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Disability Planning
Disability planning deals with who handles your personal and financial affairs if you incur a disability that leaves you unable to handle those affairs for yourself. There are two distinctly different disability plans. One is to rely on your family members, significant others, health care providers, or creditors to sue you seeking a judicial determination […]
Racist Roots – The Origins of NC’s Death Penalty
Extraordinary Ventures 200 S. Elliott Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesKristin Collins and Tyler Swanson of the Center for Death Penalty Litigation will be coordinating a facilitated viewing of the film "Racist Roots." "The documentary" is a powerful 25-minute film which reveals the North Carolina death penalty’s deep entanglement with slavery, lynching, and racism — and inspires people to join the movement to transform the […]
Understanding Systems of Bias in the United States
We've long known about disparities in income, homeownership, college completion across race and ethnicity. But how did these differences come to be, and why have they persisted so long? This talk will explore several competing explanations and then argue that the present disparities can be best understood and solved by identifying the network of systems […]
How to Design Climate-Resilient Buildings
Virtual Program using ZoomEHST will view and discuss a video Ted Talk presented by Alyssa-Amor Gibbons. Ms. Gibbons is from Barbados and designs environmentally conscious architecture that combines a reverence for nature with a sense of human interconnectedness. Architecture can't ignore the realities of climate change. For time-tested solutions that perform under extreme conditions, designer Alyssa-Amor Gibbons says we should […]
Probability and Ethics
John Holmgren, EHST member and Mathematical Psychologist, will make the claim that all real-world ethical decisions are based on probability. He will then attempt to prove that claim by showing through argument, examples, and consideration of some well-known ethical dilemmas how both objective and subjective probability considerations affect our ethical decision-making. A question and answer […]