Drug Test: Psychedelics & Family
Caveat 21A Clinton St, Manhattan, NY, United StatesCome learn how to come out of the psychedelic closet to your parents! Come out to your children! Heal intergenerational trauma. Suggest psychedelic therapy or medicinal marijuana for sick relatives. And for the advanced class: Navigate how to trip with the fam.
Villains of History: On Adolf Hitler with Dr. Benjamin Hett and Dr. Gail Saltz
92 Y 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY, United StatesBehind the infamous deeds of history’s most notorious figures lie complex and mysterious human minds. Dr. Gail Saltz, the author, psychoanalyst and television commentator, invites experts and brings her own expertise to bear as she examines the psychology of the villains of history, including Adolf Hitler. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely […]
The Seine: The River That Made Paris
92 Y 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY, United StatesVoyage down the Seine with journalist Elaine Sciolino as she explores the history of the beloved Parisian river and the lives it shapes. In the spring of 1978, as a young journalist in Paris, Elaine Sciolino was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river through its rich history and […]
The Making of a Masterpiece: Gustave Courbet, Woman with a Parrot, 1866
The Met 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesIn a continuation of this hit series, each talk focuses on a single, iconic painting in The Met collection, framing it in the context of the artist's work and its contemporary resonance and legacy. This season, Kathryn Calley Galitz, author of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings, looks at work by Courbet, Monet, Cézanne, […]
AMNH Presents: Past Earthquakes, Present Hazard
American Museum of Natural History 175-208 79th Street, Central Park West, NY, United StatesHow do scientists understand earthquakes that occurred before the invention of modern seismometers? Join geophysicist Susan Hough as she describes the science around understanding past tremors and what they can teach us about present-day earthquake hazards.