Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
In this UW Science Now double bill, Megan F. Gambs investigates how massive flooding of freshwater from Glacial Lake Missoula disrupted the ocean and atmosphere, and Adam Campbell searches for refuges that sustained life when the Earth’s land was frozen and barren.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
With many scientists believing Earth is on the cusp of another mass extinction, Annalee Newitz, author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember; suggests practical ways for us humans to keep dodging the extinction bullet—and to live to build a better world.
Nathaniel Philbrick: A Fresh Look at Bunker Hill
Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Bringing a fresh perspective to every aspect of the story, National Book Award-winner Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Bunker Hill, reconstructs the revolutionary landscape—geographic and ideological—in telling the robust, messy, blisteringly real origins of America.