Baby Steps to Beowulf: Old English for Beginners

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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…

Catan & Chat

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Join host Dominic Duffin for a fun gathering playing the online edition of the Catan board game with casual conversation. How it works Attendees are encouraged to discuss the game…

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What Is a “Social Movement”? – An Introduction

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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 to better understand the world today. This conversation is the beginning of a 14-part series on 20th century social movements. Britannica defines social movement as…

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Life and Work in the Rhythm of the Seasons: August

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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…

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Pieces of the Action by Vannevar Bush

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Join Alaka Halder and Wes Chow for a special Interintellect book club discussion to celebrate the Stripe Press reprint of Pieces of the Action by Vannevar Bush. Instrumental to the development of radar, the proximity fuze, modern computer analysis, the mass production of penicillin, and sparking the Manhattan Project—Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974) truly had…

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Baby Steps to Beowulf: Old English for Beginners

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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…

The Great Interintellect Friend Finding Self Discovering Mingle (Part 6)

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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…

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Chapter 13: “Choices” & Chapter 14: “Why are Flowers Beautiful?” – The Beginning of Infinity Reading Group (Members Only)

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

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