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Secret Science Club: Brain Lecture with Neuroscientist Nim Tottenham
The Bell House 149 7th St, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesAt the next Secret Science Club, neuroscientist Nim Tottenham explores human brain development and its relationship to emotional behavior, stress, and well-being. She asks: --How are early-life experiences linked to emotional functioning in adulthood? Why do some early experiences matter so much? --How is brain development affected by relationships with parents and primary caregivers. --Can childhood stress rewire our brains? --How does brain plasticity in childhood relate to psychological […]
What’s a Brain For? A Moving Story
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesNeuroscientist Daniel Wolpert, PhD, is fascinated by how the brain controls our every movement. The ease with which humans move our arms, our eyes, even our lips when we speak masks the true complexity of the control. While computers can now beat grandmasters at chess, no computer can yet control a robot to manipulate a chess […]
Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Horticultural Symposium
Eataly 200 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesFor its second annual Horticulture Symposium, Madison Square Park Conservancy will gather experts in the fields of landscape design, horticulture therapy, and forest therapy to discuss the significance of access to public green spaces in our city. With a diverse lineup of speakers and a keynote presentation by Amos Clifford, founder of the Association of Nature […]
Scientific Controversies: Extra Dimensions
Pioneer Works 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesPioneer Works' Director of Sciences, Prof. Janna Levin, invites renowned theoretical physicists Prof. Gregory Gabadadze and Prof. Cumrun Vafa to reflect on our dimensionality, string theory, reality, and the multiverse.
Talk with David W. Blight, Author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Queens Public Library at Flushing 41-17 Main Street, Queens, NY, United StatesJoin us for a presentation with the historian David W. Blight about his 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. Blight, a history professor and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, will discuss what prompted him to pursue the story of the escaped […]