Maps Lie To You

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Join debut host Tom Fish (cartographer and author of FishEye) on a journey into how maps are not as reliable as you think they are. We use maps every day to find our way, understand the news, and figure out where Zanzabar is (East Africa; part of Tanzania). Through regular usage, we put our trust in…

$10.00

Canceled Generation Kill: The Wars of Gen X

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Join writer Sean Patrick Hughes in his ongoing series as we explore the culture, events and history of Generation X. I applied to Annapolis within a few years of Francis Fukuyama writing The End of History and The Last Man. The Cold War was over. And the long peace was to begin. I had no idea…

$10.00

Interintellect – London IRL Salon with Patricia Hurducas and Catherine Woodiwiss

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Interintellect hosts Patricia Hurducas and Catherine Woodiwiss will host a casual community gathering in London. We will come together for dinner and engage in a discussion about books, friendship, life, communities, and philosophy. The location will be announced to the participants one week in advance. Please note that you must RSVP to this event to attend. …

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The Story of Industrial Civilization: Can Progress Continue?

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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…

$25.00

Why is it so Expensive?

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Silicon Valley native currently in exile Max Dostart-Meers is focused on the intersection of the good life, the just society, and techno-optimistic capitalism. You can follow him on Twitter. Part of the Saving the City series, this salon asks: Why does it cost so much to build anything nowadays? In this salon, we will talk…

$25.00

Understanding Addiction Part Three: Unlearning Addiction

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Part Three of the Understanding Addiction series hosted by psychologist and neuroscientist Marc Lewis, and drug, policy, and intervention researcher and activist Shaun Shelly.  In the third salon, in a series of four, Marc Lewis will discuss Internal Family Systems (IFS) to overcome dependent drug use, and Shaun Shelly will focus on the usefulness of…

$10.00

Flannery O’Connor on The Catholic Writer in the Protestant South

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Dr. Jennifer Frey (associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina and host of the literature, philosophy, and theology podcast, Sacred and Profane Love) explores the fiction of mid twentieth century Catholic writer, Flannery O’Connor in a 6-part series. In this salon, we will explore and discuss the ways that O’Connor uses the…

$25.00