Health/Science Calendar

July 7, 2008

WEDNESDAY, JULY 9

TV science This week's episode of NOVA ScienceNow will feature a trip to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where astronauts are preparing for a repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope; a search for the first primate; and a drug-resistant strain of bacteria striking soldiers in Iraq. At 9 p.m. on WGBH, Channel 2. Go to pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow.

Robots versus disease Anne Carpenter, a biological imaging specialist at the Broad Institute, will talk about the role of high-tech imaging in helping understand diseases from cancer to tuberculosis. At 6 p.m., at the Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center. Go to broad.mit.edu/outreach/midsummer.

FRIDAY, JULY 11

Microbial life Thomas M. Schmidt, of Michigan State University, will lead a lecture on microbes and the tradeoffs between metabolic power and efficiency. At 8 p.m., in the Marine Biological Laboratory's Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL St., Woods Hole. Go to mbl.edu/FEL.

SATURDAY, JULY 12

Big bugs Get a bug's eye view of the world courtesy of New York artist David Rogers' 13 giant sculptures, including an 18-foot, 1,200-pound praying mantis. At the New England Wild Flower Society's Garden in the Woods, 180 Hemenway Rd., Framingham. Go to www.newfs.org.

Younger women with breast cancer Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center sponsors a daylong forum for younger women with breast cancer and those close to them. From 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston. $10 registration fee. Call 800-553-3787 or go to cancercare.harvard.edu.

COMING UP

Five key technologies On July 23 at the Marine Biological Laboratory, New York Times technology columnist David Pogue will discuss and demonstrate five technological advances which will have the most impact on daily life over the next five years. Tickets on sale for $25 each until July 14 or sold out. Lecture at 5 p.m., in the Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL St., Woods Hole. Call 508-289-7423.

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