April 18, 2017, the day after Patriot’s Day, Radius will be participating in a large-scale, on-campus civic engagement and action event devoted to the political, economic, and social challenges facing us today. This event will run throughout the day and includes... Read more
Archived Programs
Multitasking: Why Your Brain Can't Do It and What You Should Do About It
Radius Goes to the Theater
Join us for an evening of thoughtful theater at the Central Square Theater’s production of Paradise. Yasmeen, a Muslim-American teenager in the Bronx, meets with her teacher Dr. Royston, a mysterious scientist forced to teach high school biology. If she salvages her perfect score, she can claim... Read more
Most people born after the late 1980's have grown up without thinking much about the threat of nuclear war. Now, in an unsteady political climate, fears about nuclear weapons are beginning to rise again. For those of us who have not given much thought to nuclear weapons for most of our lives,... Read more
Sarah Ballard
Azeen Ghorayshi
Evelynn M Hammonds
In October, 2015, Buzzfeed News reporter Azeen Ghorayshi broke an investigative story detailing astronomer Geoffrey Marcy's long history of sexual harassment. Since then, more female scientists have come forward about their experiences with harassment. Ghorayshi, MIT astronomer Sarah Ballard,... Read more