05/07/19 Andrew Myers, Ph.D. Northeastern University. An explanation of the enormous and very efficient energy production of offshore wind farms and why the east coast of the US is one of the best locations in the world for this form of renewable energy.

08-28-19 Susan Heideman and Michelle Lougee. These two artists describe their recent Cambridge, MA exhibit, their joint effort to communicate through art the importance of science, and they also discuss some shared perspectives of artists and scientists.

10/10/18 Evelina Fedorenko, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School & MIT.

How does the brain process multiple languages? And how does the bilingual brain process very different types of languages? And what about those rare individuals who learn dozens of languages?

03-27-18 Alan Jasanoff, Ph.D., MIT. Dr. Jasanoff discusses his new book, The Biological Mind, in which he emphasizes how the brain must be considered within its biological and social environment. This is a refutation of the notion of an "independent" mind, one separate from its physical and environmental connections.

06-21-18 Wendy Jacobs, Harvard Law School. Citizens today must be assertive in order to save the environment. We need the force of the law. This presentation tells how we can defeat the attack on our environment.

11-15-18 Julian Munoz, Ph.D., Harvard University. Exciting new possibilities about the nature of dark matter and primordial black holes.

02-13-2018. Brian Helmuth, Ph.D & James Cooley, Ph.D., Northeastern Univ.

To understand how people learn about complex issues like climate change, it is essential to take into account factors such as personal experience, cognitive biases, and perceptions of one’s environment. This information will help us communicate and educate the public.

11-13-2018. Illeana Streinu, Ph.D., Smith College, MA; Ciprian Borcea, Rider Univ., NJ. How geometry determines the limits of structure and motion in animate forms, from protein folding to human movements, and inanimate forms, from crystals to robots.

04-24-18 Daniel Cziczo, Ph.D., MIT. How measurement issues – such as technological limitations and artifacts – can impact our certainty about climate change. And how claims about the effectiveness of geoengineering should be treated with caution.

02-20-2018. Julie Guthman, Ph.D., UCSC. The complex relationship between Big Agriculture in the U.S. and one of California’s major crops, the strawberry. Big Agriculture is super-production, but we must consider effects on plant breeding, and effects on environment and health through extensive use of fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides.