Chapter 2: Closer to Reality, Chapter 3: The Spark – The Beginning of Infinity Reading Group (Members Only)

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Join members of the completed “Gödel, Escher, Bach” reading group in reading through David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity.” Share the pleasure of reading a challenging, thought-provoking book boosted by your friendly peers’ additional eyes, hearts, minds, and life experiences. Maybe you heard about it on Naval's podcast, or perhaps you follow the father of quantum computing…

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Knives Out: The Public Reception of Ayn Rand and Hannah Arendt

In this salon, Daniel Golliher examines the reception that both thinkers received in their own time, and how it compares to their legacies in the present.  This salon is the first of three in a mini-series comparing the thinkers Ayn Rand and Hannah Arendt.  Hannah Arendt, ever the enemy of totalitarianism, kept a wary eye…

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Tell Me a Story: The architecture of writing (Session 3 of 6)

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In this six-month Interintellect Salon series, writer and editor Julie Mosow shares everything she knows about writing, becoming the writer you’ve always hoped to be…and, most importantly, about finishing the work you start. How can we create the strong but invisible scaffolding that will support and sustain a narrative? What's the best approach to drafting? Should we…

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Generation X: Music

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In this new series, writer Sean Patrick Hughes explores the culture, events, and history of Generation X Generations are defined by many things. Their wars. Their politics. Their ideas and innovation. Their art. Nothing so much travels like a generation's sound though. Generation X, like all generations, had its own sound. We were the first…

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The Atriums of Pleasure – The History of Love: Antiquity

Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát as she returns to the topic of last year's popular miniseries, A History of Love. In this second episode, we will talk about the poems and wars of antiquity, what it meant to move into big cities and build international empires, how big, hierarchical societies impacted loving and love-making, and…

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A Biography of the English Language

Join linguist Colin Gorrie in the fifth salon in a series investigating language, this time spotlighting the history of the English language. In this salon, we'll turn back time to see how English once looked and sounded. We’ll look at how everything from the pronunciation to the grammar to the meaning of the words in…

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Understanding My ADHD: A Series on Dr Gabor Maté’s book, Scattered Minds

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Join Rachel as we explore how the environments of our childhood cause a person to grow up extremely sensitive to the situations and people around them. In addition, we will also discuss attunement and attachment as outlined in this section of the book. In this salon, we will discuss Part 2 of Dr Gabor Maté's…

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Cents and the City – A Dead Economists Salon on Urban NIMBYism, Progressivism (and, yes, Promiscuity)

In this Dead Economists Society Salon Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin discuss city-dwelling "As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach." ~ Albert Camus. In this salon, we will discuss the opportunity - and the opportunity costs - of living and working…

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