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U-M Physics Department Saturday Morning Physics.
Oct. 4 & 18. A popular series of talks, aimed at general audiences, by U-M and visiting scholars.
Oct. 4: “The Science of Baseball.” U-M physics professor Timothy Chupp discusses how the increasing use of data and analytics is changing Major League Baseball.
Oct. 18: “When Physic(k)s Lost Its ‘k’ and Other Language Quarks.” U-M English professor Anne Curzan discusses quirky etymologies in scientific language and how human narratives (and the pronoun “I”) dropped out of scientific writing.
10:30 a.m., 170 Weiser Hall, 500 Church. Also via livestream; see bit.ly/saturdayphysics. Free. (734) 764–4437.
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