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…
In this episode of his music production workshop series, musician and sound engineer Zsolt Török invites you to learn about the fundamentals of sound mixing and apply them in your own recordings. Recording studios have evolved leaps and bounds from their humble beginnings in the early 20th century, both in terms of their sound quality…
Join Jacob Huber, founder of Revolutionary Character, to discuss the methods and science behind starting at an individual level to address change. We are profoundly lucky to live in a world filled with inspiring ideas, scientific progress, and enormous amounts of free information on the internet. If ideas alone were enough, though, wouldn’t we already…
Dear all, So excited to be in Bangalore! Come join us for coffee, tea, and snacks, and a relaxed conversation on the future of culture and online communities in India. The exact location of the gathering will be shared via email with those who signed up, as well as in the India channel in the Interintellect…
Mother and Interintellect producer Maria Górska-Piszek wants her daughter to enter adulthood feeling capable, competent, and excited for the future. She knows this will require experimentation in the real world, learning things by trial-and-error, and making a bunch of mistakes. Join her for an exploration of whether independence and agency can be taught, how can…
In this exciting and exclusive live discussion, please join professor of philosophy and writer Edward Slingerland and Interintellect host Bryan Kam to discuss Edward's book Drunk, a deep dive into the alcohol-soaked origins of civilization and the evolutionary roots of humanity's appetite for intoxication. The event, which is free for those who register, will take…
In this salon, best-selling children's books author K.A. Mulenga leads a discussion on children's books with life lessons. Not all children's books these days teach a life lesson or have a life lesson attached to them. In this day and age, can children learn from books or is everything centred around gadgets, devices, and apps,…
Dear all, So excited to be in Bangalore! Come join us for a casual dinner in a nice restaurant, to talk curiosity and exploration, creativity and friendship, cultural abundance and practice, and how to build a kinder internet. The exact location of the dinner will be shared via email with those who signed up, as…
Interintellect producer Maria Górska-Piszek is hosting another weekly hangout in the ii Café. Join her to talk about all the possible things that might be blocking you from hosting, and let's see how we can make it work together. Have you thought about hosting salons with Interintellect, but you wouldn't even know where to start?…
In this exciting SuperSalon, award-winning journalist and writer Jessica Nordell will join writer and Interintellect host Bryan Kam to discuss The End of Bias. Discussions of unconscious bias often focus on the problem, not solutions. How do we eradicate the unexamined prejudices that clash with our values and wreak havoc across medicine, the workplace, education,…
Rhys Lindmark is writing a book about how information flows and how it’s changing on the internet. 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. This is the 6th salon for Rhys Lindmark’s series on What Information Wants. Join…
Los Angeles Interintellect members and SuperSupporter Abby Garcia are hosting a free in-person get together for the Interintellect community. With people in town for Tech Week and other reasons, we invite not only Interintellect members who live in Los Angeles, but anyone from the extended community who can make it. The event will take place…
