The Art of Reclaimed Wood

The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY, United States

Wood reclaimed from old houses, factories, barns, and boardwalks has become a valuable commodity, treasured for the patina that gives witness to its history. Today, the woods are both preserved like the woods that frame The National Arts Club and reemerge through demolition. Klaas Armster and Alan Solomon are partners at Sawkill Lumber, a Brooklyn-based […]

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Secret Science Club Presents Astrophysicist Chiara Mingarelli

The Bell House 149 7th St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Gravitational waves in space-time are like ripples in a pond cause by a pebble thrown in the water—that is, if the pebble’s impact had the energy of, say, our own Sun exploding. Predicted by Einstein in 1916, gravitational waves proved devilishly difficult to detect. It was only in 2015 that scientists were first able to pinpoint the existence of a real-life gravitational wave, echoing […]

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From Einstein’s Doubts to Quantum Technologies: A New Quantum Revolution

Simons Foundation 160 5th Ave, New York, NY, United States

The debate between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr over the interpretation of quantum mechanics was settled by the experimental tests of Bell’s inequalities. Those experiments drew attention to the revolutionary character of quantum entanglement, which is now a key ingredient of quantum computing and quantum information. In this lecture, Alain Aspect will first explain Einstein’s […]

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What Nostalgia Was: The History of a Deadly Emotion

NYU Gallatin 1 Washington Place, New York, NY, United States

People once died of nostalgia. While we all recognize nostalgia when we see it, and know that it “ain’t what it used to be,” few of us are familiar with what it once was. This talk uncovers the forgotten medical history of nostalgia from the term's invention in Switzerland in 1688 to the disease's demise […]

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Taking on White Nationalist Violence

The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center 1 East 65th Street, New York, NY, United States

Waves of white nationalist violence have spread across the nation, from Charlottesville to Pittsburgh, El Paso and beyond. Now, a landmark lawsuit against the organizers of the 2017 Charlottesville march is taking on the leadership of this movement — asserting that they intentionally coordinated the violence that erupted, thus breaking the law. Led by Roberta Kaplan […]

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