Tech
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 […]
City of Science 2019: Brooklyn
Park Slope Armory 361 15th St, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesJoin the World Science Festival and Con Edison for this larger-than-life, touring event where the wondrous properties of science, technology, engineering, and math collide! Filled with interactive demonstrations, hands-on activities, and enormous exhibitions, this FREE program unleashes everyone’s inner scientist.
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 […]
Inside Final Frontier Design, NASA Space Suit Developer Workshop & Lab
Brooklyn Roasting Company 63 Flushing Avenue (Building 92), Brooklyn, NY, United StatesGet up close and personal with a private spacesuit maker and its cutting-edge technologies & materials being developed for commercial spaceflight. Join New York Adventure Club for an exclusive visit to Final Frontier Design, a private design studio designing flight-ready space suits for space access providers, EVA suits future deep space exploration, as well as garments for use […]