Dr. Maryanne Wolf shares her research on the reading brain: its protean capacities; its surprising differences (e.g., in dyslexia); and its changes for good and ill in a digital culture....

Le Président de la Réserve Fédérale (Fed) Ben Bernanke a déclaré au symposium de Jackson Hole que la banque allait aider à promouvoir une reprise économique forte. L’engagement de Ben...

Rick Prelinger uncovers the diverse histories of
Bay Area telecommunications infrastructure: telephone, radio, television, data, image and sound. A tour of technologies, dead and flourishing, that overlay, underlay and penetrate us...

Neil's talk will explore the way stories, myths and tales survive over great lengths of time and why creating for the future means making works that will endure within the...

A working and teaching blacksmith for over thirty years, James Austin specializes in making Viking age axes using traditional methods. "21st Century Iron Age" was given on June 02, 02015...

A special daytime talk by celebrated speculative fiction author
 Neal Stephenson on the occasion of his just released novel "SEVENEVES". After a reading, Long Now co-founder Stewart Brand joins Neal...

Beth Shapiro is far from a giddy enthusiast about de-extinction. She knows more than nearly anyone about the subject because she is a highly regarded biologist in the middle of...

Through building and analyzing systems, D. Fox Harrell: http://foxharrell.com's research investigates how the computer can be used to express cultural meanings through data-structures and algorithms. In his talk he showed...