Today’s Calendar
Thursday October 10, 2019
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6PM
China Institute 40 Rector Street
In All in My Family, documentary filmmaker Wu Hao (People’s Republic of Desire, 2018) turns his camera inward. After starting a family with his husband in the United States, Wu documents his Chinese family’s journey to acceptance. What will they say when he brings home his husband and their two kids for the first time? Following the screening, Wu will discuss LGBTQ+ life in China today. FREE China Institute 40 Rector Street.
6PM
Community Board 1 Landmarks & Preservation Committee
Community Board 1 – Conference Room 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North
AGENDA
1) 315 Church Street, application to legalize removal of fire shutters at rear back corner of building – Resolution
2) District Needs Statement and Budget Requests for FY2021 – Discussion
7PM
New York Academy of Sciences
From the macrocosm of the universe to the microcosm of the human body, our discoveries about ourselves and the natural world continue to spark our experience of awe and wonder.
But how exactly does science define and explain the experience of awe and wonder? What has the historical and cultural impact of this emotion been in the development of science and reason? And does the experience of awe and wonder suggest that the quest for scientific truth and the metaphysical yearning for a deeper understanding of reality share a common root?
Social psychologist Michelle Shiota, writer Caspar Henderson, and astrophysicist Alex Filippenko unpack the emerging science behind the emotion of awe and wonder, and its function in our ongoing quest for understanding and knowledge. $5, $7, $15 7 World Trade Center