with the reality of climate change and its impacts.
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MakeSpeak
Thursday, October 15
7pm
MIT Student Center, Lobdell Room, Building W20-208, 2nd floor, 84 Massachusetts Avenue. Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/makespeak-tickets-17975809129
7 takes on craft, 7 presentations, 7 minutes. This is a free public lecture choreographed by the Commonwealth of Craft. Seating is limited. Reserve your space now!
Join the contemporary craft community for seven fast-paced presentations by artisans who think outside the box:
Arthur Hash, jeweler, 3-D print artist
Brian Chan, maker of everything
Jiyoung Chung, fibers
Laurin Macios, Mass Poetry
Ayr Muir, Clover Food Lab
Bart Niswonger, furniture maker and artisan cattle rancher
John Rowse, Community Boatbuilding
Sponsored by ArtScope Magazine and Boston Beer
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The Art and Practice of Saving Seeds
WHEN Thu., Oct. 15, 2015, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Lee Buttala
COST $5
TICKET WEB LINK https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1455&DayPlannerDate=10/15/2015
CONTACT INFO adulted@arnarb.harvard.edu
DETAILS The time-honored tradition of saving seeds merges botany, history, observation, and experience. Lee Buttala, editor of The Seed Garden, by the Seed Savers Exchange, will provide an overview of plant reproduction and pollination, how to preserve varietal traits, and the many reasons for saving seeds from your favorite heirloom and open-pollinated plants. Even if you don’t have seeds to save, Lee will help you understand the origin of that heirloom tomato that you picked up at the farmers market and share knowledge that has been passed down through generations by farmers and home gardeners for preserving the plants that sustain us.
LINK arboretum.harvard.edu
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Friday, October 16
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Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming
Friday, October 16 - Sunday, October 18
Tufts University, 419 Boston Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/restoring-water-cycles-to-reverse-global-warming-tickets-17028813640
Visit our http://www.bio4climate.org for latest updates! If you'd like to volunteer, sponsor or advertise, please contact us at climate2015@bio4climate.org.
Water and its remarkable physical properties make life on earth possible. In this conference we will pay particular attention to water's role in regulating climate through its capacity to store, move and transfer more heat than any other natural compound. Water is a planetary thermostat, and even with elevated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere it can cool the biosphere and address destructive feedbacks in the climate system.
Good water management is a facet of good land management, which we covered broadly at last year's conference, Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming. This year we will carefully examine the water cycle, how we can have a dramatic positive influence on it, and in so doing successfully address drought, floods, soil health, food production and climate.
Although water and carbon travel together, water cycles can be restored even more quickly than soil sequestration can reduce atmospheric carbon levels. Thus, while we're addressing greenhouse gases, we can significantly cool the surface of the earth to mitigate and even reverse the damage done to date by elevated planetary temperatures.
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WHEN Thu., Oct. 15, 2015, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Lee Buttala
COST $5
TICKET WEB LINK https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1455&DayPlannerDate=10/15/2015
CONTACT INFO adulted@arnarb.harvard.edu
DETAILS The time-honored tradition of saving seeds merges botany, history, observation, and experience. Lee Buttala, editor of The Seed Garden, by the Seed Savers Exchange, will provide an overview of plant reproduction and pollination, how to preserve varietal traits, and the many reasons for saving seeds from your favorite heirloom and open-pollinated plants. Even if you don’t have seeds to save, Lee will help you understand the origin of that heirloom tomato that you picked up at the farmers market and share knowledge that has been passed down through generations by farmers and home gardeners for preserving the plants that sustain us.
LINK arboretum.harvard.edu
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Friday, October 16
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Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming
Friday, October 16 - Sunday, October 18
Tufts University, 419 Boston Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/restoring-water-cycles-to-reverse-global-warming-tickets-17028813640
Visit our http://www.bio4climate.org for latest updates! If you'd like to volunteer, sponsor or advertise, please contact us at climate2015@bio4climate.org.
Water and its remarkable physical properties make life on earth possible. In this conference we will pay particular attention to water's role in regulating climate through its capacity to store, move and transfer more heat than any other natural compound. Water is a planetary thermostat, and even with elevated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere it can cool the biosphere and address destructive feedbacks in the climate system.
Good water management is a facet of good land management, which we covered broadly at last year's conference, Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming. This year we will carefully examine the water cycle, how we can have a dramatic positive influence on it, and in so doing successfully address drought, floods, soil health, food production and climate.
Although water and carbon travel together, water cycles can be restored even more quickly than soil sequestration can reduce atmospheric carbon levels. Thus, while we're addressing greenhouse gases, we can significantly cool the surface of the earth to mitigate and even reverse the damage done to date by elevated planetary temperatures.
