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FOR MEMBERS — Collisions with Art and Collective Perspectives: The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) Approach

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Visual artist turned medical educator Alexa Miller (on twitter here) will host this salon centering experiences with visual art as a catalyst for expansion, innovation, connection, bias awareness, and shameless enjoyment. Experience a session of close looking at art using the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) methodology, a facilitation method originally created for K-12 learners and increasingly…

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Host Training: An Introduction to Audio/Podcast Production

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In this members-only host training, Daniel Golliher will take you through the basics of audio production, and help you think through launching your own podcast.  Many people have, at one point or another, thought about starting a podcast. And if not a podcast, a YouTube show. Whether you’re an academic, an entertainer, or just someone…

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Are Plants Conscious? A Discussion on the Intelligence of Plants

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Recent studies have shown that plants are capable of learning, forming memories, recognizing their own kin, talking to one another as well as other organisms, and tell time among other things. Your host, Alex Criddle, has more in common with plants than you might initially realize! If plants can recognize family, communicate, and learn how,…

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$15.00

Language and Thought: The “Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis” Revisited

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Join linguist Colin Gorrie in the first in a series of salons investigating language for an exploration of the thorny relationship between language and thought. Does language affect, constrain, or merely represent thought? How would we even go about finding out? Sometimes known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, the idea that we might be limited in…

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$20.00

After-Work ii Community Walk around NYC

Rockefeller Center

We will gather for an autumn sight-appreciation walk starting at Rockefeller Center. Route will include Bryant Park, Madison Square Park, Union Square Park, and conclude at Washington Square Park. Reasonable COVID precautions apply. On time arrival preferred. If you need to arrive late, please check in in the #new_york channel in the forum to see…

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The Necessity of the Human Body

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In this salon, Ben Fleming discusses the ways we are trying to make the human body obsolete. Is it ethical? Is it even possible? And why do we want to escape our physical bodies?  As a personal trainer I have spent a lot of time invested in the human body. I regularly train my body…

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$15.00

Host Training Journey: Joseph Campbell’s Framework – Act 4 – The Return

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Host Training Journey In this host training series, ii Camp Curiosity host Helena Ng will walk with you on the journey of hosting your own ii salons through the lens of the Hero's Journey. The discussion will be co-hosted by Bryan Kam who has a decade worth of experience in hosting conversations. Helena is the…

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The Story of Industrial Civilization: Information

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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…

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$25.00

Interintellect – NYC Local Meet and Greet (And Great Food)

Old Tbilisi Garden 174 Bleecker Street, New York, NY

In this casual community gathering in NYC, we will come together at Old Tbilisi Garden for a dinner of discussion about books, wine, friendship, and philosophy. You will meet and make new friends, and also reunite with fellow Interintellects in the city. Menu: see here Address: 174 Bleecker Street Not a member yet: join us…

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