I’m a firm believer in the idea that if I don’t keep learning new stuff my brain will shrivel up and I will die. This may be misguided, but I’m not taking any chances. This list of 50 Awesome Ivy League Lectures All About the Future should keep me and my fear of brain-atrophy-and-subsequent-death calm for a while.
The lecture Jane Goodall gave at Harvard was wonderful. Of course, it made me feel like a big dumb galumphing human who’s wrecking the planet and not doing nearly enough to save the chimps, but it was still interesting and quite moving. Next up will either be The Future of the American University or Beyond Freakonomics: New Musings on the Economics of Everyday Life. Or possibly Fifty Years in Media: Changes in Journalism. It’s so hard to choose! It’s the same delicious quandary one encounters when trying to decide which book to read next. Or maybe that only happens to me.
Posted by Alexa Harrington