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Afternoon

Virtual Event: Peter B. Kaufman The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge in conversation with Peter Suber

April 2, 2021 @ 12:00 pm
Free – $5

Popes and their inquisitors, emperors and their hangmen, commissars and their secret police—throughout history, all have sought to stanch the free flow of information. Kaufman writes of times when the Bible could not be translated—you’d be burned for trying; when dictionaries and encyclopedias were forbidden; when literature and science and history books were trashed and […]

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Evening

Virtual Event: An Evening with Steven Weinberg The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe featuring Andrew Strominger

April 2, 2021 @ 7:00 pm
Free – $5

Our universe has been growing for nearly 14 billion years. But almost everything about it, from the elements that forged stars, planets, and lifeforms, to the fundamental forces of physics, can be traced back to what happened in just the first three minutes of its life. In this book, Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg describes in […]

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