AMNH Presents: SciCafe: Climate Change and Rising Sea Levels
American Museum of Natural History 175-208 79th Street, Central Park West, NY, United StatesThe ongoing pollution of our atmosphere with an invisible odorless gas called carbon dioxide is trapping heat at the Earth’s surface and causing temperatures to rise on land and in the ocean. The polar regions are warming fastest of all and the melting ice sheets are causing sea levels to rise around the globe. How […]
Why Skill Matters: From Bronze Age Metalworking to the Future of Crafts
Columbia University Fayerweather Hall 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesWhat do we consider valuable knowledge, and why? In this presentation, Professor Maikel H. G. Kuijpers intends to explore the connections between craft, science, and technology through the notion of skill. Maikel H. G. Kuijpers is Assistant Professor of European prehistory at Leiden University. He holds a Ph.D. in archaeology and anthropology from Cambridge University. Specializing in […]
Stoicism or Epicureanism? Let the Discussion Begin
New York Society for Ethical Culture 2 W 64th St, New York, NY, United StatesStoicism and Epicureanism have been around for more than two millennia. Surprisingly, they are being proposed in the 21st century as philosophies to adopt in order to live a life worth living (a eudaimonic life, as the ancient Greeks called it). Join us for a conversation between Prof. Catherine Wilson, author of How to Be an Epicurean, […]
Built and Never-Built Brooklyn: An Exploration
Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesJoin Cornell professor and urbanist Thomas Campanella for an unprecedented journey through the history of our beloved borough via its built environment. In his book Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Campanella brings us from sleepy colonial settlements, to the electric playground of Coney Island, and everything built in between. In addition to sharing what we’ve built and […]
Simons Foundation Presents: The Math Puzzle That Spawned 100 Philosophy Papers
Simons Foundation 160 5th Ave, New York, NY, United StatesAt first glance, the Sleeping Beauty problem appears to be a simple question about probability. But since being proposed 19 years ago by philosopher Adam Elga, the problem has incited passionate debate in the philosophy community. In this talk, Peter Winkler will describe the famous thought problem about a dozy princess being awoken once or […]