Parenting Approaches: How to Live with Small Humans

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What if you had been trusted more as a kid? Join Martha Sharpe as we talk about the different approaches to parenting and how treating kids more like adults might make life better for everyone. In this series, Parenting Unlocked: Simplifying the Impossible, each month is a new chance to hop in and discuss approaches…

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Emotional Realism and “Therapy-Speak” with Krista Thomason and Tara Isabella Burton

Join philosopher of emotion Krista Thomason and theologian Tara Isabella Burton as they delve into the world of therapy-speak, toxic positivity, and authentic living! Is there a pervasive culture of toxic positivity? Does it harm us rather than help us? Drawing inspiration from Krista's essay on emotional realism, this salon will challenge the pervasive culture…

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Karl Popper’s Philosophy of Science

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Join Arkadiusz Synowczyk, a philosophy student specializing in epistemology (the theory of knowledge) and philosophy of science, for a salon on Karl Popper's philosophy of science.  Karl Popper is regarded by many as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century. Many scientists cited him as a source of influence or even…

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Art for Art’s Sake: Writing Aesthetic Fiction in an Age of Literary Moralism

Join American novelists A. Natasha Joukovsky (The Portrait of a Mirror) and Tara Isabella Burton (Here in Avalon; Social Creature) for a salon on the nature of novelistic responsibility, the prevailing ethos of historico-political utility in contemporary fiction and its discontents, and the literary pursuit of beauty and truth. In her 2022 essay for Lit Hub “Anxiety and Irresponsibility: What…

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The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create – SuperSalon with Steve Kaczynski and Scott Kominers

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Harvard Business School professor and a16z research partner Scott Kominers and web3 entrepreneur Steve Kaczynski join hosts Alaka Halder and Wes Chow for a SuperSalon on how NFTs will become…

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The Feminist Case for Progress

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What do new pharmacological and technological developments mean for women's liberation? Join Genomics PhD student Ruxandra Teslo to discuss the value of progress from a feminist perspective. Contemporary feminism often holds a disparaging stance towards technological advancement. On one side, there are progressive feminists who criticize capitalism & its products; a recent example is Kate…