Host Office Hours: What’s Stopping You from Hosting? (hangout in the ii Café)

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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?…

Ending Unconscious Bias with Jessica Nordell – SuperSalon by Bryan Kam

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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,…

$25.00

What Information Wants, Chapter 5: Printed Knowledge in the Industrial Age

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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… Continue reading What Information Wants, Chapter 5: Printed Knowledge in the Industrial Age

$20.00

Los Angeles ii IRL – Tech Week

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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…

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Host Office Hours: Your Dream Salon Idea (hangout in the ii Café)

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Join Interintellect producer Maria Górska-Piszek for another weekly hangout in the ii Café. This is the time to let your imagination go wild and think about the craziest salon ideas that might be on your mind. If you knew you couldn't fail, what salon would you like to host? If you could instantly reach any person…

Language, Ecology, and Evolution: Do Languages Adapt to Their Environment?

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Join linguists Colin Gorrie and Damian Romero to explore a controversial question: Do languages evolve to match the environment where they’re spoken?  Do languages spoken in one environment work the same way as languages spoken in another environment? Does the climate a language is spoken in determine how many terms it uses for things like…

$25.00

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…