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Deglaciation to dam removal: climatic and land-use controls on New England river processes
Friday, October 16
Friday, October 16
10am – 11am
MIT, Building E25-119, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
MIT, Building E25-119, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Noah Snyder (Boston College)
COG3 Seminar - Chemical oceanography, geology, geochemistry and geobiology seminar
Contact: bzklein@gmail.com
Contact: bzklein@gmail.com
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Political Animals: Barren Ground Caribou and their Managers in a 'Post-Normal' Age
Friday, October 16
2:30p–4:30p
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Tina Loo, University of British Columbia
"Normal" science is history. Routine problem soving based on past insights has failed to deal effectively with issues like climate change, where facts are in doubt, values in conflict, and the need for action urgent. Beginning in the 1990s, the story goes, scientists began to articulate a new style of scientific activity:"post-normal" science acknowledges unpredictability, incomplete control, and a plurality of perspectives and sees scientists share, if not cede, authority over knowledge production. I put post-normal science in its time and place, arguing that it has a longer history, one that was grounded in different sites and involved a variety of actors, including non-human ones. One of those sites was the Canadian north, where beginning in the 1970s, wildlife scientists dealt with the uncertainty inherent in their population estimates of barren ground caribou and with the different values and perspectives on them by creating an "extended peer community."Including the Indigenous users of the animal in its management changed how science was practiced and shaped the "facts" on which biologists based their recommendations for conservation.
Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
Web site: http://history.mit.edu/lectures-and-seminars/seminar-environmental-and-agricultural-history
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): History Office, STS
For more information, contact: Margo Collett
253-4965
history-info@mit.edu
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The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement
Friday, October 16
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge,
Harvard Book Store welcomes sociologist MICHAEL A. GOULD-WARTOFSKY for a discussion of his book The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement.
Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011. First by the tens, then by the tens of thousands, protestors filled the streets and laid claim to the squares of nearly 1,500 towns and cities, until, one by one, the occupations were forcibly evicted.
In The Occupiers, Michael Gould-Wartofsky offers a front-seat view of the action in the streets of New York City and beyond. Painting a vivid picture of everyday life in the square through the use of material gathered in the course of two years of on-the-ground investigation, Gould-Wartofsky traces the occupation of Zuccotti Park--and some of its counterparts across the United States and around the world--from inception to eviction. He takes up the challenges the occupiers faced, the paradoxes of direct democracy, and the dynamics of direct action and police action and explores the ways in which occupied squares became focal points for an emerging opposition to the politics of austerity, restricted democracy, and the power of corporate America.
Much of the discussion of the Occupy phenomenon has treated it as if it lived and died in Zuccotti Park, but Gould-Wartofsky follows the evicted occupiers into exile and charts their evolving strategies, tactics, and tensions as they seek to resist, regroup, and reoccupy. Displaced from public spaces and news headlines, the 99 Percent movement has spread out from the financial centers and across an America still struggling to recover in the aftermath of the crisis. Even if the movement fails to achieve radical reform, Gould-Wartofsky maintains, its offshoots may well accelerate the pace of change in the United States in the years to come.
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Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Friday, October 16
6:00 PM (Doors at 5:30)
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/sherry_turkle1/
Cost: $5
Harvard Book Store welcomes renowned media scholar and MIT professor SHERRY TURKLE for a discussion of her latest book, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, an investigation on how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity—and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.
We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.
Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over thirty years. Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a troubling consequence: at work, at home, in politics, and in love, we find ways around conversation, tempted by the possibilities of a text or an email in which we don’t have to look, listen, or reveal ourselves.
We develop a taste for what mere connection offers. The dinner table falls silent as children compete with phones for their parents’ attention. Friends learn strategies to keep conversations going when only a few people are looking up from their phones. At work, we retreat to our screens although it is conversation at the water cooler that increases not only productivity but commitment to work. Online, we only want to share opinions that our followers will agree with – a politics that shies away from the real conflicts and solutions of the public square.
The case for conversation begins with the necessary conversations of solitude and self-reflection. They are endangered: these days, always connected, we see loneliness as a problem that technology should solve. Afraid of being alone, we rely on other people to give us a sense of ourselves, and our capacity for empathy and relationship suffers. We see the costs of the flight from conversation everywhere: conversation is the cornerstone for democracy and in business it is good for the bottom line. In the private sphere, it builds empathy, friendship, love, learning, and productivity.
But there is good news: we are resilient. Conversation cures.
Based on five years of research and interviews in homes, schools, and the workplace, Turkle argues that we have come to a better understanding of where our technology can and cannot take us and that the time is right to reclaim conversation. The most human—and humanizing—thing that we do.
The virtues of person-to-person conversation are timeless, and our most basic technology, talk, responds to our modern challenges. We have everything we need to start, we have each other.
