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SUMMARY:Birds Up Close: Feathers for Sound with Lorna Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Birds Up Close: Feathers for Sound with Lorna Gibson\nJune 14\,
  2026\nAuthor talk with book signing to follow\nCost: Free for Members or 
 with Admission\nAdmission Tickets\nMale broad-tailed hummingbirds make a l
 oud buzzing sound by fluttering their tail feathers during U-shaped courts
 hip dives. Barn owls can fly virtually silently\, their flight feathers su
 ppressing sound. An owl’s facial ruff collects sound\, reflecting and fo
 cusing sound into its ears\, enabling it to hunt in total darkness\, entir
 ely by hearing. In this talk\, we’ll look at the remarkable microscopic 
 structures within feathers that allow them to create\, suppress and collec
 t sound.\nLorna Gibson’s new book\, Birds Up Close: An Engineer Explore
 s Their Hidden Wonders\, draws on her experience as a professor of enginee
 ring at MIT and as a lifelong birder to describe how birds work from an en
 gineering perspective.\n  \n\nAbout Lorna Gibson\nLorna Gibson is the Mat
 oula S Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT and
  a MacVicar Faculty Fellow\, MIT’s top award for undergraduate teaching.
  She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Audubon So
 ciety. She has always loved nature and getting outside to walk\, bicycle a
 nd bird.
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CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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