For more information, visit Public Astro Night.
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A night with the stars
There is a free lecture being given tonight about the telescope ALMA and the early universe. After the lecture, audience members will be able to look at the night sky from the observatory on the roof of the Rutherford Physics Building. No reservation is needed. For more information, visit Public Astro Night.
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Mini-Science 2013: Science, Sex, and Gender
I’m always impressed by the the events and lectures sponsored by the Faculty of Science at McGill. Registration just opened for the five-week public lecture series, Mini-Science 2013. Some of the university’s top professors will deliver these talks, all of them, in some way, relating to the theme: science, sex, and gender. These lectures (no science background necessary!) will take place every Thursday evening starting on March 14 and wrapping up on April 11, for a total of five lectures all together. Register soon before it sells out!
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The science behind food
Do you want to know more about the relationship between food and science? The Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium Series, entitled “Food: A Serving of Science,” is happening this week. You can attend in person or online. Visit McGill’s Faculty of Science website for more information.
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The nature versus nurture debate continues this Friday
The Mo
ssman Endowment presents the following Elizabeth B. McNab Lecture in the History of Science:
Genes, Genomes and the Nature-Nurture Debate
with Evelyn Fox Keller, Professor of History and Science, MIT
Date: Friday, November 9th, 2012
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Maxwell-Cohen Moot Court, 3660 Peel
RSVP: e-mail rsvp.libraries@mcgill.ca or call 514-398-4681
Description:
Evelyn Fox Keller is concerned with the unreasonable persistence of the Nature/Nurture debate, and she argues that, in good part, that persistence derives from the fundamental uncertainty surrounding the subject of debate. What exactly is the question we are trying to answer? What do we mean by “nature”? And what effect does the changing discourse of genes and genomes have on this debate?
Speaker biography:
Evelyn Fox Keller is Professor Emerita of the history of science at MIT. Trained in both theoretical physics and molecular biology (PhD, Harvard, 1963), she has been a leading figure in the history and philosophy of modern genetics, and in the study of gender in science. Her major works include: A Feeling for the Organism (1983); Reflections on Gender and Science (1985); The Century of the Gene (2000); Making Sense of Life (2002); and The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture (2010). She has received many academic awards in recognition of her work, among them a MacArthur foundation fellowship.
Check our catalogue for the location and availability of Professor Keller’s major works in the McGill Library.
Click here for information about the Mossman Endowment and the Mossman Collection on the History of Science and of Ideas.
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