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Thursday June 16: Dr. Tim Cannon: Judging a Book by its Cover

Anthology — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:04:53 +0000

Evidence from a number of sources indicates that variations in characteristics of the human body are associated with variations in a range of personality, cognitive, and intellectual variables. This presentation will overview research examining: hip-waist ratios (women), shoulder-waist ratios (men), height, weight, finger length, hair color, iris characteristics, body symmetry/asymmetry, and facial symmetry/asymmetry. These physical traits are associated with: political orientation, sexual orientation, aggression, fertility, pain perception, beauty, fidelity, US election results, trustworthiness, and standardized measurements of intelligence. This presentation will examine a wide range of these associations with the intention of promoting the idea that our physical appearance is significantly related to who we appear to be and who we are.

Tim Cannon, Ph.D., has taught at The University of Scranton for over 30 years. He founded their Neuroscience Program and recently retired from directing it after 25 years. His research interests include Evolutionary Psychology and the association of facial and hand characteristics with personality, perceptual, and intellectual variables.

Liz Randol, Welcome back to P&P

Anthology — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:47:02 +0000

This morning, as we’re weighing the implications of last night’s election, and the candidates and volunteers are considering life without the grueling hours of the past four months, I find myself ever more optimistic about the future of our city and region—despite the fact that the smartest, savviest, most plugged-in, dedicated, and worthy candidate didn’t win.

As most of you no doubt know, Liz’s campaign for County Commission began with nearly zero name recognition, zero money, zero infrastructure, an outsider status (having grown up in Cleveland), and no Y chromosome, and yet she came within 400 votes of knocking off a well-funded incumbent.

This is an extraordinary accomplishment, even if it comes as no surprise.

When I asked Liz why in God’s name she wanted to submit herself to half a year of campaigning, never mind, should she win, the thanklessness of the job, she told me what we already know about her—that had fallen in love with this city and its people and its future, and given her wealth of experience in the commissioners’ office and the state treasury, if she wasn’t willing to dedicate her competencies to this position, well, what was she doing here?

Anyone who has benefited from The Women’s Narrative Project or the Women’s Resource Center or her statewide Women and Money program or Pages & Places and its offshoots or any of the myriad things Liz has founded or directed or merely contributed her vast personal resources to knows that this is what she always thinks. It is her alpha and omega. It’s who she is.

As I listened to her address her volunteers and supporters last night, two thoughts crystalized, if not for the first time:

(1) A real political rock star has been born—one who has not only the charisma and strategic intelligence and stamina to be a breathtakingly strong candidate and office holder, but also one whose convictions point our city, our community in precisely the direction we need to go.

(2) How impoverished we would be without her, and how unbelievably lucky we are that this woman who can do whatever she wants, wherever she wants, has chosen to dedicate ourselves to us.

If you see Liz, thank her for that, and then let’s pledge to follow her lead and Create Scranton. Let’s make a place that lives up to our hopes and our expectations of ourselves.

Bill Black

Co-Director (along with Liz)

Pages & Places Book Festival

P&P@A . . . We’re Open for Business!

Anthology — Sun, 08 May 2011 22:12:33 +0000

Pages & Places, the team that has brought you the annual Pages & Places Book Festival, now has a place of its own. We’ve joined forces with the old Anthology Books to create an utterly unique format for — well, let’s just call it stimulating conversation for now.

Three times a month — on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Thursdays — you can join us at our upstairs bar for drinks and presentations by Scranton’s most interesting people, true experts in architecture, neuroscience, literature, music, history, politics, art, physics — nearly anything you can think of.

These “presentations” will short and lively — 30 minutes max — and then we can sip wine or coffee or beer and delve into the evening’s subject together.

Join us this Thursday, May 12, as Greg Hunt, founding Dean of Marywood’s School of Architecture, tours us through Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.

Happy Hour is from 6pm to 7pm, when Mr. Hunt’s presentation begins. We’ll break from 7:30 to about 7:45, and then Mr. Hunt will lead us in conversation until whenever it is we’re finished.

See you here!

Starting Tonight, Pages & Places has a Place

Anthology — Fri, 06 May 2011 11:49:39 +0000

Here is what we know:

Communities are built on the strength of shared passions
Communities become dynamic as their shared passions are approached from a variety of perspectives
Learning—whether we’re confronting new phenomena or deepening our knowledge of familiar subjects—stimulates passion and diversity
Learning and socializing are the only two things that are guaranteed to stimulate the production of new brain cells (does that make us smarter?)
Pages & Places is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to leveraging literature, literacy, learning and socializing toward an ever richer, ever more diverse, ever more passionate community of Scrantonians

It in this spirit that we launch our newest endeavor, Pages & Places @ Anthology, tonight, First Friday May 6^th—and we invite you to drop by the old Anthology at 515 Center Street and see what we’re up to.

As of Tonight, Pages & Places has a Place

P&P@A provides us with an opportunity foster learning, discussion, and collaborative programming that features a great range of fascinating subjects all year long, as well as a (freshly painted) venue for these programs—all of which we offer for free.

We’ll keep you updated often on all the goings on. But the month-to-month details aside, we hope you’ll be excited about at two things:

First, to come by, indulge in a beer or a coffee of a glass of wine, get to know the vibrant cultural institutions that will be featured each month, and engage Scranton’s growing community of diverse and passionate learners;

And that you’ll make a habit of buying your books and DVDs and anything else you typically rely on Amazon to provide through our website. A portion of every purchase goes to underwrite the Pages & Places Book Festival and/or other vital nonprofit contributors to our community.

Here’s one other thing we know:

We can make Scranton whatever we want it to be.

So what do you say? Are you passionate enough? Shall we get to work?

Sincerely,

Bill Black & Liz Randol

Anthology — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:03:51 +0000

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

12:00pm-2:00pm

Writers’ Critique Group mediated by local writers Leslee Clapp and K.K. Gordon. Bring an original piece of your work to discuss with the group. All genres welcome.