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SUMMARY:OUT OF YOUR MIND: THE BIGGEST MYSTERIES OF THE HUMAN BRAIN
DESCRIPTION:Why do you love? Why do you lie? What makes you happy? Every single thought you have comes from one place: your brain. But what makes it tick? How much of it have we decoded\, and how much of it remains an impenetrable mystery? \nJoin best-selling author and online cartoonist Jorge Cham\, Ph.D. and neuroscientist Dwayne Godwin\, Ph.D. on a deep dive into the fascinating world of the human brain. In their new book\, Out of Your Mind: The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain\, they will explore questions such as: What is consciousness? Where is you in the brain? And do we have free will? All while illuminating everything we know (and DON’T know) about one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Think of it as conversation\, ammunition for your next cocktail party\, or a quick fascinating read while you’re in the bathroom (don’t worry\, the chapters aren’t that long). Centered around questions we all ask ourselves at some point but don’t usually have answers to\, Out of Your Mind is an illustrated book about the brain that isn’t too brainy. Playful\, accessible\, and deeply insightful\, it’s the one brain book that’s truly accessible and suitable for all brains. \nCham is the Daytime Emmy-nominated and best-selling cartoonist creator of the popular online comic strip “Piled Higher and Deeper.” He is the co-creator\, executive producer\, and creative director of Elinor Wonders Why\, one of the highest-rated animated shows on PBS Kids\, and the co-author of two popular science books: the best-selling and award-winning We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe and Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe\, as well as the children’s book Oliver’s Great Big Universe. \nGodwin is a neuroscientist\, educator\, and academic leader who is a professor in the Department of Translational Neuroscience and served as graduate dean at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem\, NC. His research centers on the cellular basis of abnormal brain rhythms\, including active projects on calcium channel function\, epilepsy\, and traumatic brain injury. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Out of Your Mind from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Cham and Godwin that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/out-of-your-mind-the-biggest-mysteries-of-the-human-brain/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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SUMMARY:JOHN LEWIS: A LIFE
DESCRIPTION:In John Lewis: A Life\, award-winning historian and journalist David Greenberg\, Ph.D.\, professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University\, presents new details in the life of a man who lived with courage and conviction\, and who resisted hating those who hated him. \nBorn into poverty in rural Alabama\, John Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King\, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. He was a leader of the Nashville sit-in movement\, a Freedom Rider who helped to integrate bus stations in the South\, the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington\, and the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)\, which he helped make into one of the major civil rights organizations. He may be best remembered as the victim of a vicious beating by Alabama state troopers at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma\, Alabama\, where he nearly died. \nGreenberg’s biography traces Lewis’s life from his youth as a precocious bookworm who sought education and freedom in the Jim Crow era\, through the post-Civil Rights years\, when he headed the Voter Education Project\, which enrolled millions of African American voters across the South. The book reveals the little-known story of his political ascent first locally in Atlanta\, and then as a member of Congress. Tapped to be a part of the Democratic leadership in Congress\, he earned respect on both sides of the aisle for the sacrifices he had made on behalf of nonviolent integration in the South and came to be known as the “conscience of the Congress.” \nThoroughly researched and dramatically told\, Greenberg’s biography captures and conveys the power of Lewis’s surpassing courage and faith in nonviolence while also revealing him to be far more politically skilled\, pragmatic\, and canny than commonly thought. \nGreenberg will be in conversation with renowned historian David Blight\, Ph.D. (FAN ’19)\, Sterling Professor of History and Director\, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery\, Resistance\, and Abolition\, Yale University. \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of John Lewis: A Life to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/john-lewis-a-life/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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SUMMARY:THE GRIEVING BODY: HOW THE STRESS OF LOSS CAN BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR HEALING
DESCRIPTION:Coping with death and grief is one of the most painful human experiences. While we can speak to the psychological and emotional ramifications of loss and sorrow\, we often overlook its impact on our physical bodies. Mary-Frances O’Connor\, Ph.D. (FAN ’22) specializes in the study of grief\, and in her new book The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing she shares vital scientific research\, revealing imperative new insights on its profound physiological impact. As she did in The Grieving Brain: How We Learn from Love and Loss\, O’Connor combines illuminating studies and personal stories to explore the toll loss takes on our cardiovascular\, endocrine\, and immune systems and the larger implications for our long-term well-being. The Grieving Brain addresses questions about the effects of bereavement\, including information about: What happens in our bodies when we’re grieving? Howe do our coping behaviors affect our physical health? What is the cognitive impact of grief? Why are we more prone to illness during times of enormous stress? \nO’Connor is a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona\, where she directs the Grief\, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab\, investigating the effects of grief on the brain and the body. O’Connor holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Arizona and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in psychoneuroimmunology at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. \nO’Connor will be in conversation with Meghan Riordan Jarvis\, MA\, LICSW\, a psychotherapist\, author\, podcast host (Grief is My Side Hustle)\, two-time TEDx speaker\, educator\, corporate consultant\, and sought-after keynote speaker specializing in trauma and grief and loss. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Grieving Body from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by O’Connor and Jarvis that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/the-grieving-body-how-the-stress-of-loss-can-be-an-opportunity-for-healing/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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SUMMARY:DETERMINED: A SCIENCE OF LIFE WITHOUT FREE WILL
DESCRIPTION:One of our great behavioral scientists\, Robert Sapolsky\, Ph.D.\, the bestselling author of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst\, mounts a devastating scientific and philosophical case against free will—an argument with profound consequences. \nBehave\, Sapolsky’s now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad\, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: we may not grasp exactly how nature and nurture create the physics and chemistry that cause all human behavior\, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. In his latest book Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will\, Sapolsky takes his argument all the way\, mounting a brilliant (and in his inimitable way\, delightful) full-frontal assault on the pleasant fantasy that there is some separate self who tells our biology what to do. \nDetermined offers a marvelous synthesis of what we know about consciousness—the tight weave between reason and emotion and between stimulus and response in the moment and over a life. One by one\, Sapolsky takes out all the major arguments for free will\, cutting a path through the thickets of chaos theory and quantum physics. But as Sapolsky acknowledges\, it’s sometimes impossible to uncouple from our zeal to judge people\, including ourselves. Determined applies this new understanding to some of our most essential questions around punishment\, morality\, and living well together. Most of all\, Sapolsky argues that while accepting the reality about free will is monumentally difficult\, it will make for a much more humane world. \nSapolsky will be in conversation with Oliver Burkeman (FAN ’24)\, New York Times bestselling author of Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts; Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals\, and The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Determined from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Sapolsky that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/determined-a-science-of-life-without-free-will/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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