News & Events
Registration is now open for Spring 2012 courses.
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 5:30 PM - Weeknights at the Wagner
What's Love Got To Do With It? Fertilization Imagery in the Art of Gustav Klimt, Frida Kahlo, and Diego Rivera - an illustrated lecture by Dr. Scott Gilbert, Swarthmore College.
Friday, February 10, 2012, 10:00-11:30 AM - Home School Program
The Human Body Reservations required.
Thursday, March 15, 2012, 5:30 PM - Weeknights at the Wagner
Instructing our Cells to Rebuild our Bodies - a lecture by Dr. John Gearhart, University of Pennsylvania.
Saturday, March 31, 2012, 1:00 PM - Westbrook Free Lectureship
The Sky is Falling: White-Nose Syndrome in Bats - Dr. Hazel Barton, University of Akron.
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Science on Tap is a monthly science café that features a brief, informal presentation by a scientist or other expert followed by lively conversation.
“Violence in the Laboratory: How Science Changed War and War Changed Science” with M. Susan Lindee, Professor and Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Over the last century both science and war have been transformed in tandem. Science has become more tightly linked to militarization and state power. Today, many forms of scientific research are supported with military funding sources even when the subject matter (e.g. mapping genes, tracking environmental change, or studying the brain) seems remote from any practical application on the battlefield. At the same time, military conflict has become more technically sophisticated in ways that have reshaped the battlefield experience for both soldiers and civilians. We now see remarkable levels of “asymmetrical risk,” for example, in which combatants commuting to a center in the American Southwest can guide attacks with drones at sites on the other side of the world. Scientific, high-tech warfare changes the rules of both war and science. In this discussion, Dr. Susan Lindee will raise questions about how science and war have both changed in the 20th century.
This month's Science on Tap is presented by the American Philosophical Society (APS) Museum.
More information on the Science on Tap series
Science on Tap is sponsored by a consortium of five Philadelphia institutions: the Academy of Natural Sciences, the American Philosophical Society Museum, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and the Wagner Free Institute of Science.
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