Think Again

Dialogue leader: Jared Campbell Mark & Elizabeth England's home at 1194 South 500 East in Salt Lake City. Late-comers, please use the back door.   Discussion: Simple idea: Breathing clean air makes for better health and a better quality of life. Dirty air creates all kinds of health problems especially effecting children, seniors, and those with asthma and allergies. Studies have also shown a correlation with slower brain function, ADHD and Autism. All this without even touching the effects of greenhouse gasses and climate change.  What can be done? Actually a lot, as demonstrated by Jared Campbell. Jared will share what he has personally done—like building a modest, cost-effective net-positive passive solar home as well as other lifestyle choices, as well as making a very public plea through his annual "Running Up For Air" endurance mountain challenge that he created to raise money in support of the fight for improved air quality for those who l...

Thursday, November 17 , 7:30 pm  |  Dialogue leaders: Jacob Hess & Shelly Jenson Mark & Elizabeth England's home at 1194 South 500 East in Salt Lake City. Late-comers, please use the back door.   Discussion: Simple idea: Spend some time seeking to understand and empathize with your political opposite. This evening will be most successful if we come prepared with some ground-work laid as well as an open mind and heart. Then come ready to enjoy a facilitated discussion regarding what we discovered and how we might help our community and nation following the election come together in policies and actions that will create a better tomorrow.   Think Again has become a beloved community of mostly progressives and liberals. I would love to see us, especially following this election, seek greater understanding and reconciliation with those different than us. Even better, I'd love those same people we see at times as the "crazy other" to be a p...

Thursday, October 20 , 7:30 pm  |  Dialogue leader: Kellie Yates Mark & Elizabeth England's home at 1194 South 500 East in Salt Lake City. Late-comers, please use the back door.   Discussion: Last month, we were set to have Kelly come but she suffered an accident on the way to our group. We've arranged a police escort this time around to ensure her safe arrival. While much progress has ben made in recent years regarding brain science and its application, myth and misunderstanding too often get in the way of truth.  In this discussion we will learn what has been discovered, why and how we can use neuroscience to increase understanding of ourselves and others, and other brain basics which can help maximize learning and retention. Topics for discussion include brain biology, diet, “tricks” for remembering things, keeping the brain active, and general brain health.  About Kellie: (as written by husband, Walter Yates.) ...

Thursday, August 18, 7:30 pm  |  Dialogue leader: Samuel Brown Mark & Elizabeth England's home at 1194 South 500 East in Salt Lake City. Late-comers, please use the back door.   Discussion: Hospital intensive care units have changed when and how we die–and not always for the better. The ICU is a new world, one in which once-fatal diseases can be cured and medical treatments greatly enhance our chances of full recovery. But, paradoxically, these places of physical healing can exact a terrible toll, and by focusing on technology rather than humanity, they too often rob the dying of their dignity. By some accounts, the expensive medical treatments provided in ICUs also threaten to bankrupt the nation. In an attempt to give patients a voice in the ICU when they might not otherwise have one, the living will was introduced in 1969, in response to several notorious cases. These documents were meant to keep physicians from ignoring patient...

Thursday, June 30, 7:30 pm  |  Dialogue leader: Rick Casady Mark & Elizabeth England's home at 1194 South 500 East in Salt Lake City. Late-comers, please use the back door.   Discussion: Imagine yourself living a century ago, making predictions about coming events. Who would have foreseen the Great Depression, hyperinflation, World War II, the nuclear era, the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, the collapse of colonial empires, today's technological marvels, or the massive social upheaval which attended these? We invite you to read one author's descriptions (attributed to people associated with the Dada movement and Zürich, Switzerland in 1916) and share your observations about our wildly improbable present. We would also like your predictions about what significant events or trends will occur in the coming decades. About Rick: San Francisco native. Father, a veteran of the Big Red One and school teacher, had pioneer ancestry on mat...

Thursday, May 19, 7:30 pm  |  Dialogue leaders: Whitney Evans & Ginny Romney Mark & Elizabeth England's home at 1194 South 500 East in Salt Lake City. Discussion: DeseretNews.com web producer Whitney Evans and web editor/content manager Ginny Romney are budding web journalists working from a combined newsroom. They will lead a discussion on what media creators face while trying to integrate old and new news styles, and the factors that drive their day-to-day decisions: speed vs. accuracy, article performance, space online, and article curation. They will also talk about how to be a responsible and informed news consumer.  About  Whitney Evans: Web editor for  @DeseretNews . Religion and feature reporter. #Runner .  #Triathlete . Adventurer. Calligrapher.  #Mormon About Ginny Romney: Compulsive talker, singer, writer, reader. SUU graduate, Arizona native. @DeseretNews  web team memb...

Thursday, April 21, 6:00 pm potluck picnic  |  7:30 pm dialogue  |  Dialogue leaders: Kristen Rogers Iverson and Ed Iverson Mark & Elizabeth England's home at 1194 South 500 East in Salt Lake City. We will initially meet at the giant sycamore tree on the northwest corner of the Liberty Park tennis courts. Plan to sit on the grass, or bring something to sit on. We will share food with each other at 6:00 at the tree, at 7:30 we'll begin the dialogue and finish the evening at the England home.   Discussion: On Friday, April 22nd, another earth day will come and go. Will it matter? Should it? Bring your brains and hearts and explore with us.  We live on an incredible planet, diverse, beautiful, abundant—and in trouble. It is easy to be overwhelmed over the state of the environment and of the beings, human and  non­human, on the earth. Humans, air, animals, plants, water, bacteria, rock...we are all intertwined. So in one sense the...