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

    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Gaylord Fields: Fake Beatles

      WFMU DJ Gaylord Fields explores the sixties phenomenon of fake Beatles albums. This lecture was given at Adult Education, a Brooklyn-based monthly event series where various speakers present brief, multimedia lectures on a shared theme. http://adult-ed.net

      • Release date
        Dec 3, 2009
      • Runtime
        21:38
    • Charles Star: A Short List of the Worst Toys in ...

      Charles Star presents the worst toys ever, from a 2008 lecture. This is part of Adult Education, a Brooklyn-based monthly event series where various speakers present brief, multimedia lectures on a shared theme. See: http://adult-ed.net

      • Release date
        Dec 3, 2009
      • Runtime
        11:08
    • 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