One more incredible season on @interintellect_! We're a cultural institution dedicated to the most important public conversations of our times. Join any of our incredible salons to share, learn, challenge yourself, make new friends, and talk to the greatest minds of the world. No culture war -- only the best ideas. Missed a salon? Head to our YouTube channel to watch a recap: youtube.com/@interintellect @FukuyamaFrancis @lea_ypi @DAcemogluMIT @j_amesmarriott @simonmontefiore @Ada_Palmer and many more fantastic discussions await!

We built machines that talk like they care. Now we’re inviting them into our most intimate moments. MIT scholar @STurkle joins host @weschow to explore the strange new terrain of AI companionship and her latest book, "Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines". What happens to human connection when being understood no longer requires being known? interintellect.com/salons/ar…

Getting to Mars is one thing. Keeping a crew healthy, resilient, and functional millions of miles from earth is another.👽 🛸 Former NASA chief scientist Mark Shelhamer joins writer and editor @bsgallagher to rethink the science of deep-space survival, from spacecraft ecosystems to human performance. What needs to change before we make the journey? Explore the ideas behind their new book, "Are We Ready for Mars?". interintellect.com/salons/ar…

Does having kids keep your brain younger? 🧠✨ Clinical psychologist & USC professor @darbysaxbe joined @TKPullinger for a SuperSalon to discuss her book "Dad Brain". Research shows having children correlates with markers of a younger-looking brain in both men and women!

Innovation depends not only on what we want to invent, but on how we choose to fund it. Economist @mattsclancy, program director of the Abundance & Growth Fund at Coefficient Giving, joined @HalderAlaka to explore the "Atlas of Innovation", a project mapping 13 ways to fund innovation and the tradeoffs behind each. The SuperSalon explores how funding decisions shape what gets invented, how quickly innovation happens, and what it ultimately costs.

IN 3 DAYS.💫 The past is never quite past, and the future rarely arrives as expected. Historian and novelist @Ada_Palmer moves between both, from "Inventing the Renaissance" to the speculative worlds of "Terra Ignota" and the norse mythology of "And Loki in His Prison." Join host @rezendi for a salon with a writer who makes the boundaries between history, science fiction, and myth wonderfully unstable. interintellect.com/salons/ad…

JUST LISTED.📅 A well-made cocktail is civilization in a glass: a little chemistry, a little theater, and a century or two of cultivated taste.🍸🍹 Join Reason editor @petersuderman and host @megan_gafford for a new year’s salon on the history, philosophy, and rituals of the american cocktail, with recipes to mix and a toast to the year ahead. interintellect.com/salons/on…

TODAY.✨️ A fitting farewell to a beautiful series: John Singer Sargent, Simone Weil, and the art of paying attention. Join host Liv Li for a salon on the strange intimacy between the one who looks and the thing being seen, and on what happens when we allow art to interrupt the usual pace of our thoughts. interintellect.com/salons/ep…

TODAY.✨️ We’re bringing this series to a close with a remarkable salon on Elinor Ostrom and her radical rethinking of how societies organize themselves. Join Interintellect CEO @TheAnnaGat to explore the enduring power of the commons, where cooperation and collective governance offer an alternative to the familiar divide between markets and states. interintellect.com/salons/re…

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Author Raffi Grinberg joined @HalderAlaka for a SuperSalon on his book, "How To Be a Grown-Up" and the life skills no one taught you. Adult development isn’t tied to a specific age, many people spend their lives on autopilot in an adolescent phase, true adulthood means developing a self-authored mind: questioning your unconscious assumptions and choosing for yourself what you want out of life.

The usual milestones of adulthood haven’t disappeared, but the path to reaching them looks increasingly unfamiliar. What happens when the advice, ambitions, and assumptions passed down by one generation stop making sense to the next? Join @interintellect and @feeonline in Manhattan with @krishnanrohit, @AllisonSchrager, @FOMO_sacer, @Abi0lvera, @JosefiinaIda, and @JraissatiJorge, moderated by @dgrcosta and @theannagat, for an evening of sharp arguments and unexpected perspectives on Gen Z’s future. interintellect.com/salons/th…

Steinbeck gives us a family saga full of buried resentments, moral ambiguity, and characters who refuse to stay neatly within the bounds of good and evil. Join artist @megan_gafford for Part 3 of the "East of Eden" book club, where the further we get into the novel, the harder it becomes to look away. interintellect.com/salons/pa…

What do prophecy and prediction markets have in common? Both promise a glimpse of what’s to come, and both raise questions about who gets to interpret the future. Oxford philosopher of technology @CarissaVeliz joined researcher Thomas Arnold and @HelloShreyas for a SuperSalon on her book "Prophecy", tracing humanity’s long fascination with foresight from ancient religion to modern technology.

Some films become part of our cultural vocabulary. "Casablanca" gave us a few of its most enduring lines, but beneath the romance lies a story of compromised ideals, impossible choices, and knowing when to let go. Join Interintellect CEO @TheAnnaGat for the opening salon of "Good Taste in Movies", a new series on the american film classics worth returning to.🎞️ interintellect.com/salons/ca…