JL;DR SUMMARY Prof. Oren Harman, a historian of science, and Chair of the Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society at Bar-Ilan University, explores his book Evolutions: Fifteen Myths that Explain Our World and the lecture series Talking about Science in the 21st Century at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.