Date and Time October 26, 20232:00–3:00 p.m. ET Location Virtual or in-person at the Neuroscience Center building, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892 Overview During this lecture, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Ph.D. will discuss the... Read more »
When I first met Professor Sarah Derbew, we bonded over our mutual love of music. Coincidentally, we had both spent our mornings looping “Boogie Wonderland” to get in the right headspace for... Read more »
75th Anniversary Date and Time March 18, 20249:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. ET Location Virtual or in person at the National Archives Building (701 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC) Overview As part of its yearlong... Read more »
“They’re Made Out of Meat” has been produced as a radio play, adapted for two films, and quoted by Stephen Pinker, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and other scientists to evoke the philosophical conundrum... Read more »
The postwar period saw increased interest in the idea of relatively easy-to-manufacture but devastatingly lethal radiological munitions whose use would not discriminate between civilian and military targets. Death Dust explores the largely... Read more »
Most nights this summer I became someone else. It was ritual, art: the lights dimmed, Tears of the Kingdom on the screen, my thumbs nudging the sticks on the controller to move... Read more »
The human capacity for oxymoronic optimism will literally take your breath away if you’re among the millions living downwind from the dumps. Actual repair is messy, difficult, and expensive. It’s inherently incomplete... Read more »