Who Killed Health Care?

Tuesday, September 25, 5:30-8:30p. Regina Herzlinger. Harvard Medical School: Conference Center, Ground Floor Lobby, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur. Details.

Artificial Real Life

Monday, Sept. 10, 7p. Jason Kelly. OpenWetWare. Details.

Computational Models of the Human Body for Medical Image Analysis

Friday, September 7, 2-3p. Nicholas Ayache. The Asclepios Project. MIT: Stata Center (32-D507). Details & Abstract.

The Crack at the Top of the World - A New Kind of Seafloor Spreading

Tuesday, August 28, 2:30p. Henry Dick. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Exhibit Center Auditorium. Details.

Nanofabrication Technology: A view of the Future

Thursday, August 30, 7p. Grant Willson. Willson Research Group. MIT: Stata Center, 32-123. Details.

Programmed Cell Death and the Multicellular Nature of Bacterial Populations

Thursday, Spetember 6, 6p.   Hanna Engelberg-Kulka, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Israel.   Harvard: Center for the Environment, 3rd flr., 24 Oxford St.   Details.

Ocean Informatics: In Theory and in Practice

Friday, August 24, 3:30p. Karen Baker. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Carriage House. Details.

Ice Science Photography

Tuesday, August 21, 2:30p.   Chris Linder, WHOI.   Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Exhibit Center Auditorium.   Details.

A Celebration of the World’s Barrier Islands

Tuesday, September 4, 7p.  Mary Edna Fraser and Orrin Pilkey.   Boston Aquarium, Harborside Learning Lab.   Details.

Mongolia: The Last Wilderness Nation.

Wednesday, August 22, 7:30-8:30p. Chris Leahy, Mass Audubon Bertrand Chair of Natural History and Field Ornithology. Joppa Flats Education Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, Newburyport.  Details.

Introduction to Butterflying

Tuesday, August 21, 10-Noon. Dorothy Saffarewich, Naturalist; Sharon Stichter, Editor of Massachusetts Butterflies. Background Reading. Massachusetts Butterfly Club. Joppa Flats Education Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, 1 Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport. Details.

Diagnosis and treatment of arthritis in the 21st century

Tuesday, September 18, 7p. Alan Marks. Emerson Hospital, North Assembly Room A, Concord. Details.

Marine Ecosystem-Based Management: A Paradigm Shift to Save Our Declining Oceans

Thursday, August 16, 4p. Elliott Norse. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Redfield Auditorium. Details.

Book Club for the Curious

Thursday, September 20, 6p. The Science Museum's book club will discuss In the Shadow of Man, by Jane Goodall. Science Museum, Lyman Library, Green Wing, Level 3. Details.

The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Wednesday, September 5, 7p. Maryanne Wolf. Tufts Center for Reading and Language Research. Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge. Details.

Cape Wind

Thursday, September 6, 7p. Excerpt. Robert Whitcomb and Wendy Williams. Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline. Details.

The Brain and Written Language

Friday, September 7, 7p. Maryanne Wolf. The Center for Reading and Language Research. Borders bookstore, Back Bay, 511 Boylston St. Details.

Project ASTRO Summer Workshop

Monday and Tuesday, August 20 & 21. From 9a. Project ASTRO links professional and amateur astronomers with local teachers. Museum of Science. Details.

Identifying Late-Season Weeds.

Wednesday, August 29, 9a-4p. Randy Prostak. Elm Bank Horticulture Center, Wellesley. Details. (Click on Classes and Courses.)

Snap, Crackle, Pop! How the Greenland Ice Sheet Gobbles Its Meltwater

Tuesday, August 14, 2:30. Sarah Das. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Exhibit Center Auditorium. Details.

SWAPFEST

Sunday, August 19, 91-2p.   MIT's monthly high-tech, computer, electronics and ham radio flea market. In the Albany St. Garage and adjacent lot, on Albany St. between Mass. Ave. and Main St., Cambridge. Details.

The Surface Science of ITER

Friday, August 17, 3-4p. Aart W. Kleyn, Director, FOM Institute for Plasma Physics, Rijnhuizen. MIT: NW17-218. Details & Abstract.

Commercialization of Clean Energy Technologies

Wednesday, August 15, 6-7p. Dave Miller, General Partner, Clean Energy Venture Group. Background Reading. MIT: E51-145. Details.

Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes

Monday, August 6, 3p. Kerry Emanuel. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Clark 507. Details.

Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project

Friday, September 28, 7p. Spencer Wells. Museum of Science. Details.

Butterflies and Blossoms

Saturday, August 18, 11-3p. Programs will focus on field identification, life cycles, host plants, and migration patterns. Joppa Flats Education Center and Wildlife Sanctuary. Details.

Autonomy for Sensor-Rich Vehicles.

Tuesday, August 7, 11am. Gabriel Hoffmann. Background Reading. MIT: Stata Center, Star Conference Rm (32-D677). Details.

DNA Binding Economies

Monday, August 6, 3-5p. Luis Pérez-Breva. Thesis Defense.
MIT: Stata Center, Patil/Kiva Seminar Rm. (32-G449). Details.