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MIT Energy Night
Friday, October 16
6pm
Political Animals: Barren Ground Caribou and their Managers in a 'Post-Normal' Age
Friday, October 16
2:30p–4:30p
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Tina Loo, University of British Columbia
"Normal" science is history. Routine problem soving based on past insights has failed to deal effectively with issues like climate change, where facts are in doubt, values in conflict, and the need for action urgent. Beginning in the 1990s, the story goes, scientists began to articulate a new style of scientific activity:"post-normal" science acknowledges unpredictability, incomplete control, and a plurality of perspectives and sees scientists share, if not cede, authority over knowledge production. I put post-normal science in its time and place, arguing that it has a longer history, one that was grounded in different sites and involved a variety of actors, including non-human ones. One of those sites was the Canadian north, where beginning in the 1970s, wildlife scientists dealt with the uncertainty inherent in their population estimates of barren ground caribou and with the different values and perspectives on them by creating an "extended peer community."Including the Indigenous users of the animal in its management changed how science was practiced and shaped the "facts" on which biologists based their recommendations for conservation.
Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
Web site: http://history.mit.edu/lectures-and-seminars/seminar-environmental-and-agricultural-history
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): History Office, STS
For more information, contact: Margo Collett
253-4965
history-info@mit.edu
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The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement
Friday, October 16
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge,
Harvard Book Store welcomes sociologist MICHAEL A. GOULD-WARTOFSKY for a discussion of his book The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement.
Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011. First by the tens, then by the tens of thousands, protestors filled the streets and laid claim to the squares of nearly 1,500 towns and cities, until, one by one, the occupations were forcibly evicted.
In The Occupiers, Michael Gould-Wartofsky offers a front-seat view of the action in the streets of New York City and beyond. Painting a vivid picture of everyday life in the square through the use of material gathered in the course of two years of on-the-ground investigation, Gould-Wartofsky traces the occupation of Zuccotti Park--and some of its counterparts across the United States and around the world--from inception to eviction. He takes up the challenges the occupiers faced, the paradoxes of direct democracy, and the dynamics of direct action and police action and explores the ways in which occupied squares became focal points for an emerging opposition to the politics of austerity, restricted democracy, and the power of corporate America.
Much of the discussion of the Occupy phenomenon has treated it as if it lived and died in Zuccotti Park, but Gould-Wartofsky follows the evicted occupiers into exile and charts their evolving strategies, tactics, and tensions as they seek to resist, regroup, and reoccupy. Displaced from public spaces and news headlines, the 99 Percent movement has spread out from the financial centers and across an America still struggling to recover in the aftermath of the crisis. Even if the movement fails to achieve radical reform, Gould-Wartofsky maintains, its offshoots may well accelerate the pace of change in the United States in the years to come.
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Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Friday, October 16
6:00 PM (Doors at 5:30)
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/sherry_turkle1/
Cost: $5
Harvard Book Store welcomes renowned media scholar and MIT professor SHERRY TURKLE for a discussion of her latest book, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, an investigation on how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity—and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.
We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.
Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over thirty years. Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a troubling consequence: at work, at home, in politics, and in love, we find ways around conversation, tempted by the possibilities of a text or an email in which we don’t have to look, listen, or reveal ourselves.
We develop a taste for what mere connection offers. The dinner table falls silent as children compete with phones for their parents’ attention. Friends learn strategies to keep conversations going when only a few people are looking up from their phones. At work, we retreat to our screens although it is conversation at the water cooler that increases not only productivity but commitment to work. Online, we only want to share opinions that our followers will agree with – a politics that shies away from the real conflicts and solutions of the public square.
The case for conversation begins with the necessary conversations of solitude and self-reflection. They are endangered: these days, always connected, we see loneliness as a problem that technology should solve. Afraid of being alone, we rely on other people to give us a sense of ourselves, and our capacity for empathy and relationship suffers. We see the costs of the flight from conversation everywhere: conversation is the cornerstone for democracy and in business it is good for the bottom line. In the private sphere, it builds empathy, friendship, love, learning, and productivity.
But there is good news: we are resilient. Conversation cures.
Based on five years of research and interviews in homes, schools, and the workplace, Turkle argues that we have come to a better understanding of where our technology can and cannot take us and that the time is right to reclaim conversation. The most human—and humanizing—thing that we do.
The virtues of person-to-person conversation are timeless, and our most basic technology, talk, responds to our modern challenges. We have everything we need to start, we have each other.
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MIT Energy Night
Friday, October 16
6pm
MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Energy Night is the MIT Energy Club's flagship fall event with world-class posters from MIT researchers and start-up companies.
Web site: http://mitenergynight.org/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum, MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: Jennifer Novotney
617-324-7313
novotney@mit.edu
Web site: http://mitenergynight.org/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum, MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: Jennifer Novotney
617-324-7313
novotney@mit.edu
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Psychedelic Medicine: The New Science of Hallucinogens
Friday, October 16
6:30 – 8:30 pm
Museum of Science, Cahners Theater, 1 Science Park, Boston
Museum of Science, Cahners Theater, 1 Science Park, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psychedelic-medicine-the-new-science-of-hallucinogens-registration-17953492379
For over 40 years, drugs like LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in "magic" mushrooms) were classified as the most dangerous, Schedule I substances, with no accepted medical use. They were impossible to secure for research, but recently, that began to change. These and other psychedelic compounds are capturing attention again — not as part of a trippy counter-culture, but as an exciting new frontier in medicine.
