More than 120 years before Edison and the Lumiere brothers created modern motion pictures, a new attraction called the "Eidophusikon" opened in Leicester Square. Described in the London press as "moving pictures, representing phenomena of nature," the Eidophusikon thrilled audiences by combining moving images with sound effects and music. Come find out more about this […]
Santa Barbara, Calif. - UC Santa Barbara's Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) are inviting the Santa Barbara community to attend a casual public forum called "Nano-Meeter" to discuss China's role in nanotechnology R&D on Thursday, November 29, 2007 from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. in the Faulkner Gallery at […]
Risa Goluboff is a legal historian who argues that the New Deal, the cold War, and the NAACP wing of the civil rights movement redefined the meaning of civil rights, stripping it of much of its labor and economic content at the very moment of its triumph. Sponsored by the Program in Work, Labor, and […]