The End of the English Major: How Tik-Tok Brain is in Conflict with the Humanities

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The English Major is disappearing, should we let it die? What are the root causes behind this and how might it find a place in the future, if its even worth saving? Join Brent Lucia on this discussion. As a once English studies graduate student, I have a stake in this conversation, but I'm curious…

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Laughing At, With, and Against Evil: Phil Klay on Humor and Darkness in Literature

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National Book Award winning author Phil Klay joins fellow veteran writer and technologist Sean Patrick Hughes to discuss the positive role of comedy in writing about the darkest topics.  While humor is a part of art, it rings most true because it is a part of life. Moments of levity are intractably woven through us…

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Community Chats | Reading

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Nicky Buttigieg hosts a members-only hangout to chat about what we've been reading. Let's talk about what we've been spending our time reading—books, poems, blog posts, newsletters, whatever you've been enjoying and curious about! *** 🗓 ii Calendar | 📋 Code of Conduct | 📚 Become a Member

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Bryan Kam on Neither/Nor

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In this exciting discussion, please join Interintellect fellow Bryan Kam to discuss his original philosophical work. No background in the subject is required. We live in two worlds: one of language, logic, concepts, and abstractions — and another, of sensations, experience, and intuition. They're inseparable and enrich one another, but each world has its own…

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Read Something Wonderful – A portal to timeless internet writing

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Join Ben Springwater, Co-Founder and CEO of the Matter reading app, to discuss novelty bias in our social media feeds, showing us what's new, not what's best, and why they built ReadSomethingWonderful to be a portal to timeless internet writing. A members-only fireside chat, moderated by Nicky Buttigieg. "Most of the best writing was not…

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Bay Area IRL: Keeping Up with the Humanities While in STEM

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Join RJ Barman for an offline SF Bay Area casual discussion about keeping up an interest in the humanities while spending your days working in STEM. How do you manage a case of split-brain? You spend all day working on thinking about programming, math, chemistry, product, software marketing, etc., yet also have a deep interest…

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Community Casual Hangout

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New to the Interintellect community or want to hang out with new and other members? Join Interintellect editor and host, Arkadiusz, for a casual hangout. Feel free to bring some drinks and snacks! ☕🍪 If you recently joined our community and/or want to make new connections with the newcomers, join our editor and host Arkadiusz…

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