In this SuperSalon, writer Akash Kapur, author of Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville, will join writers and Interintellect hosts Tanya Raj and Visakan Veerasamy to explore the pull of a perfect utopia: the pleasures and the losses, and the finding of eventual transcendence and acceptance, even in…
In this salon, Dominic Duffin will lead an exploration of how blockchain, cryptocurrency, NFTs, gaming and digital art come together to create a new culture, and how significant a break this will be. The internet revolutionized and democratized how we think about information, moving us away from a topdown paradigm where information was produced by…
In this salon series, Tanya Raj will lead deep-dive discussions on The Prophet by Khalil Gibran and his philosophy on living a life with purpose and meaning. In this salon, we will delve into speech, the need for humans to talk and express, the concept of time as a fluid eternity, or if time even…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about starting new things. We're approaching the end of 2021, which means soon it'll be 2022. It's been a rough couple of years for many. Nevertheless, life has to go on! And part of that means we can't stay in stasis forever. We have to try…
Tech emotionographer Pamela Pavliscak hosts an 8-month Interintellect Salon series while writing her new book #Feels: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better. Have you ever wondered why we feel compelled to note and name every new variation of sadness online? Or what you call that emotional hangover you can get after scrolling social…
Join Yatharth and Brooke Bowman in a conversation about friendships, scenes, and growth. So many scenes die before they are born, as dreams. What does it look like to take those visions and turn them from a wistful “I wish I could move to a village with my friends!” to an actual, thriving scene? How do…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
In this salon, Jennifer A. Frey, associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, will discuss these questions in light of her recent essay on this topic in The Point magazine. What is a University education for? What is "higher" about "higher education"? Is there any meaningful difference between a University education and vocational training? …
