In this series—Baby Steps to Beowulf: Old English for Beginners—linguist Colin Gorrie will teach you how to read Old English texts like Beowulf with the aid of a dictionary. Like every language, English has a past. More than many languages, English has changed dramatically over the years: the language as spoken just a thousand years ago would…
What are the characteristics of different social movements? In his debut Interintellect Salon, Robert Nemeth will lead a conversation to examine the different categories of these movements to allow us…
Louis Bijl de Vroe and Simon Ohler (that’s us) are philosophers and brothers in spirit. We are the founders of Spiritual Mischief, a podcast that combines culture, comedy, and ancient wisdom. In this salon series, we offer you a peek into our studies. Based on the eastern philosophy of The Dao, and the book that Dr. Jaap Voigt wrote on…
In this series—Baby Steps to Beowulf: Old English for Beginners—linguist Colin Gorrie will teach you how to read Old English texts like Beowulf with the aid of a dictionary. Like every language, English has a past. More than many languages, English has changed dramatically over the years: the language as spoken just a thousand years ago would…
Fellow Interintellects Katrina Dela Cruz and Brian Ahuja invite you once again to a salon of inter(intellect)mingling, of finding friends and rediscovering old ones, in group convos and 1:1s, just the way you like it… The Great Interintellect Mingle is back again! Come meet new friends (and maybe some old friends as well) in the main room as well…
You know the saying "never judge a book by its cover?" What would happen if we ignored that advice? Join librarian Jay L. Colbert in a discussion about our aesthetic and sensual relationships with information. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only…
How do you build a life of passion, fulfillment, and self-expression at the highest levels? Join hosts Tal Tsfany and Amanda Maxham in this salon to imagine the happiest man alive—and how to become such a person. Tal is an tech entrepreneur, investor, author and now serves as the President & CEO of the Ayn…
Join Scott Davies for a salon on cybernetics from its foundations to present. Cybernetics is, according to one of its pioneers, Norbert Wiener, concerned with “Control and communication in the…
In this series—Baby Steps to Beowulf: Old English for Beginners—linguist Colin Gorrie will teach you how to read Old English texts like Beowulf with the aid of a dictionary. Like every language, English has a past. More than many languages, English has changed dramatically over the years: the language as spoken just a thousand years ago would…
Join Jacob Huber, founder of Revolutionary Character, to discuss the methods and science behind starting at an individual level to address change. We are profoundly lucky to live in a world filled with inspiring ideas, scientific progress, and enormous amounts of free information on the internet. If ideas alone were enough, though, wouldn’t we already…
Mother and Interintellect producer Maria Górska-Piszek wants her daughter to enter adulthood feeling capable, competent, and excited for the future. She knows this will require experimentation in the real world, learning things by trial-and-error, and making a bunch of mistakes. Join her for an exploration of whether independence and agency can be taught, how can…
In this salon, best-selling children's books author K.A. Mulenga leads a discussion on children's books with life lessons. Not all children's books these days teach a life lesson or have a life lesson attached to them. In this day and age, can children learn from books or is everything centred around gadgets, devices, and apps,…
