Smashed vessels, smoking beakers, celestial globes—the oil paintings on view at the Science History Institute’s Age of Alchemy are filled with arcane symbols, both campy and mysterious.

This Saturday-afternoon series of lively activities and robust conversation will enable you to see yourself, your community, and the future a little bit differently.

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Warfarin, a drug that started life 70 years ago as a rat poison, remains one of the most important treatments for heart disease and stroke. But for all its success the anticoagulant remains as dangerous as its origin suggests.

It's complicated.