A combination of genius and unique historical circumstance allowed a single man to sweep through so many different fields of science, sparking revolutions wherever he went. Join London Institute for…
"The more scientists find out about the placenta, the weirder it gets. The cellular exchange creates chimeras of both mother and foetus during pregnancy." Join novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt…
POLITICO National Security Reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alexander Ward joins veteran writer and technologist Sean Patrick Hughes for a conversation on America's global future based on rigorous reporting and…
In this SuperSalon, Renée diResta and Jonathan Askonas—both experts in (mis)information in our digital age—will join researcher Nastasia Griffioen to discuss questions like as "What does 'reality' mean nowadays?" and "Can everyone choose their own?" Following years of discussion of disinformation, advances in AI technology can make splits in perceived reality wider—with it growing faster and…
Join American journalist and critic Elizabeth Winkler (Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies) and novelist A. Natasha Joukovsky (The Portrait of a Mirror) for a salon exploring the secular religiosity behind literature's biggest taboo: the Shakespeare authorship question. In celebration of the paperback publication of Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, we will dive into…
Join crypto investor Li Jin in conversation with investor and writer Packy McCormick (The Great Online Game) and Harvard economist and poet Zoë Hitzig (Co-author of A Flexible Design for…
Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. But how did Wilde, who died over a decade before the first feature film, help to make the…
Join OSV fellow, William Zeng, in conversation with quantum researcher Asier Piñeiro Orioli as William discusses his efforts to fund and develop open-source quantum software and hardware! Quantum Computing holds the promise to…
3x startup founder turned exec coach Jason Shen joins creativity expert Herbert Lui for a conversation about how venture-backed startups navigate the uncertain leap from one direction to another in…
Anyone who’s had an argument about politics with a friend may walk away wondering how this friend could possibly hold the beliefs they do. A few self-reflective people might even…
Writer Henry Oliver joins researcher Thomas Arnold for a conversation on Henry's new book, Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life. An age of anxiety about the future keeps delivering a future of anxiety about age, but Henry Oliver's Second Act asks us to catch our breath. In…
Anna Motz and Maggie Fishman are in conversation about the creation of safe, non-judgemental places where children and adults can learn about themselves and the world.
