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The scientists and photographer behind "Climate Chagne: Picturing the Science" will be at the Koshland Museum on Tuesday for a lecture and book signing.
This week's lectures focus on renewable energy and the environment, as well as fashion, food, the Renaissance and the Bible.
Monday:
>> Tonight at 7:30 p.m., those interested in nature photography should head to National Geographic for an illustrated lecture with photographer Joel Sartore, who is best known for his images of endangered species. $18.
>> Crime noir author Walter Mosley is at Politics and Prose tonight at 7 p.m., reading from his new mystery, The Long Fall, which features a brand new Mosley character, Leonid McGill, and is the first book by the author to be set in New York City.
>> The National Museum of the Women in the Arts begins their six-part Sort-of-Jane Austen Reading Series tonight with The Tragedie of Antonie from 7 to 9 p.m. The series will feature "works from the Renaissance that were never staged and more recent works that illuminate the lives of Renaissance-era women in the arts," and will be read by D.C. actors. $10.
Tuesday:
>> Prior to a screening of fashion flick Ralph Rucci: A Designer and His House at the Corcoran will be a discussion by the director, David Boatman. At 7 p.m., $15 gets you in the door and a gift bag from Neiman Marcus.
>> At 7 p.m. at the Museum of American History, hear D.C. chef José Andrés and Wylie Dufresne of New York's WD-50 discuss the international influence of Spanish Vanguard Cuisine (or molecular cuisine). Free; doors open at 6:30 p.m.
>> Or, be at the S. Dillon Ripley Center from 6:45 to 9 p.m. for an illustrated lecture on ancient Rome with author George Sullivan. Book signing will follow the lecture. $40.
>> The Koshland Museum hosts another option tonight, with Picturing the Impact of Climate Change from 6:30 to 8 p.m. NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt and photographer Joshua Wolfe will "demonstrate how photographs can illustrate the effects of global warming more poignantly than any temperature graph or chart." Free.
Thursday:
>> Thursday through Sunday of this week is The Center for Inquiry's 12th World Congress, titled Science, Public Policy, and the Planetary Community. Speakers will "analyze the role of science, explain how it works, explore its connection to public policy, and examine its significance for the global community," and include NASA climatologist Drew Shindell, Roger Bonnet from the International Space Science Institute, and many others. Attendance for the entire event costs $295, but a few of the events are also sold separately for a lower cost.
>> The Air and Space Museum's Exploring Space lecture series continues this week with a 7:30 p.m. lecture by Vera Rubin titled What IS the Universe?. Rubin is considered an expert of galaxy velocity, and "is credited with proving the existence of dark matter." A screening of 400 Years of the Telescope + Discovery Stations in the Museum will precede the lecture at 6 p.m.
>> Or, head to the K Street Busboys at 6:30 p.m. for What is Capitalism Anyway, and Where did it Come From? with Mike Zmolek, who will "trace the specific historical path by which capitalism developed out of the middle ages."
Friday:
>> From 12:15 to 1:45 p.m. today, the New America Foundation hosts Green Growth: Are Feed-in Tariffs the Answer?, which will be webcast live, and will discuss how America can revive the renewable energy industry.
>> Tonight at 7 p.m., Politics and Prose hosts This American Life's Jonathan Goldstein and his new book Ladies And Gentlemen, The Bible, which "recasts stories like Jonah and the whale, the tower of Babel, and Cain and Abel (among others), in wickedly irreverent detail, aiming to show the true motivations behind these well-known biblical characters."
Saturday:
>> Author and nutritionist Barry Popkin will be at Politics and Prose at 1 p.m. today to reveal the truth about plumpness while discussing his book The World Is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products That Are Fattening the Human Race.
Sunday:
>> The 14th Street Busboys hosts an Emancipation Day Poetry Reading today at 4 p.m.