Next meeting: 10 April 2025 [14:30]
Meeting 09 Jan 2025
Today, we stayed in the New Year’s mood talking about how it’s celebrated by people from different cultures, other than the Europeans’ or (if you wish) Westerners’ one. Persians, Chinese, Hindus, Jews for example – they all have their own way of welcoming New Year, which is not quite what we can see happening in the streets of Poland, France or Spain. Then, we chit-chatted about technologies poised to revolutionise our lives in 2025, like brain-computers interfaces, personalised medicine or autonomous vehicles.
Materials worth discussing / watching / listening to:
- A video: How different cultures celebrate the New Year by Global News
- A video: Technology in 2025! by AI Uncovered
- An article: MIT Technology Review, What’s next for AI in 2025.
Winter Break: 20 Jan-02 Feb 2025
Winter holiday is something that you all have been waiting for since the New Year started. Haven’t you?! While having a good rest, feel tempted to dive into, for example, a good comedy sketch video on How The British Deal With Snow by Michael McIntyre or just look what our beautiful country has on offer in winter & watch Winter in Poland. More than you expected! Hmmm… maybe you’re fans of wild nature and would enjoy Animal Winter Wonderland by BBC Earth or A walk in the Arctic Circle. Another nice option for both: young & old: Curious George 🎄Christmas Special ❄️George vs Winter 🎄 All in all, have fun! You will definitely do it well, your own way.
Winter Break: 20 Jan-02 Feb 2025
Meeting 13 Feb 2025
Baby Boomers, Gen X, Y, Z and even Alpha. What do they have in common? How do they differ? What values do they have? What about their lifestyles? How do they approach work? What are their views on the world in general? What are their concerns? This is what we talked about today! Me, being a representative of Millennials (Gen Y) & club participants, belonging to Gen Z – we could have a nice exchange of opinions since, let’s say it out loud, we were born in different centuries 
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Materials worth discussing / watching / listening to:
- What is Generation Z? – BBC 6 Minute English
- CNBC | Gen Z is reshaping the future of work – here’s how
- How Gen Z is changing the English language | CBC News
- Meet the Gen Z Tech Innovators changing lives – BBC What’s New
- Can Gen Z break free from social media addiction? – BBC News
Meeting 06 March 2025
Tree-hugging, forest bathing, nature admiring: this is what we, in a nutshell, talked about today. Do you know what „shinrin yoku” is, what benefits tree-hugging gives for our mental health or that trees build an interconnected system of communication under our feet? Real food for thought!
Materials worth discussing / watching / listening to:
- Tree-hugging championship in Scotland, BBC News
- BBC Earth: Why you should hug a street tree
- How trees secretly talk to each other – BBC World Service
- Article „Try forest bathing or tree-hugging”
- Shinrin-yoku explained on Wikipedia
Meeting 27 March 2025
Will the future need us (i.e. humans)? We tried to discuss the question watching what futurologists, AI experts or historians say. A great piece of food for thought gives us an example by Yuval Noah Harari – if you want to find which one, watch the interview with the author on the Daily Show below!
Materials worth discussing / watching / listening to:
- 5 things you really need to know about AI | BBC Ideas
- AI 'godfather’ quits Google over dangers of Artificial Intelligence – BBC News
- Yuval Noah Harari – “Nexus” & Threat of AI in the Information Age | The Daily Show [ at 6:12]
- „Bill Joy: What I’m worried about, what I’m excited about” by TED