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Out of the Woods

Wed., May 16, 2018 | Linda Chiavaroli
Visitors to public gardens tend to view trees as background. Exotic blooms, shimmering ponds, and sweeping vistas of color draw the eye more readily. "Out of the Woods: Celebrating Trees in Public Gardens"
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The Frankenstein Challenge

Thu., May 10, 2018

David Baltimore, President Emeritus and Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology, discusses the challenge of globally controlling technology when potentially 200 different jurisdictions might be involved.

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News Release - Fall Exhibition to Explore L.A.’s Extraordinary Architectural Past

Wed., May 9, 2018
Documenting one of the most creative and influential periods in Southern California architecture, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens this fall presents "Architects of a Golden Age: Highlights from The Huntington's Southern California Architecture Collection."
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"Frankenstein" Then and Now

Wed., May 9, 2018 | Jerrold E. Hogle
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus first appeared in print 200 hundred years ago, when the author was only 20. Since 1818, her boundary-breaking novel has become the most famous "Gothic"
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Reconstructing the Mindscape of a 17th-Century Korean Literati Garden: Garden of Seyeonjeong

Tue., May 8, 2018

Art historian Katharina I-Bon Suh of the Seoul National University discusses how the Garden of Seyeonjeong’s design and layout served practical purposes but also alluded to philosophical metaphors and fantastical worlds in this East Asian Garden Lecture.

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Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound

Mon., May 7, 2018

Daniel Eisenstein, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III, discusses the sound waves that propagated through the Universe after the Big Bang is this Carnegie Astronomy Lecture Series.

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California Plants

Sun., May 6, 2018

Author Matt Ritter, professor of botany at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, takes readers on a visual “tour” through the state’s most iconic flora in a lecture based on his new book, California Plants.

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Designing with Palms

Sat., May 5, 2018

Jason Dewees discusses how the sensory appeal of palms, along with their beautiful diversity, earn them a place in well-designed gardens.