Woods Hole Business Association

MBL Friday Evening Lecture: Forbes Lecture - “Personal, National, and World Crises” - Jared Diamond
2020-07-10 20:00 - 21:00 UTC | Virtual Lecture, Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Nations experience crises, whose solution requires adopting selective changes, and which some nations are more successful at solving than are other nations. We as individuals also experience personal crises, either associated with certain ages (e.g., teen-age or midlife crises) or else triggered by external shocks (e.g., relationship problems or break-ups, the death of a loved one, or a health or job or financial blow). The solution of a personal crisis also requires adopting selective changes, which some of us are more successful at accomplishing than are others of us. Counselors and psychotherapists have identified many factors that make it more or less likely that an individual will overcome a personal crisis. In this lecture, Dr. Diamond will examine the extent to which similar considerations help understand the outcomes of recent and impending national crises, and the impending world crisis.
Jared Diamond is a Pulitzer-prize-winning author of five best-selling books, translated into 38 languages, about human societies and human evolution: Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, Why Is Sex Fun?, The Third Chimpanzee, and The World until Yesterday. As a Professor of Geography at the University of California at Los Angeles, he is known for his breadth of interests, which involves conducting research and teaching in three other fields: the biology of New Guinea birds, digestive physiology, and conservation biology. Dr. Diamond’s prizes and honors include the U.S. National Medal of Science, the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Science, and election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is a director of World Wildlife Fund/U.S. and of Conservation International. As a biological explorer, his most widely publicized finding was his rediscovery, at the top of New Guinea’s remote Foja Mountains, of the long-lost Golden-fronted Bowerbird, previously known only from four specimens found in a Paris feather shop in 1895.

Juneteenth Lecture - "Freedom-Seeking"
2020-06-17 15:00 - 16:00 | MA
Join the Woods Hole Diversity Advisory Committee oncZoom for a Juneteenth Lecture by Dr. Donique McIntosh.

Ocean Encounters: Oceans Beyond Earth - From Earth's deep ocean to the search for extraterrestrial life
2020-06-10 19:30 - 20:30 | MA
With NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory astrobiologist Kevin Hand, WHOI deep-sea explorer Julie Huber, WHOI marine geoscientist Chris German, and special guest, comedian Eugene Mirman

Ocean Encounters: Corals in Crisis - How scientists are racing to stop a deadly disease
2020-06-03 19:30 - 20:30 | MA
Speakers: Marine biologist, ocean explorer, and conservationist Sylvia Earle, University of the Virgin Islands coral disease ecologist Marilyn Brandt, and WHOI marine microbial ecologist Amy Apprill.
Worldwide, corals are struggling to survive, decimated by pollution, destructive fishing practices, and climate change. Six years ago, a deadly coral disease outbreak started in Florida and has now made its way to the coral reefs in U.S. Virgin Islands, killing corals at an unprecedented rate. Can scientists help stop this underwater epidemic and contain its spread? Hear what three scientists are doing to help save corals and the spectacular ecosystems they support.
This is a virtual event hosted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Please go to this link to register (https://www.whoi.edu/ocean-encounters/).

Quick's Hole Taqueria Opens!
2020-05-18 11:30 - 19:00 | MA
Quick’s Hole Taqueria will be open for take out service.

The Captain Kidd Opens
2020-05-15 17:00 - 20:00 | MA
The Captain Kidd opens today with a limited lunch/dinner menu to go!

Pie in the Sky Opens!
2020-05-09 09:00 - 13:00 | MA
Pie in the Sky will be open weekends from 9-1 with a limited menu.

Landfall Opens
2020-05-06 12:00 - 19:00 | MA
The Landfall will be open with a clam shack-style menu to go including fried seafood and other quick bites.
