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TIGHTROPE: Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center 1 East 65th Street, New YorkNicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn on America’s Working Class Crisis $36 includes a copy of the book For almost two decades, The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has traveled the globe to put human faces on the devastating problems plaguing the planet — from disease and poverty to violence and exploitation — and on the […]
New Evidence from Ancient Methone
The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South, New YorkProfessor John Papadopoulos discusses the famed city of Methone About this Event Famed cities in Hellas such as Methone often pass into oblivion until rediscovered through archaeology. Destroyed in 354 BCE by Philip II, father of the great Alexander, its treasured finds have been excavated by the Greek Archaeological Service, collaborating since 2014 with the […]
The Big Thaw: Ancient Carbon, Modern Science, and a Race to Save the World
The Explorer's Club 46 E 70th Street, New YorkPermafrost—dark, ice-flaked, permanently frozen ground that lies under tundra and boreal forests across our northern regions—covers more than 12 percent of the earth’s land surface. It exists in places that seem otherworldly and unimaginably remote to most of us, but the changes taking place in the permafrost layer may ultimately affect the lives of every […]