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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
What have scientists learned so far about Mars? Does life exist there? Will human beings someday colonize the Red Planet? NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Chief Scientist James B. Garvin will discuss the latest findings and the Mars exploration strategy, in a lecture at the Library of Congress. Wednesday, March 17, 2010 Library of Congress, …
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Astronomy/Mathematics, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Today’s post is from guest author Margaret Clifton, science reference librarian. Four hundred years ago, in March of 1610, a pamphlet-like little book was published in Venice. The title page, as translated from New Latin*,sums up its contents with unabashed enthusiasm: “Revealing great, unusual, and remarkable spectacles, opening these to the consideration of every man, …
Posted in: Astronomy/Mathematics, Guest Blog Posts, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
With the start of a new year, we welcome the beginning of the 2010 ST&B Lecture Series. In these hour-long lectures we learn from distinguished scholars, leaders in science and business, and popular authors who visit the Library to give free public presentations about their work. The Library records these events and distributes them as …
Posted in: Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Parking! We city dwellers often ask, “Is there parking?” before even venturing out the door. For so many of us, the statement “a really great parking space can totally move you to tears” is right on spot. On Sunday (November 1, 2009) the Washington Post’ s Philip Kennicott reported (On the spot: Putting parking in its …
Posted in: Lunchtime Lectures and Videos