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STUNG! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean

Saturday, May 25, 3:30 pm
Author Talk. Biologist and jellyfish expert Lisa-ann Gershwin will discuss how these beautiful but dangerous creatures are taking over the oceans as a result of changes in our marine ecosystem.

 
LETTERS TO A YOUNG SCIENTIST: Author Talk by Edward O. Wilson

Friday, May 24, 6:00 pm
Harvard Book Store and the Harvard Museum of Natural History are thrilled to welcome Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson for a discussion of his new book, Letters to a Young Scientist. Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old.

 
RENOVATED EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCES GALLERY OPEN

Earth and Planetary Sciences displays thousands of rare minerals and sparkling gemstones in both rough and cut examples, including a 1,600-pound amethyst geode from Brazil. Exhibits highlight new research and offer a broad overview of the dynamic processes and events that formed our planet and that have shaped its continuing evolution. Visitors can touch rock and mineral specimens that date back to the beginning of our solar system.