November 2019

Museum of Natural History - Holiday Discount!

The Museum of Natural History will offer 20% off purchases at their shop from December 14 - 23 for all Harvard ID holders. Visit them at 26 Oxford Street during their business hours of 9 - 5 every day!

The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear

Date: Thursday, November 21, 2019, 6:00pm

Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Robert McCracken Peck, Curator of Art and Artifacts, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Edward Lear (1812–1888), best known for The Owl and the Pussycat and other nonsense poetry, was also an accomplished painter of birds, mammals, reptiles, and landscapes, and an adventurous world traveler.... Read more about The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear

Paleovirology: Ghosts and Gifts of Ancient Viruses

Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 6:00pm

Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Human genomes are ancient battlegrounds of arms races waged between viruses and their hosts for millions of years. Just as historians reconstruct battlefields to better understand historical battles, evolutionary biologists and virologists can reconstruct how ancient viruses affected their hosts by analyzing their “fossil” remains in our genomes. Paleovirology is the...

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