Melinda Gates | The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
In conversation with John Green

Thu, April 25, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $47/$32 couple + book/single + book; $30/$24 simulcast—couple + book/single + book
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AUDITORIUM SOLD OUT; SIMULCAST SEATS AVAILABLE Couples Ticket Ranked by  Forbes  as the third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates has been on a 20-year mission to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. Through her work as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda…

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The Wagner Free Institute of Science presents genome editing II: Applications of CRISPR technology

Wed, May 1, 2019 6:15 P.M.
Independence Library

Almost daily, there are news articles of remarkable accomplishments with CRISPR-associated technology. We will discuss how CRISPR technology has revolutionized biological research, with applications to medicine, agriculture, and basic research. However, the November 2018 report of a scientist…

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First Friday Genealogy

Fri, May 3, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.  All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.    

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The Wagner Free Institute of Science presents paleogenetics and paleoproteomics: What can ancient molecules reveal about evolutionary history?

Wed, May 8, 2019 6:15 P.M.
Independence Library

Analysis of DNA from fossilized remains helps to clarify relationships between extant organisms and may provide insight on adaptations with respect to climate change. The emerging field of paleoproteomics focuses on the extraction and identification of “ancient proteins” from…

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Susan Hockfield | The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

Wed, May 8, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

The first woman and the first life scientist to head the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Susan Hockfield now serves as the esteemed institution’s President Emerita. A pioneering neuroscientist whose work included the discovery of a gene linked to the spread of brain cancer, she…

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George Packer | Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

Tue, May 14, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $15.00
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George Packer won the 2013 National Book Award for The Unwinding , a biographical examination of the seismic shifts in economics and politics over the past three decades that have brought the United States to the brink. A longtime New Yorker staff writer possessed of a “far more coherent…

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Adam Gopnik | A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

Tue, May 21, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $15.00
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A staff writer at The New Yorker for more than three decades, Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon , The Table Comes First , and At the Strangers’ Gate , an “elegant” memoir of his 1980s move to a peculiar New York that “effortlessly weaves in the city’s…

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First Friday Genealogy

Fri, June 7, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.  All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.    

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Frank Langfitt | The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China

Wed, June 19, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

In conversation with Bill Marimow Frank Langfitt served as NPR’s China correspondent for five years, reporting on such varied topics as the government’s notorious detention centers and the Beijing Olympics, for which his team won the Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting.…

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First Friday Genealogy

Fri, July 5, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.  All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.    

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First Friday Genealogy

Fri, August 2, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.  All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.    

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First Friday Genealogy

Fri, September 6, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.  All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.    

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First Friday Genealogy

Fri, October 4, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.  All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.    

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First Friday Genealogy

Fri, November 1, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.  All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.    

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First Friday Genealogy

Fri, December 6, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.  All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.    

Adult Discussion and Participation Genealogy General Research