Culture
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 […]
Don’t Be Evil: Rana Foroohar
New York Public Library 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesIn the early days, when Google was a scrappy upstart with a utopian vision of transforming the world for the better through tech, its mantra was “Don’t be evil.” But they and other behemoths of the tech world—including Amazon, Facebook, and Apple—have long since abandoned their founding principles in the name of monetizing both our […]
The Life of a Professional Glutton: Adam Platt
Asia Society and Museum 725 Park Ave., New York, NY, United StatesHow did Adam Platt, restaurant critic for New York magazine, land “the best job in the 20th century”: a professional glutton? Join Platt as he discusses his new memoir The Book of Eating and recounts a life of globetrotting and his adventures in professional gluttony in a conversation with Ambassador Nicholas Platt, president emeritus of Asia Society. This wide-ranging chat between […]
Emanuele Coccia: Metamorphic Beings: The Nonhuman Life in the Human Body and Spirit
Cooper Union's Frederick P. Rose Auditorium 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY, United StatesEmanuele Coccia delivers a free, public lecture at Cooper Union as part of the Fall 2019 Intra-Disciplinary Seminar series and in partnership with Open Society Foundations. Emanuele Coccia is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has worked extensively on aesthetics and on biology, and […]
Science in the Headlines: 2019’s Discoveries, Disappointments, and Downright Weirdness
Caveat 21A Clinton St, Manhattan, NY, United States2020 is almost here—but before we bid this year adieu, let’s celebrate all the wonderful, worrisome, and weird science news from 2019! Remember when we saw the first image of a black hole? What about the increase in youth-led climate change protests? Or the rise of new illnesses linked to vaping? Ira will take the stage with three […]