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Videos and Recorded Programs
Exoplanet Genetics
Mon., May 1, 2017Johanna Teske, Carnegie Origins Postdoctoral Fellow, will highlight new discoveries about exoplanets including how their composition is “inherited” from their host star.
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Five Lessons Learned in the California Garden
Thu., April 27, 2017 | Diana W. ThompsonAs you stroll through the Frances and Sidney Brody California Garden, you may find it hard to believe that, just a few years ago, the same space was used primarily as a walkway and parking lot.
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Preserving the Signs of Censorship
Mon., April 24, 2017 | Kristi WestbergFive hundred years before government officials in some countries got in the business of censoring Instagram feeds or Twitter accounts, the Roman Catholic Church was using ink to black out text that it considered dangerous.
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Press Release - Sweeping International Loan Exhibition to Explore Images of Latin American Nature From the Late 1400s to the Mid-1800s
Mon., April 24, 2017A sweeping international loan exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will explore how the depiction of Latin American nature contributed to art and science between the late 1400s and the mid-1800s.
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Big Bonsai? Not Really
Fri., April 21, 2017 | Diana W. ThompsonFor Kyoto-based landscape designer Takuhiro Yamada, the tea garden he designed in The Huntington's Japanese Garden is a work in progress. Each year, he returns to check on its development and chooses a few areas where he can help infuse the plants
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Recent Lectures: Feb. 23–April 12, 2017
Wed., April 19, 2017 | Huntington StaffHome to gorgeous gardens, spectacular art, and stunning rare books and manuscripts, The Huntington also offers an impressive slate of lectures and conferences on topics and themes related to its collections. Featured are audio recordings of five recent lectures and conversations.
Videos and Recorded Programs
West of Walden: Thoreau in the 21st Century
Tue., April 18, 2017“The sun is but a morning star.” Walden’s famous last line points eastward to the sunrise; but Henry David Thoreau also wrote of the west, the sunset, and day’s end. To mark Thoreau’s bicentennial year, this conference poses the question: How can we read Thoreau from the sundown side, the far west of his imagination?
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Transcription Challenge for Civil War Telegrams
Mon., April 17, 2017 | Kevin DurkinIn June 2016, The Huntington launched a crowdsourcing project called "Decoding the Civil War" to transcribe and decipher a collection of 15,922 U.S. Civil War telegrams between Abraham Lincoln, his Cabinet, and officers of the Union Army.