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September 17, 2024. Free shows, free concerts, free movies, free tours, free readings, worshops, lectures, etc.  are New York's best kept secret! Learn all about it and do not miss the unique opportunities that only New York provides: NYC never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment whether it's day or night, weekday or weekend, summer or winter, spring or fall, January or June, May or September. If you are looking for inexpensive things to do and where to go in Manhattan today, tonight, tomorrow, or any other time, or any other day of any week - you came to the right place: just click on any day on the calendar dispayed on the every page of our site and you will see how many events you can attend in Manhattan free of charge on that very day.

New York's cultural scene is at its busiest in October and March (and the same goes for free events, free things to do), but other months of the year still offer incredible amount of high quality, off the beaten path, unique free events, free things to do which will take your breath away! So if you looking for something to do in April or November, December or February, you will find tons of free things to do, free events to go to. (In June, July and August lots of those free events take place outdoors, of course).

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Where else but in New York City can you listen to a world-class musician, discuss a book with a famous author, take a part in poetry reading, have a glass of wine at an art exhibition opening, and all that on the same day, and all that free of charge, and all of that on any day of the year, whether it's December or July, April or November!

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Free things to do, free events that take place in New York City every day of the year are truly amazing. So if you're looking for something interesting to do today (September 17, 2024) or on any other day of the year don't miss those free-of-charge opportunities that only New York provides! You can find lots of high quality, off the beaten path, unique free events, free things to do which will take your breath away!

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In addition to providing information about free events, free things to do in New York City (NYC), Club Free Time offers its members complimentary tickets to classical music concerts, dance performances and theater: when a producer wants that special buzz of the 'full house' - Club Free Time members are welcomed for their enthusiasm and sophistication!

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The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.

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that only New York provides:
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Book Discussion | Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology

Book Discussions, September 11, 2024, 09/11/2024, Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology

Wednesday, September 11, 2024, 6:00 pm

Free

Author Gregory Radick investigates how the Mendelian narrative that heredity is destiny took hold.
 
In 1900, few had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of genetics. Even today, Mendelian ideas serve as a standard entry point for learning about genes. The message students receive is plain: the twenty-first century owes an enlightened understanding of how biological inheritance really works to the persistence of an intellectual inheritance that traces back to Mendel’s garden.

Gregory Radick will discuss his latest book which turns the inherited narrative on its head. Radick attributes Mendelism not to Mendel’s own work, but to the outcome of a ferocious debate between two English biologists in the early 20th century. On one side was William Bateson, who, in Mendel’s name, wanted biology and society reorganized around the recognition that heredity is destiny. On the other was W. F. R. Weldon, who thought Bateson’s “Mendelism” pushed knowledge of the modifying role of environments to the margins.

Weldon died before he could finish a book detailing his alternative vision. Had Weldon lived, Radick argues, we might still talk of “genes,” but without the deterministic notion that the presence of a particular DNA variant is sufficient to determine if someone is born to be aggressive, alcoholic, blue-eyed, doomed to breast cancer, or crave caffeine. Instead, our gene talk would be routinely hedged with talk of internal and external contexts, because a gene would be seen as something with variable effects depending on the mix of other causes in play.

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