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Saturday, October 1, 2011
The Ig Informal Lectures at MIT
1:00 pm, MIT 10-250
more info>>
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
authors@mit presents:
Jim Ottaviani - FEYNMAN
5:30pm, MIT 4-370
more info>>
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Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 22 & 23, 2011
The Fall 2011 Loading Dock Sale
10:00am to 6:00pm
MIT E38, 292 Main Street, Cambridge
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| Fall 2011 Event Details |
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THE IG INFORMAL LECTURES AT MIT
Saturday, October 1, 2011
1:00 pm
MIT 26-100
behind 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge |
Once again, The MIT Press Bookstore is proud to partner with some Improbable friends to bring you a half-afternoon of improbably funny, informative, brief (5 minutes each, plus a few questions & answers with the audience), high-spirited public lectures, in which the new Ig Nobel Prize winners will attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it.
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor people whose achievements have made people LAUGH, and then made them THINK. Ten prizes are given to people who have done remarkable things — some of them admirable, some perhaps otherwise. The Igs are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative - and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.
All Ig Nobel Prize activities are organized by the Annals of Improbable Research.
The 2011 Ig Nobel Prize Winners have been announced!
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authors@mit presents
Jim Ottaviani
FEYNMAN
Thursday, October 6, 2011
5:30 pm
MIT 4-370
182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge |
Please join us as we welcome Jim Ottaviani to the MIT campus to discuss his newest graphic novel.
about the book:
Richard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker.
This substantial graphic novel/biography presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Richard Feynman. Written by nonfiction comics mainstay Jim Ottaviani and brilliantly illustrated by First Second author Leland Myrick, Feynman tells the story of the great man's life from his childhood in Long Island to his work on the Manhattan Project and the Challenger disaster. Ottaviani tackles the bad with the good, leaving the reader delighted by Feynman's exuberant life and staggered at the loss humanity suffered with his death.
Anyone who ever wanted to know more about Richard P. Feynman, quantum electrodynamics, the fine art of the bongo drums, the outrageously obscure nation of Tuva, or the development and popularization of the field of physics in the United States need look no further than this rich and joyful work.
Feynman is published by First Second Books, 2011.
This event is presented by authors@mit, a lecture series co-sponsored
by the MIT Libraries and the MIT Press Bookstore.
Open to the public and wheelchair accessible. Please join us!
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Driving? Useful driving directions may be found on the Getting to MIT page.
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authors@mit
The MIT Press Bookstore, and MIT Libraries are pleased to present the continuing authors@mit lecture series. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. For more information on this series write to authors@mit.edu or call The MIT Press Bookstore at (617) 253-5249. |
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