All Events
The core of our offerings is the Conversation Series plus occasional special events. These gatherings — both virtual and live — focus on topics of broad interest for non-professional audiences. In that vein we aim to inform without seeking to persuade, discuss without making judgements, and to engage without pressing an agenda.
Sat Apr 18, 02026, 8:00PM UTC
On April 18, 2026, Long Now Boston hosted mycologist David Hibbett for a talk titled "Mushrooms, Time, and the Tree of Life," held at the Harvard Herbaria in co-sponsorship with the Boston Mycological Club. Hibbett — a professor at Clark University, former Harvard Herbaria postdoc, and evolutionary biologist specializing in the phylogeny of mushroom-forming fungi — took the audience on a tour of what fungi are, why they matter, how they have shaped the history of life, and why naming them all remains an unresolved 1,000-year project.
Sun Apr 12, 02026, 12:00PM UTC
What is the oldest living thing in New England? Could it be a yeast beneath the soil of the Connecticut River Valley? A Greenland Shark in Vineyard Sound? A lichen atop Mount Desert Island? An extremophile microbe under a Smugglers’ Notch moraine? A quahog in the Bay of Fundy? A clonal grove of beech along the Canadian border? An albino sperm whale in Nantucket Sound?
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Sat Mar 21, 02026, 9:00PM UTC
On March 22, 2026, Long Now Boston hosted Juan Enriquez for a talk titled "Redesigning Humanity: Evolution 2.0." Enriquez — founding director of Harvard Business School's Life Sciences Project, research affiliate at MIT's Synthetic Neurobiology Lab, and co-founder of Excel Venture Management — took the audience on a sweeping journey from the accelerating pace of technological change to the long-term future of human evolution.
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