Coming Up: January

Cracking the Neural Code for Speech to be filmed at the lab of Professor Frank Guenther, Boston University

Recent Presentations

Innovations in Clean Water Technology: Desalination (Dec 20)

The History of the Universe  in One Hour (Dec 13)

Revealing the Brain through States of Unconsciousness (Nov 15)

The D-Lab at MIT: Engineering for and by the Developing World (Nov 01)

Solar Thermoelectric Energy (Oct 25)

The Human Genome Project: Gateway to Understanding Ourselves (Sept 20)

As a world society, it seems clear that we have arrived at a point in our history when there must be a major increase in the capability of ordinary people to cope with the scientific and technological culture that is shaping their lives and the lives of their children.

—Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate in physics. Science News, 5/05/08.