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Work's Provocative Future
As we head toward a world defined by self-driving cars, drone-powered warfare, and AI-based chat bots, what's left for humans to do? George Anders, writer and contributing editor at Forbes magazine, argues that the worl…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/works-provocative-futureDataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking)
From the data we have gathered, can we learn something new about our behaviors and attitudes? Christian Rudder thinks so. As co-founder of the dating site OkCupid, he possesses one of the richest data sets in the world…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/dataclysm%C2%A0who-we-are-when-we-think-no-ones%C2%A0lookingHow to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog
Imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades…. Lee Alan Dugatkin will recount such a tale: In the depths of Siberia, Soviet scientists jump-started the effort to evolve foxes into dogs to recre…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/how-to-tame-fox-and-build-dogCan Europe come back in the age of Trump, Merkel, and Macron?
Europe faces severe crisis after crisis: Anemic economic growth, the rise of anti-European sentiment, right and left-wing populism, the Euro and Greek crises, massive immigration, the refugee crisis along with the rise…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/can-europe-come-back-in-age-of-trump-merkel-and-macronThe Ever-Changing Music Business
Writer and producer of the 2016 hit song “Shut up and Dance,” Ryan McMahon ’08 will expose all sides of the ever-changing music industry, from writing and producing songs to recording contracts to music streaming servic…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ever-changing-music-businessSymmetric Polyhedra — From Platon to Modern Computational Mathematics
Achill Schürmann, professor of mathematics, will discuss how polyhedras—beautiful geometric constructions pondered since ancient times by both mathematicians and philosophers—have turned over time into powerful computat…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/symmetric-polyhedra-%E2%80%94-from-platon-to-modern-computational-mathematicsBoy Meets Depression: Confessions of a Depressed Comic
Kevin Breel, author of “Boy Meets Depression,” openly and honestly shares real life experiences, including his own, to expose issues around mental health and provide a look inside the life and mind of a struggling young…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/boy-meets-depression-confessions-of-depressed-comicArtificial Intelligence for Business
Jay Bellissimo P’20, general manager and chief revenue office for of IBM Watson & Cloud Platform, will explore state-of-the-art developments in AI, including illustrations/case studies of how the cognitive potential of…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/artificial-intelligence-for-businessOrdinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust
Drawing from his most recent book, Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust, Evgeny Finkel, assistant professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, will focus o…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ordinary-jews-choice-and-survival-during-holocaustBlind Faith: The Hindi Poet Surdas and his Visual Legacy
The great 16th-century poet Hindi Surdas, a great devotee of Krishna, is said to have been blind. John “Jack” Stratton Hawley, professor of religion at Barnard College, Columbia University, wonders and explains how the…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/blind-faith-hindi-poet-surdas-and-his-visual-legacy