Upcoming Meetings

Location: Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Conference Room 00-131/133/135, Staudingerweg 18, 55128 Mainz, Germany

Tessellate Book Club meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 6pm, unless stated otherwise.

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Date	Book / Author / Topic	Presenter
April 1, 2025	The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience by Matthew Cobb	Luis C.
May 6, 2025	Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman	Egemen Ö.
June 3, 2025	Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can’t Stop Eating Food That Isn’t Food by Chris van Tulleken	Varvara V.

Past Meetings

Date	Book / Author / Topic	Presenter	Moderator
March 4, 2025	Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark	Judy C.
February 4, 2025	The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick	Johannes S.
January 7, 2025	NO MEETING – WINTER BREAK
December 3, 2024	Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante Pääbo	Alan R.
November 5, 2024	Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez	Nadya P. & Anne F.		Slides
October 1, 2024	Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective by Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman	Judy C.		Slides
September 3, 2024	Discussion/feedback general meeting	Nadya P.	Anne F.	Slides
June 4, 2024	“Paradigm Shift in Science: Understanding Kumatoids, Space of All Possible Rules, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics” The Second Law: Resolving the Mystery of the Second Law of Thermodynamics by Stephen Wolfram	Danila B.
May 7, 2024	Lamarck’s Revenge: How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution’s Past and Present by Peter D. Ward	Davide W.
April 9, 2024	Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky	Nello L.
March 12, 2024	Lost in time: Relocating the perception of duration outside the brain and Supplementary material (David Robbe, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews) INCLUDING LIVE VIDEO SESSION WITH THE AUTHOR!	Luis C.	Anne F. / Luis C.	Slides
February 6, 2024	The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge	Aayush A.	Anne F.
January 9, 2024	The Mystery of the Aleph by Amir D. Aczel	Davide B.	Luis C.	Slides
December 5, 2023	Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake	Anne F.	Nello L.	Slides Blog post
November 7, 2023	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks	Marco B.	Anne F.	Blog post
October 3, 2023	(Organizational)	N/A	Luis C.
September 12, 2023	Meditations by Marcus Aurelius	Giorgio F.	Luis C.
June 6, 2023	Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods	Nadya P.
May 5, 2023	The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins	Silvia E.
April 4, 2023	Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein	Johannes S.
March 7, 2023	The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life by Paul C.W. Davies	Luis C.