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Naomi Oreskes presents WHY TRUST SCIENCE? at Harvard Science Center
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Cabot Science Library welcome acclaimed author and Harvard professor NAOMI ORESKES for a discussion of her latest book, Why Trust Science?. About Why Trust Science? Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don't?…
Find out more »S. James Gates and Cathie Pelletier present PROVING EINSTEIN RIGHT: THE DARING EXPEDITIONS THAT CHANGED HOW WE LOOK AT THE UNIVERSE at Harvard Science Center
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Cabot Science Library welcome renowned theoretical physicist S. JAMES GATES and award-winning author CATHIE PELLETIER for a discussion of their new co-authored book, Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe. About Proving Einstein Right In 1911, a relatively unknown physicist named Albert Einstein published his preliminary theory of gravity. But it hadn't been tested. To do that, he needed a photograph of…
Find out more »Karen Olsson presents THE WELL CONJECTURES: ON MATH AND THE PURSUIT OF THE UNKNOWN at Harvard Science Center
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Cabot Science Library welcome acclaimed author KAREN OLSSON for a discussion of her latest book, The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown. About The Weil Conjectures Karen Olsson’s stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblings―Simone, a philosopher, mystic, and social activist, and André, an influential mathematician―while also recalling the years Olsson spent studying math. As she delves…
Find out more »Lee Smolin presents EINSTEIN’S UNFINISHED REVOLUTION: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT LIES BEYOND THE QUANTUM at Harvard Science Center
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Cabot Science Library welcome author and influential physicist LEE SMOLIN for a discussion of his new book, Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum. About Einstein's Unfinished Revolution Quantum physics is the golden child of modern science. It is the basis of our understanding of atoms, radiation, and so much else, from elementary particles and basic forces to the behavior of materials. But for a century…
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.