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 […]

EHST 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 […]

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 […]

On Sunday, March 26th, EHST will honor Women's History Month by viewing  a portion of an award-winning documentary, Girl Rising. We will meet at our usual time of 1:30pm - 3:30pm.  (Book Club follows at 3:30pm.)  Following the partial viewing of the film we will have a discussion. The fifth anniversary edition of Girl Rising travels the […]

This week's program will feature a play by Solomon Gibson, III and Fred Breidt based on the debate that took place in the Student Union of Cambridge University in Cambridge, England, on February 18, 1965. William F. Buckley and James A. Baldwin addressed the proposition that the American dream was at the expense of the American Negro (in the parlance of the time). Join us for this historic […]