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Thursday, October 16, 2008 | 6:00 pm
Thursday, November 13, 2008 | 6:00 pm
Thursday, December 11, 2008 | 6:00 pm

Feeling inquisitive? Looking for good conversation? Love a great book? Then the Museum of Science's Book Club for the Curious is just the thing for you. This book club was created especially for those who are interested in science and technology and how it impacts our society.

The book club is free and open to the public. You do not need to be a member of the Museum to participate. It meets on the second Thursday of the month at 6:00 p.m. (Please check back here as meeting dates are sometimes adjusted due to holidays.) All meetings take place in the Museum's Lyman Library, Green Wing, Level 3.

Upcoming Meetings and Titles

July 10: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

September 11: Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Phillip Ball

October 16: Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku

November 13: Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology by Ricard V. Sole, Brian C. Goodwin, and Ricard Solé

December 11: Longtitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel

Interested?

For more information or to RSVP for an upcoming meeting, contact Monica Parker-James: 617-589-0316, mparker-james@mos.org.

What We've Read So Far:

November, 2004: The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson

December 2004: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

January 2005: Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science by Amir Aczel

February 2005:Wonderful Life by Stephen J. Gould

March 2005: The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi by Mario Livio

April 2005: To Engineer is Human: the Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski

May 2005: Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin

June 2005: The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki

July 2005: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

August 2005: Book Club on vacation

September 2005: The (Mis)Behavior of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson.

October 2005: On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins.

November 2005: Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World by Simon Garfield

December 2005: Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

January 2006: Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origin of Religious Thought by Pascel Boyer

February 2006: Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall

March 2006: The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells

April 2006: The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene

May 2006: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.

June 2006: A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit by Alan Lightman.

July 2006: Jacob's Ladder by Henry Gee

August 2006: Book Club on vacation

September 2006: The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil

October 2006: The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney

November 2006: Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandara Blakeslee, with a foreword by Oliver Sacks

December 2006: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam

February 2007: Genome by Matt Ridley

March 2007: This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin

April 2007: The Emotion Machine by Marvin Minsky

May 2007: Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

June 2007: The Great Influenza by John Barry

July 2007: Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps by Peter Louis Galison.

September 2007: In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall

October 2007 Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi.

November 2007: Ten Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet): A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries by Michael Hanlon

December 2007: Canceled due to snowstorm

January 2008: Chances Are: Adventures in Probability by Michael and Ellen Kaplan.

February 2008: Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family by Cynthia Moss

March 2008: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

April 2008: The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes

May 2008: Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science by David Lindley

June 2008: The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles by Bruce Lipton