Cori and I traveled to Minneapolis to attend the Westminster Forum, a free event that brings in some very interesting speakers on a variety of topics. The speaker on this evening was David Brooks, an author of a few books, most recently The Social Animal. We parked down the street for nine dollars and walked a block and a half to the church.
The event is held at a church downtown, and tonight the place was packed to over capacity. We ended up watching the speech from a room that was adjacent to the main hall because the fire marshal had instructed the people running the event to not allow any more people inside the main room.
The topic of the speech, as well as Mr.Brooks's book, was recent research on neuroscience and how people communicate with each other. I found the speaker quite interesting. He had plenty of little anecdotes and stories, and he was very entertaining to listen to. Some of the things he said made sense to me, and much of it was actually common sense, but to tell you the truth I really learned nothing. The studies he referred to are ones that I haven't seen or heard of, but I'm no expert in the field of neuroscience either. What I am interested in is communication, and the social aspects of communication and perception he mentioned during his speech, specifically on what mekes people do the things they do, was very interesting.
I'd probably attend one of these events again if there was someone interesting speaking. Why not, it's free and they serve as many cookies as you care to eat. Afterwards, we walked over to Hells Kitchen and had some dinner. It was good, as I expected it would be, but nothing spectacular.
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