Can we unlock their powerful potential to help patients gripped by depression, struggling with terminal cancer, or craving another cigarette? Hear from the researchers exploring groundbreaking treatments for addiction, PTSD, and end-of-life anxiety.
With an introduction by Mark J. Plotkin, PhD, ethnobotanist; founder and president of The Amazon Conservation Team; and author of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice and Medicine Quest.
This program is free thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute.
Program Speakers
Charles S. Grob, MD, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine and director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center | Matthew W. Johnson, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Stephen Ross, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and child & adolescent psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the Dual Diagnosis Training Unit, and the Opioid Overdose Prevention Program at Bellevue Hospital Center, and director of the NYU Psychedelic Research Group
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Saturday, October 17
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12th Annual Energy Symposium at Harvard Business School - "Managing through Volatility"
Saturday, October 17
7:30 AM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Business School, Spangler Hall, 117 Western Avenue, Allston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/12th-annual-energy-symposium-at-harvard-business-school-managing-through-volatility-tickets-18198714846
Cost: $25 - $110
The Energy & Environment Club at Harvard Business School would like to invite you to the 12th Annual Energy Symposium at Harvard Business School. Come join leading professionals and students from around the world in a high-intensity atmosphere of engagement as we collectively wrestle with the energy challenges of the future. On the boundary between conventional energy solutions such as oil and gas, and newer topics such as renewables and clean technology, the 12th Annual Energy Symposium will bring collective understanding as we build a brighter and cleaner future by leveraging the power of today’s energy experts. Join us on the Harvard Business School campus on Saturday, October 17th, as some of the industry’s leading executives, policy makers, and students engage in a vibrant discussion on the future of energy.
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Passive House Massachusetts Symposium
Saturday, October 17
9:00AM to 5:00PM (Eastern)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://passivehouseboston.givezooks.com/events/passive-house-new-england-symposium
$20 - $90
Passive House Massachusetts is hosting a Symposium connecting Architects, Builders, Engineers, Home/Building Owners, Policymakers, Real Estate Professionals, Students and the general public. The mission is to further educate through lectures by and discussions with esteemed professionals local to Massachusetts. Vendors will also be attending the event showcasing products and services regarding Passive Homes.
The Early Bird rates will be available until 9/1. Regular rates, $75 for members and $90 for non-members, will be available until 10/1. After 10/1, both members and non-member will need to purchase a ticket at the event for $100. Student tickets will be $35 at the event.
If you would like to sign up to be a member, please visit:
https://passivehouseboston.givezooks.com/events/passive-house-new-england-membership
Coffee and Lunch is included with the purchase of a ticket.
If you or your organization would like to sponsor or volunteer in exchange for complimentary admission to this event please email projects@zeroenergy.com.
Keynote Speaker:
Matthew A. Beaton, Secretary, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs in Massachusetts
Featured Speakers:
Ian Finlayson, Manager of Buildings and Climate Programs, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources
John Dalzell, Senior Architect, Boston Redevelopment Authority
Marc Rosenbaum, Director of Engineering, South Mountain Company
Katrin Klingenberg, Cofounder/Executive Director, PHIUS
Breakout Session:
In the afternoon, we will have about 10 tables, each with a dedicated topic and moderator, for participants to speak in small groups about the challenges and opportunities of Passive House.
Editorial Comment: This is a great opportunity for those interested in energy efficient building and buildings.
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Sunday, October 18
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SWAPFEST
Sunday, October 18
9:00a–2:00p
MIT, N4, Albany Street Garage and Lots, Cambridge
Cost: $6
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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Monday, October 19
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MASS Seminar - Ulrike Lohman (ETH)
Monday, October 19
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Ulrike Lohman (ETH)
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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The Western Energy Imbalance Market
Monday, October 19
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Keith Casey, Vice President, Market and Infrastructure Development, California ISO
HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series
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The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS and Race
Monday, October 19
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Myles Jackson, Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of the History of Science; Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
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After Fukushima: Making Nuclear Energy Safer
Monday, October 19
4:00PM
MIT, Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
MIT Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics
Allison Macfarlane, George Washington University; former Chair, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
MIT’s 2015 Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics. This event is free and open to the public.
