Adult Education

About this original series

A Brooklyn-based monthly event series where various speakers present brief, multimedia lectures on a shared theme. Presented by Stay Free! and hosted by Charles Star, Adult Ed takes place on the first Tuesday of the month at Union Hall in Park Slope -- except in July and August. Shows start at 8 pm. Doors open at 7:30.

Category
Learning
# Episodes
16 episodes
Rating
TV-UN

Episodes of Adult Education

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  Shawn Shafner & Laura Silver: We Applaud You
  
  Everyone (well, just about) deserves a standing ovation. That's why Laura Silver and Shawn Shafner have been clapping for Monday morning commuters by the 7th Ave subway station. Is it performance art? A social movement? Plain ol' neighborliness? A report from the front lines. [Unsung Heroes, October 2011]
  - Release date
    
    Oct 27, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    19:06
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  Geoff Klock: Unsung Superhero
  
  Artistic, scientific, and sexual success: any of them would be pretty impressive. Klock remembers William Moulton Marston, a guy who achieved all three. [Unsung Heroes, October 2011]
  - Release date
    
    Oct 20, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    12:18
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  Charles Star: Unsung Heroes
  
  From naval pharmacists to Bill Gates, Star salutes various unsung heroes. [Unsung Heroes, October 2011]
  - Release date
    
    Oct 11, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    08:13
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  Jim Hanas: Somewhere West of Laramie
  
  Forget Don Draper. Hanas reads from the ads of Ned Jordan, the greatest adman who ever (actually) lived. [Unsung Heroes, October 2011]
  - Release date
    
    Oct 10, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    12:05
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  Kriota Willberg: Peter Parker's Remarkable Trans...
  
  Drawing on examples from Hollywood's Spiderman franchise, Kriota Wilberg explains how human wrist and hand anatomy would need to be altered in order to accommodate caches of radioactive spider silk. [March 2010]
  - Release date
    
    Mar 3, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    08:14
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  Carrie McLaren: Why You Want A Monkey
  
  Carrie McLaren examines humans' unconscious drive to own monkeys and apes. [March 2010]
  - Release date
    
    Mar 3, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    11:19
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  Roger Ma: Zombie Hand-to-Hand Combat: Effective ...
  
  This presentation covers the proper way to engage the living dead in combat without a firearm, and survive. From Adult Education's "Safety Lessons" program on March 3, 2009. Roger Ma is the founder of The Zombie Combat Club, an organization that develops strategies and techniques to battle the living dead without the use of a firearm. He is also the Team Chief for one of New York City's Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT), a civilian volunteer group that assists first responders in the e...
  - Release date
    
    Feb 17, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    11:02
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  Carrie McLaren: How To Raise an Ape in Your Home
  
  Drawing on her collection of memoirs by people who have raised apes in their homes, Carrie McLaren will discuss strategies for rearing chimps and gorillas as part of human families.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 20, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    15:39
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  Carrie McLaren: How NOT to Raise a Chimp in Your...
  
  A look at the historic study The Ape and the Child, where a scientist attempted to raise a chimpanzee as a sibling for his son.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 8, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    11:51
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  Jim Hanas: Christian and Me
  
  Jim Hanas and Christian Slater were both born on August 18, 1969. Hanas compares his own career to that of his astrological twin.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 6, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    05:42