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  • Wednesday, April 29, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Eating Bottles, Drinking Clouds, and Texting Your Evening Meal

    This Reno Family Foundation Symposium on Wednesday, April 29 from 6:30 – 9 pm features an evening of discovery with David Edwards, the inventor whose artscience experiments are becoming cultural game-changers. Embark on sensorial adventure at Edwards’s newest culture lab, where the public is invited to join his “willful, joyful experimentation.” Sip poetic clouds of intense flavor from Le Whaf, explore olfactory music with the magical oPhone, and drink water out of flavorful, nutrient-rich WikiFood packaging. Contribute your own creative ideas to sensorial trends that will be changing our world.

    Edwards sees a new kind of learning igniting across America. In maker spaces, innovation programs, and cultural discovery environments, people young and old are starting to “learn to learn” to discover the undiscovered. Among the youngest people ever elected to the National Academy of Engineering, Edwards sees “culture labs,” like Le Laboratoire Cambridge, as propellers of discovery learning and a hopeful path for pioneering solutions to seemingly intractable global challenges.

    Location for this offsite Museum of Science program: Café ArtScience and Le Laboratoire Cambridge, 650 East Kendall Street, Cambridge, MA. Funding for this program provided by the Reno Family Foundation Fund. Additional funding provided by the Barbara and Malcolm L. Sherman Fund for Adult Programs.  $35.  Buy tickets online at http://www.mos.org/public-events/eating-bottles-drinking-clouds.

  • Wednesday, March 13, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – One Seed at a Time

    One Seed at a Time, a Reno Family Foundation Symposium at the Museum of Science, with Cary Fowler, PhD, special advisor and executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, will take place Wednesday, March 13, beginning at 7 pm. Tucked away beneath the snow of the Arctic Circle is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Sometimes called “the doomsday vault,” it’s nothing less than a backup of the planet’s horticultural biodiversity. Inside the vault, Dr. Cary Fowler and his team work with seeds from hundreds of crops that have nurtured humanity since our ancestors began tilling the soil. Their goal: to ensure that the world’s food supply can survive the dangers of disease, famine, climate change, and identical GMOs. Nearer the equator, documentary filmmaker Yung Chang shows us how intertwined we are with the fruits we eat in The Fruit Hunters. Guided by devoted exotic fruit lovers, he takes us on a cinematic odyssey through nature and commerce, changing not only the way we look at what we eat, but how we view our relationship to the natural world.

    Following the program, taste a selection of exotic fruits and enjoy a cash bar, featuring tropical Bellinis. Learn how to extract and save seeds, where to trade, exchange or swap, and make seed “bombs” for random acts of gardening–just throw and grow!  Funding provided by the Reno Family Foundation Fund.  $15 admission.  For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit www.mos.org/public-events.

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  • Wednesday, November 3, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Food Matters with Mark Bittman

    Please join members of The Museum of Science on Wednesday, November 3, from 7 – 9,  for this Reno Family Foundation Symposium, sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and part of the Celebrity Science Series. Mark Bittman is known for his no-nonsense style and no-frills approach to cooking. Drawing links between diet, health, and climate change, the popular food writer shows us how our bodies and our planet are paying the price for overproduction and overconsumption of food. In Food Matters, Bittman takes the mystery out of what terms like “organic” and “agricultural sustainability” mean to focus on what small, but powerful things we can do to eat in an environmentally responsible and budget-friendly way. He explains how to eat more consciously and to become less reliant on animal products and nutritionally worthless food. By making simple adjustments to his diet, Bittman lost 35 pounds, improved his health, and reduced his carbon footprint. Join us for an evening that will make you rethink your relationship with food.  Purchase tickets ($28) in person at the Museum box office, by phone at 617-723-2500, or online at store.mos.org.