Lectures Archive | Celebrity Science Series
The Museum has hosted dozens of special lectures each year with speakers ranging from C3-PO to nanotechnologists to astronauts.
Here is our online archive of these talks, many of which are still available via audio or video stream.
- Music on My Brain: A Conversation with Daniel J. Levitin and Rosanne Cash (Lecture)
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Listen: Click "open audio" to hear Rosanne Cash's "Sea of Heartbreak" with Bruce Springsteen, the first single from her new album, List, available online in the Museum shop.
Please join us for this Reno Family Foundation Symposia event, part of the Celebrity Science Series.
How does music evoke our ... (details).
With: Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, James McGill Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, McGill University; director, Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition, and Expertise; author, This is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs; Rosanne Cash, Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter; author.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Celebrity Science Series.
October 21, 2009
- An Evening with Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan (Lecture)
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Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan present a sneak peek of their new six-part PBS documentary series The National Parks: America's Best Idea. Set against breathtaking backdrops, the film is the story of an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical — that the most ... (details).
This presentation is part of the ongoing Celebrity Science Series.
September 10, 2009
- Contemplating Creatures: Irene Pepperberg and the Hidden World of Animal Intelligence (Lecture)
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Please join us for this Reno Family Foundation Symposia event, part of the Celebrity Science Series.
In a revelatory discussion about exploring the animal "mind," WBUR Radio host Robin Young interviews Alex & Me author Dr. Irene Pepperberg, who has been studying the intelligence and reasoning abilities ... (details).
With: Irene Pepperberg, PhD, adjunct associate professor, Department of Psychology, Brandeis University; author, Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence; interviewed by Robin Young, host of WBUR's daily news magazine, "Here and Now".
This presentation is part of the ongoing Celebrity Science Series.
May 27, 2009
- Sustaining Life: A Conversation (Lecture)
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Please join us for this Celebrity Science Series event, part of the Reno Family Foundation Symposia.
The Earth's biodiversity — the rich variety of life on our planet — is disappearing at an alarming rate. And while human health depends, to a larger extent than we might imagine, on biodiversity, ... (details).
With: Eric Chivian, MD, founder, director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; author, Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity; moderated by Noel Michele "Missy" Holbrook, PhD, Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry and professor of biology, Harvard University.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Celebrity Science Series.
October 03, 2008
- On The Mound: A Conversation with Two Baseball Insiders (Lecture)
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Part of the Celebrity Science Series: A Reno Family Foundation Symposium
Whether you're passionate about baseball statistics or simply get a thrill from the sound of a ball leaving the park, don't miss this chance to hear from two of baseball's premier historians and analysts.
By pioneering sabermetrics ... (details).
With: George William "Bill" James, baseball writer, historian, statistician, and Red Sox executive; Rob Neyer, senior writer for ESPN.com and author.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Celebrity Science Series.
June 19, 2008
