SABOTAGE
Tales of destruction & damage, espionage & subterfuge, of plans gone astray & plots masterfully undermined
LOGIC
Stories of reason & rationale, heated debates & carefully measured words, of common sense, uncommon insight & rare wisdom
COSMOS
Tales of the universe expansive, the stars & planets & wonders of space, of invented worlds, imagined realities & our tiny place amongst it all
QUEST
Tales of the hunter & the hunted, fabled treasures & impossible futures, legendary adventures, long-sought cures & quixotic pursuits
MEMORY ~ Mar 8, 2016
Tales of mind palaces & mnemonics, of extraordinary retention, agonizing loss, untrustworthy brains & why you can’t remember where you put your keys.
Invocations: Intercourse of Minds
Our memories are tricky things, adapting and evolving, sometimes unduly influenced by outside sources. Our own minds often can not be trusted to hold anything related to objective reality. But in a essay written in 2013 for the New York Review of books, neurologist Oliver Sacks, himself the author of many wonderful explorations of memory and loss, wrote on what is perhaps a silver lining.
FATE ~ Feb 23, 2016
Stories of portents & omens & the illusion of free will, from the Scottish Play & Nostradamus, to the major arcana & magic eight balls
HEROIC ANTARCTICA ~ Feb 16 2016
Rare Whisky, Silent Film, Explorers' Tales & Penguin Sex - at The Interval, with the Long Now Foundation
TIME ~ Feb 9, 2016
Short talks from the odd corners of the history of time, from the mysteries of the Antikythera Device to the realities of time travel, the race to solve the challenge of determining longitude to the methods of ancient monumental time keepers.
TIME
Short talks from the odd corners of the history of time, from the mysteries of the Antikythera Device to the realities of time travel, the race to solve the challenge of determining longitude to the methods of ancient monumental time keepers.
