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2015-2016 Cary Lecture Series
<br /> AN ANNUAL SERIES OF FREE LECTURES IN LEXINGTON
<br /> Day and Time: Saturdays at Bpm (except for Wednesday,November 18 at 8:00pm)
<br /> Location: Cary Hall (except for October 24 at Clarke Midddle School)
<br /> The Committee: Robert Russman Halperin, Chairman, Susan Emanuel,Monica Galizzi,
<br /> Rita Goldberg,Maggie Pax,Van Seasholes
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<br /> David Rose is a developmental neuropsychologist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.In
<br /> 1984 he cofounded CAST,a non-profit aimed at improving learning for all through new discoveries
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<br /> in technology and neuroscience.That work became the field of Universal Design for Learning,which �a
<br /> now influences policy and practice in the USA and abroad. Dr. Rose was recently honored at the H p
<br /> White House as a Champion of Change.In this lecture,Dr.Rose will explore how the latest advances %`� v�
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<br /> CARY HALL•SATURDAY,JANUARY 9TH 2016 AT 8:00 PM �
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<br /> Sebastian Smee,the Boston Globes Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic,will reflect on the�onders,.of 00
<br /> New England's art museums and will discuss some of the masterpieces and small gems he has s- ,� W
<br /> covered in them over the past six years. Smee has previously written for the Australian,Guardian,
<br /> Times of London, Financial Times, and Spectator. He has written one book on the relationship N
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<br /> CARY HALL•SATURDAY,DECEMBER 12TH,2015 AT 8:00 PM kA
<br /> "The Sense of Style:The Thinking Persods Guide to Writing in the 21st Century' W
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<br /> Steven Pinker,an experimental psychologist at Harvard,cognitive scientist and linguist,has 1i
<br /> been named as one of the world's most influential intellectuals, and has written ten books "IFF
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<br /> including The Language Instinct and The Better Angels of our Nature. In The Sense of Style,he
<br /> asks why so much writing is so bad.We can't blame bloviators,the Internet or today's youth,
<br /> good writing has always been hard. Rather than worrying about the decline of the language or 1, �
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<br /> recycling spurious edicts from century-old rulebooks,we can apply insights from the sciences
<br /> of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear,coherent,and stylish prose.
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<br /> CARY HALL*WEDNESDAY,NOVEMBER 18TH,2015 at 8:00 PM
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<br /> The New York Times describes Harvard Professor Oreskes as "one of the biggest
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<br /> motivated attacks on the field." In the early 1960s, scientists began alerting ao
<br /> 1 � American politicians and then the public to the climate change they had long x j
<br /> observed. Even President Nixon's advisors,in the late 1960s,didn't doubt the truth H o
<br /> of climate change;they only hesitated about what to do,if anything.Paradoxically, FM
<br /> as forecast became fact,disbelief set in.This talk examines the history and dynamics N W
<br /> � of climate science disbelief,and its implications for society.
<br /> Co-sponsored with GWIAC;check our website for screening of related film `Merchants V
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<br /> CLARKE MIDDLE SCHOOL 9 SATURDAY,OCTOBER 24th,2015 at 8:00 PM
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