Tomorrow, there is what looks to be a gripping presentation \n Wednesday, Oct. 13 In 1974, a group of farmers in the Chinese countryside began digging Then, on Thursday, we have a lecture at Harvard’s Peabody Thursday, At some point on this planet, a bunch of chemicals got together and We fully expect that by Friday morning be will be completely from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One enduring benefit of living in the intellectual Hub of the Universe is the availability of free lectures by some of the smartest experts in some of the most obscure and useless areas of knowledge known to man. This week, for … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/tc2.jpg\")
One
\n enduring benefit of living in the intellectual Hub of the Universe
\n is the availability of free lectures
\n by some of the
\n smartest experts in some of the most obscure and useless areas of
\n knowledge known to man. This week, for example, there is a doubleheader
\n which we hope will go a long way towards helping us understand who we
\n are and how we got here, or at least distract us from the ongoing tragedy
\n which is the Red Sox 86 year unrequited quest for baseball redemption.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n on one of the most dramatic discoveries of the previous century –
\n the army of life-sized Terra-cotta warriors unearthed 30 years ago
\n in China:<\/em><\/p>\n\n
\n UNDERGROUND ARMY<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n a well and instead unearthed a clay torso, and another, and another.
\n Soon it became clear that they had discovered something breathtaking:
\n A vast terra-cotta army of life-size soldiers. Buried more than 2,000
\n years ago to escort the ruthless Emperor Qin Shihuang to the afterlife,
\n the subterranean legions have become a linchpin of Chinese tourism,
\n spawning chess sets and trinkets and even ”Qin Army Powdered Milk." In a
\n talk on Wednesday, archeologist Robert Murowchick will describe this
\n extraordinary burial and what might lie behind it. ”Making Silent Sentinels
\n Speak: The Archeology of China’s Buried Armies of Clay," Boston
\n University, 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 224. At 7 p.m. Free.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n Museum on the central mystery of life on earth – how did it get here?
\n A lightning strike on a primordial chemical soup? A comet carrying
\n a frozen seed of biological life? A visit from creatures from the stars?<\/em><\/p>\n\n
\n Oct. 14
\n WE CAME FROM OUTER SPACE<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n formed long, complicated compounds that could reproduce themselves,
\n a process
\n echoed deep inside our own bodies every time a strand of DNA replicates.
\n Or did life really start that way? Even experts disagree, and the
\n primordial evidence has long since been melted, crushed, or ground
\n to dust. So
\n scientists are looking for answers elsewhere, both within our cells
\n and in the far
\n reaches of outer space. Astrobiologist Antonio Lazcano will appear
\n at Harvard Thursday to lay out several theories on how the earliest
\n structures
\n of life may have arisen on Earth. ”The Origins of Life on
\n Earth: Did It All Begin in a Warm Little Pond?", Harvard
\n Museum of Natural History, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford
\n St., Cambridge. Call 617-495-3045
\n for information. At 6 p.m. Free.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n convinced that the Terra Cotta warriors were deposited fully formed
\n by visitors from beyond the stars…..<\/em><\/p>\n