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Adaptation: When Prevention Isn’t Enough
So much of the conversation about the climate crisis focuses on prevention. But no matter how well we succeed on that front, climate-induced disaster…
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Steven Pinker: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
What’s common about common knowledge, and how does it become common? Common knowledge—the awareness of how others think and even how others think oth…
1 year ago
Edward Frenkel—Back to the Roots: How Do We Revive Pythagorean Tradition in the Age of AI?
Historian Charles H. Kahn wrote that Pythagorean contributions to Western thought were "on the one hand, a mathematical understanding of the world of…
1 year ago
Film Screening: On Healing Land, Birds Perch (EXPLICIT)
Film screening and Q&A with director Naja Pham Lockwood and panelists; building community and healing through food with Bay Area Vietnamese chefs and…
1 year ago
Prop. 50 Explained: What’s at Stake for California . . . and Congress
In August, after Texas acceded to President Donald Trump’s demand that it adopt a redistricting plan favoring Republicans, California Governor Gavin …
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October Week to Week Political Roundtable and Social Hour
After nearly 14 years, the Club’s Week to Week Political Roundtable and Social Hour is drawing to a close. The next two Week to Week programs—on Wedn…
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Building and Preserving the Web: A Conversation with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Brewster Kahle
Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Brewster Kahle will be in conversation about the rise of the internet, its continuing and explosive impact on society, the im…
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San Francisco Opera: The Monkey King
This program features a unique public affairs arts conversation between Chinese-born composer Huang Ruo and Matthew Shilvock, who is in his tenth sea…
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Ani Dasgupta on Moving From Promises to Progress
We know what needs to be done to ward off the worst impacts of global climate disruption: rein in heat-trapping pollution, reverse deforestation, bui…
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Joe Manchin: Dead Center
oin former U.S. Senator Joe Manchin for a timely and candid online-only conversation about his maverick career in government, crossing party lines, a…
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