Renaissance Weekend

• BREAKFAST BUFFET

• "On Your Left (or Right)" - Brisk & Fun Lowcountry Run

• Healthy Start (A Vigorous Walk in the Historic District)

• Introduction to Pilates

• Yoga & Tai Chi (for Beginners & Others)

• Inter-denominational Christian Sabbath Worship Service

• Roman Catholic Celebration of the Mass

• Renaissance Academy:
How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take to Change National Opinion?
(Making Alternative Energy Less Alternative)

• Renaissance Academy:  Understanding the Impact of Healthcare Reform - The Policies, Politics & Personalities

• Renaissance Academy:  Smart Power
(How Does America Move to a Foreign Policy Balancing Military Might and 'Soft Power'?)

• Renaissance Seminar:  The History of Tea

• Have We Been 'The Greediest Generation'?

• Judicial Activism, Conservative & Liberal, and Its Impact on American Democracy

• Patent Improvement (Intellectual Property Issues)

• Intelligent (Home) Design -
Trends, Finds & Buys in Furnishings, Fashion and Accessories

• Peaks, & the Underside, of the Year's Sports

• Must Our Best Universities Always Have a Leftward Tilt?

• Is There a 'Selfless Gene'?
(Do DNA & Evolution Produce Kindness, Generosity & Heroism?)

• Renaissance Lecture:  Responsibility at Work
(How Leading Professionals Act, or Don't Act, Responsibly)

• Renaissance Seminar:  The International Space Station

• Renaissance Seminar:  Flipping the Switches to Determine Who You Are
(Genetic Sequencing, Methyl Groups & Other Chemical Switches Controlling Our Genes)

• Renaissance Seminar:  Brain Scan of Human Behavior

• Think-or-Shout/Substance-or- Style?
(Analyzing the Content of America's News & Analysis Programming)

• Power of the Pew
(Who Are 'Values Voters'? What Shapes Their Views? Who Is Their Voice? How Great Is Their Impact?)

• Strength in Numbers
(How Much Faith Should We Keep in the Dollar? Should Traditional Asset Allocation Now Be Discarded?)

• Wealth that Endures
(Protecting & Building Assets, While Sustaining Values, for Missions & Future Generations)

• Digital Dialogue
(What're the Prospects for the Net's Gated Communities, Velvet-roped Clubs & Pads for the Hoi Polloi?)

• Introduction to Arabic

• Renaissance Lecture:  Providence, Politics & the Birth of Religious Freedom in America

• Renaissance Seminar:  The Medieval World View

• Renaissance Seminar:  DressCode ? What 'They' (and You) Are Wearing Now

• Advice to the GOP & Democratic Presidential Hopefuls (Strictly Non-partisan, Policy Proposals)

• Even Saints Have Dark Nights
(Historical, Theological & Personal Insights into the Soul's Periods of Darkness)

• Shape of Software's Things to Come

• How Venerable Will Venture Capital Prove to Be?

• Flights of Fancy (Exotic Expeditions & Adventure Travel )

• The Return of Risk
(Should All of Us Pay for 'Masters of the Universe's' Recklessness?)

• Reclaiming Photography's Unique Link to Reality
(How Have Incredible Equipment & Exotic Effects Modified Lisette Model's Observation that "Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest"?)

• Blog Watch
(Comments on Gizmodo, Boing Boing, Huffington Post, Lifehacker, Mashable!, Daily Kos, TMZ.com, Engadget, TechCrunch & Other Favorite Blogs)

• The Gourmet's Dilemma (The 3 Meals You Must Eat Before You Die)

• LUNCHEON BUFFET

• Reversing America's Estrangement from the World

• Where Were the Cops?
(Is Sub-prime the Only Canary in the Mine? Should We Have Seen the Financial Blow-up Coming? What's Yet to Come?)

• Predators & Prey
(Who's Gunning for Google, Hermes, Mercedes, Morgan Stanley, Starbucks, GE, Target, Tiffany, Coke, Apple & You? How, and Why, They'll Probably Succeed)

• The Revolutions Around Us (That We're Probably Missing!)

• Renaissance Lecture:  Coincidences, Chaos & All That Math Jazz

• Renaissance Lecture:  "How Could You Have Said That?!!" -
SISTERS, Their Communications & Relationships

• Renaissance Lecture:  Books that Have Made History

• Renaissance Seminar:  'You're On!' (Stage & Screen Performers' Counsel, Confessions & Careers)

• Renaissance Seminar:  Starchitecture
(New Designs for America's Waterfronts & Cities)

• Baloney!!??? (College Rankings? What Should We Believe?)

• Not Quite Business As Usual 
(Entrepreneurs' & Family Businesses' Milestones & Missteps)

• Roberts' Nine (How 'So Few Have So Quickly Changed So Much')

• Chapter & Verse (The Not-so-Foolproof Process of Getting Published)

• What I Wish My Parents Had Told Me

• Can We Buy Youth?

• Renaissance Academy:  How's the President REALLY Faring?  

• Renaissance Academy:  Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!!!
(What's to Come, & Go, with the Internet?)

• Renaissance Lecture:  Visions of Heaven & Hell
(Commentaries on Augustine, Francis of Assissi & Dante)

• Renaissance Seminar:   Sound Education
(Movie Music, Hollywood's Sounds, & Composition by Artificial Intelligence)

• Renaissance Seminar:  Surviving
(Divorce, Mid-life Dating, Blended Families & . . . Marriage)

• Two Americas? (What Jena & Katrina Said, and Don't Say, about Being Minority & Poor in Today's America)

• Hollywood & Broadway on Strike
(Creative Talent's Complaints, New Media Disrupters & Other Consequences of New EnterTECHment)

• As If the Whole World Were Watching!
(The New Age of Corporate Governance & the Return of CEO Accountability)

• What Were They Thinking? (Surprising Insights from Walks through History)

• What Comes Next in the Middle East

• 'Downtown' (How, & Why, Has Urban Life Become More Attractive? But What's Still Broken in Our Cities?)

• The 'Q's' Beyond IQ (Insights into Intelligence(s) & Academic Performance)

• Paper Clips, Bailing Wire, Chewing Gum & Passion (What Holds Non-Profits Together?

• Here's Looking at, & Listening to, YOU! -
How to Improve Your Public Speaking & On-Camera Appearance

• Renaissance Lecture:  The Pursuit of Happiness (Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom)

• Renaissance Seminar: Reagan Arising
(American Conservatism's History, Tenets & Objectives)

• Renaissance Seminar:  Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine

• Renaissance Seminar:  More than ESP
(Frontiers of Science & Theories of Cosmology)

• Spooked?? (Where Should Your Money Be Now?)

• Regimen for the Long Term
(How Aging Boomers Can Stave Off Age-related Decline)

• Homeland Security (What We've Accomplished, Where We're Vulnerable)

• Must There Always Be a Bottom Billion?
(Promise & Pitfalls of Reducing Poverty & Assisting the World's Less Developed Nations)

• Faith & Works (Lessons from Faith-based Missions & Social Action)

• The Sipping Points
(Wine-tasting & Uncorked Suggestions for Budgets from Two-Buck Chuck to Opus One)

• DINNER-ON-YOUR-OWN