Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2018.

Thursday, April 30, 7:00 PM
SPILLOVER: ANIMAL INFECTIONS AND THE NEXT HUMAN PANDEMIC

Prize-winning science writer David Quammen will discuss “Spillover,” in which he tracks the animal origins of human diseases through the centuries, with David Rubenstein. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Online only—this event will be streamed from both the Library's Facebook page and its YouTube site (with captions), and will be archived as a webcast on the Library’s website. Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

Thursday, May 7, 7:00 PM
HOW ONE 21ST CENTURY PANDEMIC, SARS, PREDICTED ANOTHER, COVID-19

Author and journalist Karl Taro Greenfeld will discuss his prescient book on the SARS epidemic, which foreshadowed the more devastating COVID-19 pandemic, with the Library of Congress’s Roswell Encina, chief of communications. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Online only—this event will be streamed from both the Library's Facebook page and its YouTube site (with captions), and will be archived as a webcast on the Library’s website. Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

Friday, May 8, 5:00 PM
BEYOND SUNRISE, THERE IS A SONG WE FOLLOW: U.S. POET LAUREATE JOY HARJO IN CONVERSATION

U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo will discuss her poetry and her work in the laureate position with Rob Casper, head of the Poetry and Literature Center. Co-sponsored by The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP).

Location: Online only—this event will be streamed from AWP’s website, where it will also be archived.
Contact: juanita@awpwriter.org

Thursday, May 14, 7:00 PM
ONCE UPON A TIME I LIVED ON MARS: SPACE, EXPLORATION AND LIFE ON EARTH

NASA astronaut and scientist Kate Greene lived in a simulated Martian environment located on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawai’i, where she spent several months in isolation, doing research. She will discuss the stress, loneliness and other challenges of sequestration with Library of Congress Literary Director Marie Arana. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Online only—this event will be streamed from both the Library's Facebook page and its YouTube site (with captions), and will be archived as a webcast on the Library’s website. Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

Thursday, May 21, 7:00 PM
WHY IT’S HARD TO KNOW THINGS, LATELY. AND HOW COVID-19 WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY

Bestselling historian and Harvard professor Jill Lepore will discuss how the current pandemic, its effects and our reaction to them say something very real about America in this moment and in the historical record that will emerge from it with John Haskell, director of the John M. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Online only—this event will be streamed from both the Library's Facebook page and its YouTube site (with captions), and will be archived as a webcast on the Library’s website. Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

For more information about upcoming events, please visit the Poetry and Literature Center's website.

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Engineer and inventor Greg Leyh tells us about his new Kickstarter project -- constructing two 10-story Tesla coils designed to create a lightning bolt 260 feet long.

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Kevin Smith talks Comic-Con, pop culture, and mainstreaming online.

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Wired gets an exclusive look at the Iron Man 3 costume.

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Hey Comic-Con, if you want to stay in San Diego, listen to what Adam Rogers has to say...

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Wired Design Editor, Mike Senese, sits with renowned Industrial Designer and founder of fuseproject to talk about design and its impact on society.

Roger Corman is a Hollywood legend.  He's made over 350 movies in his lifetime, and he's showing no signs of stopping.  We asked him about his latest film, and the art of making movies.

Sir Russell Coutts explains why Oracle's America's Cup boat has gone from 45 feet to 72 feet.  How will the new design effect their chance at the title?

Wired spends some time on the job with bioremediation and hoarding experts, Steri-Clean, Inc.  This video may disturb some viewers.

Ben Cohen wanted to take on the man. He enlisted the San Francisco maker community, and built a noisy, carnivalesque, vaudeville-style device, full of bright-colored wood and plastic and metal, to drive around the country and stamp slogans on money.

Inside the Mansion -- and Mind -- of Kim Dotcom

The needle drops and a series of high, repetitive whines come from the album. Then a crackling sound, and a muffled guitar riff. Finally, Kurt Cobain's voice - audible, but distant and hollow, like he is singing in a tunnel with a scarf over his mouth.

It looks like something from a sci-fi flick, or maybe a meth lab. ButLe Whaf is a device for vaporizing liquids.

Star Wars:  Behind the scenes of the WIRED cover shoot

Jeff Bezos Recovers Apollo Engines

How to turn genetically modified plants into a vaccine factory.

It's a hot trend. Tapping the power of cold to shed pounds. But will science ever catch up with the hype?

Wired gets a private tour of Turtle Island's wind-powered factory, where it cranks out a hero of the vegetarian holiday meal;Tofurky Roast.

Pieced together from scavenged and scratch-built parts in Thailand, these sports car knockoffs look like the real deal, even if they don't run quite the same.

In Picher, Oklahoma, the mines closed and the people moved away. Then came the sinkholes, looters, and governmental collapse. To survive, you need optimism -- and a gun.

The Coker V2 Unicycle in action.

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Get up close and personal with the folks behind Barclays Center's spectacular overnight conversions. Learn what it takes for their 40-person crew to radically transform this hi-tech arena from a sold-out concert venue into the Brooklyn Nets' basketball stadium overnight.

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Coffee is the lifeblood of most of our mornings, but do you know what’s actually inside that cup of coffee you’re drinking each day? You’d be surprised.

Chris Baker is no conspiracy theorist, but finds all these kids' movies where the bad guys turn out to be good guys a tad suspicious. Super villains with a sudden change of heart—or the ultimate scheme to take over the world?

Nicole finally gets a chance to hack into a personal email, only to find herself in the bowels of Agent Topple's locked messages from the 90s. As imagined, this is unfortunate.