At a seminar at the Forum Theatre, Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, aka The Minimalists, spoke to over 700 hundred Melburnians about the essence of minimalism and how it can add value to your life. If you’re new to this term,…
Do you eat at the table? Are you sharing meals with members of your household, friends, family, and other loved ones? If not, you need to start as a matter of urgency. During her 60-plus-minute discussion with Aussie social researcher…
I missed Peter Singer’s discussion on ‘What Really Matters’ when it was last brought to Melbourne by the The chool of Life. I was not going to miss the opportunity again, and joined an equally enthusiastic audience at the Athenaeum…
An Evening with Jane Goodall, brought to Melbourne by Think Inc., brought Jane to the Melbourne Convention Centre to discuss her experience and views on the future of our planet. If there is one person qualified to answer the question…
Tonight, I was lucky enough to see Not Quite Australian: Citizenship and Belonging, a talk that had already piqued my interest. I have been meaning to go to The Wheeler Centre for a while now. As Melbourne’s self-professed, and well-reputed, centre…
An evening with Alain de Botton on Love is always something that entertains, but who knew it would crush all your realities about romantic love? Presented by the School of Life at Melbourne Town Hall on 12 July 2016, let…
TED talks are all the rage among the intelligentsia, the in-the-know, the podcast addicts. But it’s one thing to watch the talks online: it’s quite another to be able to see them live. Enter TEDxStKilda. One of the satellite events…
All I know about NSA super-surveillance I learnt from The Good Wife. Well. That’s only partly a lie. Actually, attending Think Inc.’s Evening with Edward Snowden, I learnt that the watching of a person’s every movement through metadata collection is…
Think Inc. is an Australia-based enterprise, dedicated to breathing a new life and enthusiasm into rational daily conversation. How? With brain-nourishing events welcoming leading scientists, intellectuals, and writers, or in short: with thinkers. Recently, they brought us five time New York…
Does the universe have memory? Yes. Do you know how I know that? Because I got to attend the Interrobang Festival of Questions, and the marvellous Dr. Alan Duffy told me. Essentially, if you are looking at the planet from…