{"title": "The Thermodynamics of Living Organization", "start": "2026-11-03T16:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rockefeller University", "address": "York Avenue 1230, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/biology"], "description": "A public science seminar in the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology series, held at Rockefeller University. Nikta Fakhri, associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explores how irreversibility shapes the organization and function of living matter, from molecular assemblies to multicellular organisms. Combining experiments and theory, she discusses phenomena such as living chiral crystals, odd elasticity, and probability flows that direct biological decision-making. Refreshments are offered beforehand in the Lower Level Greenberg Building.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-thermodynamics-of-living-organization-55440/", "official_url": "https://www.rockefeller.edu/events-and-lectures/67010-the-thermodynamics-of-living-organization", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T16:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rockefeller University", "address": "York Avenue 1230, 10065 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Mechanisms of Robustness in Jellyfish Neural Networks", "start": "2026-11-12T12:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rockefeller University", "address": "York Avenue 1230, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/animals", "science/neuroscience"], "description": "\"Mechanisms of Robustness in Jellyfish Neural Networks\" is a talk in the Neuroscience Seminar Series at Rockefeller University, held in the Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) on its campus. 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ER doctor Avir Mitra and senior correspondent Molly Webster lead the evening, joined by New York Times bestselling science writer Mary Roach, whose new book explores replacing human parts. Mitra also speaks with his friend Alin Gragossian about one of the scariest days of both of their lives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/radiolab-presents-viscera-57486/", "official_url": "https://wnyc.org/events/radiolab-presents-viscera-transplants", "image": ""}, {"title": "CHANNING HANSEN | Metaphotical Spectra", "start": "2026-10-22T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Susan Inglett Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 522, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art"], "description": "Susan Inglett Gallery presents Metaphotical Spectra, a solo exhibition of hand-spun, hand-dyed knitted works by Channing Hansen, on view 22 October through 25 November 2026, with a reception for the artist on 22 October from 6 to 8 PM. The works extend Hansen's investigation of algorithmic systems that function as scores in their creation, drawing on biophotons and metaphysical concepts such as emanation, structure, and containment. His algorithms set rigid frameworks that are then altered through wrestling with computation and the handmade, introducing human intuition, drift, and irregularity. The exhibition proposes a structure for understanding perception as a characteristic of interrelated systems spanning computation, biology, and metaphysics.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/channing-hansen-metaphotical-spectra-56236/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d204439b1d7f86f40f42934dea978cf4b522d9e359730d6319f90ff54f4473a5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "CRISPR Guided Insights into the Biology of Archaea", "start": "2026-11-10T16:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rockefeller University", "address": "York Avenue 1230, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/biology/microbiology"], "description": "A public seminar in Rockefeller University's Center for Studies in Physics and Biology series, held in the Carson Family Auditorium. 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