Winter

January 16, 2013 - Miles Blencowe

How the Big Bang Prevents You From Being in Two Places at Once

February 6, 2013 - Jeff Sharlet

Jeff Sharlet Dies: A Brother, A Father, a Son and the Wars Between Them

February 27, 2013 - Frank Magilligan

Imagining A World Without Dams

Fall 2012

September 19, 2012 - Kevin Peterson

The Cambrian Explosion of Animal Life

October 17, 2012 - Eric Zitzewitz

Do Gas Prices Vote for the Right? Political Contributions via Price Distortions

*Postponed* to November 14, 2012 - Melanie Benson Taylor

Why "The South" Still Exists (and Why We Still Need It To...)

Spring 2012

April 4, 2012 - Lisa Baldez

Why Hasn't the US Ratified the UN Treaty on Women's Rights?

April 25, 2012 - Denise Anthony

Status and implications of Health IT in the US Health Care System

May 16, 2012 - George O'Toole

The Human Microbiome: Microbes are the 90

June 6, 2012 - Thalia Wheatley

Why Music Moves Us

Winter 2012

January 11, 2012 - Dan Rockmore

Stylometry: Quantifying Style in the Arts

February 1, 2012 - Susan Ackerman

The Past as a Foreign Country: Mirrors, Tears, and Sex

February 22, 2012 - William Fischel

Should the Old-Order Amish Go to High School?

March 14, 2012 (Pi Day!)

Spring Break - No Seminar