Chicago Council on Science and Technology, the Chicago Society for Neuroscience, ARCS Foundation—Chicago Chapter and NAMI Chicago Present
New Developments in Mental Health
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Chicago Council on Science and Technology, Fermilab, and
Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Center Present
Fermilab and the New Frontiers of Physics
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Chicago Council on Science and Technology and the Chicago Maritime Museum Present
Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums
with Lance Grande
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Chicago Council on Science and Technology, as part of its Science + Cinema Initiative, and WTTW Chicago Present
Urban Nature: Behind the Scenes
Chicago Council on Science and Technology and Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Science present Extreme Science: The U.S. Antarctic Program
Antarctica is the coldest, highest and driest of all seven continents. It is one and a half times the areal size of the continental United States, with the vast majority of its landmass covered in thick ice sheets.
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The arts provide a key avenue of insight into ancient human behavior and symbolic evolution. In this lecture we will review some of the evidence and analysis of how our ancestors of the later Ice Age used the material and visual world to create meanings, to develop and solidify social relationships, and to become “effective world settlers.” The scope of what we call “Paleolithic art” will be a focus because it is such a well-preserved collection of material and so many new and exciting ways of studying it have developed over the past years.
