Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy leads an experimental mini-salon made up of your micro-salon ideas. Friends, new and old, welcome to Interintellect! We've now hosted a couple of events where we…
You do good work. You have great ideas. You understand trade offs, constraints, and incentives and policy. Why not share your ideas directly with the general public who they are… Continue reading Economics for the People – Hosting Econs Salons, 101
Join Jimmy Wales for a fun quiz on his platform inspired by his family quiz nights during lockdown. Quiz Night Beyond is a way to do fun pub quizzes over video online with… Continue reading Quiz Night with Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales! (Members Only) – Session 1
Default Friend hosts a members-only meetup in Miami (with Interintellect founder Anna Gát attending, if COVID allows travel). “Tumblr beats Facebook in everything. People spill their hearts out on Facebook… Continue reading How Tumblr Changed American Culture
Join Eyal Shay, dialectician and philosopher, and Plato to learn about learning how to do well in life. In this salon we will discuss learning, rationality, critical thinking, puzzles, and… Continue reading Puzzled: How To Do Well in Education and in Life
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… Continue reading The Story of Industrial Civilization: Medicine
Join Yatharth and Dalton for a mindful exploration of what it’s like to doom scroll, procrastinate, or otherwise feel beheld to our devices. It’s that time of year we make resolutions. We spend… Continue reading Why Do We Scroll?
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about relationships. It's halfway through January already?! Wew! Let's hang out as usual, and maybe this week let's talk about family and friends and what we've learned about ourselves from them. *** 🗓 ii Calendar 📋 Code of Conduct – (Image: The Family Stone, 2005 film) …
Join debut host Jared Davis and Sagar Devkate as we introduce a new series discussing the history of mathematics. Girolamo Cardano died in 1576, two centuries before the publication of Adam Smith's Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations and the signing of Declaration of Independence of the American Colonies. Working in Padua, Italy as a…
Deirdre McCloskey - distinguished economist, historian and public intellectual - joins Alaka Halder, our community and friends for a very special SuperSalon on the history of human progress and the need for “humanomics.” We will discuss McCloskey’s work, the seven bourgeois virtues that allow societies to flourish, learn from Adam Smith and David Hume, and…
Join linguist and serial language learner Colin Gorrie in the third salon in a series investigating language for an exploration of how language learning works and how to do it better. Learning a second language: Many people attempt it but few accomplish it. Despite the wide variety of books, apps, and courses promising fluency with…
In this Dead Economists Society Salon Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin discuss Capitalism, Freedom, and Inflation. "One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results." ~ Milton Friedman 2022 will see the 60th anniversary of Milton Friedman's "Capitalism and Freedom". In this Dead Economist's Salon we…
