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| Venue: | MIT Museum |
| Dates: | Thursday, April 3, 2025 - Thursday, April 3, 2025 |
| Hours: | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
| Ages: | Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | $ see below |
| Category: | Science & Technology |
Curated to spark thought-provoking ideas and engaging conversations, this program series offers the opportunity to meet leading writers in science, technology and art.Daytime Write Science programs are free with museum admission.
Evening programs in this series are $5/ticket.
The Urban Naturalist: How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground
Join evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen to explore a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle.
Schilthuizen will be joined in conversation by Boston College Assistant Professor Courtney Humphries.
Imagine taking your smartphone-turned-microscope to an empty lot and discovering a rare mason bee that builds its nest in empty snail shells.
Or a miniature spider that hunts ants and carries their corpses around.
With a team of citizen scientists, that's exactly what Menno Schilthuizen did — one instance in the evolutionary biologist's campaign to take natural science to the urban landscape where most of us live today.
In this delightful book, The Urban Naturalist, Schilthuizen invites us to join him, to embark on a new age of discovery, venturing out as intrepid explorers of our own urban habitat — and maybe in the process do the natural world some good.
Special welcome remarks provided by the Mark R.
Epstein (Class of 1963) Director, MIT Museum and Professor of the Practice of Science, Technology and Society, MIT, Michael John Gorman.
Copies of The Urban Naturalist will be available for purchase onsite from the MIT Press Bookstore.
| COST | ↑ top |
$5
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/write-science
| LOCATION | ↑ top |
314 Main Street | Building E-28, Cambridge, MA, 02142 map
Phone: (617) 253-5927
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