Less than two months after hatching, the tiny Spoon-billed Sandpiper begins the long journey from Russia’s arctic tundra to the coast of China. No guide, no map, no GPS. But the baby birds instinctively know exactly where to go: to the mudflats of Jiangsu province. Unfortunately, industry and reclamation threaten the birds’ habitats. Spoon-billed Sandpipers […]
As organizations prepare to welcome people back to their physical locations, they must incorporate learnings from the past year. New ways of working have emerged, including fully distributed and hybrid digital-physical workplaces, offering new opportunities to support long-term individual and organizational thriving. Join Melissa Marsh, Founder and Executive Director of PLASTARC, a social research, workplace […]
Manfred Ohrenstein was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1925. He grew up under increasingly restrictive Nazi rules, holding his Bar Mitzvah at age 13 on the precipice of the Holocaust. In November 1938, less than a week before Kristallnacht, Ohrenstein and his family escaped Germany, made their way to London, and then found refuge in […]
Celebrate National Park Week’s Wayback Wednesday with a virtual walking tour of lower Manhattan with park rangers! Virtual visitors, on each site’s social media, will start at Castle Clinton National Monument go to Federal Hall National Memorial and finish at the African Burial Ground Nation Monument with selected stops along the way that tell the […]
Fitness classes via Instagram released every Tuesday and Thursday, featuring Trooper Fitness, Pure Barre and Lyons Den Power Yoga.
Neuroscientist Dr. Daniela Schiller, who leads the Affective Neuroscience Lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has spent years exploring “reconsolidation” — the biological process of rewriting painful memories. Her groundbreaking work is shaped by her personal experiences with her elderly father in Israel, who remains haunted by the Holocaust decades after he survived […]
Support local restaurants and food-security charities from the comfort of your home with the Downtown Alliance’s ”Dine Around Downtown: Cooking At Home Edition,” a web series hosted by James Beard Award-winning chef and author Rocco DiSpirito. Join Rocco as he chats with Executive Chef Roberto Caporuscio of Kesté Pizza & Vino. Chef Roberto will show […]
During the summer of 1776, patriots worked frantically to head off a British invasion from Canada. Their effort culminated in a wild three-day naval battle on Lake Champlain in northern New York. In this lecture, Jack Kelly will argue that, although the campaign has often been neglected by historians, its success was an important impetus […]
The Seaport Museum's Sea Songs and Sea Lives: Voices of the Many series continues as we explore the roles of diverse sailors and their treatment in traditional maritime songs. Join tugboat captain Ann Loeding and Harbor School graduate/SUNY Maritime student Ashley Cruz, along with chantey singer Bonnie Milner of the Johnson Girls, to discuss the […]
In celebration of Earth Day, the National Museum of the American Indian’s annual Living Earth Festival will be available on demand over several days. The festival will open with a […]
Online concert. During trying times, music stills our souls and provides a healing grace. Throughout the season of Lent, Comfort at One will present performances that are inspired by the […]
Person Place Thing is an interview show based on this idea: people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves but about something they care about. Guests talk […]