Mmm, brains: Watch a video, discuss with other smarty pants people
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The "Brain Cafe" discussion group will keep you sharp this summer.
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Remember when you were in school, and you'd become essentially a walking zombie potato of dumbness in the summer, when classes weren't in session? You'd have to, like, re-learn the Quadratic Equation at the beginning of each year. (Just me?)
It's important to keep your brain sharp with new stuff. On top of all the intellectual summer reading you intend to do, add this to the list: the Gershman Y will kick off the free "Brain Cafe" this summer at Good Karma (331 S. 22nd St.) at 6 p.m. on three Tuesdays throughout the season.
Here's how it works: You watch a YouTube lecture from Yale and Harvard professors, then meet at the cafe with other people who watched to discuss the topic. In a press release, Gershman Y board member Elaine Lindy, who came up with the Cafe, says: "We're taking the social concept of a book club and moving it off the page to take advantage of internet learning." Neat!
The series starts on June 17, with a lecture called "Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do: The Moral Side of Murder." Yikes.
On July 15, the lecture is "Morality: A Person in a World of People," and on August 12, it's "What is a Person?"
Learn more here.
