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The Woods Hole Film Festival series Dinner & A Movie continues on Saturday, April 1 at 7:00pm with the feature documentary, THE LONG RIDER, by Sean Cisterna, Canada/Brazil, 2022, 96 mins. ABOUT THE FILM When Filipe Leite leaves his adoptive home of Canada, the aspiring journalist sets out on an epic quest to ride from ...
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How harmful are they, and how do we know? Plastics are one of the most common substances in everyday life, found in everything from toothbrushes to cell towers. Now they have spread throughout the ocean, with surprising–and costly–consequences for us and for our ocean planet. Speakers: Sarah Dunlop, Head, Plastics & Human Health, Minderoo Foundation ...
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The Woods Hole Film Festival series Dinner & A Movie continues on Saturday, April 15 at 7:00pm with the feature documentary, HELLO, BOOKSTORE, by A.B. Zax, USA, 2022, 86 mins. ABOUT THE FILM In the shadow of the pandemic, a small town rallies to protect a beloved local bookstore in its hour of need. A ...
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The President’s Science Advisor is the chief scientist of the U.S. government—a position that few people other than government officials and science-policy wonks have ever heard of. Why does the President of the United States need a science expert close at hand in the White House? What does the Science Advisor actually do on a ...
Read More about MBL Falmouth Forum: “Speaking Science to Power: My Eight Years in the Obama White House” – John Holdren
Join us for a conversation with Patrick Radden Keefe, award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and bestselling author who will discuss his New York Times bestselling book Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks with Mindy Todd, host and producer of The Point on CAI, the Cape and Islands NPR station. ...
Read More about MBL Falmouth Forum: “ROGUES: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks—12 Tales of Skulduggery and Intrigue” – Patrick Radden Keefe
Lecture Abstract: The life sciences is the sector ready for the moment we’re in. The life sciences remain a major economic and workforce driver for Massachusetts. But until recently, you’d be hard pressed for people to recognize names like Moderna, ThermoFisher, or the role an MBI plays in Worcester or LabCentral in Cambridge. The COVID-19 ...
Read More about MBL Friday Evening Lecture Series: “Changing the Complexion of the Life Sciences” – Kenneth Turner
This annual, science-themed parade will begin at 12:00 noon at the entrance to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s parking lot located on School Street in Woods Hole, and will travel down Water Street, and end at Waterfront Park, 100 Water Street. This long-time Woods Hole tradition, organized by the Marine Biological Laboratory, brings students, scientists, locals, ...
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Our understanding of major events in animal evolution have largely been based on comparative anatomy of both living and fossil taxa. The large morphological disparity between living taxa, and an often-imperfect fossil record, have made reconstructing early events in origins of animal phyla challenging. A growing body of work from developmental biology reveals that bilateral ...
Read More about MBL Friday Evening Lecture Series: “The Molecular Anatomy of Animal Body Plans” – Chris Lowe, Hopkins Marine Station, Standford University
Movie on the Lawn Bring a blanket or lawn chair. Play our trivia quiz for a chance to win prizes! Movie starts at dusk. In case of rain, film will be shown in Redfield Auditorium.
presented by the Woods Hole Theater Company
Throughout the last century, the ability of electroencephalography to visualize fluctuating microvolt potential differences between two points on the scalp has guided our understanding of the cortical landscape as neurologists correlated both hyperactive (epileptic) and silent (ischemic) areas of brain damage with clinical deficits in their patients, mapping the functional topography of the neocortex, literally, ...
Read More about MBL Friday Evening Lecture Series: “Single Genes and Brain Synchronization: An Ion Channel Portrait of Epilepsy” – Jeffrey Noebels, Baylor College of Medicine
You won't want to miss this! Head to Captain Kidd on July 15 dressed as your favorite animal for some rowdy and roaring 🦁 fun!
