The Cosmos: What do We Really Know

05/26/10 • 41 min

The Rubin Museum of Art’s Brainwave series pairs neuroscientists with artists and visionaries from multiple disciplines for lively discussions about how our minds work and how we perceive the world.

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The Problem with Being a Model Minority

What does the term, "Asian-American," mean? The Asia Society invited a diverse group of panelists who reflect the changing face of Asian-Americans in America to tackle the topic. The panel included the jazz pianist Vijay Iyer, and New York City Controller John C. Liu.

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Bird Brains

We know birds sing in courtship, but Ofer Tchernichovski, a professor of Biology at CUNY, has been researching the way in which songbirds learn their “language” of song, while drawing some comparisons to human culture along the way.