Megan Abbott Author Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of seven novels, including Dare Me, The End of Everything and her latest, The Fever, which won both the International Thriller Writers and Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and was chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Amazon, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times. She has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and The Guardian. Her stories have appeared in anthologies including Detroit Noir, Dangerous Women, Queens Noir and the Best American Mystery Stories of 2014. She is also the author of The Street Was Mine, a study of white masculinity in hardboiled fiction and film noir. A graduate of the University of Michigan, she received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University. She has taught at NYU, the State University of New York and the New School University. Recently, she served as the John Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. She lives in Queens, NY. Her next novel, You Will Know Me, comes out in July 2016. Participant In: Science and the Big Questions: Roundtable Series on the Physical and Spiritual World, the Brain-Mind Connection, and Human Development and Genetics Through 2015 Past Event The Helix Center is pleased to announce receipt of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation in support of a series of fourteen roundtables addressing big questions in the physical, natural, and biological sciences and the humanities. The topics are: Knowledge and Limitations; The Span of Infinity; Complexity and Emergence; The Search for Immortality; The Sublime Experience; The Meditative State; The… read more » The Realm of Mystery Saturday, October 24, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » Donald Rumsfeld famously said, “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” From a philosophical perspective, how do… read more »
Science and the Big Questions: Roundtable Series on the Physical and Spiritual World, the Brain-Mind Connection, and Human Development and Genetics Through 2015 Past Event The Helix Center is pleased to announce receipt of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation in support of a series of fourteen roundtables addressing big questions in the physical, natural, and biological sciences and the humanities. The topics are: Knowledge and Limitations; The Span of Infinity; Complexity and Emergence; The Search for Immortality; The Sublime Experience; The Meditative State; The… read more »
The Realm of Mystery Saturday, October 24, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » Donald Rumsfeld famously said, “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” From a philosophical perspective, how do… read more »