Events - June, 1, 2013

Lyrics & Lyricists - Brush Up Your Shakespeare: The Bard and the Broadway Musical

Petruchio and Katherine backstage, Romeo and Juliet on a fire escape, Hamlet in the African bush. William Shakespeare’s influence on American song has been long-running...

Science/Tech/Health

On the Shoulders of Giants

Every generation benefits from the insights and discoveries of the generations who came before. “If I have seen a little further it is by standing...

Legal/Politics/Economics, Science/Tech/Health

Brains on Trial: Neuroscience and Law

What if we could peer into a brain and see guilt or innocence? Brain scanning technology is trying to break its way into the courtroom,...

Science/Tech/Health

Destiny and DNA: Our Pliable Genome

When we’re born, our genes click on and whir away to produce our personalities, diseases and physical appearances. Or do they? Research has now revealed...

Science/Tech/Health

Science & Story: Cutting-Edge Discovery for a Literary Public

Science grapples with some of the most abstract of ideas. Making these concepts relevant and engaging to a broad audience is a significant and vital...

Science/Tech/Health

What Lies Beneath: Stories of Discovery

Presented in collaboration with New York’s most innovative storytelling collective, The Moth, esteemed scientists, writers, and artists take to the stage to tell stories of...

Science/Tech/Health, Film

Checkmate: How Computer Chess Changed the World

Not long ago, the idea of a computer beating a human at chess was the stuff of science fiction. But some of the most creative...

Science/Tech/Health

The Rap Guide to Evolution

At once provocative, hilarious, intelligent and scientifically accurate, The Rap Guide is an unusual exposition of Charles Darwin’s theories, navigating natural selection, sexual selection and...

Science/Tech/Health

A Matter of Time

The nature of time is an age-old conundrum for physicists, philosophers, biologists and theologians. The Newtonian picture of time—a kind of cosmic clock that ticks...

Science/Tech/Health

Multiverse: One Universe or Many?

The inflationary theory of cosmology, an enduring theory about our universe and how it was formed, explains that just after the Big Bang, the universe...