MIT is opening its doors to the community this Saturday, April 30, and STS will showcase our research with a soapbox talk at the MIT Museum. Please join us for these talks, and enjoy a day of exploring parts of MIT that you don't normally get to see!
------ Soapbox talks: US Civil War, Making Fire, Pluto, Camouflage and everything in between Program in Science, Technology, & Society (STS) MIT Museum (N52) - Ground Floor 1:00 - 2:30 pm Indigenous Firemaking in Africa--Without Matches! Prof. Clapperton Mavhunga Can You Spot an Influenza Pandemic? Peter Doshi The Color Wheel Michael Rossi Hide and Seek Prof. Hanna Rose Shell >From Spacecraft to Icon: Friendship 7's Second Mission Teasel Muir-Harmony >From Paper Folds to Manifolds: Origami Meets Mathematics Alma Steingart Artifacts and History: An example from the Battle of Gettysburg Prof. Merritt Roe Smith Pluto: Revolve In Peace Lisa Messeri Technology's Teeth Michaela Thompson MIT's Computers That Landed on the Moon Prof. David Mindell Moderator: John Durant, Director, MIT Museum and Historical Collections ------ In addition, please visit the STS table in the Kresge Lobby (W16), where the major units of School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (SHASS) will be all day (11 am - 4pm): http://mit150.mit.edu/open-house/activity/day-discovery-music-and-great-idea s-presented-mits-school-humanities-arts-and-so . For more information about all the activities at the MIT150 Open House, visit http://mit150.mit.edu/open-house . ------------------------- Karen Gardner Academic Administrator MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society 77 Massachusetts Ave., E51-185 Cambridge, MA 02139 617-253-9759 (phone) 617-258-8118 (fax) <http://web.mit.edu/sts> http://web.mit.edu/sts <http://web.mit.edu/hasts> http://web.mit.edu/hasts
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