Joanna Radin on Tales From the Crypt: Craniometry, Computers and Mass Culture in 1960s Cambridge

On Friday, May 30 at 1:20 pm, you are invited to join Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga’s BME 80G Bioethics course for a talk by Joanna Radin in the Baskin Auditorium.

This is a story about what happened when an enterprising Ivy league, pre-med majoring in anthropology encountered a machine he was told could, among other miracles, transform the spoils of generations of racial conquest into anti-racist science. It is a cautionary tale, not unlike the ones this pre-med would become best known for when he abandoned medicine for mass-market publishing and Hollywood….learn more.

A woman wearing a beanie and glasses looking at a book.

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