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Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human

With George Michelsen Foy, author of “Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence,” and twelve critically acclaimed novels.

This illustrated lecture shows how navigating affects our brains, our memory, ourselves and why forsaking our navigation skills in favor of GPS may lead not only to Alzheimer’s and other diseases of memory, but to losing a key part of what makes us human.











When: Tue., Oct. 25, 2016 at 6:30 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
476 Fifth Ave. (42nd St. Entrance)
212-340-0863
Price: Free
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With George Michelsen Foy, author of “Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence,” and twelve critically acclaimed novels.

This illustrated lecture shows how navigating affects our brains, our memory, ourselves and why forsaking our navigation skills in favor of GPS may lead not only to Alzheimer’s and other diseases of memory, but to losing a key part of what makes us human.

Buy tickets/get more info now