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.

Frankenstein was unleashed on the literary world 200 years ago, but its message still has relevance to everything from gene editing to Facebook.