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Your Guide to Direct Current at the Kennedy Center

BYT at largeFebruary 12, 2020

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Svetlana LegeticFebruary 11, 2020

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DC Valentine’s Day Gift Guide

Marissa Rubenstein, Kaylee Dugan and Clarissa VillondoFebruary 6, 2020

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Your Best February

BYT at largeFebruary 4, 2020

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Best Bars Without TV In D.C.

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Your Free Guide to DC: January 27 – February 2, 2020

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The DC Guide to Cacio E Pepe

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A Mini Guide to Jim Jarmusch

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MLK Day of Service Volunteer Guide

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Best of: Murder Mysteries to Binge Watch NOW – 2020 Edition

Svetlana LegeticJanuary 17, 2020

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Spending Time With Animals On TikTok

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BYT’S Official Guide to the 2020 Oscar Nominations

Alan ZilbermanJanuary 14, 2020

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Tristan LejeuneJanuary 14, 2020

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30mar4:30 pmWinter Igloos at the Watergate Hotel4:30 pm The Watergate Hotel

30mar6:30 pm8:30 pmProfs & Pints: Ask Eleanor Roosevelt6:30 pm - 8:30 pm La Pop, a cultural salon

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Profs and Pints presents: “Ask Eleanor Roosevelt,” a look at the iconic first lady’s long career as an advice columnist, with Mary Jo Binker, adjunct professor of history at George Mason University and a consulting editor for the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project at George Washington University.

Advice columnist is not the first term that comes to mind when most people think of Eleanor Roosevelt. Yet, this transformative first lady and icon of female empowerment did exactly that in two major women’s magazines for more than 20 years.

Her answers to a wide range of reader queries—on everything from world peace and race relations to how to deal with rebellious teenagers and difficult mothers-in-law—are equally surprising. There was no filter and very little spin. In fact, her answers to readers’ queries were so honest, forthright, and insightful, that her editors felt compelled to issue a disclaimer saying her views were her own and did not represent those of the magazine or, in the column’s early years, the Roosevelt Administration.

This talk will introduce you to this other Eleanor Roosevelt, a woman whose wise, witty, and surprisingly sensible opinions remain as relevant as the latest tweet. The speaker, historian Mary Jo Binker, has spent almost twenty years studying Eleanor Roosevelt’s written and spoken record, primarily as an editor at the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project at George Washington University. Besides working as part of an editorial team that has published two volumes of Eleanor Roosevelt’s post-White House papers, she edited two collections of Eleanor Roosevelt’s writings, If You Ask Me: Essential Advice from Eleanor Roosevelt and What Are We For: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Her talk represents an incomparable opportunity to learn about this pivotal American figure. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself time to place any orders and get seated and settled in.)

Time

(Monday) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Location

La Pop, a cultural salon

1847 Columbia Rd NW, Washington, DC 20000

Cost

Advance tickets; $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID.

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31mar4:30 pmWinter Igloos at the Watergate Hotel4:30 pm The Watergate Hotel

31mar6:00 pm8:30 pmProfs & Pints: The Science of Inspiration6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Church Hall

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Profs and Pints presents: “The Science of Inspiration,” a look at how the brain creates, with Dr. Daniel Z. Lieberman, professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University and co-author of The Molecule of More.

Creative ideas seem to come out of nowhere, often popping into our heads, fully formed, with no apparent work being done on our part. Sometimes creative ideas solve simple problems, other times they revolutionize an industry. Are they divine inspiration? The influence of a friendly muse? Or are they manufactured by hidden circuits within the brain that we’re ordinarily unaware of?

Come learn what neuroscience tells us about the creative process from Dr. Lieberman, who previously gave fantastic Profs and Pints talks on brain chemistry and politics based on his book The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity―and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race.

He will review five strategies that activate the creative parts of the brain, with illustrations from ancient history and modern life.

Our modern economy is no longer based on natural resources or physical labor. It’s based on ideas. Understanding creativity—what it is, where it comes from, and how to stimulate it—gives us the key to understanding progress in the 21st century.

Whether the next creative task in front of you involves coming up with a strategic plan, writing a book, or simply helping build a snowman, you’ll leave this talk with a much better understanding of how your brain will rise to the challenge. You might even find yourself better at such tasks than you had been before. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself time to place any orders and get seated and settled in.)