The 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species will be celebrated all day Saturday at the Natural History Museum. Creationists: hide your children. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area Wednesday: >> This week’s first crime novelist event is today at noon at the Freer’s Meyer Auditorium with forensic mystery author, forensic anthropologist and professor Kathy Reichs, whose novels inspired the TV series Bones. Reichs will give an illustrated…

The Phillips Collection and the Hirshhorn are teaming up for two lectures this week on the figurative work by Philip Guston (his “Daydreams” is pictured above) and Georg Baselitz. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area It’s another slow week for lectures at the local museums, but there are a number of interesting events at the various Busboys locations, as well as at Politics and Prose and Borders to fill the…

Woodstock organizer Michael Lang will be at the Newseum on Sunday. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area Monday: >> Catch Senator Barbara Boxer at Politics and Prose at 7 p.m. for a reading from her second novel, Blind Trust, which “centers on second-term Democratic senator Ellen Fisher, who is caught in an increasingly nasty struggle with the aggressive Vice President as she prepares to chair potentially explosive hearings on national…

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…

DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area Monday: >> The 14th Street Busboys hosts an author event tonight at 6:30 p.m. with Andrea Batista Schlesinger, who will discuss and sign, The Death of “Why?”: The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy. >> Or, at 7 p.m., join author Daniel Meyerson at the Corcoran for a public event about his book, In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and…

Jean Shin, Unraveling (detail), 2006-2009, Sweaters collected from Asian American art communities in New York, Houston, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Honolulu and Washington, D.C. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area Lectures are back in full swing this week, with a number of art talks, from Greek architecture and the Venice Biennale to conservation and printmaking. Monday: >> Harper’s editor Bill Wasik claims to be the anonymous originator of the 2003 rush…

Creator of NYC’s 2003 flash mob movement and senior editor at Harper’s Magazine Bill Wasik will be at Politics and Prose on Monday discussing his new book. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area The upcoming Independence Day weekend equates with a lag in book talks and lectures around town, but keep in mind that the National Mall is full of the performances and demonstrations of the Folklife Festival, which runs…

Writer and explorer Dan Buettner reveals the secrets to a long life at the S. Dillon Ripley Center on Tuesday. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area Lectures in the District have caught the travel bug this week, exploring Wales, ancient Greece, and the top 500 of the world’s most peaceful and spiritual places. Don’t worry though, we’ve still got your regular selection of uplifting talks on the FBI, the economy,…

Lester Brown, environmental expert and author of Plan B 3.0:Mobilizing to Save Civilization, will speak at the Museum of American History on Thursday. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area This week features a number of earthy discussions as well as some artsy talks on the Depression’s Public Works of Art Project and that crazy Campbell soup can guy (Warhol). Tuesday: >> Tonight at 6:30 p.m., the National Press Club presents…

Journalist Nicholas Schmidle will discuss the Taliban in Pakistan on Saturday at the Newseum. Photo courtesy of Rikki Schmidle. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area Monday: >> Hear first-hand from the Shakespeare Theatre Company what it takes to pull off an amazing performance tonight at 7 p.m. at the Lansburgh Theatre (Archives/Navy Memorial metro). In Masters of the Theater and the Power of Performance: Behind the Scenes at the Shakespeare…