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Chris Mooney
Blogger, freelance journalist and author.
6pm Wednesday April 7th 2010. Please RSVP to eugenie dot reich at gmail dot com
Chris Mooney blogs at http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/ and is the author of three books, including the bestseller The Republican War on Science. He writes about science and politics. He is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT for 2009/2010.
Location: Seminar Room D463 (STAR) in the Stata Center (Building 32) at MIT. To reach the STAR room, enter the Stata building at 32 Vassar Street. Make sure that you are in the Dreyfoos part of the building, which is directly opposite the sign for 43 Vassar street and has three central elevators (If you find you are in the Gates building, you will need to walk to the other end of the building to find Dreyfoos.) Take the elevator to the Fourth Floor. Turn left out of the elevators, then immediately right, through a set of double doors, following signs to “R&D Common.” Walk past a pool table on the right towards an open area straight ahead with a red-orange carpet. Just before reaching the red-orange carpet, turn right, and walk straight ahead to 32-463, the STAR conference room.

Cost $5 pizza provided. Please RSVP to eugenie dot reich at gmail dot com

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To suggest events, send the information  to nesciencewriterscalendar@gmail.com by Wednesday for events occurring the following week.

Monday March 15^th, 2010.
12.30pm-2pm
Building Technology Lecture Series
“The Future of Architecture in a Warming Planet”
Nobert Lechner, Architect and Professor Emeritus, Auburn University
Location: MIT Building 7 Room 431, AVT
For more information, contact: Alexandra Mulcahy 617-253-0463 amulcahy@mit.edu
http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=11606157&date=2010/03/15

Monday March 15th, 2010.
2pm
“Observing the Dimensionality of Our Parent Vacuum”
Surjeet Rajendran, MIT-CTP
Location: MIT 6c-442 Center for Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room
For more information: Joyce Berggren 617 253-4827 jib@mit.edu
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu/seminars/seminars_NP.html

Monday March 15^th, 2010.
2pm
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
“Plasma Control in ITER”
Joseph Snipes, ITER
Location: NW17-218
For more information: Paul Rivenberg 617-253-8101 info@psfc.mit.edu
http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=11605360&date=2010/03/15 

Monday, March 15^th , 2010.
4pm
Biological Chemistry Seminar Series
“How do cells fold proteins into membranes?”
Dan Kahne, Harvard University Department of Chemistry
Location: MIT 56-114
For more information: Chemistry Department efong@mit.edu

Monday March 15^th, 2010.
7pm
A Science on the Screen Event
“Best In Show”
Intro by veterinarian behaviorist Nicholas Dodman
Coolidge Theater, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline.
$9.75 regular admission, $7.75 for seniors, students and Museum of Science members, free for members of the Coolidge Corner Theater
http://www.coolidge.org/node/2606

Tuesday, March 16^th , 2010.
4pm-5pm
Transportation@MIT Seminar Series
“Modeling Human Mobility.”
Marta Gonzalez, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Location: MIT Building 3-270
For more information: Rebecca Fearing transportation@mit.edu
http://transportation.mit.edu/events.php

Tuesday, March 16^th, 2010.
4pm-5pm
Department of Biology Colloquium Series
“Reversing dysfunction of aged stem cells”
Amy Wagers, HMS Joslin Diabetes Center
Location: 32-123
For more information: Kassandra Tilton ktilton@mit.edu
http://mit.edu/biology/www/biology/colloquium.html

Tuesday, March 16^th, 2010.
5:30-6:30pm
CTL Distinguished Speaker Series
“The New Industrial Revolution: Why Atoms are the New Bits”
Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Wired Magazine
Location: MIT Building E14-633 (Media Lab Extension Building, 6th floor)
http://esd.mit.edu/digest/2010/030310.html

Tuesday March 16^th 2010.
6:30 PM
Science For the Public
“Earthquakes: What Causes Them, What We Can Learn from Them”
Professor Colleen Dalton of the Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University
Location: Belmont Media Center in Waverly Square, Belmont. 
Reservations required: y.stapp@scienceforthepublic.org
http://www.scienceforthepublic.org/?page_id=135

Tuesday March 16^th, 2010.
7.30pm-8.30pm
“SuperStars: The Biggest, Hottest, Brightest, and Most Explosive Stars in the Milky Way”
David Aguilar, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Location: Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St, Cambridge MA
For more information: 617-495-7461 pubaffairs@cfa.harvard.edu
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/public_events.html

Wednesday March 17^th, 2010.
12:30-1:30pm
Department of Epidemiology Seminar Series
“The Developmental Origins of Cancer”
Karin Michels, ScD, PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School 
Location: Harvard Medical School Department of Epidemiology Room FXB G-13
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/departments/epidemiology/events/seminar-series/index.html

Wednesday, March 17^th , 2010.
2pm-3pm
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
“Calabi-Yau metrics for dummies”
Matthew Headrick, Brandeis University
Location: 6c-442, Cosman Seminar Room, Center for Theoretical Physics
For more information: Joyce Berggren  617 253-4827 jib@mit.edu
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu/

Thursday, March 18^th , 2010.
4pm-5pm
Organic Chemistry Seminar
“Strategies and Tactics Inspired by Complex Natural Products”
Richmond Sarpond, University of California, Berkeley
Location: MIT Building 6-120
For more information: Tyler 617-253-1879

Thursday, March 18^th , 2010.
4:15 PM
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
“Exploring New Frontiers of Quantum Optical Science”
Mikhail Lukin of Harvard University
Location: MIT Building 10, Room 250 http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html 

Thursday March 18^th, 2010.
5pm-7pm
“Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism
Linda Fantin, director of public insight journalism at Minnesota Public Radio, Ellen Miller, executive director of the Washington-based Sunlight Foundation. Moderated by Chris Csikszentmihalyi, director of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media.
Location: MIT Building 32-155
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/

Thursday March 18^th, 2010.
6pm-8pm
“Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy. Author Talk and Gallery Social with Melissa Milgrom”
Author Melissa Milgrom
Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
Free for Members, $20 for non-members. Advance reservation required. RSVP to members@oeb.harvard.edu or 617-496-6972
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php

Thursday March 18^th, 2010.
6pm-7.30m
The Longwood Seminars 2010
“Body Building: When Engineering Meets Medicine”
Donald Ingber, Jeffrey Karp, John Parrish
Location: The Joseph B Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston MA 02115
For More Information: longwood_seminars@hms.harvard.edu
Reservations Recommended on 617-432-3038
http://hms.harvard.edu/public/longwood/

Thursday, March 18^th, 2010.
7:30 pm
Monthly Observatory Night
“Searching for Planets with Kepler”
Andrea Dupree, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Location: Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St, Cambridge MA
For more information: 617-495-7461 pubaffairs@cfa.harvard.edu
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/mon.html 

Sunday March 21^st, 2010.
2pm
“Zombie Insects and Disgusted Humans: How Parasites Affect Behavior “
David Hughes
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php