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Science & Technology
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Former Defense Department cyber security chief Katherine Charlet, now with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, assesses the rising...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 31, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, examines the exquisite paradox of the Monarch butterfly...
Signature Event
Monday, August 21, 2017
10:00am
In Person
Kansas City gets a prime view of the celestial event of a lifetime – the first total solar eclipse visible in the contiguous United States since 1979...
Signature Event
Saturday, August 19, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Humanity has explored far beyond the reaches of Earth, nearly to the edge of interstellar space (and we’re getting closer every day). We have visit...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 10, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City photographer and instructor Reed Hoffmann offers a tutorial on photographing the rare, spectacular total solar eclipse...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In Kansas City and across the country, anticipation is building for the total solar eclipse of August 21. It parallels the nation’s fervor in 1878,...
Signature Event
Signature Event
Sunday, February 1, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Nobody knows more about the four-legged star of Groundhog Day than Kenneth Armitage.
An emeritus professor of behavioral eco...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The United States remains the world’s pacesetter in science. The origins of many of its breakthroughs may surprise you, however. A sizable number o...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 28, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Forests produce lumber, shelter a dazzling variety of plant and animal life, and serve as our planet’s lungs, cleansing the atmosphere of carbon dioxi...