In Praise of The Prophet Series – Part 8: Prayer, Pleasure, Beauty

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In this salon series, Tanya Raj will lead deep-dive discussions on The Prophet by Khalil Gibran and his philosophy on living a life with purpose and meaning. In this salon, we will delve into the power of prayers and surrender, a way to reach our own consciousness, what defines pleasure and beauty, are they interlinked…

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How Did We Decide What’s Right and Wrong? – The Story of Philosophy Series.

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Join London ii hosts Bryan Kam and Flick Hardingham as we continue our journey through Will Durant's 'The Story of Philosophy', discussing Nietzsche’s origins of morality and what it means for us today. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) has two famous catchphrases.  God is dead. This exposes religion as a construct, created by the human…

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Tell Me a Story: Must Have Plot! (Session 1 of 6)

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In this six-month Interintellect Salon series, writer and editor Julie Mosow shares everything she knows about writing a book length manuscript, becoming the writer you've always hoped to be...and, most importantly, about finishing the work you start. We gravitate toward stories from an early age. But when it's time to write, we sometimes forget how…

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Shared Narrative of Emotions: A Metaphor Building Workshop by Camp Curiosity

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ii’s very own Camp Curiosity invites you to a wholesome gathering to inspect our emotional experiences through collective metaphor building with hosts Helena Ng, Luke Butler, and Jeeva Vijay Prasath Whether it’s as stiff as a dead leaf, or as tumultuous as the rolling storm...we each experience a wide range of emotions that are rooted…

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In Praise of The Prophet Series – Part 9: Religion, Death, Farewell

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In this salon series, Tanya Raj will lead deep-dive discussions on The Prophet by Khalil Gibran and his philosophy on living a life with purpose and meaning. In this salon, we will conclude the series by delving into facets of religion and what does it mean to be religious, what is death if not the…

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A Field Guide to Internet Emotion > 4.0 Ambient Emotion

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Tech emotionographer Pamela Pavliscak hosts an 8-month Interintellect Salon series while writing her new book #Feels: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better.  Have you ever wondered why we feel compelled to note and name every new variation of sadness online? Or what you call that emotional hangover you can get after scrolling social…

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The Story of Industrial Civilization: Impacts on Commerce, Politics, and Culture

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Progress writer Jason Crawford is writing a book about the modern world and how it was invented. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter, and get an inside look at the author’s creative process. Behind the world of our daily lives, there is a hidden world, one that keeps our world…

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The Real-World Origins of Invented Languages: From Quenya to Dothraki

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Join linguist Colin Gorrie in the second in a series of salons investigating language for a look at how fictional languages are created. Many celebrated works of speculative fiction over the last hundred years have involved elaborate world-building, often to the extent of having whole languages or families of languages created for the project. Think…

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Hearts Hunting and Gathering – The History of Love: Prehistory

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Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát as she returns to the topic of last year's popular miniseries, A History of Love. In this first episode, we will talk about our evolutionary origins and our cultural development in tribes, what our prehistoric background might mean for our contemporary relationships, and what cave-time dating even looked like. Welcome…

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Introduction, Chapter 1: The Reach of Explanations – 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…

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