Amid a popular debate over whether today’s young women embrace or reject the word feminist, bestselling author and trans women’s rights activist Janet Mock, Joy Reid, host of MSNBC’s The Reid Report, and Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and head of Lady Parts Justice, join Mic senior editor Elizabeth Plank for a look at women, advocacy and the millennial generation. What constitutes modern feminism and how is it changing the world? Is celebrity feminism helping or hindering the cause? How has social media shaped the movement into a more equal and democratic space for young women to express themselves? Recorded December 10, 2014 at 92nd Street Y.

Pass the Mic - Millennial Feminism: 92Y Talks Episode 26

Mary Oliver reads from her exquisite collection 'Blue Horses.' Background, poem text, and context here: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/09/mary-oliver-blue-horses-fourth-sign-of-the-zodiac/

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Mary Oliver reads from Blue Horses

Bill Nye is a mechanical engineer, science educator and CEO of the Planetary Society, who hosted the Emmy award-winning show "Bill Nye the Science Guy." After a widely viewed debate in Kentucky with an avowed Bible literalist, Nye has written a primer on the fundamentals of evolution. Emmy-award winning journalist Tom Foreman moderates the discussion on evolution and the science of creation. Recorded December 7, 2014 at 92nd Street Y.

Bill Nye with Tom Foreman: 92Y Talks Episode 29

Aired on All Things Considered, January 28, 2015.

'Little House,' Big Demand: Never Underestimate Laura Ingalls Wilder

Details and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/16/mark-strand-dreams-collected-poems/

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"Dreams" by Mark Strand read by Maria Popova

Something exciting happened at the Chatham Square Library branch during their 2018 Summer Reading Challenge -- they turned their staircase into an actual music piece!

When each child signed up for Summer Reading, they picked a colored music note to write their name on and then placed it wherever they wanted on the staircase wall (which was transformed into a Grand Staff).

At the end of the summer, after all the notes had been placed, each color was assigned an instrument (e.g. dark blue = piano, green = clarinet, etc.). Then keeping the random placement of each note, the wall was transcribed into a full orchestral score! The piece repeats multiple times so that certain instrumental groupings could be featured until it finally culminates into a rousing tutti (where all the instruments played together -- as displayed on the wall).

What other instruments do you hear?

Special thanks to the children of Chatham Square Library, Chatham Square Library staff, Sean Ferguson, and Christy Lau.

Children Of Chatham Square Staircase Symphony

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Children Of Chatham Square Staircase Symphony

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