Join us for a conversation with acclaimed MIT historian Kate Brown, author of Tiny Gardens Everywhere, in dialogue with Antoine Picon, as they explore the deep, surprising, and often radical history of urban gardening. Part history, part reportage, part manifesto, Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City follows the roots […]

Join us on Monday, April 13, 2026, at 4 pm in the Nexus, Hayden Library, for a talk led by Catherine Coleman Flowers, an environmental and climate justice activist bringing attention to the largely invisible problem of inadequate waste and water sanitation infrastructure in rural communities in the United States. More details on the topic will come […]

A massive fire in the Estonia Mine in 1988 kicked off a series of events that are hard to track nearly fifty years later. A team of microbiologists, historians, and geographers came together to figure out how Soviet Estonian scientists treated the toxic spill of phenol from the mine with human-engineered microbes. This is the […]