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Andrew Marantz on the Failures of Silicon Valley and the Rise of the Alt-Right
Company HQ 335 Madison Ave, 3rd Fl, New York, NY, United States"There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future." -Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg is just one of the many optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley who set out to create a free and democratic internet. Yet, this […]
Drug Test: Ayahuasca, the “Everest” of Psychedelics?
Caveat 21A Clinton St, Manhattan, NY, United StatesCome find out about Ayahuasca, the alleged "Everest" of psychedelics. StarTalk comedy writer Sarah Rose Siskind will describe her recent journey, present photos of her before and after, and even show the results on her FitBit! And she'll also talk about how firefighters busted into the ceremony, mid-trip. She will be joined by an illustrious […]
Performing Knowledge: What Does Learning Feel Like?
Segal Theatre 365 5th Ave, New York, NY, United StatesWhat can knowledge feel or look like? How might it move us? What might the emotional and aesthetic effects of knowledge be, in addition to the cognitive? How does one know or come to know? What place do repetition, gesture, rhythm, mimesis, rehearsal, meditation, and travel have in knowledge? Now in its second year, Performing Knowledge is a one-day festival of […]
Film Screening “DNA: The Secret of Photo 51” and Q&A
New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesIn 1952, Dr. Rosalind Franklin was remarkably close to unraveling the mysteries of DNA and the building blocks of life itself. When her groundbreaking work was shared without her knowledge or permission, it was used by Drs. Crick and Watson as the foundation of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, for which they […]
Midcentury Stereopanorama with Eric Drysdale: Look and see the 1950s in 3-D!
QED 27-16 23rd Ave, Queens, NY, United StatesFor the last 20 years, writer and comedian Eric Drysdale has been collecting photographs from the 1950s taken by amateurs with the Stereo Realist 3-dimensional camera system. This remarkable technology was something like the ‘50s version of virtual reality, pairing Kodak’s Kodachrome film with a precision viewer to deliver uncannily realistic, full-color, three-dimensional images. Think of it […]