Journalist talks on science
Yesterday’s lecture by science writer Dava Sobel took place in an unlikely venue for such an event — the Whitney Humanities Center.
The auditorium usually reserved for Directed Studies lectures and film screenings was instead the site of a discussion of, among other things, Sobel’s involvement in Pluto’s demotion from “planet” status. Sobel is a former science journalist for the New York Times and the author of several books, including “Galileo’s Daughter,” the best-selling “Longitude,” and her latest, “The Planets.”
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