6:30 PM – Michael Mackey: “Bifurcations at the Bedside: How Non-Linear Dynamics Can Help to Understand Periodic and Dynamical Disease”
UW Kane Hall, Room 120
The Walker Ames Lecture Series presents Professor Mackey, author of Times Arrow: The Origins Of Thermodynamic Behavior. Prof. Mackey will discuss non-linear dynamics, with emphasis on disease as a product of bifurcation, in non-mathematical terms.
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7:00 PM – Jeff Lowenfels: Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web
UW Bookstore, U-District
Bugs! Bugs everywhere!!!
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7:00 PM – Thomas Ricks: The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
SPL Central Branch, Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium
Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and on-the-ground reporting to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005.
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7:30 PM – Dead Poets Society: Poetry Reading
Richard Hugo House, Cabaret, $12
Readings of famous dead poets Charles Bukowski, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein by not quite as famous local poets. Each contemporary poet will also present an original work inspired by or in response to their selected dead writer.
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7:30 PM – Doug Fine: Farewell, My Subaru: An Adventure in Local LivingTown Hall Seattle, Downstairs, $5
Go learn how an author and NPR contributor fared in his attempt to live locally and sustainably in the Southwest desert.
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