Events
In addition to its regularly scheduled shows and presentations, the Museum frequently plans programs that happen both within the Exhibit Halls and around Boston. Whether you want to find stimulating conversation or gaze at the stars, this is the place to entertain your intellect.
- Artists' Talk: Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio (Lecture)
- Photojournalist Peter Menzel is known for his coverage of international feature stories on science and the environment, with award-winning photographs published in Life, National Geographic, Smithsonian, the New York Times Magazine, and Time. Faith D'Aluisio, a former television news producer, is editor ... (details).
February 09, 2012
- Into the Silence (Lecture)
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On June 6, 1924, two men — George Mallory, Britain's finest climber, and Sandy Irvine, a young Oxford scholar with little mountaineering experience — set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest's North Col. Neither of them returned. Wade ... (details).
With: Wade Davis, PhD, anthropologist, ethnographer, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, and bestselling author.
February 15, 2012
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (Lecture)
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In "one of the watershed films of his career" (Los Angeles Times), Woody Allen intertwines two storylines to deliver a penetrating, acidly funny tale about the complexity of human choices and the moral microcosms they represent. Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau, Oscar-nominated for the role) is a prominent ... (details).
With: social psychology professor David DeSteno.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.
February 20, 2012
- Small Footprint, Big Flavor: A Dinner of Sustainable Grass-Fed Meats (Lecture)
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Some people proclaim that free-range, grass-fed animals taste differently from conventionally produced meats and that once you try sustainable meats you won't want to go back.
Join us at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Boston at 215 First Street in Cambridge as special guest chefs showcase ... (details).
With: Michael Scelfo, executive chef, Russell House Tavern; Theo Weening, global meat coordinator, Whole Foods Market; Chefs from Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Boston.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series Let's Talk About Food.
March 09, 2012
- Meaty Matters (Lecture)
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Join us in the Gordon Current Science & Technology Center prior to the screening of the new documentary film, American Meat, as each of the individual panelists is interviewed in depth on the subject of sustainable meat agriculture and production. Discover the real difference between organic foods and ... (details).
With: Jonathan D. Kemp, president, FoodEx/Organic Renaissance Food Exchange, New Bedford, MA; Dan Mandich, owner, Westminster Meats, Westminster Station, VT; Danielle Nierenberg, senior researcher and director, Nourishing the Planet Program, Worldwatch Institute; Theo Weening, global meat coordinator, Whole Foods Market; Nick Zigelbaum, livestock manager, Siena Farms, Sudbury, MA.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series Let's Talk About Food.
March 10, 2012
- Food on Film Presents American Meat (Lecture)
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This new documentary chronicles America's grassroots revolution in sustainable meat production. The film, an official selection of Food Day 2011, explains our current industrial meat system and shows the feedlots and confinement operations, not through hidden cameras but through the eyes of the farmers who live and work there ... (details).
With: Jonathan D. Kemp, president, FoodEx/Organic Renaissance Food Exchange, New Bedford, MA; Dan Mandich, owner, Westminster Meats, Westminster Station, VT; Danielle Nierenberg, senior researcher and director, Nourishing the Planet Program, Worldwatch Institute; Theo Weening, global meat coordinator, Whole Foods Market; Nick Zigelbaum, livestock manager, Siena Farms, Sudbury, MA.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series Let's Talk About Food.
March 10, 2012
- How Creativity Works (Lecture)
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Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output? It may be the most essential question, in both business and the arts: can we learn how to be more creative?
Best-selling ... (details).
With: Jonah Lehrer, contributing editor, Wired magazine; author, Imagine: How Creativity Works, How We Decide, and Proust Was a Neuroscientist.
March 21, 2012
- Dangerous Encounters: The Hunt for Asteroids (Lecture)
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Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) pose a long-term hazard to our planet. Past scars tell of many devastating impacts, some of which nearly snuffed out life on Earth. Astronomer Timothy Spahr collects and analyzes data from an average of 1,000 new asteroids per day, notifying NASA headquarters when an object's orbit will bring it close to Earth ... (details).
With: Richard P. Binzel, PhD, professor of planetary sciences, MIT; member of NASA's Task Force on Planetary Defense ; Timothy B. Spahr, PhD, director, Minor Planet Center, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
April 25, 2012
- Hack Your Brain (Lecture)
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Put on headphones and glasses, close your eyes, and flick on the power switch. Enjoy the brainwave entertainment as you drift into deep meditation, ponder your inner world, and then emerge after the 14-minute program feeling invigorated, focused, and stress-free. Sound and Light Machines (SLMs) produce ... (details).
With: Drew Van Zandt, hardware design engineer; electronics and robotics craft lead, Artisan's Asylum; Steve Grandpre, international man of mystery, electrical engineer, and electronics tinkerer.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series DIY.
May 02, 2012
- Beyond the Telescope: Exploring Mars (Lecture)
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Get up close and personal with the surface of Mars! Astronomy professor Wes Watters has been a member of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) science team for eight years. His research focuses on impacts: the most violent events in the solar system. Join him as he tours some of Mars's largest surface features ... (details).
With: Wes Watters, PhD, professor of astronomy, Wellesley College.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series Beyond the Telescope.
