Test your knowledge on books and authors. Team up with family and friends or play alone. Presented by the Loudoun County Public Library. FREE to participate. Come early for food from the Old Ox Scratch Kitchen and one… Read More
John Schwartz, retired FBI special agent and founder of the Center for Combating Elder Financial Abuse, explains the mindset of convicted financial predators and shares advice on how to protect yourself or a vulnerable relative. Come early for… Read More
Entire industries owe their origins to the fluke 19th-century discovery of fluorescent dyes. Jon Grimm, a senior scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, explores how dye synthesis sparked the evolution of organic chemistry and how 21st-century chemistry is… Read More
In the early 1400s, Florence gave birth to the Renaissance, one of the world's greatest creative awakenings. Discover the lasting achievements of Brunelleschi, Botticelli and Michelangelo as art historian John Daum explores this city of food, art and… Read More
Colonel Phil Walsh, an adventurer, engineer and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, shares stories and images from his transit of the Northwest Passage. He highlights the nature and people he encountered as well as the equipment, technology and conditions… Read More
Isabel Espinosa Medina, a group leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, discusses the importance of genetics and microscopy technologies in discovering how cells build organisms and introduces a new genetic tool called TEMPO, based on CRISPR. Admission is… Read More
Bill Suter, 19th clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court and Army judge advocate, discusses case selection, recent decisions, the meaning of judicial ideologies, the personalities of the Justices and media coverage. He also offers a few inside stories.… Read More
A Point & Click Adventure! Lorena Benedetti from Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus discusses how optogenetics, a technique that combines light and genetics, allows scientists to precisely control such phenomena as simple protein interactions to animal… Read More
The Making of America's Active Transportation Network Author Peter Harnik shares the story of the grassroots activism that helped convert many abandoned rail lines into beloved recreation trails, including our very own W&OD trail. Part of LCPL's Spoke'n… Read More
Dr. Giuseppe Esposito, chief of nuclear medicine at Georgetown University Hospital, shares how recent FDA-approved radiopharmaceuticals have advanced the field of nuclear medicine and now allow physicians to diagnose, and in some cases treat, conditions including breast and… Read More