Science
11th Annual History of Medicine and Public Health Night – Part I
New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesPlease join us for Part I of our 11th Annual History of Medicine Night. This special evening of selected short talks will address topics in the history of medicine and public health. Due to the number of quality submissions received, a second evening of presentations has been scheduled for Monday, March 9, 2020. Speakers and registration for that event […]
The Science of Love
Simons Foundation 160 5th Ave, New York, NY, United StatesSimons Foundation Presents Free Event: The Science of Love About this Event Nothing is more treasured — and mysterious — than the bond between mother and child. After a mother gives birth, her brain and body change in ways that enable her to care for the new life. Bianca Jones Marlin examines the brain dynamics […]
Can Time Heal Anything? Lee Mingwei and Dr. Lila Davachi
Rubin Museum 150 West 17th St., New York, NY, United StatesWhat lingers in your heart after a loved one is lost? And what can this teach us about the ephemerality of life? In his work The Letter Writing Project, part of the Rubin’s exhibition Measure Your Existence, artist Lee Mingwei invites visitors to pen a letter to a lost or absent loved one. The cathartic act of writing the unsaid is […]
Dr. Azra Raza: The Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
92 Y 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY, United StatesAre we fighting cancer wrong? Azra Raza is the Chan Soon-Shiong professor of medicine and the director of the MDS Center at Columbia University. A world-class oncologist, she has cared for thousands of cancer patients. Yet in her highly acclaimed new book, The First Cell, she asks why so little progress has been made in diagnosing […]
How Biased Are We? A Conversation About Perception, Cognition, and Accuracy
Deutsches Haus at NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY, United StatesDeutsches Haus at NYU, University Alliance Ruhr, and the German Research Foundation (DFG) present a conversation among Emily Balcetis (NYU), Lee Jussim (Rutgers University), and Albert Newen (Ruhr-University Bochum) as moderator, exploring the concept of human perception and its inherent biases that affect our understanding of the world. About the event: Perceptions are the window to our world. Rather […]