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Thursday, May 13, 2010 | 5:30 pm
Thursday, June 10, 2010 | 5:30 pm
Thursday, July 08, 2010 | 5:30 pm

Feeling inquisitive? Looking for good conversation? Love science and books? The Book Club for the Curious is just the thing for you. Created at the Museum of Science, Boston and presented in partnership with the Cambridge Innovation Center, this reading group is designed especially for those who are interested in science and technology and how it impacts our society.

Logistics

The Book Club for the Curious is free and open to the public. Meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at the Cambridge Innovation Center, Charles Conference Room, 14th Floor, One Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Guests who arrive after 6:00 p.m. must call the conference room from the lobby to be let in. Parking at One Broadway is a flat rate of $5 for those who enter after 4:00 p.m. The Kendall Square T-stop is a short walk away on Main Street.

Upcoming Meetings and Titles

Thursday, May 13: From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll

Thursday, June 10: The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong by David Shenk

Thursday, July 8: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

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

July 2008: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

September 2008: Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Phillip Ball

October 2008: Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku

November 2008: Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology by Ricard V. Sole, Brian C. Goodwin, and Ricard Solé

December 2008: Longtitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel

January 2009: Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing by Henry Petroski

February 2009: Life's Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World by Ian Stewart

March 2009: A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking

April 2009: Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin

May 2009: At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman

June 2009: Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould

July 2009: Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique by Michael S. Gazzaniga

August 2009: Book Club on vacation

September 2009: The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself by Hannah Holmes

October 2009: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America by Thomas Friedman

November 2009: Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds by Claire Hope Cummings

December 2009: The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society by Frans de Waal