Storm chaser and photographer Jim Reed will be at the Corcoran on Wednesday for a show and tell.

DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area

Monday:
>> If you missed this weekend’s Newseum event with Rumsfeld expert Bradley Graham, catch him at Politics and Prose tonight at 7 p.m. The WaPo reporter’s book, By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld, “offers a layered and revealing portrait of a man whose impact on U.S. national security affairs will long outlive him.”

>> Or, head to the L Street Borders at 6:30 p.m. for a discussion with Zack Lynch, author of The Neuro Revolution, which looks at “the impact brain science will have on law, marketing, financial markets, education, national defense, religion, investing, health-care, government and entertainment [and] describes … the Time’s Telescope, which draws upon the history of technological revolutions to project into our common future.”

Tuesday:
>> Father Patrick Desbois will be at Sixth and I at 7 p.m. tonight to discuss his new book, Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews. For the book, his research team “visit[ed] the sites of these murders and interview[ed] surviving witnesses, many of whom were recruited by the Germans to assist in the executions.”

>> The K Street Busboys hosts a panel discussion at 6 p.m. titled, What does the Honduran Coup mean for Latin America?. Panelists will include representatives from the Honduran Embassy, Sergio Moncada from Hondurans for Democracy, Mark Weisbrod from the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK. Free.

>> Authors Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum will be at Politics and Prose at 7 p.m. discussing their book, Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future.

Wednesday:
>> Tonight’s 7 p.m. lecture at the Corcoran mixes photography with thrilling, nature-induced terror. At Storm Chaser: A Photographer’s Journey, Jim Reed will share his work as well as “what it feels like to be within 150 feet of a twister, to be inside the dead-calm of a monstrous category four hurricane, and to survive a direct hit by Katrina.” $20.

>> Alternatively, head to the S. Dillon Ripley Center from 6:45 to 9 p.m. for Malaysia’s Jewels: World Heritage Cities of the Straits of Malacca. GMU art history professor Lawrence Butler will discuss the Malaysian cities of George Town on Penang Island and Malacca, including “how their monuments and living neighborhoods reflect the Malay, Portuguese, Dutch, British, Indian, and Chinese communities that still flourish there.” $40.