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Science in the News’ SIT’N Listen Returns to Radio Contact!

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Live Podcast from Radio Contact Exhibit Sponsored by SIT’N Listen & Academic Ventures of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The oceans cover 70% of our planet, but did you know that less than 5% of the ocean floor has been explored? In the face of...

Sit’N Listen Podcast: Sports & Gender

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Men and women have been competing in separate athletic events since at least the time of the ancient Greeks. But why? What biological differences affect the way men and women play sports? And what impact does all of this have on athletics and on our...

CANCELLED: Live WBUR Broadcast: You’re the Expert

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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

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Pope's Grand Orrery: Up Close & Personal

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The Grand Orrery (a mechanical model of the solar system) was built between 1776 and 1787 in Boston by a clockmaker and inventor, Joseph Pope. It is made of mahogany, brass, ivory, and glass—all materials that were of necessity imported to make this...

Creating an Ordered World in Disordered Times: The Pope Orrery

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November 2-3, 2023 • Harvard Science Center • Room 469 • 1 Oxford Street • Cambridge, MA The Pope Orrery is a grand orrery (a mechanical model of the solar system) built between 1776 and 1787 in Boston by a clockmaker and inventor, Joseph Pope. It is made...

A Collecting Quandry

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CHSI Curator Sara Schechner was among those scholars weighing in on the possible disposition of a cultural and industrial prize: a Singer sewing machine, ca. 1892. As reported in Harvard Magazine, 1/15/2017

Mark 1, rebooted...sort of.

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The unexpectedly arduous journey of the Harvard IBM Mark I Automatic Calculator from the Harvard Science Center to its new home in the new SEAS complex in Allston is chronicled in article in the Harvard Gazette. Such drama!