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More than three decades ago, social psychologists Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski proposed “terror management theory,” which makes startling predictions about how our often unconscious fear of mortality affects our behavior at all levels, from the personal to the geo-political. In this talk, Solomon will review the increasingly abundant experimental evidence for the theory, which he, Greenberg and Pyszczynski describe in their provocative new book The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life.

Can we contain some of the deadliest, most long-lasting substances ever produced? Left over from the Cold War are a hundred million gallons of radioactive sludge, covering vast radioactive lands. Governments around the world, desperate to protect future generations, have begun imagining society 10,000 years from now in order to create monuments that will speak across time. Part observational essay filmed in weapons plants, Fukushima and deep underground—and part graphic novel—Containment weaves between an uneasy present and an imaginative, troubled far future,…

In the 17th century, artists and alchemists competed to imitate and even improve elements of the natural world. But one thing united their attempts: color. Manufactured by alchemy, pigments such as lead white, azurite, and vermillion (lead carbonate, copper carbonate, mercuric sulfide) were key to painters' astonishing, illusionistic renderings of the natural world. Join us on April 6 as CHF research fellow Elisabeth Berry Drago explores the making of pigments and their implications to the histories of both art and science. This event is free…