Audiocast: Darwin celebration lecture series

Date/Time:	Wednesday, 07 Oct 2009 at 7:00 pm
Location:	333 Science II - Live Audio Broadcast
Cost:	Free
URL:	http://darwinlecture2.eventbrite.com/
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Phone:	515-294-9934
Channel:	Lecture Series
Categories:	Lectures
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"Celebrating 150 Years of Darwin's ON THE ORIGIN Of SPECIES: Variation," author Jonathan Weiner. This lecture is the second of five lectures in the Fall of 2009 to celebrate Darwin's seminal publication. Join fellow listeners at 6:30 p.m. for refreshments and sociability. This is a live audio-only broadcast from Columbia University. A Q&A by e-mail will follow.

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Weiner's books have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and many other honors. While working on His Brother's Keeper, he was writer-in-residence at Rockefeller University. Now he teaches science writing at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Reading Odyssey is a nonprofit dedicated to helping adults re-engage their intellectual curiosity through reading and discussing some of the best books and ideas.

Sponsors of the series include National Geographic, Citrix Online and their HiDef Conferencing Division, Campaign Monitor, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, National Center for Science Education, Squarespace, Creation The Movie, and The New York Academy of Sciences.

For more information on our Darwin activities, visit www.Darwin150.com