Illuminating Forgotten Histories: New York City’s Early Black Communities
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, United StatesThe Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery and the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation are partnering to illuminate aspects of New York City's early Black neighborhoods. From Seneca Village, a community that will be formally memorialized in Central Park soon to Greenwich Village’s “Little Africa”, our group of experts will address […]
The Art of Reclaimed Wood
The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY, United StatesWood 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 […]
Secret Science Club Presents Astrophysicist Chiara Mingarelli
The Bell House 149 7th St, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesGravitational 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 […]
From Einstein’s Doubts to Quantum Technologies: A New Quantum Revolution
Simons Foundation 160 5th Ave, New York, NY, United StatesThe 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 […]
What Nostalgia Was: The History of a Deadly Emotion
NYU Gallatin 1 Washington Place, New York, NY, United StatesPeople 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 […]