2024 Cotuit Chronicles Lecture Series – Patricia Meisol

Cotuit Library 871 Main Street, Cotuit, Massachusetts, United States

A deeply compelling biography of the pioneering children's heart doctor Helen Taussig, who helped start heart surgery and became a global force against preventable suffering. In A Heart Afire, Patricia Meisol... READ MORE

Free

“Sluts: Anthology” Reading with Editor & Author Michelle Tea

The Provincetown Bookshop https://provincetownbookshop.com/, Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States

Please join us on Saturday August 17th at 4pm for a reading with Michelle Tea, editor of the anthology Sluts: Anthology. SLUTS, the first publication from vulgarian queer publisher DOPAMINE BOOKS, is an... READ MORE

Free

Shropshire Humanists – Lecture with Christ French

Thursday 19th September 2024 Arrive 6.30pm for 7.00pm startSpeaker Meeting‘The Science of Weird Stuff: Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal’ by Professor Christopher FrenchHead of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Goldsmith... READ MORE

Gary Marcus: Taming Big Tech and AI

The Commonwealth Club of California 110 The Embarcadero; Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, California, United States

On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? Proponents of the new technology say AI could revolutionize science, medicine, and technology, and deliver us a world of abundance and... READ MORE

$10 – $30

Books Inc. Berkeley feat. author Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

Books Inc. 1491 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, California, United States

An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging. Where would you take someone on a guided tour of your... READ MORE

Free

Todd Stern — Landing the Paris Climate Agreement — at Conn Ave

Politics and Prose - Conn Ave 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change was one of the most difficult and hopeful achievements of the twenty-first century: 195 nations finally agreed, after 20 years of trying, to... READ MORE

Free

7 Stories Up at SNFL, Author Talks—Ellen Levy: A Book about Ray

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library 455 5th Ave, New York, New York, United States

A Book about Ray is the first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist, and pioneer of mail art. Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a.k.a.... READ MORE

Free