# Presentations Sort & Filters close ## Filters Exhibitions by decade expand\_more - 1980s (6) - 1990s (8) - 2000s (11) - 2010s (13) Page Categories expand\_more - Class (3) - Presentation (37) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 37 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-A sort list grid\_view ## 37 results [### Starstruck! Astronomers and Popular Culture (2017-2018) ](/starstruck-astronomers-and-popular-culture-2017-2018) Presentation Date: Thursday, December 6, 2018 Location: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University Telescopes and a last will and testament. Clocks, a sketch of a comet, and a life mask. Astronomical photographs, a fly spanker... [### Scale: A Matter of Perspective (2017) ](/scale-matter-perspective-2017) Presentation Date: Thursday, March 9, 2017 Location: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University We see scale throughout our daily lives and navigate through it without thinking too much about our changing rank. The world is... [### In the Lab with Stevens and Skinner (2017-) ](/lab-stevens-and-skinner-2017) Presentation Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 Location: William James Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA The basement of Memorial Hall was home to the Psychological Laboratories of two pioneers: S. S. Stevens and B. F. Skinner. At one end was the... [### Radio Contact: Tuning In to Politics, Technology, & Culture (2016) ](/radio-contact-tuning-politics-technology-culture-2016) Presentation Date: Thursday, March 10, 2016 Location: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Remember the times when the whole family gathered round the living room radio to listen to Roosevelt's fireside chats... [### A Case for Curiosity: Old Objects, New Contexts, Unexpected Stories (2015-2016) ](/case-curiosity-old-objects-new-contexts-unexpected-stories-2015-2016) Presentation Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 Location: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, gallery in the History of Science Department, Harvard University The microscope of a literary legend. An illustration of a cannibalistic fish in the... [### Body of Knowledge: A History of Anatomy (in 3 parts) (2014) ](/body-knowledge-history-anatomy-3-parts-2014) Presentation Date: Thursday, March 6, 2014 Location: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA This exhibition explored the act of anatomizing not as a process of mapping a finite arrangement of bodily structures... [### The Mark I Computer at Harvard (2014) ](/mark-i-computer-harvard-2014) Presentation Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 Location: Science Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Originally called the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, Mark I was designed in 1937 by a Harvard graduate student, Howard H. Aiken to solve... [### Time & Time Again: How Science and Culture Shape the Past, Present, and Future (2013) ](/time-time-again-how-science-and-culture-shape-past-present-and-future-2013) Presentation Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Location: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Time: We find it, keep it, measure it, obey it, rely on it, waste it, save it, chop it and try to stop it. We organize... [### Go Ask A.L.I.C.E.: Turing Tests, Parlor Games, & Chatterbots (2012) ](/go-ask-alice-turing-tests-parlor-games-chatterbots-2012) Presentation Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Location: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Can machines think? This exhibit explored the strange afterlife of the Turing Test as it has circulated in popular... [### X-Rays of the Soul: Rorschach and the Projective Test (2012) ](/x-rays-soul-rorschach-and-projective-test-2012) Presentation Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Location: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA In 1911, Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach began experimenting with inkblots to probe previously inaccessible... [### Cold War in the Classroom (2011) ](/cold-war-classroom-2011) Presentation Date: Friday, September 30, 2011 Location: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA In 1956, the head of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis Strauss, declared that the United States was waging a “Cold... [### Tangible Things (2011) ](/tangible-things-2011) Presentation Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 Location: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA What do a Galapagos tortoise, a teapot, and a hundred-year-old tortilla have in common? They were part of an... - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 4 ](?page=3 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")