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Green Exchange: Let's Talk About Water
Harvard Extension Environmental Club
Monday, October 19
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Student Organization Center at Hilles, 59 Shepard Street, Community Hall 105, Cambridge
Student Organization Center at Hilles, 59 Shepard Street, Community Hall 105, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/green-exchange-lets-talk-about-water-tickets-18871698759
Cost: $6.27
The Harvard Extension Environmental Club, in partnership with Boston nonprofit Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, presents "Let's Talk About Water", featuring international guest speakers:
Michal Kravčík is an internationally recognized Slovak water scientist, ASHOKA fellow, and co-author of A New Water Paradigm: Water for the Recovery of the Climate, which emphasizes hydrologic cycles in addressing climate change. He is also a founding member and chairman of Slovakia’s NGO People and Water. In 1999, Kravčík was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for his contributions to the water management of the Torysa River after galvanizing support to halt a dam planned during the Communist era by proposing effective democratic alternatives, including smaller dams, decentralized water management, and restored farmlands. Kravčík took his ideas to the national level in 1998, helping to organize a non-partisan national voter education campaign that resulted in unprecedented citizen participation in national elections. People and Water organized the Village and Democracy project in 164 villages in the Levoca mountain region to support democratic processes and build a sustainable open society. Kravčík and People and Water have continued to work toward integrated river basin management in the region via the sustainable development programs “Villages for the Third Millennium”, “Water for the Third Millenium” and “Blue Alternative”. And check out Michal’s Global Action Plan for the Restoration of Natural Water Cycles and Climate
Walter Jehne is a leading Australian soil and climate scientist and Director of Healthy Soils Australia. He has extensive experience in industry and has worked overseas with Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, focusing on the microbial ecology of soil regeneration, the availability and cycling of nutrients, and how these govern the health, productivity, and resilience of biosystems. Walter is very interested in catalyzing urgent regional action by local communities and land managers to practically and profitably create on-farm microclimates to offset warming and restore rainfalls and to draw down carbon from past emissions safely into our soils and ensure opportunities and stability for all.
Precious Phiri is the Founding Director of EarthWisdom Consulting Company. She was formerly a Senior Facilitator at the Africa Center for Holistic Management (ACHM) in Zimbabwe where she directed training for villages in the Hwange Communal Lands region that are implementing restorative grazing programs using Holistic Land and Livestock Management. She helps rural communities in Africa to reduce poverty, rebuild soils, and restore food and water security. This nature-based solution has been successfully used on different landscapes in Africa and the Americas. Precious was born and raised in one of the communities now implementing restorative grazing.
Light refreshments will be served. Student tickets are FREE (must present valid ID or proof of enrollment) and just $5 for members of the general public.
NOTE: These speakers will also be presenting, along with many others, at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate’s Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming conference October 16th-18th at Tufts University. Student tickets are only $15 - don’t miss your chance to be part of this extraordinary event! Register at www.tinyurl.com/restoring-water-cycles
The Harvard Extension Environmental Club, in partnership with Boston nonprofit Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, presents "Let's Talk About Water", featuring international guest speakers:
Michal Kravčík is an internationally recognized Slovak water scientist, ASHOKA fellow, and co-author of A New Water Paradigm: Water for the Recovery of the Climate, which emphasizes hydrologic cycles in addressing climate change. He is also a founding member and chairman of Slovakia’s NGO People and Water. In 1999, Kravčík was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for his contributions to the water management of the Torysa River after galvanizing support to halt a dam planned during the Communist era by proposing effective democratic alternatives, including smaller dams, decentralized water management, and restored farmlands. Kravčík took his ideas to the national level in 1998, helping to organize a non-partisan national voter education campaign that resulted in unprecedented citizen participation in national elections. People and Water organized the Village and Democracy project in 164 villages in the Levoca mountain region to support democratic processes and build a sustainable open society. Kravčík and People and Water have continued to work toward integrated river basin management in the region via the sustainable development programs “Villages for the Third Millennium”, “Water for the Third Millenium” and “Blue Alternative”. And check out Michal’s Global Action Plan for the Restoration of Natural Water Cycles and Climate
Walter Jehne is a leading Australian soil and climate scientist and Director of Healthy Soils Australia. He has extensive experience in industry and has worked overseas with Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, focusing on the microbial ecology of soil regeneration, the availability and cycling of nutrients, and how these govern the health, productivity, and resilience of biosystems. Walter is very interested in catalyzing urgent regional action by local communities and land managers to practically and profitably create on-farm microclimates to offset warming and restore rainfalls and to draw down carbon from past emissions safely into our soils and ensure opportunities and stability for all.
Precious Phiri is the Founding Director of EarthWisdom Consulting Company. She was formerly a Senior Facilitator at the Africa Center for Holistic Management (ACHM) in Zimbabwe where she directed training for villages in the Hwange Communal Lands region that are implementing restorative grazing programs using Holistic Land and Livestock Management. She helps rural communities in Africa to reduce poverty, rebuild soils, and restore food and water security. This nature-based solution has been successfully used on different landscapes in Africa and the Americas. Precious was born and raised in one of the communities now implementing restorative grazing.
Light refreshments will be served. Student tickets are FREE (must present valid ID or proof of enrollment) and just $5 for members of the general public.
