Book Club for the Curious
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Thursday, February 09, 2012 | 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 08, 2012 | 5:30 p.m.
Feeling inquisitive? Looking for good conversation? Love science and books? The Book Club for the Curious is just the thing for you. Created at the Museum of Science, Boston and presented in partnership with the Cambridge Innovation Center, this reading group is designed especially for those who are interested in science and technology and how it impacts our society.
Logistics
The Book Club for the Curious is free and open to the public. Meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at the Cambridge Innovation Center, Charles Conference Room, 14th Floor, One Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Guests who arrive after 6:00 p.m. must call the conference room from the lobby to be let in. Parking at One Broadway is a flat rate of $5 for those who enter after 4:00 p.m. The Kendall Square T-stop is a short walk away on Main Street.
Upcoming Meetings and Titles
> Thursday, January 12: Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted by Gerald Imber
> Thursday, February 9: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
> Thursday, March 8: The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today by Rob Dunn
What We've Read So Far:
November, 2004: The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson; December 2004: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
January 2005: Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science by Amir Aczel; February 2005:Wonderful Life by Stephen J. Gould; March 2005: The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi by Mario Livio; April 2005: To Engineer is Human: the Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski; May 2005: Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin; June 2005: The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki; July 2005: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson; August 2005: Book Club on vacation; September 2005: The (Mis)Behavior of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson.; October 2005: On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins.; November 2005: Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World by Simon Garfield; December 2005: Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
January 2006: Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origin of Religious Thought by Pascel Boyer; February 2006: Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall; March 2006: The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells; April 2006: The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene; May 2006: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.; June 2006: A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit by Alan Lightman.; July 2006: Jacob's Ladder by Henry Gee; August 2006: Book Club on vacation; September 2006: The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil; October 2006: The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney; November 2006: Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandara Blakeslee, with a foreword by Oliver Sacks; December 2006: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam
February 2007: Genome by Matt Ridley; March 2007: This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin; April 2007: The Emotion Machine by Marvin Minsky; May 2007: Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert; June 2007: The Great Influenza by John Barry; July 2007: Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps by Peter Louis Galison.; September 2007: In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall; October 2007 Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi; November 2007: Ten Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet): A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries by Michael Hanlon; December 2007: Canceled due to snowstorm
January 2008: Chances Are: Adventures in Probability by Michael and Ellen Kaplan; February 2008: Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family by Cynthia Moss; March 2008: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan; April 2008: The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes; May 2008: Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science by David Lindley; June 2008: The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles by Bruce Lipton; July 2008: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks; September 2008: Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Phillip Ball; October 2008: Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku; November 2008: Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology by Ricard V. Sole, Brian C. Goodwin, and Ricard Solé; December 2008: Longtitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
January 2009: Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing by Henry Petroski; February 2009: Life's Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World by Ian Stewart; March 2009: A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking; April 2009: Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin; May 2009: At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman; June 2009: Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould; July 2009: Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique by Michael S. Gazzaniga; August 2009: Book Club on vacation; September 2009: The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself by Hannah Holmes; October 2009: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America by Thomas Friedman; November 2009: Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds by Claire Hope Cummings; December 2009: The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society by Frans de Waal
May 2010: From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll; June 2010: The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong by David Shenk; July 2010: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot; September 2010: The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean; October 2010: The Shape of Inner Space by Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis; November 2010: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham; December 2010: How to Catch a Robot Rat by Agnes Guillot and Jean-Arcady Meyer
January 2011: Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh; February 2011: Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World by Eugenie Samuel Reich; March 2011: A Spring without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply by Michael Schacker; April 2011: How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer; May 2011: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth by Mark Hertsgaard; June 2011: Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg; July 2011: Plastic: A Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel; October 2011: The Mathematics of Life by Ian Stewart; November 2011: Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World by Lisa Randall; December 2011: Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines -- and How It Will Change Our Lives by Miguel Nicolelis
Accessibility for this Offering:
Schedules:
June 9, 2011: 5:30 p.m.July 14, 2011: 5:30 p.m.
September 8, 2011: 5:30 p.m.
October 13, 2011: 5:30 p.m.
November 10, 2011: 5:30 p.m.
December 8, 2011: 5:30 p.m.
January 12, 2012: 5:30 p.m.
February 9, 2012: 5:30 p.m.
March 8, 2012: 5:30 p.m.
