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The Locavore Literary Festival opened with special guest speaker Lierre Keith, who explained the moral, political, and nutritional issues that surround our food choices. -
In the brave new world of Facebook, “smart phones” and Twitter, where both teens and adults would rather type than talk, are we more in touch but more isolated than ever before?Psychologist Sherry Turkle, who has researched technology’s effects on society for more than three decades, explores this seeming contradiction in her new book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, released earlier this year by Basic Books. She shared her insights in a talk in Gibson Center for the Arts. -
Acclaimed historian Richard Beeman, Senior Fellow of the C.V Starr Center and the Institute for Religion, Politics and Culture, and winner of the 2010 George Washington Book Prize, continued his lecture series entitled “Inventing a Nation” with his talk exploring the creation of the Bill of Rights.
The Ghost Materializes
Internationally recognized neuroscientist Dr. Bill Klemm spoke on “The Ghost Materializes: How the Brain’s Three Minds Think.” He presented provocative new theories on how brains think, the nature of consciousness, the cause of dreaming, and the issue of human free will. The talk was sponsored by Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, and the William James Forum.