NOTE: These speakers will also be presenting, along with many others, at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate’s Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming conference October 16th-18th at Tufts University. Student tickets are only $15 - don’t miss your chance to be part of this extraordinary event! Register at www.tinyurl.com/restoring-water-cycles
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Science and Cooking: Heat Transfer to Capture Flavors
Monday, October 19
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
7 pm
Josep Roca, (@CanRocaCeller), El Celler de Can Roca
Raül Sillero, El Celler de Can Roca
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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ACT Lecture Series - Rosa Barba: on objects as ideas
Monday, October 19
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-001, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Rosa Barba
Toward A Philosophy of the Act
The Monday night lecture series was launched in 2005. The series draws together artists, cultural practitioners, and scientists from different disciplines to discuss artistic methodologies and forms of inquiry at the intersection of art, architecture, science and technology.
The Monday night lecture series was launched in 2005. The series draws together artists, cultural practitioners, and scientists from different disciplines to discuss artistic methodologies and forms of inquiry at the intersection of art, architecture, science and technology.
Web site: http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectures-series/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning, TBC
For more information, contact: Amanda Moore
6172534415
amm@mit.edu
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Tuesday, October 20
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Science and Cooking: Heat Transfer to Capture Flavors
Monday, October 19
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
7 pm
Josep Roca, (@CanRocaCeller), El Celler de Can Roca
Raül Sillero, El Celler de Can Roca
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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ACT Lecture Series - Rosa Barba: on objects as ideas
Monday, October 19
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-001, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Rosa Barba
Toward A Philosophy of the Act
The Monday night lecture series was launched in 2005. The series draws together artists, cultural practitioners, and scientists from different disciplines to discuss artistic methodologies and forms of inquiry at the intersection of art, architecture, science and technology.
The Monday night lecture series was launched in 2005. The series draws together artists, cultural practitioners, and scientists from different disciplines to discuss artistic methodologies and forms of inquiry at the intersection of art, architecture, science and technology.
Web site: http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectures-series/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning, TBC
For more information, contact: Amanda Moore
6172534415
amm@mit.edu
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Tuesday, October 20
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Bitcoin and Blockchain-based Technologies
Tuesday, October 20
Tuesday, October 20
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Murck#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Murck at 12:00 pm
with Berkman Fellow, Patrick Murck
Join Patrick for a conversation about Bitcoin and Blockchain-based Technologies
About Patrick
Patrick is a lawyer and expert on bitcoin and blockchain-based technologies. He will conduct research into the law and policy implications of bitcoin, distributed ledgers and smart contracts.
Previously Patrick was a co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation where he served at times as General Counsel and Executive Director. Patrick has engaged regulators and policymakers in the US and Europe on bitcoin and the emerging digital economy. He was named among America’s 50 Outstanding General Counsel for 2014 by the National Law Journal.
Patrick also serves as President Board member for the BitGive Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on charitable giving and social impact using bitcoin.
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Murck#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Murck at 12:00 pm
with Berkman Fellow, Patrick Murck
Join Patrick for a conversation about Bitcoin and Blockchain-based Technologies
About Patrick
Patrick is a lawyer and expert on bitcoin and blockchain-based technologies. He will conduct research into the law and policy implications of bitcoin, distributed ledgers and smart contracts.
Previously Patrick was a co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation where he served at times as General Counsel and Executive Director. Patrick has engaged regulators and policymakers in the US and Europe on bitcoin and the emerging digital economy. He was named among America’s 50 Outstanding General Counsel for 2014 by the National Law Journal.
Patrick also serves as President Board member for the BitGive Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on charitable giving and social impact using bitcoin.
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Moral Bioprediction, Bioenhancement, and the Law: A Lecture by Julian Savulescu
Tuesday, October 20
Tuesday, October 20
12:00 PM
Harvard Law School, Pound Hall, Room 102, 1536 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Description
Increasingly, knowledge from biology and neuroscience allows us to identify biological states that are predictive but not determinative of human behavior in certain situations. These are called biomarkers of behavior. Looking at MAOA, a gene variant linked to increased criminal behavior in those who were maltreated as children, Professor Julian Savulescu will ask whether and how such behavioral biomarkers can ethically be used. Does the presence of the gene, or the presence of the gene in the right environment, affect moral or criminal responsibility? If so, does this affect the way we should respond to this group, either before or after they have committed any offence? Further into the future, could biology be modified to reduce the probability of violent offence?
Speakers
Julian Savulescu is Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, Director of The Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and Director of The Institute for Science and Ethics, The Oxford Martin School. His areas of research include: the ethics of genetics, especially predictive genetic testing, pre implantation genetic diagnosis, prenatal testing, behavioural genetics, genetic enhancement, gene therapy; research ethics, especially ethics of embryo research, including embryonic stem cell research; new forms of reproduction, including cloning and assisted reproduction; medical ethics, including end of life decision-making, resource allocation, consent, confidentiality, decision-making involving incompetent people, and other areas; sports ethics; the analytic philosophical basis of practical ethics. He is on the Advisory Board for the journal Neuroethics. Savulescu and Bostrom initiated the two year EU ENHANCE project, an interdisciplinary project devoted to studying the ethical implications of human enhancement and to providing detailed recommendations to European policy makers. Oxford led the cognitive enhancement theme. Savulescu is editor of two major collections on enhancement: one, co-edited with Bostrom, entitled Human Enhancement (OUP) and another draws on research from the ENHANCE project, entitled Enhancing Human Capacities (Wiley Blackwell, due for publication January 2011).
