Unmissable Culture: Steven Pinker – Live on Stage in London | Mary Ann Sieghart Meets Cherie Blair | Anderson Cooper | Anil Seth and Adam Rutherford

Fri Aug 20 08:59:54 BST 2021

Plus, listen to one of the world’s most ambitious living artists, Anish Kapoor in this week's podcast

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** Here are just a few of our highlights for the Summer:
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** 21st October 2021 - 7:30pm BST
Live and Online
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Steven Pinker – Live on Stage in London
Rationality - What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
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Join the world-renowned public intellectual and Harvard cognitive scientist for a guide to rationality during an epidemic of unreason.
GO TO EVENT (https://howtoacademy.com/events/steven-pinker-live-on-stage-in-london/?mc_cid=0adffbdd3b&mc_eid=UNIQID)

** 21st September 2021 - 7:00pm ET
Online
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Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen in Conversation
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
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For most of his life, CNN anchor, CBS’ 60 Minutes correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Anderson Cooper intentionally distanced himself from the Vanderbilt dynasty his mother was born into.
GO TO EVENT (https://www.92y.org/event/anderson-cooper?mc_cid=0adffbdd3b&mc_eid=UNIQID)

** 31st August 2021 - 6:30pm BST
Online
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The Authority Gap
Mary Ann Sieghart Meets Cherie Blair
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Why do we still take male authority more seriously – and what can we do about it? Mary Ann Sieghart and Cherie Blair explore the pervasive gender bias at work in our everyday lives.
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** 15th September 2021 - 6:30pm BST
Free Online
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Being You- Anil Seth in conversation with Adam Rutherford
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Join Anil Seth and Adam Rutherford at 5x15 online for a discussion about consciousness that will turn what you thought you knew about yourself on its head.
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** Long Read
The New Yorker
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Why Are So Many Knowledge Workers Quitting?
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** Cal Newport
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The coronavirus pandemic threw everyone into Walden Pond.

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** Podcasts
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Anish Kapoor – a Life in Art
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** How To Academy Podcast
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An icon whose spectacular works occupy a liminal space between sculpture, engineering and architecture, Anish Kapoor is one of the world’s most ambitious living artists.
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** Museums and Galleries
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How to Read a Broken Roman Statue | The Head of Nero
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** Curator Thorsten Opper at The British Museum
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It’s A.D. 61, Emperor Nero rules over the Roman Empire. In the east of the province of Britannia, the head of a bronze statue ends up in a muddy river. Who put it there and why? How do we solve the mystery of this Roman head in the river?
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