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For Good Times in Brookline And Cambridge

by Tom Levenson|  November 11, 20151:42 pm| 15 Comments

This post is in: Events, Science & Technology, Shameless self promotion

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A few events tomorrow and Friday for your infotainment pleasure.

First, I’ll be doing a reading/book talk on The Hunt for Vulcan at Brookline Booksmith, a fine indy bookstore in scenic Coolidge Corner.  (279 Harvard St., to be precise). That would be tomorrow, Thursday November 12 at 7 p.m.  Books to be signed, of course.

I have to add that Tikka’s grown tired of waiting for his:

Tikka and HUnt

For some background on the book and the events that drove me to it, here’s a Boston Globe piece I published a few weeks ago on Einstein’s general relativity at 100; here’s a piece that went up yesterday at The Atlantic‘s joint that gives a taste of the story the book tells; and here’s a piece at Gizmodo that adds a little background into how and why I actually got off my ass and wrote the damn thing. (Spoiler alert:  I blame someone often discussed on this site.

Next, in semi-direct competition with my gig at the bookstore…(See! I can rise above shameless self-promotion on rare occasions) my department at MIT is putting on what looks to be a really interesting event:  an MIT Communication Forum presentation on “Women in Politics: Representation and Reality”

Glindoni_John_Dee_performing_an_experiment_before_Queen_Elizabeth_I

Think Veep comes to Washington.  That’ll take place at 5 p.m., tomorrow, November 12, so I guess if you were a glutton for punishment you could take that one in, dash across the river, and still get in on some planet Vulcan action.  Shameless I am.  The forum is free and open to the public, and will take place in MIT Building 3, room 270. (That link takes you to the MIT interactive map. Basically Building 3 is the second hallway on your right off the long (Infinite!) corridor that starts at the main entrance to campus at 77 Massachusetts Ave. Go upstairs and wander down — towards the river —  till you find room number 270.

Finally, on Friday, November 13, the MIT Program in Science Technology and Society and the Physics Department are hosting a sneak preview of the NOVA film “Inside Einstein’s Mind.”

Bartholin_head_transect

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion on the film and on the centennial of the discovery of the General Theory of Relativity.

That part of the evening’s festivities will be moderated by your humble blogger and will feature my colleague, physicist and historian of science David Kaiser, joined by two of David’s physics colleagues, Tracy Slayter and Scott Hughes, science writer Amanda Gefter, and NOVA’s Chris Schmidt.  It all happens between 7 and 9 p.m., in room 32-123 — which is the big auditorium on the ground floor of the Stata Center, the great big honker of a Gehry building at the intersection of Vasser and Main Streets.  Interactive map advice here.

Come to some, come to all, and if you can’t (or won’t) you can still get your hands on the book, online* and/or at the local bookstore I thoroughly encourage you to support — and then watch the film on Wednesday, November 25th at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

Images: Tikka, of course, photographed by yours truly.

Henry Gillard Glindoni, John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I, by 1913.

Thomas Bartholin, Head transect from Anatome ex omnium veterum recentiorumque observationibus, 1673.

Barnes and Noble/Nook here; iBooks here.

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15Comments

  1. 1.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 11, 2015 at 2:23 pm

    Tikka looks lovely, very distinguished.

  2. 2.

    jeffreyw

    November 11, 2015 at 2:29 pm

    The Bartholin looks like the result of a Democrat forced to sit through the debate last night sans alcohol.

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    eric

    November 11, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    thought i would take this opportunity to say that I am moving to chestnut hill in february. My daughter left for there in the fall and is happily in fifth grade in brookline. I will be working in chicago and boston, flying back and forth practicing law in both jurisdictions. hope to see you then!

    eric

  4. 4.

    JPL

    November 11, 2015 at 2:36 pm

    @eric: How exciting! February is suppose to be wonderful in the Boston area.

  5. 5.

    Redshift

    November 11, 2015 at 2:38 pm

    FYI, you seem to be missing links to the articles in there.

  6. 6.

    eric

    November 11, 2015 at 2:39 pm

    @JPL: well, when you are coming from chicago, i am not sure there is any real change for the better or the worse that time of year ;)

  7. 7.

    sharl

    November 11, 2015 at 2:42 pm

    I was just going to say what Redshift said. In that paragraph below the photo of Tikka, there are no links for the Boston Globe, Atlantic, and Gizmodo posts you mentioned.

  8. 8.

    JPL

    November 11, 2015 at 3:03 pm

    @eric: True.

  9. 9.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 11, 2015 at 3:46 pm

    Self Promotion Alert: I is on your blog, promoting my blog.
    The Indian state of Bihar gave BJP a wedgie by rejecting scaremongering and gave India (and the world) bestest Diwali gift evah!
    An in depth analysis. I have tried to give some historical background and a glimpse into why this was a battle for India’s soul.

  10. 10.

    Tom Levenson

    November 11, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    @Redshift: @sharl: Fix’t. Thanks.

  11. 11.

    Tom Levenson

    November 11, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I is on your blog, promoting my blog.

    Excellent!

  12. 12.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 11, 2015 at 4:08 pm

    @Tom Levenson: Thanks! Any feedback for my post is most welcome.

  13. 13.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    November 11, 2015 at 4:48 pm

    I’m not sure how this will influence people’s votes, but Hillary has joined the Hamilton Borg.

    Resistance is futile.

    (That’s a quote from Act 2 so, yes, a deep cut.)

  14. 14.

    PurpleGirl

    November 11, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Will be reading your blog later, after dinner. I went to the Trader Joe’s in Queens this afternoon and got some butter chicken and naan. Gonna have an Indian dinner for Diwali. (TJs has some decent Indian items; food produced for them in Canada.)

  15. 15.

    Tom Levenson

    November 11, 2015 at 11:18 pm

    @efgoldman: will do. My apologies.

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