Brunch & Speaker
Date & Time: May 12 2013 - 12:00pm Location: PRESS BOX - 932 SECOND AVE. -2ND FLOOR - (49/50TH)
Speaker: GARY BERTON- President: Thomas Paine National Historical Assn.
Subject: THOMAS PAINE - Paine’s Common Sense pamphlet inspired American patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. He has been called "a corset maker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination.”
Cost: BRUNCH is $20, which includes a selection of Buffet Entrees, salad, one soft drink, coffee, tax and tip.
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Date & Time: Apr 14 2013 - 12:00pm Location: THE PRESS BOX - 932 Second Ave. (Bet. 49th & 50th Streets) - 2nd floor
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Greco, philosophy fellow at NYU
Subject: The Philosophy of Religion: Is god Necessary for You to Be Moral?
EVENT SUMMARY Cost: Brunch us $20, which includes buffet entrees, salad, soft drink, coffee, tax and tip.
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Date & Time: Mar 10 2013 - 12:00pm Location: THE PRESS BOX - 932 Second Ave. (bet. 49 & 50th)-Second Floor
Speaker: Viktor Deak, paleoartist, who recreates Neanderthal man, and other prehistoric beings, for museums from all the scientific evidence available to him, including fossils, anthropology and research.
Subject: “A PALEOARTIST SHOWS EVOLUTION IN HUMANS” -- a talk with photos by Victor Deak, paleoartist for the Museum of Natural History
Paleoartist Portrays Human Evolution Cost: Brunch is $20, which includes a selection of buffet entrees, salad, soft drink, coffee, tax and tip. We are fans of the Eggs Benedict.
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Date & Time: Feb 10 2013 - 11:00am Speaker: Dr. Daniel Greco, PhD. - NYU, Bersoff Fellow / YALE UNIVERSITY, Assistant Professor
Subject: BECAUSE OF "NEMO" - THE (SUNDAY) FEBRUARY 10, 2013 BRUNCH / SPEAKER “PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION,” TALK BY DR. DANIEL GRECO, HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO (SUNDAY) APRIL 14, 2013.
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Date & Time: Jan 13 2013 - 12:00pm Location: The Press Box Restaurant - 932 Second Avenue (bet. 49th & 50th Sts.) -2nd Floor
Speaker: LINDA BLAIKIE
Subject: HOW DO WE SURVIVE THE LOSS OF A LOVED ONE? Grieving process and recovery.
Cost: BRUNCH is $20, which includes a selection of Buffet Entrees, salad, one soft drink, coffee, tax and tip.
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Date & Time: Dec 9 2012 - 12:00pm Location: The Press Box 932 Second Ave. (bet. 49th & 50th Sts.) - 2ND FLOOR
Speaker: Dr. Kobinah Abdul-Salim, professor of Evolutionary Biology at Medgar Evers College of CUNY.
Subject: “THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF PLANTS,” - If Plants Evolve to Adapt, Why Are There Are So Many Different Kinds? Is It Evolution Gone Wild?
Origins & Evolution of Plants... If Plants Evolve to Adapt, Why Are There Are So Many Different Kinds? Cost: BRUNCH is $20, which includes a selection of buffet entrees, salad, a soft drink, coffee, tax and tip. We love the Eggs Benedict!
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Date & Time: Feb 12 2012 - 12:00pm Location: PRESS BOX - 932 Second Avenue (bet. 49th & 50th Sts.) -2nd Floor
Speaker: PROF. MICHAEL RAMPINO
Subject: MASS EXTINCTIONS
Professor Rampino, a member of New York University’s department of biology, researches the causes of mass extinctions and its impact on the evolution of life. In the last 500 million years we have had five mass extinctions, the last being the Cretaceous–Tertiary. If this event had not occurred, humans probably would not have developed. Cost: BRUNCH is $20, which includes a selection of Buffet Entrees, salad, one soft drink, coffee, tax and tip.
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Date & Time: Nov 11 2012 - 12:00pm Location: The Press Box - 932 Second Ave. (bet. 49th & 50th Sts.) - 2ND FLOOR
Speaker: Dr. Alan Mann of Princeton, anthropologist, paleoanthropologist and primatologist, and holder of a prestigious Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley
Subject: “THE ORIGINS OF HUMANNESS--Is There Any Evidence for a godly Presence?” - How Did We Acquire a ‘Soul?’ Was it god or Evolution?
Princeton Prof Wants to Know: Cost: Brunch is $20, which includesa selection of buffet entrees, salad, a soft drink, coffee, tax and tip. We are partial to the Eggs Benedict.
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Date & Time: Sep 9 2012 - 12:00pm Location: PRESS BOX - 932 SECOND AVE ( 49/50)
Speaker: JIM HUBBARD / "Act Up" Producer and Director
Subject: FILM: "ACT UP" - The history of the AIDS activist movement - rare archival footage / oral histories of participants / battling corporate greed, social indifference and government neglect.
Cost: BRUNCH is $20, which includes a selection of Buffet Entrees, salad, one soft drink, coffee, tax and tip.
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Date & Time: May 13 2012 - 12:00pm Location: The Press Box Restaurant - 932 Second Avenue (bet. 49th & 50th Sts.) -2nd Floor
Speaker: JERRY DEWITT
Subject: RECOVERING FROM RELIGION & CLERGY PROJECT / DeWittis an ex- Pentecostal minister, who is now the Executive Director of “Recovering From Religion.”He also holds the distinction of being the first graduate of The Clergy Project, a private, invitation-only “safe house” community of current and former ministers who no longer hold the supernatural beliefs of their religious traditions. He’s amusing, witty and a great speaker
Cost: COST: BRUNCH is $20, which includes a selection of Buffet Entrees, salad, one soft drink, coffee, tax and tip.
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