October 2019
Second Saturday Conversation: Coffee with the Curators
Join students from the Kansas City Art Institute from 11 a.m. to Noon for a gallery talk on their artwork on display in the exhibition, Then and Now: Photography and the Printed Image.
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Find out more »Michael Crichton Film Series – Westworld
This fall, join the Linda Hall Library for a retrospective film series of Michael Crichton movies. In his work, Crichton demonstrated a keen ability to anticipate new technological developments long before they became reality and predict how even seemingly beneficial breakthroughs in biotechnology or artificial intelligence could quickly spiral out of their creators' control.
The second film in the series is Westworld from 1973, written and directed by Crichton.
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Find out more »Science Matters Brown Bag Forum: An Overview of Renewable Energy Technologies
Science Matters Brown Bag Forums are monthly lunch-and-learn programs co-sponsored by the Linda Hall Library and the Kansas City Public Library. The events will be held in the Helzberg Auditorium in the Central Library. Bring your lunch and join the conversation!
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Find out more »Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future
Feature-length documentary on the life of space artist Chesley Bonestell. Co-sponsored and hosted by MRIGlobal. A 30-minute Q&A with Douglass M. Stewart, Jr., the film’s writer, producer, and director, will follow the screening. MRIGlobal’s collection of eight original Bonestell paintings will also be on display during the event.
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Find out more »November 2019
A Deeper Dive: The Scientific Study of the Plate Tectonics History of the World
The class will meet November 5, 12, and 19 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Johnson County Community College Regnier Center, Room 101D. Registration is for all three classes.
In this three-part Deeper Dive course, geologist Bill Shefchik will explore at a rather intense level some of the brilliant scientific tools used by geologists to understand the formation of the crust, the motions of plates, and the consequences of plate collisions. The foundation of the three classes will be the three-billion-year-old rocks of northern Scotland, which preserve vivid, visible evidence of more collisions than almost anywhere else in the world.
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