Before coming to Oxford in 2002 as Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, Professor Savulescu was Director of the Ethics Program at the Murdoch Children's Research Unit, University of Melbourne, before which he studied for a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at Monash University, followed by a PhD under the supervision of Professor Peter Singer.
Thomas Cochrane is the Director of Neuroethics at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. Additionally, Dr. Cochrane is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, an Associate Neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Senior Ethics Consultant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Dr. Cochrane received a combined MD and MBA from the Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his residency in neurology in the Partners Neurology program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He then completed a fellowship in neuromuscular medicine and electromyography at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He completed the Fellowship in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and then served as a Faculty Fellow at the Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
Dr. Cochrane’s energies are primarily directed toward education, scholarship, and research in medical ethics and neurology. He teaches medical students in their course on Medical Ethics and Professionalism, and directs a Masters-level course in Neuroethics. He has given over a hundred invited lectures and presentations. Dr. Cochrane has authored dozens of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, educational material for medical professionals, ethicists, and laypeople. He co-edited the popular neurology board review book First Aid for the Neurology Boards, and also a book on Medical Ethics and Professionalism, intended for use in training physicians and other medical providers.
Moderator: I. Glenn Cohen is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School.
Harvard Law School, Pound Hall, Room 102, 1536 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Description
Increasingly, knowledge from biology and neuroscience allows us to identify biological states that are predictive but not determinative of human behavior in certain situations. These are called biomarkers of behavior. Looking at MAOA, a gene variant linked to increased criminal behavior in those who were maltreated as children, Professor Julian Savulescu will ask whether and how such behavioral biomarkers can ethically be used. Does the presence of the gene, or the presence of the gene in the right environment, affect moral or criminal responsibility? If so, does this affect the way we should respond to this group, either before or after they have committed any offence? Further into the future, could biology be modified to reduce the probability of violent offence?
Speakers
Julian Savulescu is Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, Director of The Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and Director of The Institute for Science and Ethics, The Oxford Martin School. His areas of research include: the ethics of genetics, especially predictive genetic testing, pre implantation genetic diagnosis, prenatal testing, behavioural genetics, genetic enhancement, gene therapy; research ethics, especially ethics of embryo research, including embryonic stem cell research; new forms of reproduction, including cloning and assisted reproduction; medical ethics, including end of life decision-making, resource allocation, consent, confidentiality, decision-making involving incompetent people, and other areas; sports ethics; the analytic philosophical basis of practical ethics. He is on the Advisory Board for the journal Neuroethics. Savulescu and Bostrom initiated the two year EU ENHANCE project, an interdisciplinary project devoted to studying the ethical implications of human enhancement and to providing detailed recommendations to European policy makers. Oxford led the cognitive enhancement theme. Savulescu is editor of two major collections on enhancement: one, co-edited with Bostrom, entitled Human Enhancement (OUP) and another draws on research from the ENHANCE project, entitled Enhancing Human Capacities (Wiley Blackwell, due for publication January 2011).
Before coming to Oxford in 2002 as Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, Professor Savulescu was Director of the Ethics Program at the Murdoch Children's Research Unit, University of Melbourne, before which he studied for a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at Monash University, followed by a PhD under the supervision of Professor Peter Singer.
Thomas Cochrane is the Director of Neuroethics at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. Additionally, Dr. Cochrane is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, an Associate Neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Senior Ethics Consultant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Dr. Cochrane received a combined MD and MBA from the Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his residency in neurology in the Partners Neurology program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He then completed a fellowship in neuromuscular medicine and electromyography at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He completed the Fellowship in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and then served as a Faculty Fellow at the Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
Dr. Cochrane’s energies are primarily directed toward education, scholarship, and research in medical ethics and neurology. He teaches medical students in their course on Medical Ethics and Professionalism, and directs a Masters-level course in Neuroethics. He has given over a hundred invited lectures and presentations. Dr. Cochrane has authored dozens of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, educational material for medical professionals, ethicists, and laypeople. He co-edited the popular neurology board review book First Aid for the Neurology Boards, and also a book on Medical Ethics and Professionalism, intended for use in training physicians and other medical providers.
Moderator: I. Glenn Cohen is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School.
This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.
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Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Dynamics and predictability of hurricane formation, rapid intensification and eyewall replacement
Tuesday, October 20
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Professor of Meteorology, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, Penn State, University
Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
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Spatial and temporal patterns in streamflow across the conterminous United States
Tuesday, October 20
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
David Wolock, U.S. Geological Survey, Kansas
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Reverse Global Warming Conference help!!!
