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Perception Meets Memory: A New View on Memory Disorders
Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall) 3227 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesFeaturing Morgan Barense, PhD, Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto, Director, Toronto Neuroimaging Facility How does perceiving an object relate to subsequent memory for that object? A central assumption in most modern theories of memory is that memory and perception are functionally and anatomically segregated. For example, amnesia resulting from medial temporal lobe […]
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 […]
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 […]
Workshop: From a KonMari Closet to a KonMari Life
The Wing - Bryant Park 25 West 39th St, New York, NY, United StatesYou've read Marie Kondo's books, you've tried the folding and even decluttered your entire home. So now what? Cassidy Nasello, FELT Founder and Gold Level KonMari Certified Consultant will guide you on the "what's next" after decluttering and help to get you clutter-free in your career and personal life. Nasello will show you how to […]
BIOHACK THE WORLD: The Science of Mindfulness, Breathwork, and Laughter
The Assemblage (John St) 17 John Street, Manhattan, NY, United StatesIn this 15th installment of Biohack the World, we’ll dive deep into the practical applications of a variety of mindfulness techniques ranging from meditation, breathwork, and laughter, all with the aim of improving neuroplasticity, relaxation and recovery, and making lasting positive changes to our default mode network (i.e. self-rumination, depression, habit-formation). Speakers: Archimedes Bibiano has […]