The upcoming conference on Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming to be held Friday – Sunday, October 16-18, 2015 at Tufts University in Medford is calling for volunteers to
Email the link to our conference website to friends, family and colleagues who might be interested in attending:
http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/
Distribute flyers at local events or hang them on community bulletin boards to get the word out to as many people as possible.
Help with set up and managing the registration table during the conference on either Friday October 16th, Saturday October 17th, or Sunday October 18th.
Volunteers with cars to shuttle our conference speakers to and from the airport.
Identify additional speaking opportunities for our international conference visitors from Australia (Walter Jehne), Slovakia (Michal Kravcik), and Zimbabwe (Precious Phiri). Their bios are listed at http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/speakers/, so if anyone is affiliated with an organization who might like to host Walter, Michal and Precious as guest speakers, please contact Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4climate.org)
Inquiries related to volunteering in any of these capacities can be sent to lacey.klingensmith@bio4climate.org
Editorial Comment: I went to last year's conference on Restoring Soil Carbon to Reverse Global Warming and it was one of the first conferences which showed how we can actually do something to stop and even reverse climate change I've been to. All the discussions I see on climate change concentrate on sources of greenhouse gases. This is about the only group I know of which is concentrating on sinks, ways to remove carbon and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, naturally, by using and enhancing existing ecological systems. This year's conference is on water cycles and water systems and, having seen a preview of some of the presentations and speakers, I believe it will be as good as if not better than last year's conference. If you want to add you energy to stopping climate change, this is one very good way to do so.
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Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Dynamics and predictability of hurricane formation, rapid intensification and eyewall replacement
Tuesday, October 20
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Professor of Meteorology, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, Penn State, University
Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
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Spatial and temporal patterns in streamflow across the conterminous United States
Tuesday, October 20
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
David Wolock, U.S. Geological Survey, Kansas
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Opportunity
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Reverse Global Warming Conference help!!!
The upcoming conference on Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming to be held Friday – Sunday, October 16-18, 2015 at Tufts University in Medford is calling for volunteers to
Email the link to our conference website to friends, family and colleagues who might be interested in attending:
http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/
Distribute flyers at local events or hang them on community bulletin boards to get the word out to as many people as possible.
Help with set up and managing the registration table during the conference on either Friday October 16th, Saturday October 17th, or Sunday October 18th.
Volunteers with cars to shuttle our conference speakers to and from the airport.
Identify additional speaking opportunities for our international conference visitors from Australia (Walter Jehne), Slovakia (Michal Kravcik), and Zimbabwe (Precious Phiri). Their bios are listed at http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/speakers/, so if anyone is affiliated with an organization who might like to host Walter, Michal and Precious as guest speakers, please contact Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4climate.org)
Inquiries related to volunteering in any of these capacities can be sent to lacey.klingensmith@bio4climate.org
Editorial Comment: I went to last year's conference on Restoring Soil Carbon to Reverse Global Warming and it was one of the first conferences which showed how we can actually do something to stop and even reverse climate change I've been to. All the discussions I see on climate change concentrate on sources of greenhouse gases. This is about the only group I know of which is concentrating on sinks, ways to remove carbon and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, naturally, by using and enhancing existing ecological systems. This year's conference is on water cycles and water systems and, having seen a preview of some of the presentations and speakers, I believe it will be as good as if not better than last year's conference. If you want to add you energy to stopping climate change, this is one very good way to do so.
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Food For Free in Cambridge is seeking a number of volunteers for our biggest fundraising event of the year! By helping out at the Party Under the Harvest Moon, you can help us raise $60,000 in one night for our Food Rescue & Delivery work.
WHEN & WHERE:
Friday, October 16th
MIT's Morss Hall | 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
WHOM WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
LEARN MORE & SIGN UP at http://www.idealist.org/view/volop/9M47Tn6J832D/
Thanks for helping make this fundraising event a success, to ensure access to healthy food for all in our communities.
WHEN & WHERE:
Friday, October 16th
MIT's Morss Hall | 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
WHOM WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
folks with professional kitchen/restaurant industry experience (or confident home cooks who are willing to follow food handling instructions from our caterer)
friendly, outgoing folks who are comfortable using tablets/smartphones, and ideally willing to use their own devices while volunteering (though we have some available)
1-2 volunteer photographers (email me directly to inquire about this one!)
general helpers for a range of tasks, including coat check, setup, cleanup, etc.
Interested? We look forward to hearing from you!LEARN MORE & SIGN UP at http://www.idealist.org/view/volop/9M47Tn6J832D/
Thanks for helping make this fundraising event a success, to ensure access to healthy food for all in our communities.
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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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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
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
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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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).
---------------------
Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
-----------------------
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.)
*********
-----------
Resource
-----------
*********
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
--------------------------------------------------
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/
---------------------------------------
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
----------------------
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!
---------------------
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
------------------------
Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
********************************************
-----------------------------------------------------
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
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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